The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-07
ALL WANT PRESENT
TARIFF RETAINED
Discussion Ranged From
Poker Chips to sponges
and From Potash to Laun-
dry Soap Chief Cry is
That British Manufac-
turies VIII Invade Countrr
if Tariff IS Lifted.
BY ASSOCIATES PRESS

al
Washington. Jan. g.. score OF
manufacturers. importers and repre-
sentativss of other interests affected
by customs changes aired their griev.
! ances before the house ways and
means COMMITTEES today at the first OF
! series of hearings preliminary to a
sharp revision of the tariff law at the
lconaing session Of congress. The dis
cslsSion ranged from poker chips to
anpnges and from potash to laundry
s5ap The burden of the arguments
EpTeSented was for a maintenance Of
fase Present tariff instead of changes
sa proposed along the lines of the
rhefaical tariff revision bill OF the
democrats ct the last session.
Charles Delany. president of the
Sationaf Association Of Glue and
sGefaksne Manufacturers. pictured the
Europea glue trust SIS controlling
practically all the glue and gelatine
industry abroad. He said 1t would in
wade the United States with as re-
nsovai of the tariff barriers
Another angle to the revision Quee-
tfon was presented By NJ Dorian,
freasnfsf "a the ATaneaksh Granlso-
phone Company, OF BEfdgeport, Conn.
whose protest was against the pro-
posed removal of shellac and copal
from the free list and said 1t would
probably shift the manufacture OF
graphophone supplies of his company
for export trade to the London office
Tomorrow oils, acids, perfumery and
salts will be considered.
ON SCHEDULE "a"
Today's hearing was on schedule
"a" the chemical schedule. The COM
n1ittee plans to go down through the
list, taking a new schedule every other
day until all have been covered With
the full membership of the committee
sitting in the big hall In the house
Office building, the first hearing of a
month long series, aiming at the prep
aration Of a law to carry out the dem
ocratic party's pledges OF an ''imme-
date downward revision" and tariff
for revenue only was begun
Most Of the democratic majority of
the present ways and means commit
tee will go into the next congress,
which is to convene in extra session
probably between March 15 and early
April. When the tariff hearings are
ended, democrats Of the committee
will devote themselves to the formu-
lation Of the tentative tariff legislation
which they hope to have ready by
March 10, If not earlier.
The concrete result Of their DELHI
erattons, the new tariff rates from
acids to zinc, the expansion of the
free list and so on, will be formally
passed upon at a caucus of the repre-
sentatives OF the new house to be
called soon after the opening Of the
extra session. This caucus will deter
mine whether the new tariff legislation
shall be in the form of a single meas
ure or in sufficient bills, schedule by
schedule, along the lines of the tariff
procedure of the last session, when
chemical, wool, cotton, iron and steel
and free list bills went through both
houses but met presidential veto.
Chairman Underwood of the ways
and means committee, and his asso-
ciates are inclined TO favor the same
course as that of the last session. BY
that procedure it is urged by its ad-
vocates, log rolling or trading on
rates of various articles could be
avoided.
The chemical schedule is one Of
three or four that command the
o. C8LCSL 4AtCAC6l.
teemen claim revision along the lines
embodied in the chemical bill OF last
year would save American consumers
100000 by reducing the prices of all
chemicals and at the same time in
creasing the revenue to the govern
ment. The plan Of the committee is to
levy low rates of duty upon non-com-
petitive articles produced in this
country, especially the chemicals used
in the textile industry and chemicals
and drugs used for medicines.
WANTS EXPERT INVESTIGATION
The first witness today was Henry
Howard of New York, representing
the Manufacturing Chemists Associa-
ton. He contended the committee
should delegate the entire question of
the chemical schedule to a sub-com-
mittee for expert investigation Mr..
Howard insisted that the association
felt very strongly that no bodies the
size of ways and means committee
could as a whole conduct an investi-
cation so essentially technical He IA