Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-08
ARLlAMENrARY TACTICS OF RE-
PusticANs DELAY PASSAGE
ON SCHEDULED TIME.
MANUFACTURERS OF NATION
WILL SEEK AMENDMENTS
l IBID Conference 20 Formulate Plans to
lsseurs Notifications When Bill
1comss Up in 8snate-Want Treaty
lPswsr 70 lnersass Rates Where War
3rantsd.

SWaShington, May S.-Delayeo IN lts
oesage last night by parliamentary
.lhnicality, the Underwood tariff bill
,,ls ensrossed for presentation to the
,vtiuse at its hour Of meeting at p. M
hay.
Fbecause Of a democratic insistence
ofa point Of order to a republican mo-
ain to recommit the bill to the ways
Ind means committee. the reading OF
IS bill In its engrossed form was made
kterday.
Ehe parliamentary tacticians OF both
hes prepared today for the final fray
Ter the point Of order, but the result
II the large democratic ,najority was
iforegone conclusion.
1Meantime democratic leaders In the
1nate were preparing for consideration
Rit the bill there. There Is talk among
fIlAe house leaders Of taking a recess
LkoJarinE the senate consideration OF the
&rifI. While there have been con-
.erences on the subject the fact that
he president has not yet presented MS
Lliewa regarding currency legislation
l1as precluded any formal consideration
70 far as to what the house shail 90
ikhen It disposes Of the tarifr.
~ Manufacturers Want Amendments.
f4 a conference Of manufacturers ana
|Wfroducers met here today to talk over
k4he tariff situation and to formulate
klans for pressing some amendments
S.khen the senate considers the Under
hkood bill.
President Kirby, Of the National
Manufacturers Association; President
R.Eilder. Of the National Association OF
Ianner; c. T. Byers, Baltimore; c. G..
touston, Lewisburg, Tenn; George w.
Make. Wooster. O.: J. r. Watson. Chi
$50; W. g. Thomas. Springfield. O.;
nd Paul p. Herschel, of Peoria, ILL.,,
here among those leading the move
t4ent
Vi The object Of the conference as set
t1it IN statement by J. NJ. Glenn. sec
5etary of the Illinois association. Is to
Ideal with the general proposition OF
ltarifY revision as 1t Is presented in the
Underwood bill and to look particular
ly to the working of the paragraph OF
the proposed law which empowers the
president to negotiate trade agree
ments Of mutual concession with for
eign countries. It Is contended thas
II the president Is given power to ne
I Rotiate tariff rates he is also empoW-.
kered to negotiate increases If they are
Warranted.
Protest Alaskan Policy.
u Oppcsition to government aid Tor
JAlaskan railroads was expressed to-
Iday to the senate territorial committee
qby o. L. Dickinson. manager Tor close
4Brothers and other English debenture
|'fholders Of an existing route from
Sdskagway to the interior. He declared
Mine company In which his principals
k2werea interested would open a water
land rail route to Fairbanks on June l..
A government line. he said. would send
Them into bankruptcy.
Under Cross examination Mr.. D1cKln- :
lsen declared he was not prompted to
his attitude by the fact that the Close
lBrothers were partners with the Gug-
kenheim- Morgan syndicate in the Cop
her River railroad.
Currency Legislation Next.
Currency legislation will be taken up
Inv the house about June l. This an
loonncement was made today by Rep
Ee.entative Oscar w. Underwood, the
hemocratic house leader, after con-
Ference at the White House with Pres
tdent Wilson, who urged that banking
Eeform be considered at the present
Ee.sion and laws be enacted II pos
kible.