Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-25
Senate About Done With Free
List, Paper and Sum-
dries Schedules.
TWO WEEKS ESTIMATED
PERIOD FOR conference
Democratic Caucus Will Be Asked to
Broaden Denatured Alcohol
Regulations.

Consideration of the tariff bill moved
on steadily in the Senate today. with the
prospect of having the free list and the
paper and sundries schedules disposed of
by tomorrow night.
Finance committee amendments to
broaden the internal revenue regulations
on denatured alcohol so as to open the
Industry to farming communities viii be
presented to democratic caucus next
week.
Leaders believe the House and Senate
will agree on disputed items within two
weeks after the Senate passes the bill.
When the bill was taken up reading of
the free list was resumed. Among the
articles agreed to without dis
cussion were milk and cream, mineral
salts. crude minerals. miners rescue APP
paratus, inventors models. myrobolans.
cut nails. horseshoe nails. needles, news
papers and periodicals. nuts, cod liver
oil. cottonseed oil and fish oils, gold and
silver ore. pearl and scientific apparatus.
Agree to Free Wool.
When the paragraph was reached re-
lating to free print paper valued at not
above ga cents pound Senator Lodge
asked t1at it be passed over to be con-
up. The request was granted.
Free raw wool was agreed to without a
roll call when the paragraph relating to
it was reached In the consideration of the
free list. No objection was made to
ratification of the paragraph, though re-
publican senator's will later demand roll
calls on pending substitutes for the
wooden schedule when the bill leaves the
committee Of TIE whole.
The finance committee amendment pro-
viding that free wool should not become
operative until December l, 1913. also was
agreed to.
The finance committee amendment put
ting undeveloped Photographic and NOV
Ing picture films on the rec list was
agreed to without debate. Free WI eat.
per cent: free swine. cattle and sheep
were objected to by Senator McCumber.
who was given time to prepare amend
mentS.
Other Free List Items.
Free listing Of railway bars and steel
rails was agreed to without debate.
Among other commodities In the propos-
ed free list agreed to were rye and rye
-four, SALT seeds. raw silk. statuary. steel
ingots, Blooms and slabs; strychnine,
bearing ores, type. barbed wire and wool.
The free list. with the exception Of re-
committed paragraphs. was approved IN
its entirety, paragraphs relating to works
of art being recommitted.
Senator Kenyon of Iowa offered his
amendment, which would provide that
whenever an article was found by judg-
ment of a court to be controlled by a
monopoly in VOCATION Of the Sherman
law 1t should automatically be placed on
the free list. He earnestly advocated its
adoption.
The amendment, at the request OF
Chairman Simmons. finally YVES referred
to the finance committee for consider a.
because the committee had not repor led
on a previous amendment Of the same
kind, but when Senator Simmons ex-
planned that the committee had not been
duced. but promised an early meeting.
and Senator stone had characterized the
Iowa senator's course as ungracious.
Senator Kenyon withdrew his objection
to the reference.
Questions Need Of Plan.
Senator Shively inquired Of Senator
Kenyon why put articles on the free
list when the monopoly was ended by
clined to discuss the amendment If the
vote was not to be taken today.
Senator Sutherland said two reasons
would probably lead to his opposing the
amendment. One was that 1t would pun
ish the innocent small producer as well
as the monopolizer. The other was that
1t would punish the government by de-
priving IT of revenue.
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia said
the government would have lost $25,
600. 900 in duties II the amendment had
been law when the tobacco trust de-
cree was entered, but home producers
would have been handicapped by being
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nue. tax.
Senator Bristow suggested that the
Georgia senator was unduly alarmed
about tobacco. as compared with other
farm products. senator OGorman
portant it should be considered by the
finance committee.
Cummins Approves Idea.
Senator Cummins argued that the idea
of the Kenyon bill was good, but he
expressed the belief a better form OF
putting it into operation could be devised.
He called attention to a bill he had
introduced providing for n decree of the
court certified to the Secretary of the
Treasury, determining when the penalty
should begin and when end. as tie monop-
oily was discovered and ended.
He said that necessity for placing ar
ticles on the free list would vanish when
ii was amended so as to send the Offend
ers to JAIL and when the courts appoint
ed receivers to sell the property so the
guilty ones could not continue to prom
by these WrOngdoers.
How can monopOlies be ended when
the Supreme Court declared combina'
ton violates the law as 1t did in the
Union Pacific case. and then the Attorney
General goes around to devise plan
mn
nopoly alive?' asked Senator Bristow.
Senator Bristow charged moment
later that 1t seemed to him that in the
Standard Oil. the tobacco case and the
Union Pacific cases the Department OF
Justice had connived with the guilty ones
to continue the monopoly.
Defends Attorney General.
Senator Lewis asked Senator BristoW
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