Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-04-04

ate then will be made clear.
Loss of $20,000,o00 in Revenue
Under the existing law, wool car
ries a duty of approximately II cents
per pound, or about 60 per cent when
figured on the ad valorem basis. 1t
is estimated that the abolition of the
duty will cause a loss of approx
mately $2O,0OO,OOO to the present gov.
ernment revenues. The democratic
tariff leaders claim it will bring abou,
substantial reduction in the price
of woolen manufactured goods. This
reduction in revenue and the possi-
BILE loss of approximately $53,O0O,000
of revenues should sugar be placed
on the free list would be made up,
the democdats say, by the income
tax, the details of which probably will
be settled tomorrow by the ways and
means committee.
With the work of the house ways
and means committee before him
and the extra session of congress
only a few days off the President
had proceeded deep enough in his
study of the tariff bill to realize that
before the democratic caucus met
there were many points upon which
he himself must take a definite stand
1t was admitted at the White House
that he would do so Gin day or
two
1t was declared also that the Presi-
dent had not made up his mind fin
ally as to whether the tariff should
be revised schedule by schedule or
in a single bill, whether sugar should
be put on the free list or given a
reasonable amount of protection, and
whether the income tax should be
by fiat or graduated rate. These and
kindred questions the President had
not yet decided absolutely but from
what he told his callers today there
was a we'll defined impression of his
inclinations.
The President leans strongly to re-
vision by a single bill. He thinks
the income tax question can be de-
cided only after an agreement has
been made upon tariff rates. He be-
lieves that sugar should go on the
free list but is open to conviction
on that point.
The President has been hearing ar.
guments that people in Louisiana
could readjust their business to meet
the new conditions imposed by the
removal of the tariff on sugar, but
Col Robert Ewing, national commit
teeman from Louisiana, has been pre-.
senting the other side of the question
and when he left the White House
yesterday he had laid the case in full
before Mr.. Wilson. Following on his
conference last night with Mr.. I'm
derwood, the first thing the Presi-
dent did today was to send for Col.
Ewing. He canvassed the possibility
of getting a common agreement on
the sugar question. The Louisiana
man told the President that the busi-
ness of the sugar growers of his
state, with millions of dollars invest.
ell, would be destroyed if sugar en-
tered free, but that they were will.
ing to stand a 25 per cent cut. Mr..
Wilson agreed to study the subjec.
further.
Cut in Agricultural Rates.
Members Of the ways and means
committee, after an all day session
spent in perfection Of tariff bill de-
tails, declared there was no substan-
tial difference Of opinion between the
committee and the President over the
duty to be imposed on farm products.
The committee has cut the agricul.
tural duties over so per cent in the
new bill. While President Wilson is
understood to favor a further cut in
some Of them, members Of the COM
mittee declared tonight that a com.
plete agreement would be reached
with the President without difficulty.
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