Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-06
NousE WAYS AND MEANS COM
mlrrEE sEolhs HEARINGS ON
VARIOUS scAEpuLEs.
erroRr 70 CARRY OUT
PARTvs PLATFORM PLEDGES
Everv schedule viii Be serutinizsd by
COMMITTEES Work Will ee Made
Re.dy for Extra Session Of Congress
70 % Called After Marcel, caucus
g Rsvisw Work.

vision Of the tartn actually got unoer
wav today when the house ways and
means committee began hearings which
win ba the basis of the new tariff bill
Of the next congress to repeal the
Payne -Aldrich law.
The hearing was on schedule A.
the chemical schedule. The committee
nlans to 70 down thru the list, taking
!. new schedule every other day until
all have been covered.
With the full membership OF the COM
mittee sitting in the big hall In the
house office building, the .1rst nearing
~ 4 months long series, looking to the
nrenaration of law to carry out the
democratic pr rtys pledges OF "immeoi-
ate dnwnward revision" and "tarln 1or
revenue only" was begun.
Work Up 70 Extra Session.
Most Of the democratic majority OF
the present ways and means commit-
80 will 20 into the next congress,
,sr,ich /. to convene in extra session
,,-ohahlv between March Is and early
Anril when the tariff hearings are
a,d.a democrats Of the committee Will
a.vota themselves In daily executive
sessions to the formulation OF the
.entative tariff legislation, which they
none 20 have ready by March 10. II not
earlier.
The concrete result OF their denoer-
ations. the new tariff rates. from acids
=, Sinc. the expansion OF the 1ree llst'
ana 20 ON. will be formally passed upon
-. I. caucus Of the representatives OF
60 Ho
80 e oSMsninx 81 the extra session. This
s -; ;,rns will determine whether the new
1 I .s,s les.sSs leaisIation shall be in the form
+ a = sinsle measure or in separate
B sh,,,s7 schedule by schedule along the
ii,s e tariff procedure Of :he last ses-i
Y -. vhen chemicals, WOOL cotton. iron
and .teel ana free list bills went thru
,,.th honses. but met presidential veto
- ToaAvoid "los Rolling
M chairman Underwood, OF the ways
- means committee, and his asso-
a.at.. are inclined to favor the same
aa,,r.e Al that Of last session. BY that
,,.acedure It IL urged by its advocates
nat .loe rolling" or trading on rates
-, various articles could be avoideo.
rha chemical schedule is one OF the
@hree or four that command the great
e.t interest. Democratic commlttee-
MON claim revision along the lines en-
ho.Iied in the chemical bill or last year
would save American consumers si1, -,
0o0. 900 by reducing the prices VI q"
chemicals and at the same 'lne 40
creasins the revenue to the govern
ment. .A., +o law
80, rate. Of duty upon non-competittve
..io,oa nroduced in this country, espe-
a,aisw, the chemicals used In the textile
.s.,..,v ana chemicals and drugs used
for medicines.
go. cammittse 10 Incompetent.
rhe first witness today was Henry
.,Iaward gSof New York. representing
.,,s manufacturing chemists assocla-
s.an No contended that the committee
shomld delegate the whole question 70
.mh-committee for expert lnvest1ga-
4,nn Mr.. Howard insisted that the as
sociation felt very strongly that no.
hodv Il the size Of the ways and means
committee could as whole conduct IN
vs.t,oations 30 essentially technical
Ha favored q non-partisan commlttee
or commission.
...rhe CHANGES in classification in the
.temica1 schedule." he said, "are large
~ fundamental and the rate is dis
tinctly Illogical, as the relation OF raw
tmateriala to finished product Is per-
.,stently ignored. the relations between
different products in many instances
apparently il misunderstood. and there
are many other errors. The most radi-
cal increase in rates of raw materials
in,poges hardships- that would. II fol-
lowed thru other schedules, inevitably
bring disaster to many industries with
consequent hardship to the labor en-
ployed in those industries"