Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-04-07
MORE LETTERS
TO GARNER
AGAINST REDUC-
TION OF DUTIES ON ARTICLES
PRODUCED IN HIS DISTRICT.
LETTERS RUN INTO HUNDREDS.
IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPLY WITH
ALL WISHES-GA ACTIVE
IN FRAMING PROVISIONS F0E
GRADUATED INCOME TAN.
Especial Staf Correspondcat.)


Especial Stdf COrrespondcnt)
WASHINGTON, ID. c., April a
great many letters have been written 10
Representative John N. Garner, from
the 18th Texas district, asking that ,ls-
ties be retained upon articles in which
the writer's are Interested These let.
ters in recent weeks have actually run
into hundreds, and if the requests they
carried could have been complied with,
there would be many paragraphs and
sections Of the forthcoming Underwood
tariff bill, which would look as though
the Payne-Aldrich tariff law was to be
continued in force during a democratic
administration. Ni
Representative Garner has followed
the wishes of his democratic cOnstitn-
ents in these matters as far az he could.
He has urged ways and means demo-
Gratis to retain duties as far as could
consistently be done and i'm several in
stances has succeeded i'm having duties
kept on products in which farmers OF
the 18th district are interested. A re-
cent illustration Of this, mentioned in
The Herald, was the duty on onions, and
also a small duty on live cattle. But
there are other members OF the ways
and means committee, having views
about the reduction Of duties The
democratic party is committed to re-
vision downward and the upshot of 1t
all is that great many duties have had
to come down and those behind numef-
GUS local Industries throughout the land
will have to meet many disappointments
when the text Of the Underwood bill il
made public. 80
President Wilson is to be back Of the
Underwood bill. The democratic lead
ers want this and President Wilson him
self il favorable to such programme.
He expects to sign the tariff revision
that becomes a law and also To defend
it against the critics who will rise up
in legion as soon as the law goes into
operation. The president Is sanctiOning
the tariff revision as nm administration
measure but a measure that he Will
sanction must reduce dnties and be Of a
character that will enable the president
to 90 before all the pople with con-
vincing argument
So it is that Representative Garner
has had to yield some things that his
Texas constituents want, even az demo-
cratic representatives from other locaIi-
ties have had to yield something. The
effort is to get a measure which all
democrats can support and matters are
shaping rapidly to that end. As has a.
ready been indicated in the Herald's dis
patches, Representative Garner has
been very active in framing the income
tax provisions. The plan for graduated
taxes on incomes is very largely the
Texans. He proposed ii and insisted
upon it against considerable opposition
among ways and means democrats. Mr.
Garner won over SO much of this OppO-
sitiOn that it was demonstrated he had
a majority of the committee with him.
His arguments for graduated income
tax were so convincing as against
straight income tax that il has prevail.
ed and the bill will 60 before the house
democratic caucus in that form. Pre-
sumably it will have majority Of the
caucus and will become law in the form
Mr.. Garner proposed.
Wheels should begin to turn anew in
Washington very soon, with the open
ing of the extra session of congress. The
Texans are getting back to town and tax.
ing up their duties. There will be re-
newed efforts to get some Of those fed
eral plums shaken from the tree Of
patronage. The first to fall will un-
doubtedly be some of those post office
plums A goOdly number Of Texas con-
gressmen will feel a lot better when
Postmaster General Burleson puts his
10. r. upon the candidates they endorse.
The two senator's will be urged to get
together" upon some Of the federal ap.
pOintments but do not seem disposed to
hasten in the cases where vacancies are
not yet near.
President Wilson is clearing up many
nomination matters and large batch
of names will 60 to the senate in the
very early days Of the extrat session.
There is no indication, however, that the
list will have many Texas names outside
of a few pOstmasters and the United
States marshals which he is known to
have selected already. %