Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-05-06
RIGS ROUSE WRATH
OF CONGRESSMAN
M0NDELL; WANTS
THEM CLEANED
House Machine Rejects Every
Effort 70 Attack Free Trade
Provisions Of Proposed Tar
iff Bill.
FREE WOOL DENOUNCED
By DEmOCRAT FROM OHIO

lhy rensed WEre 20 Etcnlnn Herald
Washington. May e-The admins.
lraiiuu and Income tax features %
ihe lHrfn bsli rcfnnifcd 10 be disposed
Of to-day when the house convened.
butn sections are important portions
Of tho bill with fuany pages 81 de-
tails that puzzle new members. but
confidently counted upon BY Demo-
cratic leaders,
The preferential of pei cent upon
foreign hoods brought hi American
boliQIn8 and the strenuous objections
Of insurance companies against thc
incoIae tax on the ground ghat the
policy holders will be ultimately burr
dencd with greater premiums. we're
issues ahead when tbs bin was taken
up.
Representative Mondeu sot permits.
sion 10 offer an amendment providing
that All rags Imported must be- ciean-
"a and sterliiSed. and delivered b dIa-
tribe on Democratic rugs
The Democrats propose 10 admit
free 81 duty" he shouted. the rags
q the world. Rags from the haTema
81 Turkey rags from the slums ~
London, rags from the purlicus Of
Naples and Rome. rags from cholera
and hubouic plague camps or the Bal-
kan peninsula viii be given 70 our
logirai In a Democratic tariff bill than
free rags. We must have the RAGS of
ali the world 20 come here to ciothc
our people, driven from employment
by the Democratic tariff rates"
Representative Underwood pointed
out thar Mr.. Mondeils amendment
was uuncc cssaIN. because the rags
were cleaned before being admitted
10 this country.
As the bill approaches ~ day for
paeHage In the house the senate is
completing plans for It's considera-
ton.
Many Republican senators have
drafted amendments senator SheT-
man 81 Illinois has one TO provide
that NO provisions Of the income tax
shall apply 90 any insurance company
or association which conducts it's
business solely upon mutual plan
and only for the beneft Of It's policy
holders OF members.
a Democratic Republican love feast
was held az consideration of the tax
ing provisions % the bill drew 20 n
close. The occasion was the birthday
OF Representative Underwood.
Minority Leader Mann announced
that he wished 10 put aside partisan
feeling FOR time and talk personally.
He told the house that dfty-une years
ago zone OF the abiest men In public
congratulated the Democratic party
ami the American people that during
the fifty-one years ~ his lie there
has groSn 90 greatness and bigncss
the able gentleman from Alabama.
Mr. Underwood.
Amid a roar ~ applause from both
sides OF the chamber Mr. Underwood
thanked mr. Mann for his congratu-
lations.
In short time consideration ~
the remaining paragraphs 81 the free
list was completed and the income
tax section Of tho bill was reached.
The wool paragraph Ia the Tree list
/ brnunhi about q detection from thr
solid front of the Democrats. Repre-
sentative sharp, of Odiu. representing
/ Democrats opposed % free wool Of
/ fered an amendment placing q duty
| OF twenty per cent on raw wool the
rate fixed by the Underwood bill Of
, the last congress-.
Representative sharpe defended his
Democracy by the statement that he
now proposed "a rate which both
speaker CLARK and Majority Leader
| Underwood had voted for in the last
congress.
| Representative F0rdney attacked
| the free wool provision. Various
| amendments including one 10 plac,
aii manufactures - wool nn the free
list were defeated,