The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-06-06
WHAT ABOUT ThE lAe-lI
RS THEME AT WASHINGTON
Bv Ernest G. Walker.


tbene on nearly every Washington
tongue An Washington activity OF
great moment TO the country, now cen
ters there, The ncme Of interest there
in Inns eome. The tariff bill is before
the finance committee. subcommittee
have concluded. Ten Democratic SEN
ators are gathered around the mahog'
any table In the spacious finance com
p,;ttea rooms going over details and
trv;ng 10 determine whether rates, as
enacted nv the house. should be amend
I'd or remain. Seven Republican mem
hers of finance are still straying around
Washington, seeking TO kill time III the
most acceptable fashion, as agaiast the
day when the Democrats will can them
in and saw that "'the bin is done. -
II il not n gracious task these senate
Democrats of finance nave III nand'
The bousc did its very best Oh tariff re-
vision, from the Democratic STANDPOINT,
but that fell far short of perfection.
Tariff bills cannot be built IN day
and GOOD tariff bills are not often the
work of green hands. The senate Demo
crr,ts of finance are almost entirely now
men at that buaincsS. They are dong
their best. but It is onerous work and
they realize that the bill rs chock full
of anomalies, which IT will be impos-
sfble to eliminate entirely.
Here is an example to point. Time
detectors under current law tear duty
of 65 cents each. They cost about $40
each. House tariff builders concluded
that time detectors could well be classed
with watches and so 1t went, watches
having been given n duty of 30 per
cent. Before many days after the bill
had passed the house, down to Wash
ington came manufacturers of time de-
tectors.
"For goodness sake, Messrs. Demo
Gratis, said they, "take some of that
duty off Of time dctectors. You will
get us in bad. BY and bye some one
will discover that we have been given
an increase of enormous per cent aud
there will ultimately be reprisals there
for. -
Senator Stone, of Missouri, heard the
appeal and inquired. He found that
= duty Of 80 per cent on time deteetors
measures in dollars and cents $3.50 for
each detector. as against 65 cents undc1
the Payne Aldrich law.
''Wcll, this is so small in compari
soh with some other anomalies in this
bill, - he is reported to have said, "that
it ispo' worth while getting fused NJ
about it. But the duties ON time de
tectors will be reduced. w
Time Brings Out Defects.
It requires many days to bring out
such defects in tariff bill, and there
fore the Democrats are more or less
fortunate that the consideration of tht
tariff bill is not being hastened over
much. They are trying to get 1T out
of the finance committee as soon as
1easible, and steps are being taken tC
shorten the period OF the big deb,1te
President Wilson is understood to be
encouraging early decision. Reports are
rolling IN from the country tiat bust
ness men want the uncertainty ended
1t has been proposed to abolish cloturt
IN the senate, and Senator Owen, OF
oklahoma, possibly at the President i
suggestion, has introduced such "A reso
luton, which, if adopted would enable
the senate to come to a vote at n given
time, even though some senators still
wanted to talk But the senate will
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