The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-05-22
TO STAND
PAT ON SCHEDULES
WOOL AND SUGAR ITEMS DRAFT
ED BY HOUSE UPHELD
By PRESIDENT.
NO COMPROMISE CONSIDERED
Seems to Look Askanee at Efforts TO
Obtain Hearings-Panics Dis
cussed by Senator Thomas,
of Colorado.

Washington, May IT. - President
Wilson has come out strongly as the
champion of free wool and free sugar
in-three-years, as provided for in the
tariff bill recently passed by the
house.
is Very Emphatic.
The president announces emphati-
cally that he has not been considering
compromises of any sort; that he has
all along stood squarely behind the
measure as it passed the house and
has regarded it as the duty of the
Democratic majority in the senate TO
fulfill it's platform pledge by enacting
the house bill into law.
81 am not the kind" said the presi-
dent, that considers compromises
when nee | take my position. have
taken my stand with the house lead
ers for the present bill. Enough said.
] am not looking for or accepting COM
promises"
The presidents utterance was made
to a half-hundred newspaper CORE
spondents who gathered. as usual, at
the White House for the semi-weekly
conference. At the same time the SEN
ate was engaged in a protracted de-
bate. at the end of which an agree
ment was reached to vote immediate
" on the question of public hearing
on the tariff bill.
Opposes Further Hearings.
While the president smilingly let ii
be known that he vas expressing no
opinion whatsoever on the proposal
for hearings and that this was a sub
ject for the senate to dispose Of. his
statement OF unqualified support for
the house bill was taken generally to
mean that Mr.. Wilson considered ar
gument from special interests on the
tariff schedules to have been closed
when the measure passed the house.
He is understood to regard the effort
TO obtain bearings a u dlibustering
device.
There were even i~utimations in the
presidents declarations that he might
veto a bill that might come from the
senate with amendments on wool or
sugar.
The agreement In the senate was
for n vote Oh the motion TO refer the
Underwood hill 20 the finance com
mittee and the P~enrose- LaFollette
amendment for public hearings at 4
o'clock this afternoon Republican
leaders accepted this proposal from
Chairman Simmons. after Senator
Stone bad attempted to force an i'm
mediate vote by moving to lay all
amendments TO Simmons motion on
the table. This he withdrew at Sen
ator Simmons request.
Subject Of Debate.
The sugar schedule again was the
subject OF enlivened debate. Senator
Ransdell OF Louisiana, answering the
claim of Senator James Of Kentucky.
that the Democratic platform ~arned
Louisiana To expect free sugar. Mr..
Ransdeil submitted records in an ef.
fort To show that the party was not
committed TO free sugar.
Senator Thomas OF Colorado discuss
ed threats OF business depression IL
the Underwood bill became a law.
mo panic In The history OF this
country was ever caused by an at
tempt 10 revise the tariff be said.
The senator aroused the Republican
side by reading = magazine article
which alleged that the panic OF 1893
was manufactured by banking inter.
ests which desired the repeal OF the
Sherman silver purchase act Accord
ing 10 this article. circulars were sent
out from New York to banks demand
Ing that they retire \ part Of their
circulation and call in \ large part of
their loans. with the object OF forcing
congress to pass this legislation.
Senators Norris and Root expressed
surprise that such a circular had been
sem and asked II II were signed.
Il did not give any name because
none appears here" said Senator
Thomas in reply to Mt. Root
"The senator knows perhaps better
than l do where II came FROM
Mr.. Thomas declared that the panic
OF 1907 had been manufactured by the
Standard Oil company or its allied
interests