The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1913-05-23
WILSON TO STAND
PAT ON SCHEDULES
WOOL AND SUGAR ITEMS DRAFT
ED BY HOUSE UPHELD
BY PRESIDENT.
NO COMPROMISE CONSIDERED
Seems to Look Askancc at Efforts TO
Obtain Hearines-Panics Dis
cussed by Senator Thomas,
of Colorado.

Washington, May II. - President
! Wilson has come out strongly as the
champion Of free wool and free sugar
in-threeyears, 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 1t passed the house and
| has regarded it as the duty Of the
| Democratic majority in the senate to
| fulfill its platform pledge by enacting
the house bill into law
81 am not the kind" said the presi-
dent, that considers compromises
when once 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 pres dents utterance was made
to a half-hundred newspaper CORE
NpOliuCnAS WdO Sdiutitu, do usual, dl
the White House for the semi-weekly
conference At the same time the SEN
ate was engaged in d protracted de-
bate. at the end of which an agree
ment was reached to vote immediate
ly on the question of public hearing
On the tariff bill
Opposes Further Hearinqs.
While the president smilingly let il
be i,nown that he was expressing no
opinion whatsoever on the proposal
for hearings and that this was y 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 as a ulibustering
device
There were even intimations in the
presidents declara tinns that he might
veto bill that might come from the
senate with amendments on wool or
sugar.
The agreement in the senate was
for a vote on the motion to refer the
Underwood bill 10 the finance com
mittee and the PenroSe- LaFollette
amendment for public bearings at
o'clock this afternoon. Republican
leaders accepted thus proposal from
q b m aft at.,r
Stone had attempted to force an i'm
mediate vote by moving to lay all
amendments 10 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 lanes of Kentucky.
that the Democratic platform warned
louisiana to expect free sugar. Mr..
Ransdell submitted records IN an ef.
fort To show that the party was not
committed 10 free sugar.
Senator Thomas of Colorado discuss
ed threats OF business depression II
the Underwood bill became a law.
No panic in the history OF this
country was ever caused by an at
temp: 10 revise the tariff" he said
The senator aroused the Republican
side by reading magazine article
which alleged that the panic of 1899
was manufactured by banking inter
ests which desired the repeal OF the
Sherman silver purchase act Accord
ing To 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
sent and asked il il were signed.
II did not give any name because
none appears here" said Senator
Thomas in reply TO Mr. Root
"'rhe senator knows perhaps better
than | do where ii came from
MIR. Thomas declared that the panic
of 1907 had been manufactured by the
Standard Oil company or its allied
interests.