Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-04-05
SENATE WILL NOT OBJECT
IN SPITE OF oPPoRTUNINe OF
LOUISIANA DEMOCRATS, PRO-
GRAM WILL PREVAIL.
ALL PRECEGENTS ARE UPSET
LOWER BRANCH OF CONGRESS
SENDS ITS PROPOSED BILL
TO UPPER HOUSE.


cratic majority of the ways and means
committee voted unanimously today
to agree to President Wilson's final
decision as to the sugar schedule,
and adjourned to Monday. It will
agree either to free sugar or a low
duty, to be eliminated entirely in
three years. President Wilson is ex-
pected to make his decision today.
Senate Committee is Working.
A new tariff schedule underwent
a careful examination today at the
hands of members of the senate fl
nance committee. While the anti
free sugar forces from Louisiana and
other cane and beet sugar states were
making an effort to rally enough
strength to defeat President Wilson's
compromise plan, the senate leaders
were analyzing all contested parts of
the biz, so they can tell President
Wilson tomorrow whether they can
accept it without change
The action Of Chairman Underwood
Of the ways and means committee in
turning the committee bill over to the
senate for examination, is almost un-
precedented in tariff history, it is
claimed. Senate leaders insisted they
should be consulted in the prepara-
tion of the tariff revision, and Pres
ident Wilson has made efforts to
bring the senate, house and White
House into accord with the bill be-
fore it is introduced. While the house
tariff makers have exercised their
constitutional right to prepare the tar
iff revision bill, it will be made sat
isfactory to the president and the
senate, it is believed, before being
introduced.
Indications today were that Pres
ident Wilson's compromise plan on
the sugar tariff probably would be ac-
cepted finally in the senate. This
proposes to reduce the present duty
Of 1.S4 cents per pound on Cuban su-
gar to one cent a pound. Cuban su-
gar is allowed to enter at 20 per cent
less duty than sugar from other coun
tries. At the end Of three years it is i
Droposed to admit ali sugar free of
duty.
Mr.. Underwood expects to call a
democratic caucus for 10 a. m Tues
day. Four working committees, nee
essary at the outset of the session,
will be chosen. They are mileage,
rules, accounts and enrolled bills.
The report which the ways and
means majority viii submit to the
house to accompany the bill win claim
an average reduction of so per cent /
on the entire bill. as compared with
the present law. This, it viii be
stated. is lower than the average re
duction made in any tariff bill since
and including the Walker bill in the
fifties.
Bill to 90 in Monday.
The tariff revision bill will be in
troduced in the house next Monday
as House Resolution No. 10. A eau
Gus Of the democrats of the house was
called for Tuesday at II a. m.
The bill will be reported unani-
mously by the ways and means com
mittee majority. Representative
Payne or New York. as ranking re-
publican member Of the committee,
VIII file a brief minority report At
lacking the democratic measure and
setting forth probably that TIE min
orlfg bad no opportunity 10 confer
over tie measure
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