Arizona republican., 1913-03-21
Democratic Leader Under wood A ks Country to Not Judge Revision Bill Until Presented in House and Made Public
URGES SECRECY
 FOR SOME TIME
Says That He Has Read Nothing in Newspapers but Misleading or Mis- stated Accounts of Work on the Measure
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH

WASHINGTON. March 20-D. mo- cratic LeHder Underwood asked to- night that the country withhold jude- ment on the tariff revision bill until rresento1 in the house and made public by authority of it's fralners. All along he has insisted as chair man of the ways and means com mittee absolute secrecy regarding the measure. He said tonight:
 since the ways and means com- mittee commenced the work Of the revision of the present tariff laws, have refrained from giving interviews to the press but I have read in the papers so many misleading state m.nts about the work of the ways and means committee and so many assertions of fact which are not fact. as to what the comittee has done concerning various paragraphs and schedules of the bill, I feel it far to the public to say that practically every statement I have read with re ference to the rates of duty that would be imposed on the articles enumerated in the proposed new tar if bill are absolutely misleading and most of them entirely wrong
 T hope the country will not pro iudice the bill until it is intruducel in congress and authoritatively made public.
 Encouraged with the rapid progress already made in the preparation of the tariff revision bill. close friends Of the president predicted tonight that the currency reform measures will be brought before the extra. session. The president talked informally with some callers on the prospects of currency legislation. They went away convinced that, while the president would devote himself first and foremost to tariff re- vision. he now hoped to at least staro on monetary reform. if not actual leg islation, will be possible at the extra session.
 From the first the president believed in the necessity of immediate currency reform and though he was anxious congress should focus its attention and that the nation on the tariff ques- tiOn, he has never given up the idea of getting the currency measure before the country within a few months. Some friends said today they are particularly hopeful of currency reform because of the attitude of the democratic leaders in congress toward expeditions action on the tariff.
 Senator Simmons, chairman of the finance committee is reported to have said that the tariff will be disposed of within three months. Like the tariff. the currency bill when drawn will he presented as party measure and care fully worked out by the congressional committees in cooperation with the president. It will not be made public until it has been studied closely bN the members of his cabinet and recOG- nized authorities on the currency ques- tions and some of the leading business men of the country in whose judgment the administration has confidence.
 The president intends to stay in
 Washington throughout the extra ses-
 sion, giving every attention to legisla-
 tive matters. He declines every day
 invitations to make speeches outside
 the city The cabinet will meet tomor-
 row when the question of recess ap-
 pointments will be discussed. The resignation today of Huntington Wilson as assistant secretary of state leaves the state department under charge of Ava A. Adee, second assist ant secretary of state. It is probable however. there will be a recess ap-
 pointment of John Bassett Moore. counsellor to the state department, to- morrow so that he can cooperate with Adee in running the department. The president telegraphed Secretary Bryan l he need not cut short his vacation on 1 account of Huntingdon Wilson's with 1 drawal
 ! The president had long string of l callers He talked tariff with Senator ! Thomas of Colorado; had q converse ] ton with $. H Thompson, president
 of the Woodrow Wilson club of Denver
 and talked currency with Prof. J. I.au- renee Laughln of the University Of 1 Chicago. Tomorrow the president will ! discuss with New Jersey democratic l leaders. the status of the jury reform bill of the legislature. George F. La
 monte state banking insurance com-
 missioner of New Jersey saw the pres 1 ident for short time today. He is l being mentioned as comptroller of the 1 currency and it is reported that while 1 the president is deSirous of appointing 1 him, he does not want New Jersey to lose his services as yet.