Arizona republican., 1913-06-03
Senate Committee in Charge of Agricultural Schedule Make Recommendation Which is Likely to Be Accepted
FRESH MEATS
 ALSO DUTIABLE
Democrats Handling the Underwood Bill Are Not Having Smooth Sailing i'll the Face of Numerous Protests
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATCHl

WASHINGTON, June 2.-Oats and flour will not go on the free list of the democratic tariff bill, if the rec concentration of the senate finance committee in charge of the agricul tural schedule is accepted.
 An important alteration of the Un- derwood bill as passed in the house was determined upon today by the subcommittee composed of Senators Williams Shively and Gore. They decided that in carrying out the de- termination to perfect the Underwood bill by equalizing the raw materials and products it would be wiser to levy nominal duties on meats and flour products than to put live stock and grain on the free list
 In accordance with this decision the subcommittee in revising the schedule took from the free list in the house bill fresh meats-beef, mutton and pork-and made them dutiable at ten per cent advalorem. Wheat flaur was restored to the dutiable list with d specific rate of forty-five cents a barrel, with other wheat products at ten per cent ad valorem, and the Underwood duty on oats was reduced from ten cents to six Cents per bush el, with a compensatory duty on oat- meal said to be approximately five per cent ad valorem-
 Cattle, sheep and hogs will be left as they are in the proposed bill, dutiabie at ten per cent ad valorem. The Underwood duty of ten cents per busheI on wheat will stand. Recon mendations will be made to the fin ance committee late this week, O. carly in next, and the senators who proposed the change believe it wilt have the approval of a majority or the members and also of the demo- cratic caucus
 Soon after the passage Of the | IT. derwood bill by the house the many protests against differentiating be- tween raw material and their prod ucts was one of the first features to be taken up with the senate lead CTS and the president. Several weeks ago a committee determined to equal ize the rates one way or the other. and few days ago the president was consulted about the matter.
 Another development today was the approval without change of the sugar schedule as passed in the house. It was also announced by Senator Shively of the finance com mittee that in his opinion the tariff bill as it goes to the senate or the senate committee will be a lower bill in the aggregate than that of Under wood.
 A protest was filed today by the American Live Stock association which said in part: The result of free admission of meats from other countries will be. first of all to dis courage the live stock business, and if the prices are forced to the level of the Argentina beef or Australian mutton the business will be so un- profitable that this country will soon cease to produce it's own meats"
 Armour, Swift and Morris have large plants in Argentina, the protest asserted, and have handled thirty nine per cent of the export trade from South America. Two of these firms are building large plants in Uruguay. swift and Go. are now building a plant at Brisbane, In Queensland. Now there are three plants in Canada operated by the same American packers. That the proposition to place meat on the free list will result in curbing the so- called beef trust, is prepoSterouS, the petition continued. Whatever con trol American packers have over prices in this country will be in creased instead of lessened by free meats.
 We favor an equal duty on all meat and live stock and that duty should be no less than fifteen per cent ad valorem in order to be fair and equitable to the live stock and farming interests of the country.
 Protesting against unequal treat ment of wheat and flour in the Un derwood bill" millers of St. Louis protested in a petition to the finance committee. This" they said. is not a protection for the producer, but a great and serious handicap i'm posed by the government of the Emit ed States against the mills of our own country. We submit that such q policy is indefensible. We urge the flour duty be reduced relatively the same as the wheat duty imposed against all countries"
 Resolutions by the Chicago board of trade urged an amendment to the bill "to provide for a duty of ten