The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-04-11
SUGAR SCHEDULE
is INCOMPLETE
Balance Of Tariff Bill Ready for
House Action.

Washington, April 5.-The Demo
cratic tariff revision bill is completed
with the exception of final decision
upon the sugar tariff. From beginning
to end it is a measure modelled in ac-
cord with the ideas of President Will
son. with wool, meat and many other
foodstuffs and clothing materials on
the free list; with low duties upon all
agricultural products and foodstuffs
that are not free; and with the tariff
on chemical, steel and other CONNER
cial products cut far below the pres
ent protective rates
The senate tariff leaders asked for
an opportunity to study the bill until
Sunday afternoon. They will then
confer with Chairman Underwood of
means and later will have final con-
ference with President Wilson. A
careful analysis of the senate will be
made in the meantime to determine
whether free wool. '1-cent sugar" and
low rates on market basket" prod
ucts will prove acceptable to ma
jority of the Democrats.
Briefly summarized the tariff de-
yelopments were:
President Wilson's ultimatum to SUI
gar interests that they must agree to
a tariff of l cent per pound for three
years, with free sugar after that time,
or he would attempt to procure free
sugar at once.
Sugar May Go on Free List.
The bill was completed by the ways
and means committee, with the excep-
ton of the sugar schedule. On this
the committee is prepared to agree on
free sugar if the president insists.
Income tax rates are fixed at / per
cent for all corporation incomes above
$4,000; / per cent on personal in
comes from $4,000 to $4,000; 2 per
cent from $4,000 to $4,000; per
cent from $4,000 to 100000; 4 per
cent above 100000
The president submitted his pro-
poSal on the sugar tariff to RepreSen-
tative Broussard of Louisiana. Lou
isiana senators and representatives
conferred and sounded out other mem
bers of the senate to determine
whether enough strength could be
procured to fight the free sugar fea-
lures of the plan. They reached no
decision, however, as to the course
they would take.
Notwithstanding the sugar contro-
versy events so shaped themselves
as to indicate that the house. the SEN
definite and final agreement upon the
tariff bill before Monday and that the
measure will be presented to the
house early next week as an admin
istration measure and with all tariff
leaders behind it.
Problems for Senators.
After short meeting of the Demo-
cratic members of the finance commit
tee Senators Simmons James and
Hughes called on Mr.. Underwood and
discussed the wool, sugar and agricul-
tural tariffs A demand from some
quarters in the senate for an increase
in the agricultural duties and doubt
as to the success of both free wool
and free sugar in the senate consti-
tute the problems over which senate
leaders will work.
The house tariff makers have left
matters entirely in the hands of the
president. Members of the senate
finance committee declared there
would be an ultimate agreement with
the presid mt over all contested
points. 1t is understood that unless
the sugar compromise is accepted by
the senators from the Southern states
the finance committee probably will
act on its own initiative and comply
with President Wilson's desires.
The situation, as it has developed
this week, is apparently a consumma-
ton of the plan laid out by the presi-
dent and the house and senate lead
ers, to bring the executive department
and both branches of congress into an
agreement upon tariff revision before
the new bill leaves the custody of the
committee that has drawn it. Lead
ing senators predicted that there
would be no important matters unset
tied when the bill is introduced in
the house,