The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-16
WILSON WILL FAVOR
NO COMPROMISE IN
THE TARIFF ISSUE
Strongly Champions Bill as
Recently Passed by the
House
STANDS SQUARELY
BEHIND MEASURE
Not the Kind to, Ask Compromises
When Take Position" Says
President--Stands With tic
House Leaders


son came out strongly today as the
champion of free wool and free sugar
In three years. as provided for in the
tariff bill recently passed by the House.
He announced emphatically that he was
not considering compromise of any sort;
that he stood squarely behind the
measure as 1t passed the House. and
that he regarded 1t as the duty of the
democratic majority in the Senate to
fulfill Its platform pledge by enacting
the House bill into law
II am not the kind" said the Pres
when | once take my position. | have
taken my stand with the House leaders
for the present bill Enough said
am not looking for nor accepting COM
promises"
The Presidents utterance was made
to a half hundred newspaper CORES
pondents who gathered as usual today
at the White House for the semi week
ly conference. Practically at the same
time the Senate was engaged In pro-
tracted debate at the end of which to-
night an agreement was reached to vote
tomorrow on the question of public
hearings on the tariff bill. While the
President smilingly let 1t be known
that he was expressing no opinion
whatsoever the proposal for hear
ings and that this was a subject for
the Senate to dispose of. his statement
of unqualified support for the House
bill was taken generally to mean that
Mr. Wilson considered arguments from
nj int Re
ules to have been closed when the
measure passed the House lie is uii-
derstood to regard the effort to OIL
tain hearings as a filibustering device
The correspondents were about to
leave the office when the President
asked If 1t were true that reports were
being circulated of compromises on the
wool and sugar schedules. All dav there
had been rumors that concessions of
some Mind would ba made on the orin
cipal schedules in order to satisfy on
position In the Senate. The President
had been told by friends that in some
sources there was an expectation that
a duty would be put on raw wool or
that the provision for free sugar after
three years would be dropped. 1t WAS
to counteract these statements that he
TOOK occasion to make his position
clear. OF course 1t is expected at the
changes In the bill made by the finance
committee, certain equalizations and
corrections which have been approved
py House leaders since the bill left
their hands, but in the principal sched-
ules, such as wool and sugar, the Pres
ident is determined that there shall
be no change If he can prevent There
were even intima tions that he might
veto bill that came from the Senate
with amendments on wool or sugar.
To Vote on Motion
The agreement in the Senate was for
vote at o'clock tomorrow after
noon on the motion to refer the I'm
defwood bill to the finance committee
and the Penrose- La Toilette amendment
for public hearings. Republican lead
ers accepted this proposal from Chair
man simmons after Senator Stone had
attempted to force an Immediate vote
by moving to lay all amendments Ia
simmons motion on the table This he
Withdrew at Senator simmons re-
quest.
The sugar schedule was again the sub
1ect of enlivened debate Senator Rams
dell of Louisiana answering the claim
or Senator James Of Kentucky that the
democratic platform warned Louisiana to
expect free sugar. Mr.. Ransdel submit
ted records in an effort to show that the
party was not committed to free sugar.
q
the tariff late in the day
Senator Thomas of Colorado discussed
threats of business depression If the I'm
derwood bill became a law. mo manic
In the history of this country was ever
excused by an attempt to revise the
tariff" he said
Arouses Republican Side
The senator aroused the republican sida
ny reading magazine article which al
legged that the panic of 1893 was manu-.
iactured by banking interests which de-
sired the repeal of the Sherman silver
purchase act. According to the senator
circulars were sent out from New YorK
to banks demanding that they retire a
part of their circulation and call large
part OF their loans, with the object OF
forcing Congress to pass this legislation
senators Norris and Root expressed sur
prise that such a circular had been sent
and asked if it were signed.
II did not give any name because none
appeared here" said Senator Thomas in
reply to Mr. Root The senator knows
perhaps better than do where 1t came
from"
Senator Root said he was surprised that
the senator from Colorado should make
such absurd charges in the Senate
based upon a communication apparently
unsigned,
THE senator from Colorado does not
have to take instructions from the sena-
tor from New York or any one else
said Senator Thomas "He is RESPONSE
bic to the people of his own state. He
does not care whether the senator thinks
this Is absurd or not
Senator Page offered to give $50 for the
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