Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-05-06
DEMOCRATIC RAGS
DENOUNCED BY
Mr.. MONDELl
CONGRESSMAN SAYS new TARIFF
LAW WILL BRING RELICS OF THE
old WORLD To Cl0THE "OUR
PEOPLE,"
ASKS that ALL OF
Them Be STER|LIzED

Washington, D. c.. May 1.-THE ad-
ministration and income tax features
of the tariff bill remained to be dis
posed of today when the house con
vened. Both sections are important
portions of the bill with many pages
of details that puzzled new members,
but their adoption virtually intact
was confidently counted upon by DEM
ocratic leaders.
AS the income tax bill approaches
it's day for passage in the house, the
senate is completing plans for its
consideration.
Many Republican senators have
drafted amendments Senator Sher-
man of Illinois has one to provide
that no provisions of the income tax
shall apply to any insurance company
or association which conducts its
business solely upon mutual plan and
only for the benefit of its policy hold
ers or members.
The preferential of five per cent
upon foreign goods brought in Amer
lean bottoms and the strenuous OBJ
iections of insurance companies
against the income tax on the ground
that the policy holders will be ulti-
mately burdened with greater pre-
miums, were issues ahead when the
bill was taken up.
Row over Rags.
Representative Mondell got permls-
sion to offer an amendment provid-
ing that all rags imported must be
cleaned and sterilized, and delivered
diatribe on Democratic rags.
"The Democrats propose to admit
free of duty" he shouted, "the rags
of the world. Rags from the harems
of Turkey, rags from the slums OF
London, rags from the purlieus OF
Naples, and Rome, rags from cholera
and bubonic plague camps OF the Bal
kan peninsula will be given to our
people free. | know of nothing more
logical IN a Democratic tariff BILL
than free rags. We must have the
rags of all the world to come here to
clothe our people driven from employ
ment by the Democratic tariff rates. :
Representative Underwood pointed
out that Mr.. Mondell's amendment
was Unnecessary, because the rags
were cleaned before being admitted
to this country.
Attack Wheat and Flour.
Washington, D. c., May 6.-RepuD-
licans from the northwest attacked
the free wheat and -four provisions
of the bill
Representative Underwood defend
ed free -four, declaring that the north
west would not be injured, and an
amendment to the bill was defeated.
Efforts to take lumber from the free
list and alter the wood pulp and print
paper schedules were finally defeat
ed
A Love Feast.
Washington, D. c., May GA Dem
ocratic- Republican love feast was
held as consideration of the taxing
provisions of the bill drew to a
close. The occasion was the birth
day of Representative Underwood.
Minority Leader Mann announced
that he wished to put aside partisan
feeling for time and talk personal
ly. He told the house that fifty-one
wears ago, zone of the ablest men IN
public life first saw the light OF day
and congratulated the Democratic
party and the American people that
during the 81 years of his life there
has grown to greatness and blgness
the able gentleman from Alabama
Mr.. Underwood"
Amid roar of applause, from both
sides of the chamber, Mr.. Underwood
thanked Mr.. Mann for his congratu-
lations.
In short time, consideration OF
the remaining paragraphs OF the
free list was completed and the in
come tax section of the bill was
reached.
Enemy of Free Wool
The wool paragraph in the free list
brought about detection from the
solid front of the Democrats. Repre-
sentative Sharp of Ohio, represent
ing Democrats opposed to free wool,
offered an amendment placing duty
on twenty per cent on raw wool. the
rate fixed by the Underwood bill of
the last congress.
Representative Sharp defended his
Democracy by the statement that he
now proposed rate which both
Sneaker Clark and Majority Leader
Underwood had voted for in the last
congress.
Representative Fordney attacked
! the free wool provision. Various
amendments including one to place all
manufacturers of wool on the free
list, were defeated.
p Appeal To Democrats.
Washington, D. c., May 6-Senator
Newlands and other western senator's
contending for duties on wool and
sugar, appealed to the senate Demo
Gratis in caucus today for the adoption
Of the Newlands legislative program
The Newlands measure was reported
ty the rules committee yesterday
with the recommendation that its var
ious features be reported to appro'
pirate committees. The Nevada sena'
ter seeks to have the resolution first