Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-05-23
Protests and Suggestions Are
Filed HIGH Before Senate
Committee on Finance Con-
SIderina Measure Proposed,
FREE IVORY PART OF
AFRICAN COTTON TRADE
Dealers Send Goods to Dark
Continent and Receive Ele-
phant Tusks Which Are
Sold for Piano Keys.

w MNHit4NIAttils NitAf aNN NfAt'AiN"
mont To- the income taN section ut
the Underwood mfiu hlll is likely g.
De- proposed hl the senate finance
or democratic cuucus at-
eording to au announcement hN lead
ers who have consideration of that
furt of the bin in hand The ouW-
uitt,e room occupied hN senators
Williams. ShiveN and Gore, who have
charge of the Income tax section is
piled high with protests and sHfges-
tiOns from many sources. lut me
measure is believed to have been wen
handled in the house nnd the nhjcc
lions made o. 10 in ils orilinN form
urr thuuehi to hnVe been sufficiently
met hs amendments before the liil
passed the house Among the loud
est protests coming NOW arc those
from mutual insurance companies.
conducted fer profit but the house
amended the original I'm us relating
tn Insurance companies aud insurance
policies and the senators on the ~
ninoe committee, after study Of the
bin. believed that 1t is sound. tum-
plants from railroad and other hold
ing companies that the mw viii tax
them twice on dividends paid. are rec
ported 40 have ieen held unsound hy
members of the committee.
senator penruse failed todav to get
up his resolution provlding for puhs
liOation nf the list OF tariff questions
% manufacturers proposed hy Sem
ator Ia Toilette. as tho senate won't
into executive session before the tar
ff WIS rcat 1ed Early IN the day the
finance committee majority met and
framed an amendment 60 the resolu-
tinn proposing longer list Of ques+
tions. in which some of senator ~
Follette's queries were included The
questions VIII relate to production.
raw material and the transportation
costs here and abroad proportion If
tariff duties which cover production
cast. differences here and abroad and
the proportion which amounts to q
manufacturers profit and other tar
iff problems. senator simmons slid
there would De- about twenty-five
questions in an. but ne viii withhold
the list until hc is certain the rec
publican leaders intend tO hrins the
matter up again,
Vice President Marshall called on
the finance committee chairman to-
day and discussed with him the tar
iff and IT'S prospects in the senate.
The Vice president suid ne did not
discuss rates or schedules aud Chair
man Simmons stated that the confer
ence was informal and had 20 do
with the handling ~ the bll when il
reached the senate floor
Discussion If the tariff on raw
iVorV proposed in the Underwood
bin before the johnson sub-eonmit-
tee. disclosed an unusual situation.
Reports of cotton exporters in pro-
testing against the proposed twenty
per cent duty on tusks declared Il
would break up their barter nadc In
cotton with African tusk dealers For
ycHfs they have been shipping thons
ands of dollars worth Of cotton tu
these African traders aud bringing
back in payment therefor ivory tusks
which they in turn sold ta piano man-
ulacturcrs II WIS claimed that with
"A duty on ivory italian cotton traders
would get this business
Amendment Of the hill in regard Ca
the importation Of feathers of birds
ALSO was considered hy senator Johns
sans subcommittee. Importers asked
for further exception in the pfohibis
ition against importation by allowing
the importation of feathers of game
and pest birds They suggested .also
thnt the prohibition he postponed un-
tl tie president had proclaimed that
England. Germany and France ike
uise bad forbidden importation TO
those countries
ReprcsentauNes of The Association
FOR The Protection Of Birds opposed
both amendments Edward Howe
Fnrbnsh state ornthologst Of Mas.
sachusetts. declared that the importa
uon or same and pest firds would
mean the letting In probably of all
birds of plnmage with the exception
0f the humming birds Other bird
towers pointed to the unsuccessful at-
tempt tn eradicate pelagic scaling hN
international agreement as q Warnnh
against an attempt 60 protect birds
bv such agreement
Senutor stones subcommittee had
before it reports Of SIX and woolen
manufacturers protesting against the
Underwood schedules The sub-com-
mittce expects to finish the silk and
wool schedules nest week. The met
al schedule Is ready for report to the
fd committee and il Is said 10 umny
of the items reductions from the ln-
deINVeod rates haze been made.
senator Williams subcommittee
stu is considering the anu-dpBping
clause. which provides for an extra
duty not to exceed fifteen per cent
on imports sold here at less than the
foreign prices The criticism Of the
provision IS that il onits the free list