The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-08
Few Changes in Revision
Proposed Last Session
Will Be Made
CURRENCY SYSTEM
WRONG SOMEWHERE
However, Experts Who Testify Before
Glass Committee Do Not Agree
as to What Is the Trouble
Nor the Remedy
THE DAY IN CONGRESS.

AT noon Senate convened.
Colonel r. NJ. Johnston of Texas,
was sworn in as senator to succeed
Senator Joseph Bailey. resigned.
Appropriations subcommittee gave
hearing on further appropriation FOR
continuing United States court
Consideration of omnibus bill was
resumed
Court OF impeachment resumed trial
of Judge Archibald. the judge con-
tinuing hts testimony in defense
Senator Swanson introduced bill for
s250o 900 appropriation to aid states
for good roads.
Adjourned at 6:25 p. m. until noon
today
House convened at noon.
Resumed consideration of Indian
appropriation.
Money trust investigating commit
tee continued hearings probing stock
exchange sales.
Bankers and financial experts heard
by currency subcommittee on pro-
posal for new currency system.
Investigation of alleged steamship
trust begun by merchant marine COM
mittee.
Manufacturing Interest heard by
ways and means committee on re-
vision of schedule A of the tariff.
Adjourned at p. m. until noon to-
day.
Washington. January THE chemical
schedule of the revised tariff legislation
to be enacted by the coming extra session
of Congress was closed today. so far as
public hearings are concerned. The indi-
cations are that the democratic majority
of the House committee on ways and
means will sustain almost entirely its
chemical schedule as embodied In the
separate bill that passed both houses.
though vetoed.
Ii is possible that there may be no mod
ification of the rates on spices. which sew
eral members of the committee favor, but
this is uncertain. Democratic and re-
publican members alike are expecting the
schedule to emerge from committee in al
most the identical form In which II was
put up TO the last session of Congress and
the President.
The only Indication of possible change
in the schedule during the long testimony
today was while w. J. Gibson, New
York lawyer, was arguing for 50 per
cent duty on spices on all other luxuries.
Wouldn't it tend to cut off importa-
tions if we put higher duty on spices?"
asked Chairman Underwood.
Wants Cod Liver Oil Free
NO. replied the witness, who added
that spices, running from to IS cents a
pound, were not expensive. Mr.. Gibson
wanted to put cod liver oil on the free list
because of its medicinal value to children.
He classed spices as luxuries traceable to
ancient Sybaritc and voluptuous condi-
items in the south of Italy. mo mother"
said he, gives her child spices, nor does
anyone take them from real liking
The chemical schedule covers products
all the way from acid to zinc, and did not
evoke as strong an opposition as is ex-
pected by the committee to be aimed at
several of the other schedules in the
series of hearings that will stretch along
to January 81.
Theodore Ricksecker of New York was
the first witness. He bespoke the opposi-
tion of the manufacturing perfumers' as
sociation TO the transfer of distilled and
essential oils from the free list to a "
per cent advalorem duty. He regarded 1t
as mistaken notion that perfumery was
a luxury, and said that he had known
of working girls who spent much of their
wages for il.