The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-23
WOOL ON FREE LIST
DEMOCRATS REFUSE TO PUT ANY
TAX ON IT
they STAND BY WILSON

Congressman Underwood, the Demo
cratic House Leader, In Defence
of the Bill, Says the President
Made Only Two Suggestions Out OF
-Four Thousand Items.
The Democratic caucus voted de-
cisively late Wednesday to support
the wool schedule OF the Underwood
tariff bill, placing raw wool on the
free list, after Representative Under
wood had made a stirring appeal fer
the support Of the caucus. By vote
Of 100 to ~ an amendment offered
by Representative Dies, Of Texas, to
place raw wool on the 'dutiable list,
was rejected. .-;-; ::
Representative Dies amendment
proposed to place a duty Of Is per
cent. ad valorem on raw wool, he and
other champions of dutiable wool as
serting that this was the judgment
Of the ways and means COMMITTEES be-
fore President Wilson saw the bill
and suggested change.
| Majority Leader Underwood, In
winding up the discussion, warmly
defended bot the committee and the
President. He declared the Presi-
dent had a right to make sugges-
tions to Congress relating to the
tariff, but that the bill as a whole
met with the Chief Executives ap-
proval when he first read it as It
came from the committee.
"Out Of four thousand and more
items in the BILL" said Mr.. Under
wood, "the President only made two
suggestions, those affecting the su-
gar and wool schedules. 1t seems to
| me that we should accept those sug-
gestions from the President Of the
United States" =.
Representative Rainey Of Illinois,
| and Harrison, of New York, also
spoke on behalf of the committee. de-
Tending it's action and the attitude Of
the President. The attack upon the
committee and President began as
soon as the insurgent Democrats be-
gan consideration Of the bill. Repre-
sentative Alexander, Of Missouri, de:
Jared the committee overstepped all
roper bounds in holding up Presi-
lent Wilson as a club over the heads
Of the members and that the Presi-
dent had exerted undue influence.
in having wool placed on the free list
in the bill.
Representative Montague, Of Vir-
ginia, a new member, defended the
| President in a spirited speech, de-
claring that It was his constitutional
and inherent right, to suggest what
should go in a tariff bill, and that
neither he nor the committee were
subject to criticism for their co-opera-
ton in framing the bill.
Representative Dies insisted that
the Government was made up OF
three distinctive branches with sep
arate duties to perform.
1T is not only the right OF Con-
gress," he said, 'to originate revenue
| measures, but its exclusive right, and
any attempt from another branch OF
/ the Government to dictate or inter-
fere with that right should not be
permitted by this body" '@--.,-
The debate on this phase Of the
tariff fight was heated and prolong-
ed. Among the principal supporters
OF the Dies amendment for Is per
cent. duty were Representatives Ash
brook, Post and Bathrick Of Ohio;
..erguson of New Mexico; Adajr ana
| Cline Of Indiana, and Stout Of Mon
tana.
The forty-two Democrats who vot-
ed for the Is per cent. duty were:
Adair, Barnhart and Cline Of lndi-
ana, Alexander of Missouri, Ash
brook, Bathrick, Claypool, Francis,
Post, Sharp, Whiteacre and White OF
Ohio; Broussard, Dapre, Elder, Is
topinal, Lazaro and Morgan Of Louis
lana; Bell of Georgia; Brown Of West
Virginia.; Burgess, Galloway, Dies
Hayden, Slayden and Stephens OF
Texas; Dersham Of Pennsylvania;
Doughton, Gudger, Page and Small,
of North Carolina; Evans and Stout
of Montana; Ferguson Of New Mex
leo; Fowler of Illinois; Lobeck of Ne.
braska; Metz and Underhill Of New
York; Murray of Oklahoma;
O'shaughnessey, Of Rhode Island;
Burke Of Wisconsin; Kettner Of Cal
ifornia.
| Before reaching wool the caucus
disposed of the cotton and fax sched-
ules, voting down all amendments tc
lower or increase the duties proposed
in the committee bill. 1t is expected
that more rapid progress will oe
made in caucus consideration OF the
bill from now on.
Representations concerning the
bill filed with the State department
| by foreign diplomats have not oeen
taken up by the ways and means
committee, but may be condisereo al
a meeting of the committee.