Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-05-22
TARIFF FIGHT IN
SENATE STARTED
Livestock and Grains and Their
Respective Products Must
BE Treated Alike.
EITHER FREE OR DUlIABLE
Decision to Equalize These
Schedules Said to Have the
Approval of President
Wilson.

Washington, May 2l.-Determination tc
cqualze livestock and grains and theii
respective products in the Underwood
tariff bill has been reached by the Senate
finance subcommittee considering the
agricultural schedule. 1t has been agreed
that if cattle. sheep, hogs, wheat and
oats are to remain dutiable as the Under
wood bin classihes them then a duty
Shall bc placed upon beef, mutton, pork
wheat, flour and oats, or If these products
are to remain on the free list, the raw
materials will be placed upon the free list
This is the first basic tariff change TO be
planned by Senate democrats since the
Underwood bill came from the House
Whether raw materials and their prod
ucts are to bee free listed or all are to b.
made duitahle has not been determined
hut that all would he treated alike was
asserted to-day bv Senator John sharp
Williams, chairman Of the subcommittee
which has the schedule in hand The de-
cision To ogualiao these schedules. II also
was reported. had bcou reached with the
knowledge Of the President and not with
out his approval
When Senator Williams was told of a
report in circulation that his committee
h'd decided to put all livestock aud
grains ON d." fro, list I'm keeping with
their prodgct~. ~ they are treated in tho
Underwood bill. Ho declared that there
was no ground for such report
"iut," declared the senator. ether, Is
this much about IT, II cattle. sheep and
hogs arc f. remain dutiabio i'm uis bin.
then the products will carry "a du,v.
Tho same is true of wheat. oats. nour
and oatmeal There win h.. i,, dis,ri.,,-
iuation between tho. raw nlatori,ls and
their rroduc,s i'm tbis. hin p,+ ,., ,,,,..
not detcr,,,,uaI ,,n.tbor tlov .h,u ..
dn.labl., or .,,I,..i,tlo,.
''''' h''''-i-> ~ iI'l -.
'"" Ea.u ''er r'ia feature Yl t"e lr-
de'Wo0d bin -un i'm the House. and
theI. was Duuaid.rauI. lonocrafic ouro-
sitiou to the free listn@ OF farm pro-
ducts while the raw material was LEFT
auuablo. some democrats prcdi-to1 5.r-
us the debate that tha,- favored =
.pango or fine scroi,Iro ,,o., of ,b,,,, .,.
sorting ,b,, liv.s,oc1, and ,,ro,,,.. ,,..,,.,,
g.. ,n +s. rr.. l,.. ,,.,...,. ~, 4
cor,r,it,,o a.o, f., ,,... ....,,... +. ,,..,...,,
.,..
,l...,n,.,... .......,''l Imam
"'S ~ L'e' 'o-
""'S" "' Montana
I.''''s 80 '''''O""e' IN ehShoin'nt IN the
HeHa'" to pat 'ati'' Oh 'H. free list II
N''.'' S"ch
,rr, t,..,... ,,,
~ er .
.+,,c, ava rro, ,i.. 80,
,iut,. ,r N .,,,+- 49,, ,
and oats and froo ,,s., ,,.r..., s,.,,s
and ootr,eoI po,rosor.o.i,.. I,,-,o
wood cba;rr,,r 80 ~ 11,,z, .,,...
and means committee wbe,, ,s,.I
about proposed Sonata cborcos to.do,.
said that no had heard rotbin,, obo,,,
them and that he d;d NOT inland to
take any further part in the tariff con-
sideration until the hill gets to con.
ference.
That there are to he a great many
changes in ,he bill in teh Senate was
admitted to-day by Senator Simmons.
chairman Of the finance committee.
lie announced. however that next
Wednesday the sub committee would
| egin framing the various schedules
ana that theE hoped to have the bill
ready tor the finance committee by
Iu"e l. Inc democratic caucus he said
would De called FOR consideration Of
."e p'Il ABOUT June ana an effort Will
no y n'a,'e 10 report IL 10 the senate the
ms "eeh'
REPt Bl.lCANS DO NOT AGREE.
The decision to-day OF the majority
members of the finance committee TO
close all private hearings on the bill
next Tuesday. has not met with repub-
licau approval and an attack on this
plan is looked for in the Senate to-
morrow. Senator Simmons insists
however. that the urivate hearing
must be ended hv mat tin,a so maj
the committee members can get down
To actual work of redrafting the bill.
Ihe committee decided to print all
briefs of manufacturers not heretofore
published and to receive briefs until
the bill reaches the Senate floor.
Another problem confronting the
democratic leaders is the anti dump
ing clause in the UnderW ood bill, which