Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-23
SENATE TO OPEN
DOORS OF PROTEST
Opponents of Free Wool and
Sugar to be Heard

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day to the demands for hearings upon
tariff schedules.
In addition to the permission given
all interested parties to file statements
with the finance committee, Senator
Simmons today conceded to a group
of western senators the right to appear
and state their arguments against the
free wool and free sugar provisions that
have been agreed to by the democratic
of the house.
A full meeting of the senate finance
committee is to be held tomorrow. Re-
publicans will then renew their de-
mand that general open hearings be
given The attitude of the majority of
the democratic members is against
this, however They claim that such a
course would delay tariff revision; and
that no arguments would be brought
forth that have not already appeared
in the hearings before the house com,
mittee or in the briefs filed with the
senate committee.
The Underwood tariff bill as finally
approved and revised by the caucus of
house democrats was re-introduced in
the house today by Representative I'm
derwood and referred back to the
ways and means committee Tomor-
! row it will reappear with a favorable
report from the democrats on the COM
mittee and with a dissenting report
from the republicans criticising it's
rates and the method Of revision fol-
lowed by the democrats
! The senate democratic leaders have
given up the hope of having the bill
brought into the senate in the form of
Sc perate schedules. 1t has been de-
termined that he measure will be con
sidered as a whole bill in the senate.
The hearing to be granted to the sem
ators from the Rocky mountain and
Pacific coast states upon the wool and
sugar schedules is expected to develop
the full strength of the opposition 70
the bill and to give the finance COM
mittee definite information as -
whether it will be necessary to restore
any of the duty on either of these
schedules
According to information tonight the
Louisiana, Kansas and Nebraska anti
free sugar forces have not been in
cluded in the invitation given for the
finance committee hearing.
Some of the western senator's will
present their arguments against free
sugar and free wool Wednesday. They
have not indicated how much time they
expect to occupy.
The bill will be expedited through
the house by limitation of debate The
republicans are figuring on a number
of amendments to be proposed in addi-
ton to the proposed substitute for the
Underwood wool and cotton schedules
Representative Payne, of New York.
as ranking minority member of the
committee, today introduced his bill of
1871 to create a tariff board, changed
so as to provide for a tariff commission
of five members to be appointed by the
president by and with advice and con-
sent of the senate and clothed with
authority to negotiate trade agree
ments with foreign nations.
Representative Goode, of Iowa, also
introduced bill to create tariff COM
mission with broad powers of invest
cation and report.
Representative Hinebaugh, of I'LL
nois, a progressive, introduced bill
declaring that inasmuch as the two
minority bodies outnumbered the DEM
ocratic badly in popular vote the tariff
bill should be left to a referendum
vote of the people of the United States.
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