The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-19
Congressman Underwood Is
Outvoted on Every
Schedule
NEW MEASURE WILL
BE INTRODUCED
Six of Committee for Mod
crate Revision, Seven
Radical

Washington, March l0-lt will not
be "the Underwood bill" except in name
that the new Congress, which assemblies
April I, will be called upon to consider
and to pass. II will be the Harrison
Kitchen Rainey bill, in point of fact
for the radical members of the ways
and means committee have taken the
power away from Chairman Underwood
and consistently. persistently and re-
peatedly have out.voted each contested
item. With Representative Ansberry
Of Ohio. on the sick list. the thirteern
remaining members of the Democratic
majority of the ways and means COM
mittee are lined up in the following
fashion:
For moderate revision based upon the
vetoed schedule by schedule bills Of l0ll-
1912: Chairman Underwood and Rep
resentatives Hull of Tennessee, Ham
mond Of Minnesota. Shackleford of Mis-
souri,, Peters of Massachusetts and Pal
mer of Pennsylvania members.
For radical revision. constituting the
most daring approach towards free trade
and vastly increased free list: Repre-
sentatives Harrison of New York. kitch-
en- of North Carolina. Raney of tlli-
nois Dixon of Indiana. Garner Of FeN-
as. Collier of Mississippi and Stanley of
Kentucky-seven members.
This is the exact state of the case.
For the last two weeks the COMMITTEES
in secret session has been remaking the
schedules of the new tariff law. II will
not be the tentative law framed before
the adjournment of the sixty second
Congress. At every turn where there
has been shown possibility for the
cutting of rates below the Underwood
schedules they have been cut. Item by
item the Underwood rates have been
briefly discussed and then voted upon
Tn every instance, or practically every
instance, the lineup has been on this sev-
on to six basis.
With Representative Harrison favor
ing the radical reductions and Chairman
Underwood favoring reintroduction Of
the schedules as framed by him two
wears ago. the battle within the commit
tee has gone merrily on. The entente
cordiale between Harrison and Under
wood has not been interrupted, but their
disagreement is none the less marked
Harrison, with the majority of the ma
iority to his manner of thinking. has
taken every advantage Of the breach,
He has been ably seconded in his efforts
by Representatives Kitchen and Raincy.
Practically no dad blood" has deve
oped in the relations of Mr.. Underwood
and the opponents of his views. but the
other members of the committee have
had several lively arguments.
The committee hopes to have the tar
iff bill ready for submission to Presi
dent Wilson within ten days, The re-
vision will be in the form of one bill.
This bill will also include the income
tax provision. The programme now is
to lay the bill before the president BY
the last of the week, and then submit
it to caucus of the Democratic mem
bers Of the House two or three days |
prior to April 8, the date fixed for the
opening of the special session.
1t is barely possible that final deci-
sion with reference to some of the du
ties will not be reached by the ways |
and means committee until after the |
preside emit has been consulted. The gem
eral plan is that before the bill is sub
mitted to the caucus OF the Democratic |
members of the House it shall have, in
a general way at least, the approval OF
the president and the Democratic mem
bers of the finance committee of the
Senate. This general approval would