El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-09-10
TWO DEMOCRATS VOTE AGAINST THE
NEW TARIFF BILL; LAF0LLETTE IS FOR IT
Democratic Measure Finally Passes the Senate by Vote
of A to 37-President Wilson Expresses Gratifi-
cation-Democratic Leaders Predict the Bill
Will Act a Business Stimulus.


Senator James, acting for the finance
committee, secured the adoption of an
amendment modifying the provision of
the bill that authorizes the secretary
of the treasury and the collector of in
ternal revenue to employ income tax
officials without regard to the civil ser
vice laws The new provision leaves it
optional with the official as to whether
or not they viii take employees from
the list of civil service eligibles.
Free List Costs S44, 00O,O
The senate's additions to the house
free list with 1912 as a basis viii cost
the government more than S44,000,000,
but by adding a tax of One-tenth of one
cent a pound on cotton sold for future
delivery, tax of one-tenth of one per
cent pound on bananas. restoring the
requirement of a full revenue tax on
brandies used to fOrtify wines, and by
increasing the sur-tax rates on large
incomes, the senate leaders believe they
have provided an actual increase. That
was a point disputed by majority leader
Underwood of the house.
Livestock Is Free Listed
The senate also made the following
changes:
Free listed cattle and other livestock,
wheat, hair of the An~ora goat and
some other agricultural products; re-
stored oatmeal and rolled oats to the
dutiable list and provided an elaborate
inspection of meat imports.
Reduction of the house rates on wool
en- manufactures to become effective
January 1, 1914
Provided, IN the sugar schedule, for
immediate adjustment of the Dutch
standard test; postponed operation of
proposed reduced rates until March 1,
1914, leaving the provision unchanged
for free sugar in May, 1916.
Increase Rates on Cotton.
Slightly increased rates on finer cot
ton goods, reclasifying the whole cotton
schedule and changing the silk schedule
from an ad valOrem to a specific basis.
Provided for an administrative force
to handle income tax collections without
regard to requirements of the civil ser
vice.
Struck out countervailing duty on
wood pulp.
Greatly reduced rates of the metal
schedule.
Struck out MANY reform provisions
in the administrative section: rejected
the aRti-dumping clause; the percent
tariff reduction on imports IN American
vessels and the requirement for inspec-
ton of books of foreign manufacturers
IN differentiation cases, but added a
provision giving the president authority
to retaliate against nations who dis
eliminate against American goods by
proclaiming increased rates on certain
Additions to the Free List.
Important additions to the free list
included:
Anthony ore, limestone rock, asphalt,
asphaltum and bitumen, fabrics of lutte
yarns, wool blankets valued at less than
40 cents a pound, textbooks, sugar ma
chinery, cast iron pipe, surgical catgut,
cement, creOsOte oil, denatured alcohol,
hemp. gunpOwder, pig iron, spiegelsen,
ferromanganese, wrought iron slabs and
blooms, Photographic moving picture
cattle and other livestock, wheat, sawed
cedar, Angors goat and alpalea wool and
paper Irvine for binding wool.
Affirmative Votes on Bill
Following was the roll call on the
tariff bill:
Yeas-Ashurst, Bacon. Chamberlain,
Chiffon. Clarke (Arkansas). Fletcher.
Gore, Hitchcock, Hollis, Hughes, James,
johnson, Kern, Lane, Lewis. Martin,
MARITIME, Meyers, Newlands, O'GOrman,
Overman. Owen. Pitman, Pomerene,
Robinson. Salisbury, ShafrOth. Shepard,
Shiveley. Simr~ nns. Smith (Ari-
zona), Smith Georgia.. Smith Mary
Iand), Smith (South Carolina). Stone,
Swanson. Thompson. TilIman. Varde-
man, Walsh, Williams, Democrats; La.
Toilette, POindeXter. Republican ands
Progressive. Total. A 2
Voters in the Negative.
Eays-Borah, Bradley, Brady, Brande- j
gee, Bristow, Catron, Clapp. Clark
(Wyomingl, Colt, Cummins, Dillingham;,
Fall, Gallinger, Jackson, Jones, Kenyon,
Lippitt, Lodge, MeCumber. Mclean,
Nelson, Norris, Oliver. Page, Penrose,
PerkinsE Root, Sherman. Smoot, Ste
phenson, Sterling. Sutherland. Warren.
Weeks and Works, Republicans; and
Ransdell and Thornton, Democrats.
Total, 81.
Paired and not voting: Burton and
Crawford, Golf, Dupont. Townsend,
Smith lMichiganl. Republicans; Bank
head, Bryan, Culberson. Lea, Thomas
and Reed, Democrats. Total. u.
Absent and not paired: BurIeigh and |
5ronna, Republicans. Total, two.
Vacancy, Alabama, one.