The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-16
WILSON MAY VETO
TARIFF BILL IF
IT'S AMENDED
President Not Disposed to
Accept Any Compromise
FIRM ON SUGAR AND WOOL
Expected That Senate viii Reach
Vote Today on Motion for
Open Hearings.

Washington, May 16.-President
Wilson came out strongly yesterday
as the campaign of free wool and
free sugar in three years, as provided
for in the tariff bill recently passed
by the House. He announced en-
phatically that he was not consider
ing compromises of any sort; that
he stood squarely behind the measure
as it passed the House and that he
regarded 1t as the duty of the demo
cratic majority in the Senate to fulfil
its platform pledge by enacting the
House bill into law.
II am not the kind" said the presl-
dent, that considers compromises
when | once take my position. |
have taken my stand with the House
leaders for the present bill. Enough
said. / am not looking for or ac-
cepting compromises" The presi-
dents utterance was made to a half
hundred newspaper correspondents
who gathered as usual yesterday at
the White House for the semi-week-
ly conference.
Practically at the same time the
Senate was engaged in protracted
debate, at the end of which last night
an agreement was reached to vote
today on the question of public hear
ings on the tariff bill. While the
president smilingly let 1t be known
that he was expressing no opinion
whatsoever on the proposal for hear
| ings and that this was a subject for
| the Senate to dispose of his state
ment of unqualified support for the
House bill was taken generally to
mean that Mr.. Wilson considered ar.
| guments from special interests on
the tariff schedules to have been
closed when the measure passed the
| House. He is understood to regard
the efforts to obtain hearings as a
filibustering device.
The correspondents were about to
leave the Office when the president
asked if 1t were true that reports
were being circulated of compromises
on the wool and sugar schedules. AL
day there had been rumors that con.
cessions of some kind would be made
on the principal schedules in order
TO satisfy opposition In the Senate
| The president had been told by
friends that in some sources there
was a confident expectation that a
duty would be put on raw wool or
that the provision for free sugar after
three years would be dropped. 1t was
to counteract these statements that
he took occasion to make his position
clear.
OF course, it is expected at the
White House that there will be minor
changes in the bill made by the f.
nance committee, and corrections
which have been approved by House
leaders since the bill left their hands,
but in the principal schedules, such
as wool and sugar, the president is
determined that there shall be no
change, IL he can prevent. There
was even intimations that he might
veto bill that came from the Senate
with amendments on wool or sugar
The agreement in the Senate was
for vote on the motion to refer the
Underwood bill to the finance COM
mittee and the Penrose-La Toilette
amendments for public hearings at 4
o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Re
publican leaders accepted this pro
posal from Chairman Simmons after
Senator Stone had attempted to force
an immediate vote by moving to lay
all amendments to the Simmons mo-
ton on the table. This he withdrew
at Senator Simmons request.