Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-22
SENATORS FRAME
TARIFF QUESTIONS
Democrats Prepare List as
Substitute for That of
La Toilette.
DESIGNED TO BE USED
AT VARIOUS HEARINGS
Lawyers See First Step Toward the
Adjustment of ALI Contin-
gent Fees.

The majority members of the Senate
finance committee spent more than an
hour today framing a set of twenty-five
or thirty questions which they will offer,
as a substitute for a list prepared by
Senator La Toilette, to be laid before all
manufacturers and others appearing be-
fore the subcommittee on the tariff
schedules. provided the republicans renew
their effort to have the La Toilette ques-
tions issued by the committee.
Chairman Simmons said that the ques-
tions would not be laid before the Senate
unless the republicans made another de-
mand for action on the La Toilette list.
He would not make them public. he said.
until he laid them before the Senate.
See Step to End All Fees.
Many members of the bar, 1t is said.
take the proposition to prohibit the TAX
ing of customs appeal cases on contingent
fees, as proposed by Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury Curtis and Assistant At
torney General Denison, as the first legis-
lative step toward abolishing the taking of
contingent fees in law cases. For that
reason lawyers are making a cOnsiderab BILE
protest against this proposed feature Of
the tariff bill. and an effort will be made
to prevent its Incorporation in that meas
ure.
subcommittee of the finance committee
continued hearing manufacturers All
such hearings will be closed Tuesday
Senator Stones subcommittee still is
working over the wool and metal sched-
ules.
All on Equal Footing.
Senator Williams. chairman OF the
finance subcommittee which is consid-
erng the agricultural tariff schedule, in
discussing the plans of his subcommittee
said that it had been decided to treat
cattle. sheep and hogs and their products,
wheat and flour, oats and oatmeal on an
equal basis. IL duty is to be put on
the raw material it will likewise be on
the products. or the opposite
A report that the subcommittee had
decided to put cattle. wheat ETC., on the
free list together with beef and -four,
Senator Williams denied declaring that
1t had not been determined upon which
basis all such articles would be treated.
whether dutiable or undutiable.
It was learned that Senator Walsh
Of Montana plans to introduce an
amendment in the Senate to put cattle
on the free list If tho biIl is presented
without such a change
Underwood Holds Aloof.
The Underwood bill puts a duty Of
10 per cent ad valorem on all live
stock and free lists allSfresh meat; a
duty of 10 cents per bushel on wheat
and oats and free lists wheat -four and
oatmeal. Representative Underwood.
chairman of the House ways and means
committee. when asked about proposed
Senate changes. said that he had heard
nothing about them and that he did
not intend to take any further part in
the tariff consideration until the bin
gets to conference.
Senator Williams subcommittee yes
terday afternoon took up the sugar
schedule and listened to pleas from
Louisiana and Porto Rico cane growers
for a higher duty than proposed In the
Underwood bill.
Henry Pharr. president Of the Louis
lana Cane Growers Association, made
the argument for the growers of his
state. Mr.. Pharr told the committee
that neither President Wilson nor the
democratic platform had given the
people Of Louisiana reason to fear free
sugar He said the President had
wired a positive refusal to approve
free sugar to the collector of the port
of New Orleans.