Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-17
Wilson Under
 A Fierce Fire.
CHARGED WITH EXERTlNG UN-
 DUE UE~INFLUENcE.
DEMOCRATS IN ANGER
Oppose Free Wool Schedule in Vain at House Caucus-OnIy One New
 EnsIander Votes in the Negative.

Washington, April 16-The demo cratic caucus voted decisively late to- day to support the wool schedule or the Underwood tariff bill, placing raw wool on the free list, after Represen- tative Underwood had made A stir ring appeal for the support of the amendment offered by Representative Dies of Texas, to place raw wool on the dutiable list, was rejected.
 Fight For a IS Per Gent. Duty.
 Representative Dies amendment proposed to place a duty of IS per cent. ad Valorem on raw wool and he and other champions of dutiaole wool insisting that this was the judg- ment of the ways and means commit tee before President Wilson saw the bill and suggested a change.
 Majority Leader Underwood, in winding up the discussion warmly de- fended both the committee an1 the president. He declared that the pres ident had a right to make sugses- tions to congress relating to the tariff the chief executives approval when he first read it as it came from the committee
 Defence of President.
 Out of 4OoO and more items in the bill,'' said MT. Underwood, "the pres those affecting the sugar and wool schedules. It seems to me that we should accept those suggestions from the president of the United States"
 Representatives Rainey of Illinois and Harrison of New York also spoke on behalf of the committee defending it's action and the attitude of the president.
 The attack upon the committes and president began as soon as the in surgent democrats began discussion of the schedule.
 "Undue Influence " by President.
 Representative Alexander of Mis- souri, declared that the committee oversteped all proper bounds In hold ing up President Wilson as a club over the heads of the members and that the president had exerted undue i'm f1uence" in having wool placed on tho free list in that bill
 Representative Montague of Vir- ginta, a new member defended the president in a spirited speech, de- claring that 1t was his "constitntlonaI and inherent right to suggest what should go in a tariff bill and that subject to criticism for their CO., operation in framing the bill. Debate Long and Heated
 Representative Dies insisted that the government was made up of threa distinctive branches with separaua duties to perform. Tt is not only the right of congress-" he said. to origin ate revenue measures, but it's eX- elusive right and any attempt from another branch of the government to dictate or interfere with that right should not be permitted by this body"
 The debate on this phase Of tho tariff flight was heated and prolonged, the president and the committee be- ing criticized and defended.
 Connecticut Members For Free Wool.
 Representative Curley of Massa- chuseats, was one of the presidents pOrters of the Dies amendment for a fifteen percent duty were Representa- tives Ashbrook, Post and Bathrick of Ohio, Ferguson of New Mexico, Adair and Cline of Indiana and Stout of Montana.
 Of the forty-two democrats who voted for the fifteen percent duty, Shaunessy of Rhode Island was the only New Englander.