The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-07
CONGRESS WILL ADJOURN
WHEN WILSON SAYS So

wool duties cease December l, 1915
while woolen goods are to be MADE
duty free January L, 1914.
California and Ohio wine men We're
greatly heartened in the closing hour
of debate when Senator Stone an
nounced that inquiry into the Ito
tax on spirits used to fortify grape
wine and the % per cent on Ohie
wines would be continued during the
conference on the bill. He tntfmated
the rates of tax would be lowered.
Palmer for Chairman.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 6.That Rep
resentative r. Mitchell Palmer, OF
Pennsylvania, is being groomed for
the Craftsmanship of the house ways
and means committee, to succeed
Oscar Underwood, if he resigns to en-
ter the Alabama fight for senator,
was the we'll defined rurnor in demo-
cratic administrative circles tonight.
REPRESENTATIVE Francis Burton Har-
rison. of New York, was next ranking
after Underwood. Harrison's appoint
ment as governor general of the Phil
ippines 1t is said was part of the ad-
ministratfon plan to seat Palmer. The
Pennsylvania member Is one OF the
Original Wilson men,
Cummlns Lost.
WASHINGTON Sept. 6.-Determin-
ed to complete its work on the tariff
bill as a committee of the whole, the
! 3~,v,< or
from 10 a. M, until midnight today.
i In spite OF speeches from the minority
on a dozen items from works OF art
4 to seaboard freight rates, the work
! moved steadily forward. Chairman
I Simmons OF the finance committee.
insisted that the bill will become COM
j pleted for final voting on the various
: amendments beginning Monday. The
days most notable debate occurred
! upon the senate committees amend
J. ment placing a tariff of so percent
on objects OF art less than 90 years
Y old unless imported by private own
4 ers for their own use. Senator
t Thomas defended the principie of
staxing the rich on their privilege Of
!. monopolizing the use of objects of art
/ which their wealth commanded. Sem
2 ator Cummins spoke for his amend
/. ment requiring the democratic freight
t rate from the seaboard to inland
points to be no less than that portion
of the Joint foreign freight on Inn
ported goods. 1t was defeated "a to 80.
: Government Money Trust
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.-Predicting
financial stringency or a panic it the
! Glass currency bill is made into law
!. without amendments affecting the
a shifting of gold, the progressive party
;. TODAY filed its minority report on the
4 measure. The report drawn by Rep
h resentative Lindbergh Of Minnesota,
: father of the money trust Inquiry
!. asasiled the bin as being built upon
. a false foundation" and declared
e that the demands for the transfer OF
e bank surplus to the regional reserve
S bank constitutes government
t money trust The time for the trans
r. fer, the report declared, is not suffi'
S cient, and in the readjustment wss
d also hampered and ready money VIII
be scarce.
!, Got Beveridee His Job.
n WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.-Hoping tc
close its consideration OF the Mulhal
charges for the present, some tins
i next week, the houes investigation
4 committee completed the examination
r of N. A. M. officials today. David M
q Perry ex-president of the organlza
;. ton was the main witness today Ht
# was asked by Representative Kline o
n Indiana, how we'll he knew ex-senator
r Beveridge. Perry drawled, wei
e enough to get him his job in the sen
il ate" and then fastened to add tha
d the N. A. NJ had nothing to do will
W this, 1t being purely personal.