Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-05-13
TARIFF FIGHT IS
OPENED IN
SENATE
SENATOR PENR0SE MOVES FOR
PUBLIC HEARINGS; CHAIRMAN
SIMMONS SUMMONS DEMOCRATS
TO HIS AID.
PRESIDENT WILSON
is NONCOMMITAL

NaSllHlOn, ~. u, May Io.-lue
tariff fight was resumed today in
the senate on the motion of Senator
Penrose to refer the Underwood bill
to the finance committee with in
structions for public hearings.
Chairman Simmons of the finance
committee was busy early in the day
urging all Democratic members to be
on hand in case the question should
come to vote and he felt confident
that the Republicans first move
against the majority would be check
ed.
Wilson Is Non-Commitai.
| President Wilson has taken the po-
sition that he ought not to commit
himself in any way with respect to
numerous minor amendments to the
tariff bill being suggested by Demo-
Gratis.
Secretary Rediield had half
the cabinet meeting today and de-
clared he believed unimportant
changes would be made but that if
the president consented to certain
ones, he would be besieged with re-
quests to open up other schedules.
Secretary Redfleld said that since it
had become known that an inquiry
was to be made by the bureau of do
mestic and foreign commerce, into
wages and industrial conditions in
connection with the tariff bill, some
requests had come from manufacture
ers themselves inviting such an in
vestigation. These Mr.. Redfeld de-
clared were based, more on the be-
lief that the inquiry would be the
basis for tariff rates than an eXami-
nation as to the effects of the bill
after it had become law.
Senator Simmons declared that
many manufacturers had notified him
that they did not want open hearings.
The senator said that the finance sub
committees were making some
changes but that they were not ma
terial
MAY Reduce On Steel.
Reduction of the proposed duty OF
twelve per cent on structural steel to
Q per cent Is said to have been con-
sidered.
Senator Bristow, in the midst of the
tariff debate, introduced an amend.
ment to the sugar schedule to provide
a duty of $152 10 per hundred pounds
on refined sugar for three years; s1.40
per hundred for the succeeding three
years; $1.40 per hundred for the sue.
ceeding three years, at the end OF
which time it should be $1.27 IL per
oundred pounds.
Comparison Presented.
In a report prepared at the instance
y Chairman Underwood of the house
ways and means committee, the bu-
eau of foreign and domestic COM
nerce says that comparison OF
seventeen industries in Great Britain
md the United States shows that the
establishments in this
country have higher efficiency and two
md half times as many wage earn
,rs, and one sixth more power is need
ID in the United Kingdom than in the
lnited States to produce a net output
# equal value.
Average wages in the seventeen in.
ustries, the report adds, were only
alf as high in Great Britain as here,
Though the wage cost to obtain an
quail value of net output was 10 per
cnt higher.
Revolutionary Measure"
The senate did not meet until
clock, and it was late in the day
hen the routine business was out Of
je way and the tariff debate was
cached The fight was resumed on
,e Penrose amendment to the resolu.
on sending the bill to the finance
,mmittee SO as to provide for public
earrings. Chairman Simmons opened
le argument against it, Senator Lip.
ett referred to the measure as "the
ost revolutionary bill ever intro
lced in congress-
eristow Talks.
I am very earnestly in favor of re-
sion of the tariff" said Senator Bris-
Nv. "But / am not in favor of free
ade, and as inconsistent and faulty
this bill is, that apparently is the
lrpose of its advocates"
He denounced the Underwood bill
more indefensible from the stand
,int of principle than the Payne
|drich law"