Arizona republican., 1913-03-18
Adjourns Sine Die to Re- Assemble April ' When Extra Session Is Called to Convene by President Wilson
PATRONAGE AND
 TARIFF ARE UP
Democratic Caucus Declines to Act Upon Plan to Cut Off $40,0O0 or More From the Present Senate Pay Roll
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 WASHINGTON, March 1.-The senate ended it's extraordinary session today adjourning sine die to reassem- ble on April ' when the extra ses- sion of congress convenes. All the civil nominations of President Wilson was confirmed, except that of Chas
 p Neil to be commissioner of labor statistics. This appointment is still in committee.
 Democratic senators have not com pleted their plans of dividing the senate patronage, arranging the com
 mittee quarters and the party caucus which has run through two weeks was continued until tonight. The complete encouragement of the sen ate under the democratic control will be accomplished as soon as the spec al tariff session assemblies on April :. Senators Kern and Gallinger who were approached to call at the White 1 House waited on the president over ! the telephone and were informed he | was content to let further appoint ments go to the extra session of next month. The senate wound up ] it's work at 2:09 o'clock and adjourn ed on motion of Senator Kern l The democratic caucus adopted late 1 today the report of the sub commit tee as to the general distribution of i patronage; but declined to act on 1 the plan proposed for the reduction l of the force of empiOyes, cutting off i S40000 or more from the senate pay 1 roll The patronage committee. head
 ed by Senator Overman was instruct I tt,a
 tion in greater detail to be taken up 1 at the party caucus in April.
 ! The date fixed by President Will son is satisfactory to us" said Re presentative Underwood today. Tar if legislation will be ready for pre- sentation in the house by that time and we should be at work upon it
 within three or four days after the 1 rouse conVenes.
 "Of course. before the work is be-
 gun, it will be necessary to organize
 the house. The ways and means
 committee, acting as the committee
 nf 2om?littees, will prepare slate of
 cOInIn;ttce appOintme tC ha pre-
 scented to the caucus. The plan is to
 organize only those committees neces-
 sary to conduct the organization of the house, the rules. accounts, mile age and enrolment bills.
 We will confer later with Chair
 man Fitzgerald of the appropriation committee on the necessity of reor- ganizing the committee to handle the
 appropriation bills which failed at the last session. These will be the only committees organized prior to , beginning the tariff work. The others will go over until later in the ses- l sion"
 The tariff legislation will be sub-
 mitted to the democratic caucus be
 fore the session opens.
 The democrats ways and means T committee adjourned tonight until to- | morrow after beginning the revision intricacies, the custom of enforce $ ment of administrative sections of the 0 tariff and informally discussing the
 ] income tax in general way without | attempting to reach a decision witt Q the new revenue raising scheme de II signed to add perhaps one hundred = million dollars to the treasury fund II While on the income tax details hng'
 l the federal estimate of the proba bl, Il revenue of the fourteen schedules, tn IL disposition of the committee of tn n majority is to inaugurate a system '1 of probably one per cent tax on u maximum of five hundred thOusan, 'f dollars annual income vii the ide e that the tax will be susceptible t
 lowering the income minimum O d raising the tax percentage or both d conditions necessitate after the pla e is floated It was stated tonight tha '- the revision as planned includes: er Free sugar and other provisions 0
 the former Underwood bill with d loss approximately of fifty millions T. be offset by the income tax. Roug ss dressed lumber. hewn, squared, tim e. Der, shingles, laths. fence posts, mad
 free. Numerous changes, particular
 sharp cut in lemons, cOmproms
 on the fight for free lemons, involv
 {, ing the citrus fruit interests of tn le Pacific coast. Free wood pulp prr sh paper, and probably the eliminatio te of the present restrictions of recipro ed city in meats cattle and wool schet t. ules unsettled.
 O. President Wilson turned his alter l." ton today chiefly to the political si sh uation in New Jersey where the den to ocratic party is divided on the ques nd tion of the jury reform bill. and u a sena torial contest in Maryland Whel of William l.. Marbury has begun e. campaign against Senator John Wa
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