Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-05-22
CHANCE TARIFF
N THE SENATE
PLAN TO EQUALIZE LIVE STOCK,
GRAINS AND OTHER
PRODUCTS.
MANY CHANGES IN SIGHT
Bill VIII BE Presented 10 the Senate
Democratic Caucus About
June Third.

WASHINGTON, May 2l.--A deter
mination to equall2e live stock and
grains and their respective products
ia the Underwood tariff bill has been
reached by the senate finance sub
committee considering the aghIcul-
tural schedule. II has been agreed
that If cattle, sheep, hogs, wheat and
oats are to remain dutiable as the I'm
derwood bill classifes them. then a
duty shall be placed upon beef, NUT
ton. pork, wheat flour and oats, or II
these products are to remain on the
free list, the raw materials Will be
converted into the free list.
This is the first basic tariG change
10 be planned By the senate demo-
Gratis since the Underwood bill came
from the house. Whether raw mater
iaIs and their products are to be free
listed or all are to be made dutiable
has not been determined, but that all
Will be treated alike was asserted to-
day by Senator Williams Of Mssis-
cippi. chairman Of the subcommittee
which has the schedule in hand. The
decision TO e4uallze these schedules,
It also was reported, had been reach
ed with the knowledge Of the presi-
dent and not without his approval
All VIII BE Equal
When Senator Williams was told
of a report nj circulation that his
committee had decided to put all
live stock and grains on the free lft
as they were treated in the Under
wood bill, he declared there was no
ground for such a report.
but" declared the senator, there
Is this much about 1t, IL cattle, sheep
and hogs are to remain dutiable in
this bill, then their products will
carry duty. The same Is true Of
wheat. oats, flour and oatmeal. There
will be nodiscrmination between
these raw materials and their prod
ucts in this bill, But we have not
determined whether they shall be
dutiabe or undutiable."
The fight over this feature Of the
Underwood bill began in the house,
where there was considerable demo-
cratic opposition to the free listing Of
farm products while the raw material
was left Gutiable Some democrats
predicted during the debate that the
senate would change the schedule,
most of them asserting that live stock
and grain would go on the free list.
Cattle on Free List.
Whatever the subcommittee does
In the matter is expected to meet the
approval of the finance committee
majority, 1t was learned today that
Senator Walsh of Montana plans to
introduce an amendment in the senate
to put cattle on the free list If the
bill is presented without such a
change.
The Underwood bill puts a duty of
10 per cent ad valorem on all live
stock and fire lists all fresh meat; a
duty of ten cents per bushel on wheat
and cats and free lists wheat flour
and oat meal. Representative Under
wood, chairman of the house ways
and means committee. when asked
about the proposed senate changes to-
day. said he had heard nothing about
them and that he did not intend to
take any part in the tariff consider
alton until the bill gets to confer
ence.
That they are to be n great many
changes in the bill in the senate was
admitted today by Senator Simmons,
chairman of the finance committee.
He announced, however, that next
Wednesday, the Subcommittee would
begin framing the various schedules
and that they hoped to have the bill
ready for the finance committee by
June L. The democratic caucus, he
said. would be called for considera- =
tion Of the bill about June g. and an
effort will be made to report 1t to the
senate the following week
The decision today Of the majority
members of the finance committee TO
close all private hearings on the bill
next Tuesday has not met with repub-
lican approval and an attack on this
plan Is looked for in the senate to-
morrow.
Senator Simmons insists, however.
that the private hearings must be end
ed by that time so committee mem
bers can begin re-drafting the bill.
The committee decided TO print all
briefs of manufacturers not hereto
fore published and TO receive briefs
until the bill reaches the senate floor.
JOPLIN POLITICIAN is KILLED