Arizona republican., 1913-06-04
Senate Sub-Committcc in Charge of Agricultural Schedule RcVcrses Itself After the Chairman Talks With President Wilson
IS STICKING FOR
 WOOL AND SUGAR
Proposal to Place Tariff on Raw OF Addressed FIu's for First Time in History Rouscs Protest from the Furl'icrS
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 WASIIINGTON, June -RcVcrs- ing its former action in voting r. place wheat. flour, oatmeal and fresh meats on tho dutiable list the sen ate finance subcommittee in charge of the agricultural schedule voted late today to place live stock, wheat and oats on the free list.
 This action. it is authpritative'E stated, was taken to meet the views If the president anu other admins tration leaders, who d.-approved tho decision announced yesterday to tax meats ten per cent compensatory to the duty on cattle in the Underwood bill. and assess q compensatory duty on both flour and oatmeal
 The vote to reconsider was taken by tle subcommittee on motion of Senator Simmons. ex-officio member of all subcommittees handling the tariff schedules. after he returned to the capital from a conference with the president.
 In this enlargement of the free list President Wilson is known to have taken leading part as he did in
 
 before the ways and means commit tee As still standing uncompromis- ingly with the wool and sugar sChed ules. it SO declared he will stand firmly for free cattle. sheep and hogs. and free wheat and oats, now that this is determined as the party policE.
 When the subcommittee tenta- tive action was announced this morn ing Simmons went immediately to the White House
 T told President Wilson," he said later, that members of the finance committee in an informal conference. had agreed there would not be a tax on meats and flour IL is true the subcommittee has taken different ac- tion. but 1 informed the president that d majority of the finance com mittee felt and said that Wc should vote instead to place cattle and other live stock and wheat and oats on the free list This the president agreed to do and said it would be all right.
 The matter is settled now" said Simmons, and that is the way the schedule will go to the senate"
 The inquisitorial clause of the In derwood bill which aroused the for eign protest has been giving the Williams subcommittee considerable trouble and in trying to work out n modification of it's provisions the members have had the aid of Sccrc- tary McAdoo, Secretary Bryan and John Bassett Moore, counsellor of the state department.
 The plan now being discussed is to combine q portion of this provision
 
 the secretary of the treasury the right to proclaim the values and thus have a safeguard against undervaIu- ations and at the same time rid the provision of features obiectionablc to foreign powers.
 The proposal to place for the first time in the country's history a tariff on raw or undressed furs aroused loud protests from furriers, and the subcommittee headed by Senator Johnson, which has the sundries schedule under consideration, is now studying the situation. The Under wood bill proposes a rate of ten per cent on raw furs. A brief filed with the committee stated that duty. no matter how small on raw furs would destroy an international trade which United States merchants had built up. Fur skins are free in for cign countries except in Russia. which has a very small specific duty by weight. The brief set forth that under the most favorable circum- stances it is estimated the amount of revenue from such duty. which the ways and means committee has put at $1400,0OO would fall decidedly be- low half that amount and it is insist ed that the tariff would result in q loss to American merchants of $6,- O00,00 annually.