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had based tho proportionate repre
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according to tho democratic majority
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permitted to name his committees
and has had them adopted by tho
majority without dotting an T or
crossing a 't'.'
"This statemnt as cheered loudly
by tho democrats.
"Republican Leader Mann cited
several alleged inconsistencies and
his arguments wore seconded by
Messrs. Cannon and Gardner, of
Massachusetts.
" 'That I made mistakes is un
doubtedly true said Mr. Cannon,
'but I was responsible for the organi
zation of tho committees and I did
it honestly. I have no apologies to
make. I would llko to see tho
speaker or tho ways and means com
mitteo or the minority leader who
could organize tho committees with
out making mistakes. I have al
ready heard rumblings on tho demo
cratic side. But after all you aro
not eoinir to bo iudced bv the com
mittees you name, but by the legis
lation' you accomplish.'
"Instructions to tho new commit
tees wore adopted in the form of
resolutions. The ways and means
and appropriations committees of tho
houso were authorized to sit during
the sessions and recess of the house."
Senator Martin, in his capacity as
leader, has appointed the following
named senators as members of tho
steering committee: Culberson, of
Texas; Simmons, North Carolina;
Clarke, Arkansas; Bankhead, Ala
bama; Fletcher, Florida; Williams,
Mississippi; Kern, Indiana, and
Hitchcock, Nebraska. The last two
represent the progressive element in
tho senate. ' '
Senator Owen of Oklahoma has an
nounced that he will introduce a new
resolution providing that before the
president shall issue a proclamation
admitting Now Mexico and Arizona
into tho union the people of New
Mexico shall vote on a proposed
amendment to tho constitution. He
contends that, as framed, the con
stitution is impossible of amendment
in any important particular, and said
he would not consent to its ratifica
tion unless the proposed provision
is aaoptea.
tides, barbed fenco wire, rods, wlro
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manufactured for wiro fencing.
"Meats of all kinds, fresh, salted,
pickled, dried, smoked, dressed or
undressed, prepared or preserved in
any manner; bacon, ham, shoulders,
lard, lard compounds and lard sub
stitutes; sausage, buckwheat flour,
corn meal, wheat and rye flour, bran,
middlings, and other offals of gram;
oatmeal and rolled oats, all prepared
cereal foods, biscuits, bread wafers
and similar articles not sweetened;
timber, hewn, sided or squared,
round timber used for spars or
building wharves, shingles, laths,
fencing posts, sawed boards, planes,
deals and other lumber, rough or
dressed, except ebony, mahogany,
rosewood and all other cabinet
woods.
"Sewing machines and salt comJ
plete the free list.
" 'We expect to call up the recipro
city bill Friday,' said Chairman
Underwood, of the ways and means
committee, "and will seek to pass it
as soon as possible. Then will come
the free list bill and following that
the bill providing for statehood for
Arizona and New Mexico. Reap
portionment will come later.'
"A bill providing for popular elec
tion of United States senators will
be reported to the house and placed
in passage. Discussions, It is be
lieved, will not be prolonged and
democratic leaders expect the bill
will be rushed through among the
first of the party measures."
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The Washington correspondent to
the Associated Press, under of April
12, says: "Two of the tariff meas
ures which the democratic house ex
pects to pass in advance of any
general legislation were in trod"-
by Chairman Underwood, of the com
mittee of ways and means. They are
Canadian reciprocity, following the
Identical lines of the McCall bill,
passed last session except for a clause
authorizing tho president to continue
negotiations for recinrocitv with
Canada on articles not covered by
the pending agreement, and a bill to
put on the free list about 100 articles
now dutiable under the general
tariff. Both will receive early con
sideration. "The free list bill is designed to,
placate farmers for agricultural
losses which they will sustain under
the Canadian agreement, but it con
tains also foodstuffs and boots and
shoes. The list is as follows: Plows
"ailuWB- aimers, Harvesters, reap
ers, agricultural drills and planters,
mowers, horse rairAn miiH,m.
threshing machines, cotton gins, farm
wagons, farm carts and all other
agricultural implements, including
repair parts. b
"Bagging for cotton, gunny cloth
and fabrics suitable for baling" cot
ton, burlaps and bags for sacking
agricultural products; hoop or band
iron or steel for baling cotton; wire
for baling hay, straw and other
agricultural products; grain leather,
buff, split, rough or sole leather,
bend or belting leather, boots and
shoes, harness, saddles and saddlery
and leather for manufactured ar-
-The items,- which the bilL as in
troduced by Mr. Underwood proposed
to place on the free list, aTe now in
cluded in various schedules of the
Payne-Aldrich tariff law. Some are
in the cotton schedule, others are
in the jute schedule, others in the
foodstuffs schedule and so on
through the bill. A number of the
duties proposed to bo removed by the
transfer of these articles to the free
list are prohibitive. Tho present
rates Imposed by the Payne-Aldrich
law on the items from which the
house democrats propose to remove
tne duty, are:
Plows, harrows, headers, harvest
ers, reapers, threshing machines, cot
ton Kins and Other acrriniilrnrnl lm
plements 15 per centadalcrn'
cotton oagging, gunny cloth and
similar fabrics used as coverings,
etc 6-10 of a cent per square yard.
.Grain, buff and snlit leather 7U.
per cent. '
Band, bond, belting, rough and
sole leather 5 per cent.
Boots and shoes made of bovine
cattle hides 'or skins 10 per cent.
Harness, saddles and saddlery 20
per cent.
Leather cut Into shoe uppers or
vamps, etc. 10 per cent additional
duty.
Barbed fence wire cent a
pound.
Wire rods, strands or wire rope
woven wire for fencing and other
iuuus oi wire suitable for fencing
3-10 to 6-10 cent per pound.
Fresh beef, veal, mutton, lanib,
pork and meats of all kinds 1U
Salted, pickled, dried, dressed and
preserved meats 25 per cent ad
valorem.
Bacon, hams and shoulders '4
cents a pound.
Lard 1 cents a' pound.
Sausage and sausage meats 25
per cent ad valorem.
Buckwheat flour, wheat flour and
semonlina 25 per cent
Cornmeal 40 cents' per 100
pounds. xwu
"Itye flour cent a- pound.
vwuutjiu ana rolled oats 1 cent
a pound. cent
Biscuits, bread, wafers and similar
articles, not sweetened 20 per cent
Sewing machines 45 per cent
Salt (in bulk)-7 cents pi? 100
pounds. Salt (In bags, sacks or bar
rels) 11. cents a pound.-
Shingles 50 cents per 1,000.
Laths 20 centa per 1,000.
Timber (hewn, sided or squared,
and round timber used for spars or
in building wharves) 4 cent nor
cubic foot.
Sawed boards, planks, deals and
other lumber (rough) 50 centa to
$1.25 per 1,000 feet board measure.
Sawed boards, pjanks, deals and
other lumber (dressed) 50 cents to
$1.50 per 1,000 feet board measure.
In placing lumber, rough, and
dressed, on the free list tho bill
recommended by the .fourteen demo
cratic members of the committee and
indorsed by the caucus leaves boaTds,
planks, deals and other lumber o
lignum vltae, lancewood, ebony, box,
granadilla, mahogany, rosewood,
satin and other cabinet woods ex
actly where they are in the Payne
Aldrich tariff bill, dutiable at 15
per cent ad valorem.
When asked about this Chairman
Underwood and other democratic
members of the ways and means
committee explained that those
woods and they are specifically
named are not "necessities," but in
the category of "luxuries," and for
that reason the duty on them was
not disturbed.
Under section 718 of the Payne
Aldrich law these cabinet woods
box, cedar, ebony, granadilla, lance
wood, lignum vitae, mahogany, rose
and satinwood, and all other cabinet
woods are admitted free of duty
when brought into the country in the
log, rough or hewn only. 4Tho value
of these woods admitted free during
the fiscal year 1910 was $4,984,-
(Continued on Page 14.)
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