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fffdgfFt jQ,qgiFww - - T-sn -n-ii'. ;: The Commoner. 11 ATRIIi 18, 1013 mvA&MWWWVWMWmi committee bill. This would mean, by comparison "with tlio present tariff law, a reduction of roundly 20 cents at the outset, 29 cents in 191G and 37 cents in 1919. On 100 de gree sugar can from sources other than Cuba, the Broussard amend ment would make a net reduction from the present rate of 376 cents per hundred pounds on passage of the bill, 50 cents in 191G and G2 cents in 1919, the pending tariff hill's rate of 54 cents. Another Broussard amendment would extend the period of grace, under which the contemplated free sugar basis was to be reached, to a total of four years so as to carry the whole question beyond the next na tional election. Representatives Howard of Geor gia, Gard of Ohio and others ineffec tually sought to have machine tools put on the free list, while Represen tative Hensley of Missouri led a vain fight against the reduction of the duty on lead. Some of the demo crats urged free zinc in place of the 10 per cent duty. The wood schedule quickly was disposed of by the caucus. An amendment by Representative Baker of California, to transfer paving posts, railroad ties and telephone, telegraph and other poles to the free list, in place of the proposed 10 per cent duty, was voted down. Democratic Leader Underwood said the caucus would not be able to get through the bill for several days, and that its consideration by the house probably would not begin for another week. Hundreds of protests against the rates in the proposed tariff are reaching members of the senate, where advocates of higher protection apparently have determined to cen ter their attacks. The senate finance committee spent three hours today in conference over the house bill, and with the aid of treasury ex perts went through the metal and earthenware schedules. Several small changes in duties practically were agreed upon, but the committee will take no formal action on any feature of the bill until after it has passed the house. President Wilson does not believe congress hould repeal the favored nation clause of the tariff law under which trade conventions heretofore have been made with other coun tries. He declared that the proposed reciprocity agreements in his opin ion would not be in violation of the favored nation clauses in existing treaties. President "Wilson was urged today to agree to a modification in the tariff schedule to make it discre tionary with the executive at the end of three years whether sugar shall be free. Former Governor Alva Adams of Colorado told the presi dent that while the industry in his state could stand a reduction to 1 cent a pound, as now provided in the tariff bill, the knowledge that sugar would be free at the end of three years would have a depressing effect on business during that period. Col. Robert Ewing, democratic national committeeman from Louisiana, dis cussed the question with the presi dent and took the same position as Former Governor Adams. He went away with the impression that the president was still carefully con sidering that feature of the bill. Senators of the finance committee discussed the tariff briefly with the President. A tariff statistical bureau of five men to aid the ways and means com mittee Is proposed in a' ball prepared by Representative Peters. The bu reau would be entirely under the control of the ways and means com mittee. THE PRESIDENT WINS A POINT The following is an Associated Press dispatch: Washington, April 12. Immediato free sugar waB re jected today by the house democratic caucus by an overwhelming vote, following an appeal of the demo cratic leaders to stand by the presi dent and the ways and means com mittee. This leaves the sugar sched ule unchanged from the compromise form in which it was presented to the caucus by Chairman Underwood and his colleagues of the committee, following conferences between the White House and leaders of both houses of congress. The democratic members of the committee, including such free traders as Representatives Harrison of New York and Rainey of Illinois, stood as a unit for tho three year gradual reduction to a free sugar basis. Besides this action the caucus left open the exact date when sugar would go on the free list in 1916. An amendment proposed by Repre sentative Hardwick of Georgia pro posed that the time it should take effect should be May 1, 1916, so as to be effective before tho beginning of the campaign season. The caucus agreed to leave the matter to be brought up by the ways and means committee after all the rest of the tariff bill has been disposed of in caucus. The overthrow of tho immediate free sugar movement came at the close of a day of arguments and the amendment proposing that sugar should become free with the opera tion of the new tariff law was made by Representative Hardwick. It pre cipitated the real fight of the day and was lost by a vote of 155 to 39. After the schedule had been assailed for hours by the proponents of the sugar planters in Louisiana and the beet sugar growers, Chairman Underwood vigorously defended the proposed rates. In his speech to the caucus he pleaded strongly for a united party in support of the bill aB presented and he emphatically, as serted that the sugar adjustment sug gested by President Wilson was a most equitable one. "We will concede," Mr. Under wood said, agreeing with some of the opponents of the bill, "that immedi ate free sugar would put the domes tic planter out of business. But we assert, also, that free sugar in three years will destroy no legitimate in dustry. "Those who -have Invested their money in sugar lands and have planted crops will have a chance un der the plan of revision to pay their bills and adjust themselves to new conditions. "Mr. Broussard complains that President Wilson's request for free sugar in three years is not equit able. We say that the president's course in this schedule is founded on a most equitable basis. This Is a party measure, and I believe that most of my democratic colleagues want to see this schedule pass the house as it came from the committee. Let us keep the party united." Mr. Underwood argued against the Hardwick immediate free sugar amendment, as well as tho amend ment to extend the free sugar time from three to four years. His speech was received with laud applause and cries of "vote, vote." Representative Rainey of Illinois appealed to the caucus to stand by the democratic administration. Amendments proposed by Repre sentative Broussard were opposed by the flat free sugar champions, led by Representative Hardwick of Geor gia, who offered an amendment that raw sugar be placed on the free list at once without any gradual reduc tion. Mr. Hardwick's argument against a gradual reduction was that it was discrimination in favor of segregated industries in Louisiana and the beet states. Representative Broussard's first (Continued on Page 16.) 00 000 a'vrrx,vv would he saved annually by the exclusive use of ME-UmAL WHr Wy'S W&WiW'f i&RmWZ&M&s-ft WWfei It is estimated that a million cow owners in tho United States nro still skimming their milk by some wasteful "gravity" method. At an average of four cows to the farm and an average orenin Iobh of $10 per cow per year (it is more often from $15 to $25) all of which could bo saved with tho use of a Do Laval Cream Separator, this alone represents an annual cream loss of $40,000,000. 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