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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
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