UNITED STATES WOOL TARIFF.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1143, 2 June 1911, Page 5

UNITED STATES WOOL TARIFF.

BILLS TO BE SUBMITTED. By Telegraph—Press Association-Oopyriebl Washington, May 31. Mr. W. J. Bryan.has made an attack on thore Democrats' who favour a rawwool tariff, and aroused Mr. Underwood, tho Democratic Leader, who declares that Mr. Bryan's attitude is unfair. Mr. Underwood has admitted that wool tariffs are to ha submitted to Parliament during the week-end, and that they will be similar to the Wilson Bills and wool schedules. THE DEMOCRATS .DIVIDED. The Democratic section of the Ways and Means Committee of Congress vas stated by the San Francisco "Chronic o early last month to be equally divided between free wool and a low duty on raw wool, seven on each side, with Champ Clark backing those advocating a low Vh'o free-wool men, early in the session, promised a Free-wool Bill «•"«"» two weeks. They arc (states the 'Chronicle") denouncing Champ Clark ana Chairman Underwood, and liyiiuatiiig that the wool manufacturers ami flockmasters have warned them away from the Democratic doctrine. Clark and tho seven that follow him argue that even tho Democratic Congress cannot run a Government on a deficit. Therefore, they favour a duty of not more than 25 per cent ad valorem, instead of the 35 per cent now prevailin" The even division makes it impossible for tho party to do anything. As a solution there is talk of remitting the question to the Democrats in each State's delegation. A caucus is impossible because the Ways and Means Committee cannot recommend anything. Free-wool men insist that Clark is playing for the support of the wool State delegates in the Democratic National Convention, tho Presidential' bee bothering him much these days. Tho prospect is for a pretty row before there is even an agreement to disagree.