Show lEMONS OK ON fREE FEI liST ST UNDERWOOD'S PROPOSAl Ways Ways- and Means Committee May Compromise mise on Re Reduction Reduction Re- Re in Duty Washington Jan Sari Ft O-Freo O lemons or at Rt least a aSO 50 iiO per r I cont cent cut In thi th the present duty of ot 1 13 conta a n. poun pound as as as- as Umed sha shape o today as part of ot the Democratic Dem Dern- tariff re I revision lon pOll policy of ot the coming extra session of of COI Congress I SS Most of ot the testimony before tho the tho committee on ways way Und and me means ns at three sessions today ami tonight while un under tin un- der dor or the general subject I of or ti the tho agrIcultural agricultural agri agrI- cultural schedule ot of the tho Al law lan bore on Oll citrus pro products an nit In Industry industry Indus indus- us- us try that In c Investment Invest t- t ment on the thc Pacific const coast Tho The Citrus Protective e league of or California Cali fornia fonnia comprising growers and shippers ship pers pors of oC oranges and lemons an and ana the Fr exchange which ChaIrman Chairman Chairman Chair ChaIr- man Underwood of oC the committee In Insisted insisted In- In was the selling J agency for 01 these producers conten contended for retention of ot the tho present duty The spoke spokesman for Cor those Interests was Wll G. G H H. H Powell o oLo of ot Los Loa Angeles formerly acting chief chic of ot the bureau o plant of-plant Industry The Non New York Fruit exchange comprising com corn Jobbers Importers commission merchants and aud brokers demanded e mande elimination of or the lemon tariff Its spokesman gu Eugene ene M U ui Travis o of Now ow York called the California Industry a trust that had hind i abnormal profits and declared rd It Il was the tho rho beneficiary o of oC undue taxation on a a. household necess nee nee- ess I I Democratic Leader Underwood favors or putting lemons IC on the tho free list while some somo members rs of or tho the committee were verc figuring toda today on three-quarters three of oC a cent a pound as a fair compromise |