Show ACTIVE FIGHT ON THE RULES IN HOUS Special Session of the Sixty first Congress Bids Fair to Be Exciting DEMOCRATS MAY HELP REPUBLICAN KICKERS WAYS BEING GREASED FOR THE LAUNCHING OF PAYNE BILL BILLAT BILLAT BILLAT AT THE EARLIEST MOMENT Washington March H Both houses of ot congress will meet In extraordinary see Irs liton at noon tomorrow It will iII be the beginning beginning be beginning ginning of the congress and the first act of importance in the house will be the organization of or that body for tor business The senate is alread organ organized organIzed Later the senate will begin bein the re reorganization reorganization reorganization organization of its standing committees and until this is accomplished little busi busT business business busTness ness will be undertaken The house looks for an active opening With a fight on the rules in prospect in addition to the election of speaker end and other officers Monday bids fair to be a much crowded day The action of the Republican publican R caucus makes certain the reelection of Speaker Cannon and of ot the other house officers but there is still doubt in the minds of some as to just what may ma be done with reference to the rules If the insurgents and their Democratic allies should win vIn the program for tor the introduction and con consideration consideration consideration of the lie tariff bill might be dif ferent from what it would be if the stand patters prevail I Presidents Message Tuesday If Speaker Cannons friends are victor ious bus In the tile rules fight the presidents message on the tariff will till be received Tuesday and the bill for revision of the tariff will wili be introduced Immediately The speaker will then appoint a committee on ways waS and means and the bill will be re to that committee It is understood that if the selection of the committee is left to the speaker he will designate all the old members who were reelected reelect This would leave leavo but butone butone butone one vacancy that caused by thi th retire reUle retirement ment meat of Mr lIr Bonynge of Colorado and It is intimated that Representative Mondell of Wyoming will be chosen for tor that post position position tion As soon as practicable within a day or I two is reported the tariff bill TV will willbe ill be taken up and the debate which will mil last from two to four weeks will be launched Senate Will Begin Early While the senate cannot formally begin considering the tariff until after the house bouse bill 1111 has been officially transferred to the senate Renate the committee on finance will dis die discuss discuss cuss the subject so as to become well ell ac acquainted acquainted with it Every Ever effort will be made maae in both houses to restrict legislation to the tariff but it itis ItIs Itis is possible that the bill bIU providing for the next census and a resolution changing the date of the inauguration of the president from March 4 I to some later date will be considered The leaders however Insist that the quickest action on the tariff can be ob obtained obtaIned tamed by holding congress exclusively to that subject and contend that the busi bus business business busness ness interests of the country countr which are affected by the uncertainty regarding du duties duties duties ties are paramount to all other considerations considerations considerations Tariff Bill Features On One of the tho most moat Important features of the tariff bill is Its numerous differences from the present law in phraseology These changes hive have been made to clear up any ambiguity in the Dingley bills bill and to make the new measure conform with the difficulties of ot the courts and the boar of appraisers Major H L Lord United States army arm who has been detailed with the committee on ways and means in charge charAe of information lion tion during the present revision was clerk of the committee during the Dingley Dingle re revision revision revision vision Major Lord today toda said that th most persistent argument advanced in fa favor favor favor vor of the creation of a tariff commission was that the congressional committee committe having the thc tariff legislation in charge had neither the information nor the time nor means meals to secure the information necessary properly to draft dratt a revenue bill Unsaid said the work ork of gathering information began months In advance a vance of the adoption of the itle house resolution last May authorizing ex cx expenditures ex expenditures in fn tho the preliminary tariff in inquiry quilT Court Decisions One exceedingly Important feature of tho the wok work was the consideration of the court decisions decision that have hae affected the rev revenue revenue revenue said Major Lord and the recommendation recommendation of phraseology that would meet these theae difficulties The committee on this work had the assistance of Thomas H Dougherty Doughert assistant counsel United States treasury from the office of general appraisers New York At the request of or the committee the state department sent out a circular let ter to its foreign representatives calling for reports of Industrial conditions The subjects of foreign labor and cost of pro production production production were tere covered in detail and the committee was able to corroborate or dis disprove disprove prove proe the statements made along these lines This information was as gathered prelim preliminary mary inary Inal to the public hearings Representatives tives of all the important industries were subjected subject d to searching investigations Also about communications and petitions relative to tariff revision were received by bythe bythe bythe I the committee The bill will not only be the result of tile the honest efforts of the leading tariff ex cx experts experts of If this country countr but will represent more labor and arid detail than entered into the preparation of all other American tar tariff tarIff iff measures 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