Show To Place Lumber and Silver Ores on the Free List WASHINGTON April 26The Democratic majority of the ways and means committee today moved a little further in the pro gramme of attacking the present tariff system by means of separate tariff bills Two more free list bills were practically agreed upon by the Democratic majority and brought before the full committee but owing to 1 desire on the part of the Republican Re-publican minority to look further into the measures before making a report to the House final action was not taken in committee com-mittee The bills to be reported relate to lumber silver and lead ores It is proposed pro-posed to make each free of duty Tho majority ma-jority has not absolutely determined to report re-port a free lumber bIl There is reason to believe such C conclusion will be reached at the next meeting The lumbar bill follows the free lumber section of the Mills bill making the same classes free of duty The majority decided to report a bill to admit Mexican silver and lead ores free of duty the bill being that introduced by Dockery After having considered the question of the constitutionality for a long time tho House judiciary committee today decided I to report D resolution directing that an investigation in-vestigation made into the Pinkertca I system inc committee came to tne conclusion con-clusion as the charges alleged the use of Pinkertons men by interstate commerce carriers and also that their employment resulted in violence to persons and to property prop-erty it would recommend an investigation to ascertain if the charges were true |