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Show REVISION TO FOLLOW LINES OF iP BILLS Ways and Means Commit- tee Closes Hearings on Wool Tariff. DEMOCRATS SOUNDING INCOMING MEMBERS Lively Tilt Between Long- worth of Ohio and Boston Bos-ton Witness. WASHINGTON, Jsu. J. With only a few witnesses left, the house ways and means committee todny went on to dean up hearings on schedule K, admlttodly the storm center of the tarirf question of the coming extra scs rlon of congress. In the heatings so far it has been Indicated In-dicated that the Democrats intend to roTtse the wool tariff along tile lines of the wool billa of 19ri and 191.!. re toed by President Taf(. Meanwhile the Ik'iuiH-ratir leader are I founding out incoming memiicra of cou-greaa cou-greaa ss to the program of tariff-rrvi ioo, and ao far there are indication of preference for reviaion acbedule bv schedule. The procedure will be deeid ed. however, at a raiieua during the firat week uf the extra aeaion. Mohair, uaed in the manulaeture ol clothing, for felt, plurhea and other purpoaoe bifla fair to be reduced from ' to 20 per cent sd alorn. .loan-tton .loan-tton Cohertaon of l)e Rio, Tea., an angora an-gora goat producer, fdeaded tolav for a apeeifie rate of 1' centa a otind, euivalent to the present 40 per ceut dutv. t'sairnian I'nderwood' Hiinteii out lhat it (was the raw material for great ioduatnea, aud although now a luxury, that it waa becoming a necessity. Representative Longworth of Ohio and Frank I'. Bennett of Boston, a il neas. had a lively little tilt, ljonnworth aecuaed Bennett of evading answera and Bennett retorted that evidently Longworth 'a eonatitoeata ''had not thought much of his acrvle.es" referring refer-ring to his defeat in November. The hearing on wool waa eloaed aad the sundries schedule, embracing a large variety of articles, will be take up tomorrow. |