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Show oo COTTON REVISION BILL IN HOUSE Washington, July 28. 'Discussion of the cotton revision bill began In tho houso today. Chairman Underwood Under-wood of the wayR and means committee commit-tee opened tho debate with a complete com-plete explanation of the provisions of tho bill, the amount of revenue that will be produced by it, and a defense of the reductions over the present tariff measure. The bill, It is expected, ex-pected, will be passed by the house next Thursday August 3. Domocratlc Lender Underwood ask-od ask-od today In the house that 5,000 copies cop-ies of the report of the committee be printed. Mr Mann replied that this would be rather expensive. "When tho President has $200,000 spent by the tariff board, to gather information by, him," replied Mr. Underwood, Un-derwood, "there is no objection to spending a few hundred dollars so that this house may have tho benefit of the Information gathered by the ways and means committee." The Issue ws authorized. 'A reduction from 47 7-8 per cent in cotton Is too radical, I havo heard it said" declared .Mr. Underwood in explaining Iho bill. "We don't propose pro-pose a radical -reduction but we hope to reduce evejy tariff schedule hp-fore hp-fore we got through to a revenue basis, ba-sis, 'but not in a radical way" |