Show philippine TARIFF washington dec 21 the blaw of minority members of the ways and means committee on the philippine tarifa bill were field in the house today by representative john sharp williams of mississippi the democratic leader the democrats otter a substitute declaring for absolute freo trade between the philippines and the united states including hawaii and porto rico but added that it the substitute is voted down they will support the republican bill as it Is a long step in the logical and right diorec tion the report says the members of the minority of the committee on ways and means believe that anam olous and positive statutes of the philippine islands by which they are treated as american territory for certain other purposes cannot long be maintained and should be immediately terminated at present according to the whim of congress or executive they are considered as american or foreign ar as both american and foreign or qs neither american or foreign 1 I justice to both the filipinos and ourselves they should bo considered as altogether american or altogether foreign so long as we retain them we favor the establishment and maintenance of free trade between them and the united states the party which we in part depre i sent desires to get rid of them at the earliest possible moment and we welcome the dissatisfaction of the hitherto legislatively favored classes growing out of the competition of the products of philippine labor with our products in our own market as a possible moving cause to governmental divorce between the philippine archipelago and the balance of the united states |