Show U UNDERWOOD ND ER WOOD 0 OPPOSES TAFTS TAFT'S TARIFF PLAN 1 washington Dec IS Chairman Chairman Underwood Un Un- derwood of the tho House committee on wa ways S 'S and means expressed tho the belief beller today that Secretary of ot State Stat Knox would find little encouragement ement In the tho House of ot Representatives cs for tor his re request request request re- re quest that the President be given Iven sweeping powers to compel foreign nations nations na na- na- na timis to grant tariff concessions to the United Stales States The lobe proposition wa was made ml In n a letter to Chairman Underwood in which he lie cl elaborated ted on un President Tafts Taft's au In his recent ut message to Congress on foreign relations that thiat the tho tariff law be amended In such a a. Va way as to provide pro n a graduated moans means of or meeting varying degrees of oC discriminatory discriminator tor tory treatment of ot American commerce In Jn foreign countries |