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iuUlllLIIIIUII llILL
DECIDE FUTURE OF
CHINESE' EMPIRE
Peace Conference Comes to
This Conclusion After De
liberating Long Time
MANCHU GOVERNMENT
NOT TO ACCEPT LOANS
Pending Negotiations Neither
side Shall Make Attack Up
1 , on Us Opponents
BHANOHAI, DeC. 29. The peace
jonferenee being, held ' ur ' between
the representatives of the Peking
government and the , revolutionary
- party today agrred that the form of
government to be ultimately adopted
tor A-nina should, be ..decided J by a
national ponvenilon, whose determln-
. atloto .should, be binding on botlit par-
tie. It also was agreed that pend
lug the decision of the- national eon'
, ventlon the' Manchu governhient wa
neither to accept nor to attempt to
ofctatnforelgn Joans. Another ngree
ment readived Is 'that 'all Manohu
:. troop ' In ' the ' province of Shan-Si
, Shen-Sl, Hu-Peh, Nganhwet - and
Klangiu ahall evacuate their pres
.; ent positions and withdraw from
them to a distance of 108 1A (about
IT miles) within five days, beginning
- from December: U. - The- republican
troop? , mean while shall ..neither, ad
vance ner occupy the; places evac
uated pending special arrangements
' tot b reported by mutual agreement
i . Netttxtr Wde to Attack
Th Manchu troops are' not to ad
vance nor to attack the positions at
Bhang Tung held. by,' the, republican!
nor ahall the. republican. treope ad
vance upon nor capture new place.
It la 'understood that tthe national
commission to-be called Is to Include
; those delegates at present in confer
' eno a Nanking who have elected
( Dir. BuHYit Ben president and oth.
ars tjbe Teleoted. Tang Shao.Yl to
dayr received telegram f rem P-
Jtjhg, saying that Tuan-Fsng, form
erly director general of the fluking
railway and eiMteeWIe nre-
emf, vine, -of .Chi-JU.' bad Arrived in -the
capital aingnmed M ft Cootie. It wa
reported December II that Tuan lhad
been killed at Tsectvof, province - of
Bnan'-EU.-'by hlf own soldiers. - ' Ac-
dordlng to - ths telegram received by
xang, Tuan says He bribed hi sol
dlers tp annpunce publicly that they
naa murqered him. Instead, they
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NAVY YARD LOOKING AS
IF SHE WAS ATTACKED
Twenty-five Feet of Stern
, Torn Away-and Crew.
' V Is Exhausted.
CREW WAS ASLEEP
NORFOLK. Va.. Dec. I. Look
ing as though she had been, under
Vflre, the torpedo boat destroyer War
. rington, which was rammed- by a
schooner 30 miles below Cape Hat-
taraa yesterday morning, reached the
navy yard tonight In tow of the tugs
Mohawk and .. Wahneta. Twenty
Ave feet of her stern was torn away
and her crew was exhausted. Lieut.
Cotnmander Win. Hunt, commanding
the Warrington, told of (n collision.
He said:
; The collision occurred when most
erf the men were asleep and they
were thrown out of their hammocks
by the Impact. I reached the deck
in time to see. the outlines of a
. schooner pulling away from us. She
ftpeared to have all her sails set.
. SIX men were sleeping In the eom-
partment aft and they were thrown
tout of their hammocks and Into the
water. In the next compartment
.there were twenty men asleep and
'they had to wade In water over their
ishoea to evade the inruahlng seas,
t "Gunner's Mate J. M. Btaley and
Chief Cfuner's Mate E. M. Bounder
I were In the . crash.
"The bulkhead held perfectly and
sifter we got our bearings we found
that we would remain afloat for some
time at (east When the revenue cut
ter Onondaga reached us the storm
was still raging. W decided it wonld
' be- best to take off the greater por
tion of our crew. The transfer from
the Warrington to the Onondaga was
made In life boats and was accom
plished with' some dangers. .
"We used oil In large quantities
M calm the sea and this helped "us
ft great deal. -
Twelve member of the - orew,
Lillet. . R. W. Matthewson, Ensign J.
B. .Btaley and mysyeif -remained on
board the Warrington it work the
pump. -7-- ;
- LJuet. Commander Hunt says idueL
Matthewson and Chief Gunner's Mat
J. a. , Donnelly risked their live to
save sever shipmates from : being
washed Into the sea when a portion
' of the ship was torn away.
WARRINGTON ARRIVES IN
TAFT WILL DO ALL
HE CAN TO CREATE
LABOR G011ISS1
Urged by Social Workers to
Take This Step to Improve '
. ' Ubor.Condltlons ' - .
LABORERS' WELFARE
IS POINT AIMED AT
Might Incorporate Suggestion
for Commission In One of A
' His Messages .
WASHINGTON, Dec. !. Using
the McNamara ae as an 'Illustration
of iwhat might, be expected again in
this country if labor, conditions are
not improved!, a delegation of social
workers today urged : President Taft
to create' 4 "labor communion,' 1
Sucia a commission the delegates
told 'the -president should . have pow
er oo-extenslve with those ot the! in.
terstate commerce commiMten and
should be ;ati -to compel testimony.
It should Investigat and make a pre
liminary report in six month of the
condition of labor In the structural
iron trad In the ' last six year;
"auage' the breakdown, of our raa
dhinery of Industrial government,
th eoonomlo s and ' social cost of
striker to employers, to workmen
and to the public," and Investigate
rule and -'"record ; of unions. '. It
should also " examine the legal status
of the labor, union, -and study .the
practicability of. "scheme at eco
nomic, government such as the' trade
legislature in the cloak, suit and skirt
industry and similar boards.
' : President Interested .
f - President . Taft . was greatly inter
ested and promised to -de all possi
ble to create such a commission.' It
was said tonight that he might In
corporate a suggestion for a labor
dommlsslon la one of hi post-holiday
messages. " Rabbi' Steven , Weiss
of New . York read a petition, to th
president.' "Miss Jan Adams of Chi
cago and otfaer ' prominent v social
workers Went to the. '-witte 4iotise
with them. . "A- house divided ngalnut
fUelf capnof retanV -aaleU BabW
;Wel.W- tiave jretrto ' solve ; the
problem of democracy 14 ns indus
trial , retatlbnshlp and to solve them
along ' democratic lines. ;', ' i . s-
"Inorder to arrive at the woTkerr
point rf view, it is necessary only t
review the long list of occupational
diseases, tllie., failure of both employ
ers and the state to prevent them or
mitigate their effects, the lack of em
ployers liability law, the .failure to
provide adequate safeguards in dan
gerous vocations, the attack upon
the constitutionality of the .laws, to
shorten the hours of women and of
workers In certain trades, the reluc
tance of legislature to abolish dtvlld
labor it Is necessary only to contrast
thte dead center of the social - ma
chtnery with the speed at which it
act to prevent picketing and rioting
during strikes. The working man
sees the club of the officer, the bayo-
- Continued w ..,
ONE COMMITTEE JILL
HAVE PLENTY TO 00 AT
E OF
Will Investigate Harvester
Company, Shipping Com
bine, '.'Money Trust." :
NOT NAMED YET
WASHINGTON, Dec. I The ship
ping combine, the Internationa) Har
vester company and .the so-caHed
money trust are to be investigated
in ths house of, representative at
thle session of congress by one spec
ial committee, the creation of which
will be recommended by the commit
tee on rule. Representative Henry,
chairman of the committee said' to
day that a ' committee , of seven
member would In th opinion of
the member of the rules commit
tee be large enough to conduct, th
Joint Inquiry. j -
Resolution of separate " inquiry
into each of these three alleged com
binations are now before the 'com
mittee. January It has been set a
th date upon; which hearing will
be granted on- the resolution of Rep
resentative Humphrey of Washing
ton $o Inquiry into . the shipping
trust and soon ' thereafter the rules
committee will determine what ac
tion to leoomtnend tn ' all three In
vestigations. . ,
Thi la in Iln with . th demo
cratic economy plan the rules com
mittee believing that the three sub
ject csn be taken np by (a single
committee Instead of by three sep
arate committees because all of then
are allied, the purpose of the pro
posed inquiry tn each case being ,to
Aetertnlne whether or not thre are
violation of the Sherman anti-trust.
Interstate commerce and national
banking nw V,? " J1-,'iV'
Th' plan ia declared to haw the
support of virtually all the demo
cratic houee leaden.,''.
ASIIEVILLE, N. O, SATURDAY MOUSING, DECEMBER 3a 1911.
RUSSIAN TROOPS
OCCUPY PERSIAN
GITY AFTER SIEGE
During the Fighting an Enor
mous Amount of Damage to
Property Was Done
FUTILE NIGHT ATTACK r
' i - -. :...., r--;-
, MADE BY THE PERSIANS
One of the Russian Shells
Struck American Flag and
Staff Fell to Roof
TABRIZ, Persia,' Pec St. A nine
days' siege of thla cMy by the Rus
sian tropps -Jias resulted In it com
plete occupation by the Russian
forees and the dispersal of the om
bsitant, 'belonging to the oonatitu
tlonal party (or Fldals). Numerous
casualties were : sustained by both
sides, th Russian alone losing from
1 tot men while the losses of the
Fldals were very never although th
number ann,ot ba ascertained. During
the fighting an 'enormous amount of
damage to property was don and the
tar . and stripes . floating oyer the
United State : consulate! was : shot
down by a Russian shell which, how
ever, did no further damag; to the
consulate. No casualties were suffer,
ed by the resident foreign population
but many Individuals suffered from a
tack of provision while they were
closely confined, to their homes dur
ing the prolonged street fighting.
The reports . of atrocltle said to
have been committed by the . troops
on both sides are, entinrely unfound
ed the mortality among the native
non-combatant ibelng far from large.
The Russian alone were the object
of the operations of the Persian who
displayed : no resentment i whatever
against other foreigner. .,,.;.- - -i
7i , Biarted In Street. ,i.
i . A . coIlislon between . Russian
guards and - Persians constitutional
ists in the street, during th night of
December , 20. was the beginning of
the disturbances. Two Persian .were
killed In this affair, after which the
population showed , great resentment
and flshtlng became general through
out 4n city n.tne uU(rln narn
Inf. 'The . principal engagement dur
ing the siege took place in the neigh
borhood of the Russian oonsulate
around the cltadet known as the
"Ark" and at the Russian camp, at
Baghal Bhemel. The Persians fired en
the Russian camp with small moun
tain artillery from the top of "The
Ark" Russian soldiers in the camp
replied by shelling "The Ark" with
Shrapnel and driving the 'Persians
from their positions. One of the shells
struck' the American flag flying at the
eonsulate which Is situated near "The
Ark" and the staff fell to the roof
but no further damage was done.
On the following day there w
desperate, fighting In the rifle and
maxmlm gun flrlng being continuous.
That night the Persians made an at
tack on the Russian camp to which
the ' Russians did not at first reply,
awaiting the eloser approach of the
"YmtHynrA n Pnavt Three)
AHREST OF PROiHENT
LABOR LEADER LOOKED
FOR THROUGH BURNS
Says That He Is Going Af
., ter Those "Higher Up"
and Others.
TALES OF GOMPERS
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. . The ar
rest of at least one prominent labor
leader, is expected noon as the result
of the investigation here by Detec
tive Wm. J. Burns of an explosion
which a year ago partly wrecked a
building constructed by non-Onion la
bor. An effort to connect this explo
sion with circumstances surrounding
the one at the Uen ellyan Iron works
In Los Angeles last year Is being
made. John McNamara Is serving a
IS years' sentence for rhe latter plot.
Commenting on the attitude of Sam
uel Gompers toward the current in
vestigation or alleged dynamiting
plots. Burns referred to Oompers'
conference with labor leaders in In
dianapolis oon after the McNamara
arrest, .
"Why doesn't he tell the people
what .'took place at that conference V
asked Burns. "I have asked him the
question repeatedly and he ' has re
fused to answer It. I say that organ'
laed labor should force him to reply
so that suspicion would be removed
from the rank and file of union men."
Referring to the member of the
executive board of the International
Association of Bridge and Structural
workers, Mr. Burns said: , '. 'y
The members of 'the executive
board of the International Association
of Bridge and Structural worker
who did vote for a fund to be used
by the If cNamaras In their dynamit
ing conspiracy are Just as guilty mm
re the McNamara -brother. We are
going after those "higher up and th
other too." , - . ,
' '
PACKERSPOOL WHICH FIXED PRICES
DECLARED
ed That He
Witness Asset
and Fixed
. Tuesdi
to be Paid
" "rmnuin. . 1W j St. Direct svl-
denc that a packer pool ,wa. In ex-
istence irom is . w ,
if. r ausnendln operation two
years, resumed control of tho oeun-
try' fresh meat 'buslnes today was
given in ths packers trial by Henry
Veeder, who admitted that ho acted
..t.r of the oraanlaatlon. " It
the first positive testimony offered re
garding the existence of tba old pools
which it 1 said met under the name
of "Poet Offlc Bx NO. J47'erry
Ti,.l.r urtid-nonn oa the sixth floor
f th Counselmen . wiltlding, -Chicago,
to U th "prlrk, M .fresh esf.
agree -Ott,Jhe prictfo. be paid for
cattle , and allot non ns memoers
the amount of meat to -be shipped
Into th different - centers bf - distri
bution, . V '
Kafir Veadnr. who is a son of Al
bert H. Veeder, th attorney for the
packers, followed his farther on the
stand a the second: witness called by
the government. His story of the In
side workings of the oW packers'
pool was not half finished when
nnttr adiaiirneit. He admitted many
of the material allegations made, by
oouncel for the government in tneir
opening addresses to. the Jury.
Pool Member,
Rot! ills and 11(6. the pool
members were Armour and company,
immir Packlns- camoany. Cudahy
and company St. Louis Dressed Iktel
and Provision company, Morris ana
company and Swift and company, ac-
firAltur tn Honrs Veeder. In 1898
Bohwarscblld and Sultberger entered
the combination the wlttness law. Me
described the meeting held every
WIFE-MURDERER DIES
IN THE ttECTRIC CHAIR
L. M. Sandlin Had Made
Desperate Effort for Com
mutation. RALEIQH, N. C Dec. tt. L. M.
Sandlin, the wife murderer from Wil
mington, died in the electric cnair
here today for his cold blooded crime,
committed June 27. when he went
to the boarding house run by his wife
after she had been forced to leave
him on account of mistreatment and
shot her to death. Sandlin and Cils
counsel have th past few weeks
made a" deeper ate effort to get com
mutation to life Imprisonment on th'
plea of Insanity In the family, but
Governor Kltehtn declined to inter-1
i
fere. Sandlin was brought Into the,
death chamber and strapped Into the!
dhelr at 10.30 o'clock. Three shocks,
were applied before he was pro-!
nounced dead at .10.41 o'clock. TTie
body was turned over to the brother
of the ill-fated man who will carry
it back to Wilmington for Interment.
FIVE OHABGBD WITH MTRDER
LYONS, La.. Dec. 2. For the a!-!
leged murder of Miss Maggie New-
som Christmas night near her home
at Engliirt Eddy, this county. Ave
white men will be given a prelimi
nary hearing Tuesday at thla place.
They were denied ball today. The
accused men are John Poole, Buston
Eason, Elijah Poole, Lonnie Baiter.
and Wank Mason.
J It Is alleged that the shot that
killed the girl wa fired from a sur
rey In whlrfr the men were riding,
while the girl was in the roadway.
TUB WEATHER
'WASHINGTON. Dec. Foreoat:
Tor. North Carolina, rain Saturday
In west and by Sunday night in
eart. slightly wsrmerl Sundsy rain,
colder in . west, moderate variable
Wind . - ' ,::
4Nou Mr. Bear be Goo6T:
BY VEEDER TO BE REALITY
c Acted as Secretary of Organization Which Met Every
Price of Fresh Beef Also
for Cattle Veeder Not Hear Through '
Tuesday, at which he said, report of
the week' buslne of tho ' member
were received and the allotment of
th next week's buslnes wag WUed
on k percentage basis....
The witness said th country was
geographically divided Into Ave sec
tions, each known hy a letter of th
alphabet and that each ol th mem
ber of th alleged pool was similarly
designated to prevent publicity. '
He testified that a record - was
kept of th amount of mea shipped
to th different branch house and
weekly statements were sent to mem.
bers showing th cost, vsr price
resolved and 4h margin of.ront on
each freeh ftnefuf the dlffersat' dttes.
The wtinoas gave a minute deorlp
Hon of th Intricate system used by
the slleged pool In keeping Its ac
count and transmitting its business.
. Attorneys for the defendant made
an unsuccessful effort to prevent th
witness from answering questions re
garding the Inside workings of the
packers pool but Judge Carpenter ov
erruled every objection- and directed
the government to proceed with the
presentation of It ease. Vseder de
' scribed the geographical division of
the country used by th packers as
follows:
Dlvlttlon of Country
Territory A. All east of the Miss
issippi and north of the Ohio river,
except Illinois.
Territory B. All south of the Ohio
and Potomac rivers and east of th
Mississippi river except West Virgin,
la.
Territory C Chicago,
Territory P. St. Loul and all of
WATTERSON SAYS TEDDY
WOULDN'TCIRRYASTATE
Guest of Charlotte Where
He Delivers Address on
' "Peace" Today.
CHARLOTTE N. C, Dec. J, .Col.
Henry Watterson, who Is Charlotte's
guest gave out an Interesting Inter
view tonlht on the subject of Theo
dore Roosevelt's candidacy for the
presidency. Inspired by th statement
of a reporter that he had been ac
cused by The New York Herald of
sharing in the alarm voiced by The
New York World that Mr. Roosevelt
Is really a candidate,, Mr. Watterson
declared that his position was misun
derstood, he was not alarmed In the
least; he had simply expressed the
Idea that he knew that Roosevelt was
being groomed for th race, and. ven
tured the opinion that even if the
stampede In Mi behalf succeeds he
would not carry a single state In th
union.
Colonel Watterson declared that all
that stands between us and life ten
ure of offlc Is the third term tradi
tion. He regarded Roosevelt, he sold
as a personal friend ho knows his
parents before Mm and he -would
rather follow him to the grave. If he
were his dearest son, than see him
return to the presidency, because he
knew that he would. Diasify the pres
idency and mercenlxe the republic.
Colonel Watterson was tendered a
tanquet by cttlsen tonight and to
morrow will deliver hi famous lec
ture on "peace."
AVIATOR PALLS SIXTY FEET.
MILLRDOEVILLE, Oa Dec. 2.
Stanley James an aviator from Wash
ington, D. C, fell from a height of
sixty feet here today and was badly
bruised and cut. HI M,000 Tttnotnb
machine I a complete wreck, Th ac
cident occurred at th Treanor rac
track; The Injured man-was brought
to the Baldwin hotel where an exam
ination showed that he had sustained
no broken bones ,
. . ' .' ..-.' .
Agreed on the Price
Illinois except Cook county and all of
Iowa except Council bluff.
Me aald this division had been In
existence aver since he knew any
thing about the packing business.
', Mr. Vesder said Colorado was
known as territory B. Other section
nt ih. rnnnm n not included In
the alphabetical list. Th attention of
the witness w drawn by special
counsel Butler to meeting of th
meeting of the packer's pool, held
Tuesday s Iter noons at which, It 1 al
leged, price of fresh meat and th
vrice to be paid for eattl war agreed
upon. ; -1 1 -
v pttmAmatm Orerraled
("Arm eel tnf 'the dsfendonts Vlror-
ously objected. to th witness snswer
lng but wars overruled by Judge Car
penter, - wno aiiowea me govern
ment, to proceed along this Una, with
the understanding that a connection
wpuld be shown between th old pool
and the later combination.
Tn reply to questions llis witness
said: 'J '
Representative of Armour ' and
Company, Swift and Company, O.
H. Hammond . and Comoanr and
Cudahy,. and Company and others J
met - in m councilman euiiains
every -week between lift and llll,
Th companle at these meetings
were Identified by letter. Armour
and Company as Ai Armour Pack
ing Company, a B; Cudahy and
Company,- a Ci O. H. Hammond
and Company, as 4: St. Louis Dress
ed Beef, and , Provision Company, as
; .MottI and Company as T, and
in.in ii inn, m ii . . il - es ii mmMmmmtmm
Oontlnnerl on page tfrewl
MAY LIVE EYEN AFTER
Foreigner's Vain Effort
to Destroy Himself by
Means of Penknife.
GREENSBORO, N. C, Dec. I.
William - Rodenkirchen, a foreigner,
registering at a local hotel as
"Rodenkirchen, Adrian, Siberia,
was discovered by a hetel clerk this
Morning groaning and vigorously Jab
bing this throat with a penknife.
When disarmed il was discovered
that he ' had slashed each wrist
thrice, subbed himself Just abov ths
heart and had dug a hole In his
neck large enough to place three
finger In. He went t th hotel at
1 1 o'clock last night and It I be
lieved spent the greater part of the
night trying to destroy himself, Ro
denkirchen left a, not saying, he was
alone in a strange land and home
sick.; On another hard, evidently)
scratched In th man's own Mood,
were tliese words, "This Is me death.
It I finished." . ,
- A memoranda showsd that Roden
kirchen had 1109 on deposit In a sav
lng bank". In Barra, ; Vermont. He
willed 100 to the poor. There I a
chance for the man to live.
DOES HK WAST OCT 7
LINCOLN, Neb.,. Deo. 2 Theo
dore Roosevelt cannot escape being
a candidate for the nomination for
president according to a ruling mad
today by Secretary of State Wait,
who said Mr. Roosevelt' name wonld
remain on the primary election bal
lot unless John O'Yelser, of Omaha,
who filed th petition, "wlthdnaws
It - ,
Mr, Roosevelt himself, -the secre
tary said cannot raneel the petition.
. The' ruling la supplementary . to
one made at the time of the filing
and la In anticipation of an expect
ed petition placing W. J. Bryan
on' th tallot' as a presidential can
didate. New reached Secretary Walt
that such a position was being pre
ar4. .
PRICE FIVE CENTS
CLASSIFICATION Gt
ALL HUMAr, BEINGS
FOR IMPRDVFMEfJT
Plan Suggested by Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture
Before Scientists
niunwci ur L.iviiu - -
UP for discussion:
'Modern Science and Charity,
Works Against Law of Sur
vival of Fittest" '
WASHINGTON. Deo. The clas
sification of all the peoples of the j
world Into a great International can-.
sua . giving each person a number
in l single world series,-la th end
that thej human rao mny be lm-'
proved by scientific marriage ws
the plan advocated -tonight by As
sistant Secretary of Agriculture Wm. (
Mv Hay in an address before the
American Breeders' Association, one
of the organisations making up the
American association for the Ad
vancement o( science. As a means of
Improving th hereditary of the hu
man family Mr. Hayes proposed
olesslftuailoa of all human . being,'
both as to mental aptitude and ge
netlo efficiency. Based an such knowl.
edg as this census would give, h
said, there would b developed a
"racial religion" requiring the genltt-,.
rally efficient to produce families
larger than th average, and tho no
less efficient to produce fsmlllus
smaller 'than th average.
Th world numbers, ald Mr. j
Hays would serve to Join geneolo
glss Into one numerical system so
that all relationships could be tree-,
ed. Each person would havs a num.,
her or percentage that could be
averaged so s to giv the genella
or family values of each person. ..
: "Modern science and charity work
against the law of the survival of i
th nttiest." h declared, "by keep,
lng nllv many persun who inherit
weaknesses, such ss feeble minded
nam or Insanity. Hy paying atten
tion IO geniiic ni(;ieiii.-)f a rare iimj
mak Itself stronger for the eco
munlo nontests among the races of
th world.' ".' : ... v ,-
' Into I'lassn .-. J ...
j The proposed plan .would sume-
what divide people Into classes, but.
th .classification would be benellient.
because It would be baaed on racial .
efficiency The wholesome conslders
tion of genetlo faati will lead to less
of divorce, greater temperance . and .
better moral, Raising the average
efficiency of . the human rao proo-'
ably also would Increase the num
ber of genulse and leader"
Senator Burton,. of Ohio, .discuss
lng the high cost of living problem
declared 1 that ' a rising standard of ,
living, an Increasing supply of gold,,
and tardy development of agrl- j
cultural resources and obsolete and 1
expensive method of distribution of j
food and other product, were th ;
factor contributing , to , th higher
cost of living.
William Hard, of New York, In,
an address before the American aa
soclstloa for labor legislation aald:
-. "Unemployment Is no . longer s
Jok." j
- "JTh funny paper Jokes about
tramp and hoboss are dying out,"
h aald. "For every man . who doe ,
not want work, there are score
who cannot get work. Thr art -100,000
mora Job In the Industrie
of New . York state in October the
there are in January In any. yar." ,
AT
DN THE TARIFF EILLS
Still Awaiting Full Report
of Tariff Board on
Wool Schedule. '
THROUGH WITH STEEL
WASHINGTON, Dec.,8.-rWlth tho
house tariff program practically de.
elded, upon, Representative Under-a
wood, chairman of tie way and'
means committee, hag go to work
behind closed doors, Intending, to re- .
fraln from public discussion of lar-,
fit bill tincn after eongreenl reka
sembfee next week..
. i Chairman Underwood, . still await
lng ths full report of th tariff brd
on the woolen schedule, said today :
thitt he intended to make a careful
study' of th synopsis of that report)
until the voluminous printed copy
of tfh full report 1 sent him from''
the government printing office.
As far as the steel schedule I con
cerned, Mr. Underwood said It vir
tually was complete and that little
remained - for the - committee to do
with it when ii resumes work nrct
week. The bill which contemplit!i
reduction from 10 to ft per c-emtj
on Iron and steel products rri!s!
will b-Introduced early In Jan :,;
and the house democrats v t
paa It within a few day '