Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-03-31
CUBAN RECIPROCITY
Ways and Means Committees
Bill Favorahly Reported.
TAWNEY'S AMENDMENT
DECIDED NOT aERMANE TO THE
MEASURE.
Other Amendments by Messrs. Rich
ardson and Mcclellan Were
Voted Down.
TAWNEY'S AMENDMENT

The House committee on ways and means
today ordered a favorable report on the
Payne Cuban reciprocity bill. The vote was
l. to 5. All the republicans of the commit
tee voted for the bill except Messrs Taw-
ney and Metcalf Messrs. Richardson,
Swanson and Mcclellan also supported the
bill on the final vote. Messrs. Robertson,
Newlands and Cooper voted against report
ing the bill. Many amendments were Of
fered. but only one was adopted, requiring
the adoption by Cuba of the contract and
labor laws of the United States
The bill will be called up in the House
one week from tomorrow, and will be de-
Dated at great length Forty or more re-
publicans are opposed to it,
The Bill as Reported.
The bnl as reported today provides as
follows:
THAT for the purpose Of securing re-
ciprocal trade relations with Cuba, the
president is hereby authorized as soon as
may be after the establishment of an in
dependent government in Cuba and the
enactment by said government of contract
labor and immigration and exclusion laws as
fully restrictive of immigration as the laws
of the United States. to enter into nego-
tiations with said government with a view
to the arrangement of a commercial agree
ment in which reciprocal and equivalent
concessions may be secured in favor of the
products and manufactures of the United
states by rates of duty which shall be less
by an amount equivalent to at least 20 per
cent ad valorem upon such products and
manufactures than the rates imposed upon
the like articles when imported into Cuba
from the most favored Of other countries,
and which shall not be greater than the
rates imposed by the United States upon
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whenever the government of Cuba shall
enact such immigration and exclusion laws
and shall enter into such commercial agree
ment with the United States and shall
make such concessions In favor Of the
products and manufactures thereof as
aforesaid. and which agreement, in the
Judgment of the President, shall be recip-
rocal and equivalent, he shall be author
lied to proclaim such facts, both as to the
enactment of such immigration and exclu-
sion laws and the making of such agree
ment; and thereafter until the LIST day of
December 1903, the imposition of the duties
now imposed by law on all articles imported
from Cuba, the products thereof into the
United States shall be suspended, and in
lieu thereof there shall be levied, collected
and paid upon all such articles imported
from Cuba so per centum of the rate of
duty now levied upon like articles imported
from foreign countries The President shall
have power. and it shall be his duty, when
ever he shall be satisfied that either such
immigration or exclusion laws or such
agreement mentioned in this act are not
being fully executed by the government of
Cuba. to notify such government thereof,
and thereafter there shall be levied, col
lected and paid upon all articles imported
from Cuba the full rate of duty provided
by law upon articles imported from foreign
countries
The most interesting vote in committee
this morning was on motion offered by
Mr.. Tawney to remove the differential duty
on refined sugar, the protection granted
a rafi pn hyyt he LIN
Chairman Payne ruled that the amend
ment was not germane to the bill. Mr.
Tawney appealed from the decision of the
chair, and on the appeal voted with the
democrats.
If the appeal had been sustained and the
amendment adopted the bill would have
been open to all kinds of tariff amend
ments to be offered in the House.
Mr.. Richardson's Amendments.
Mr.. Richardson offered a series of amend
ments which were voted down by strict
party vote. They were as follows:
That the pending bill be referred to
the appropriate subcommittee with instruc-
tons to report to the full committee bill
as an amendment to the tariff law that
will reform, revise and reduce the rates Of
duty on all articles embraced in the pro-
visions of the Dingley tariff law.
THAT the pending bill be referred to
the appropriate subcommittee with inStruc-
lions to report to the full committee bill
as an amendment to the tariff law reducing
the rates on all articles and commodities
which are manufactured in the United
States and sold in foreign countries more
cheaply than in the United States, so as
to prevent the continuance of such in
equalities and injustice and to remove the
indirect tariff bounties which now promote
them.
THAT the pending bill be referred to the
appropriate subcommittee with instruc-
tions to report to the full committee bill
as an amendment to the tariff law removing
all duties on all articles and commodities
the manufacture or sale of which in the
United States is controlled by trust or
monopoly.
That the pending bill be referred to the
appropriate subcommittee with instruc-
tons to report to the full committee a bill
as an amendment to the tariff law revising
the rates Of duty on all articles embraced
In Schedule c, metals and manufa ctures
off, of the act known as the Dingley act,
approved July "a, 1897, exactly in accord
ance with H. R. 1855 of the present session
Of Congress. the same being a bill intro
duced into the House of Representatives by
Mr.. Babcock member Of this committee
THAT the pending bill be referred to the
appropriate subcommittee with instruc-
lions to report to the full committee a bill
as an amendment to the tariff law prOvid-
ing that all wood pulp suitable for or
adapted to the manufacture of printing
paper, and all printing paper suitable for
or adapted to the printing of newspapers,
periodicals or books. and all materials and
ingredients used In the manufacturing Of
the same, when imported into the United
States. shall be exempt from duty
Mr.. Mcclellan offered a series OF amend
ments increasing the amount of tariff re-
ductfon, which were defeated. Amend
ments offered by Mr.. Tawney to postpone
the operation Of reciprocity until next De-
off of the by-products of beets. and to make
the duty on sugar above No. 16 Dutch