Bisbee daily review., 1908-08-01
PAYNE BEGINS ON REVISION
 FOR CAMPAIGN
Spends Hot Spell in the Capital Starting Preliminaries A Gigantic Task Is In Store for Congress.

Serene E. Payne of New York, the heavyweight chairman of the ways and means committee, and Republi- can floor leader in the house, was seen daily waddling about the torrid streets mopping his perspiring brow. Unanimously and correctly it Was guessed that the business must be
 pretty important that would bring Mir. Payne to the capital during such a net up spell.
 Payne's mission was to start in motion the preliminary work which next summer sometime is expected to produce new tariff law. The first
 of this preliminary work is to De done by the state department and the de partment of commerce and labor. es- pecially the census and manufactur- ing bureaus of the latter department.
 They will get together all sorts ot facts and figures bearing or the tar if schedules of this and other coun-
 tries. This information will be class.
 flied and catalogued to form a sort of ready reference library for mem
 bers of the ways and means commit tee when they finally tackle the task of drafting a tariff bill
 The framing of a tariff bill is the
 biggest job congress ever undertaken.
 The amount of work involved is ap- .palling. The preliminary data to be
 gathered will make heart sickening
 library In itself, but that is only the
 beginning. The reports of the hear
 ings to be held will make two Of
 three more libraries, and all this mass
 of stuff must be thoroughly 1igested
 by the men who are to frame and
 handle the tariff bill. Besides. they
 must nave thorough and exact lnowl-
 edge of all former tariff laws of all
 important trading nations. They al-
 so must go deep into the theories and practices of all the important indus tries demanding protection under the tarin schedules
 All this is necessary because as
 suming that the next congress will be
 Republican, not only will a tariff bill have to be framed that will meet the demand for 8 reduction in schedules, satisfy so far as possible the protected 1 interests and produce sufficient reve-
 nlle. but the bill has got to be justified before the country. Republicans are not the only ones who will dig into 1 the tariff lore. The Democratic members of the house ways and means and the senate finance commit 1 tees and the leaders of that party in congress will work just as hard as l their Republican colleagues and when l the bill finally gets out of committee they will it in public debate at every poiIIt. Should there be a comfortably large Republican majority in the house the leaders could whip through any sort of bill they agreed upon, but they have got to be able to meet the arguments of the Democrats or Uuv
 country will want to know the req sons why.
 Every general tariff bill so fas passed has given at least one man national and enduring fame. It would 1 be interesting to know to whom this | fame will come by reason of the bill | to be passed next year. Should the next house be Republican the meas uge undoubtedly would be known as 1 the Payne Bill, but it does not neces- sarily follow that Mr. Payne would monopoliZe the distinction of it's frani- ing There are other Republican members of the ways and means com
 mittee regarded as stronger than the chairman and it might be that Nr.
 Payne would be crowded from the limelignt. .i Should the next house be Democrat lie there probably would be @ spirited contest for ways and means chair manship. Champ Clark of Missouri is at present the ranking Democratic member, but in the event of a Demo cratic house Mir Clark is very likely to be elected speaker. Next below
 Mir. Clark is w. Bourke Cochran of | New York, who will not be a member l of the next congress. Third on the list is Oscar w. Underwood of Ala bama. an ambitious and able young
 man, to whom the chairmanship might fall, unless the speaker saw ffL
 to go outside for more experienced debater, like DeArmond of Missouri, l for instance.
 C. 20 present Republican member ! ship of the committee there are three men who would run MT. Payne a close race for honors. Next to him in the order of seniority is John Dalzell of Pennsylvania, representing the ex- treme wing, and below Dalzell is | Samuel W Mccall of Massachu- setts, strong revisionist, so strong ! in fact that he has been called a free trader. Henry S. BouteH of Illinois i is third among the very able men. James E. Watson of Indiana is fourth, 1 but as he is the Republican nominee ! for governor of his state he will not
 be in the next congress.
 1 The practice of naming a tariff bill i for the ways and means chairman aas Ionly prevailed since the civil war.
 For example, the we'll known Wolker tariff of 1S46 was so called in honor iof Robert J. Walker of Mississippi, i secretary of the treasury in President | Folks cabinet In the early days of
 the republic the recommendations of | the secretary of the treasury were largely followed in framing tariff bills and Walker was fairly entitled to credit for the law of 1S46
 The ways and means chairman who have had their names attached to tar | if bills are Justin MorTil, Roger Q. Mills Mckinley, William l.. Wilson i and Nelson Dingley. Mir Wilson had | to share the honor with the late
 Senator German, who was chairman
 of the sena5e finance committee which
 amended the Wilson bill until the
 authorcouldnOtrecog titledyen
 author could not recognize 1t and un-
 til Grover Cleveland Cleveland would
 not sign it.