The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-04-02
Members Are Exhibiting Sam.
pies of Articles Involved
in Schedules
PRESIDENT HILL BECAME
An INTERESTING FACTOR
Great Railroad Builder Was in Con.
ference With Speaker and Tariff
Leaders Yesterday-Vote TO be TAX.
en- Next Wednesday.

washington, April 2.-The Repub-
lican leaders of the house today, as
the result of careful canvas, ex-
pressed absolute confidence in their
ability to pass the tariff bill when
ever they decide to put it upon Its
passage. The decision now is to put
the bill on it's passage next Wednes-
day.
To illustrate their arguments on the
tariff the members and delegates have
brought into the lobby of the house
hundreds of exhibits. Representative
Mann of Illinois, who spoke on the
duty on print paper and wood pulp,
displayed sections of trees from Maine
to California. Commissioner Larriabe
of Porto Rico is interested in the duty
on coffee and he brought in an assort-
ment from every country of the world
that produces the berry. Representa-
tive Cole of Ohio made speech on
wool. He brought in unwashed wool
off the back of the sheep. Represen-
tative cushman of Washington de-
tended the duty on lumber and dis
played a score or more of charts
which he has arranged in the corridor
so that they will continue to argue
with the members. Representative
AIondell of Wyoming has resorted to
the same method of driving home his
argument for coal duties.
The Minnesoa delegation Is one of
the strongest state delegation in the
house. The people of Minnesota, rec
ognizing this, do not hesitate to call
upon them to demand of the ways and
means committee changes in THE
Payne tariff bill which will be bene-
ficial to the people of that state.
The dry goods merchants Of St.Paul
have called upon Representative Ste
yens and Senators Nelson and Clapp
to protest to the ways and means COM
mittee on the schedule on hosiery and
gloves. They contend that the duty
which tho Payne bill imposes will
benefit only few manufacturers in
Pennsylvania who make conforming
hosiery. Conforming hosiery is the
kind with a seam in it, and is made
to fit the leg.
Mushroom Interests Protest.
Another protest that st. Paul has
put up to the ways and means COM
mittee is a demand from tho mush-
room spawn producers, who want
twenty per cent duty on spawn in
creased two cents per pound. The
growers of mushrooms want the duty
on spawn reduced. The ways and
means committee had to be told by
Representative Stevens what mush-
room spawns are. st. Paul has the
largest mushroom industry of any
city in the United States.
For the fur manufacturers of st.
Paul, Representative Stevens has
made a protest to the ways and
means committee against that provis-
ion of the Payne bill which provides
that the duty on imported furs
for manufacture shall be increased
from twenty per cent to thirty-five
per cent. He was given a hearing by
the committee today.
The question involved Is whether or
not the furs as they are brought in
from Canada should be classed as raw
material or manufactured product, Mr..
Stevens maintaining that the furs are
raw material.
Scores OF Amendments.
1t is believed that when the tariff
bill comes up for consideration by Sec
eAOA0 SAAS way oAu AACoHo
will offer at least one hundred amend
ments to tho original bill. Repre-.
sentative Stevens is authority for the
statement that he believes tho COM
mittee itself will recommend changes
in more than three hundred items of
the present bill. These changes will
be the result OF advice of Republican
members since they have seen the bill.
Few changes will be recommended
by the committee at the suggestion of
Democrats, and the Democrats are not
making many suggestions to the COM
mittee, but are shooting oratory at the
bill from the floor of the house, which
is not very affective.
Hill Interested
]. j. Hill yesterday made headquar-
ters in the private room of Speaker
NCannon, where he discussed the tariff
and other matters with leaders CT the
house, including Representative Taw-
ney and Stevens. members of the ways