Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-10
TARIFF BILL IS
ADOPTED AFTER
EXCITING SCENE
ONE REPUBLICAN CASTS VOTE
AGAINST 1T
CONGRESSMEN HAVE WILD AND
CONFUSING SESSION
Four Louisianans Bolt Champ Clark
and Join ublicans-Midniqht
Deal Charged-Lumber
Taxed-Oil Free
tBy Associated Press. ]

wv three weeks of consideration the
Payne tariff bill was passed by
the house of representatives tonight
amid great excitement by vote of 217
to 161.
One Republican, Austin of Tennessee,
voted against the measure, and four
Messrs. Broussard, Estopinal, Pujo and
Wickliffe-voted for it.
An attempt by Champ Clark, the
minority leader, to recommit the bill
with instructions signally failed.
The day was filled with excitement
from the moment the session began at
noon until adjournment. The members
were keyed up to the highest pitch
and a practically full membership re-
mained on duty throughout.
The final vote demonstrated the ca
pacity of the Republican organization
to get together.
The situation with respect to lumber
was greatly relieved to the Republican
leaders when it became manifest that
the advocates of the proposition plac-
ing it on the free list were in the nil
nority.
Charges Midnight Deal
Because of that fact Mr.. Fitzgerald
of New York charged that midnight
deal had been made last night whereby
free lumber was to be voted down and
the rates on barley and barley malt
increased. and this Notwithstanding the
denials of Messrs. Mann of Illinois and
Cushman of Washington, who offered
the barley amendments.
The general public was greatly in
terested in the proceedings and the
galleries were packed. Both the diplo-
matte and executive reservations like
wise were fully occupied, Mrs. Taft
being among those present.
When the bill was passed the Re-
publicans cheered Justify, some dane
ing up and down the aisles and pat
ting their fellow members on the back
The bill was introduced on March II,
| reported to the house by the ways AMI
| means committee on the following
| day and was under general debate for
| sixteen days.
Last Monday the rules committee re-
ported special order which closed the
general discussion and provided for
the consideration of the bill under ahe
| five-minute rule.
Petroleum Is Free
One of the principal changes in The
bill was the placing of petroleum on
the free list today.
Among other important amendments
made since the bill came from COM
mittee were those striking out the
duty on tea and the countervailing
duty on coffee.
The so-called "joker'' in the cotton
cloth schedule which, it was claimed,
would increase the duties of the Ding
ley bill several hundred per cent, was
corrected, the proviso for the method
for counting threads in the cloth being
made the same as in the present law.
The drawback section was added to
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advantage of for speculating in grain,
and the Philippine trade provision was
amended so that rice will not be ad-
mitted free from the islands
The countervailing duty clause ON
lumber was stricken out but a strong
effort to place lumber on the free list
did not succeed.
Duty Is Increased
The duty on barley, barley malt,
pineappleS in crates and cotton collars
and cuffs, as originally in the bill,
We're increased
A proviso was included in the to-
bacco schedule increasing the duty on
filled tobacco from any country which
prohibits the importation of American
tobacco.
There were several technical changes
in the steel schedule, principally down
ward.
LIluCS, llOSleIy ana SION6S were l6IL
as by the committee, hides remaining
free and an increased duty being pro-
Vlded for gloves and stockings.
The contest over free petroleum was
stubborn, but the vote in it's favor was
overwhelming.
Basic Stag, ground or unground, was
taken out of the maximum and mini
mum provision, Chairman Payne ex-
planning that it was used mostly by
farmers as fertilizer
A substitute for section 81 covering
the maximum and minimum features
of the bill, caused the liveliest debate
When it became apparent that almost
countless amendments would be pro-
posed to that section, Chairman Payne
sought to rally his cohorts by appeal
ing to them to vote down all such prop
ositions, calling attention to the fact
that the subsection was an elaboration
of the original one and that it speci-
fically pointed out the articles which
should come within it's scope.
All Efforts Fail
All attempts to amend section 8. re-
lating to maximums and minimums
except in the case of basic Stag and
petroleum failed, and the entire sub
section was adopted.
After Mr.. Olmstead, of Pennsylvania,
who has presided over the deliberations
of the bill by the committee of tho
whole. had descended from the chair
Speaker Cannon assumed the reins.
Mr.. Olmstead then reported the action
of the committee, and the house as
such took the bill in hand for the pur-
pose of carrying out the special order
for vote. All committee amendments
except those pertaining to barley and
barley-malt and tea and coffee were
agreed to en- bloc without division.
No separate vote being asked regard
inc too nd hn &c
garding those articles which were in
corporated in the bill in committee of
the whole were adopted.
Regarding the other schedules such
as lumber, oil. hides and barley, sepa-
rate votes were demanded. A wrangle
at once ensued as to the order in which
the schedules should be taken up. The
speaker was unable to unravel the
tangle and called on Mr.. Olmstead to
set matters right. Mr.. Olmstead de-
clared that the first vote was on an
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