Bisbee daily review., 1909-03-25
PUBLIC WHETS KNIVES FOR THE
 PAYNE TARIFF
Manufacturers Are Active, But Small Consumers Interest Savagely Antagonized in Proposed Measure

WASHINGTON, March eS.--After being submitted to the democratic members for few minutes the Payne tariff bill was reported favorably to the house.
 The m nority members were given until today to present their views on the bill. A general debate then will follow for two or three days, ana after that the bill will be taken up section by section TOT amendment ID committee of the whc!e.
 .., spite of the fact that Chairman , 1 Payne's statement was willfully silent in regard to cotton. wool and SIX |
 ,chedules, three of the most object ! 'anahle items In the Dingley bill. in- !, 1 dividual members of the house al- | ready are beginning to hear from | their constituents, who ask for some explanation as to how it is that New ] ! England influence has been suffic ent ] to prevent absolutely all revision of 1 the tariff on those schedules, except | in three significant instances, one or i which Is a reduction in the tari1 on ! a certain grade of raw wool which | is the raw materiaf for the manu- facturer. second an actual increase 'n the tariff on cotton hosiery, and third a DIdCAtEdl EttlONai OA NAAN 0tNs bituuainous coal for the express bene- fit of New England mill owners. the
 only men who can possibly be bene-
 fited by free entry of Nova Scotia coal
 Not satisfiei with having controlled the ways and means committee abso-
 Iutely in the prevention of any re-
 sion on all articles of clothing for rich and poor, some New England senators now under the leadership Of MT. Hale of Maine are preparing Tor
 combination the object of which is
 to restore the duty on wood pulp
 and of course on print paper. To do that the Maine people propose to make a coalition with the lumber men ! Of Washington and Wisconsin and they are quite willing to rub 1t into the western farmer so long as the down eastern manufacturer Is fully protected.
 The fact leaked out that the west
 ern members of the ways and means . committee had made a gallant fight
 for a reduction in the schedules, more
 particularly on woolen goods. They
 were beaten outright by a combina-
 tion of New England men with certain
 southern and far western interests. l IL is likely, therefore, that when these |, schedules come up for action in com ! mittee of the whole there will be l lively fight and the committee bill
 may be subjected to a reduction on [ articles of clothing, the same as has
 been imposed in the other schedules.
 The thing as it now stands is a lit
 tie too raw even for str ct protection
 ists, because, practically speaking, if manufacturers of silk, woolen and cot
 ton goods are practically the only per s sons who have not been forced to | bear even the smallest measure of q tariff reduction.
 When the DingIey bill was enacted 7. there were four schedules which 'J were notoriously too high. One was t that section of the tariff bill which
 ike rates on iron, steel and their .5 manufacturers. That schedule was u q ctated by Matthew Stanley Quay, Is the bold and clever republican leader )r of Pennsylvania. He served notice on i' the committee in advance that if the e iron and steel schedule as be pre-. IT pared it was disturbed he would block ie the passage of the tarid bill entirely h. Of course he had his way. and tae )6 tarin on steel. including cutlery and 'r ordinary mechanics tools, was Q ?. downr ght atTocity which works in O. such a way as to practically prohibit ct the importation of most foreign goods
 When the Dingley bill was under con w sideration the chairman of the finance D. committee of the senate was Mir. Aid ,e rich of Rhode Island, who, through ,.- his personal and neighborhood atili
 ,ations. was nearly and in fact prop Y erly the personal representa- ve Of $ the New England mill owners. Mr | Aldrich saw to it that the tarin on ,,, cotton goods woolen goods, and silk ~ goods was a stih one. in fact, the n rates on those articles which are in -a daily use by the people of the Unit -. ed States embOdy a higher grade of
 protection than is contained anywhere
 else in the Dingley bill.
 V, When the people talked of tar fl re y vision during the last campaign they S merely referred to such familiar ar
 ticles in daily use ss the manufactures
 Of iron and steel, cotton, wool and
 silk
 l The only one of those four sehed ', ules which has been touched is the
 steel schedule and yet in Mr. PayDe's statement. intended for the infOrma lS tion of the country. there is a s gpifi cant omission of all mention oi
 schedules I and L, which Geal with v cotton and silk manufacturers, and 'u the reference to schedule K, cover
 ing woolen goods, is so blind that lI only an expert could see any redue- U ton in the direction of proyidina
 cheaper raw materai for manufact
 ure.
 On the whole. the women of the
 country will have no cause to call Mir. Payne or his associates on the DC ways and means committee blessed. C. If they assert themselves as some . modern do the adjective win be oi IS quite a different character.
 'e That the new tarif bill is open to t. serious objection because of it's com 1T plete failure to cut down the savage d duty imposed ou all articles of wear s- ing apparel. both for men and for C. women, s not a thfng which should
 be concealed in the interests of par
 ty. So far as the three schedules
 mentioned are concerned. the commit e tee has not fulfilled the pledge or , the republican platform. and that m section of the bill naDifestiy Is open .I- to those objections which President !. Taft before his inauguration declared Q would result in a veto.
 
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