The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-11
Manufacturers Are Warning la boring Men Of Hard Times
 To Keep The Tariff Up
DUTY MAY BE PUT UPON
 COFFEE AND LUMBER
Revision of Tariff As Proposed in the Bill Now Being Printed is Down. ward, the Revenue and Pro-
 tection Features Leading.

Washington, March 10.-(Special.) .)-Those representatives of the protected industries and the congressmen who are opposing reduction of the Dingley tariff rates are adopting the same lines of argument that was used so forcibly against the candidacy of MT. Bryan. It was declared that his election would mean hard times to the country and now the few high tariff peo- pie remaining are claiming that a re- ductiop of the tariff will seal the fate of the laboring man-that he can only look forward to the empty dinner pail.
 Laboring men in factories are receiving notices from some source to the effect that a reduction of the tariff means hard times for them. They are re- quested to write their congressman to petitions and letters against a tariff change are being received by members, especially those who are on the ways and means committee.
 When the new tariff bill with it's re- auctions appears in print Congress will be bombarded with a flood of petitions aimed at the several schedules. It is ex- pected, however, that the bill will pass the House in much the same form that it is reported with the usual result, that the Senate will have the final say.
 Serene E. Payne, the chairman of the ways and means committee, Is personal ly revising the preliminary draft of the tariff bill, which will go to the govern ment printing office this week. The pres- ent plan is to have the first print of the bill made without the rates of duty ap- bearing in it. On the night before the blA Is introduced the rates will be in- ser nd and a corps of copy readers will make the final corrections. No schedule or provision within the bill is free from the possibility of being changed between now and the day the bill is introduced. At the final meeting of the committee. at which the bill will be passed upon by the republican members, every item will be reviewed.
 The proposition to place duty on cof- fee is understood to be a matter con cerning which there Is much difference of opinion among the members of the sub committed. During its deliberations the committee placed a duty on coffee, took it off again, and as the bill stands now a tax of cents per pound is provided for. It is understood that the duty on lumber while at present fixed at S1, is likely to be slightly increased. This is due to the &C., tive campaign which the lumbermen have been making, the result of which has been to give the committee a vast fund of information from which to determine a fair and equitable tax.
 The revision throughout the bill is down. ward, the revenue and protection features governing the fixing of all the schedules. Representative Fordney of Michigan has stood out for the highest protection, while Representative Crumpacker of Indiana has favored the lowest duties. Represen- tative Gaines of West Virginia and Bonynge of Colorado have advocated high protection, while the chairman. MT. Payne, and Representative Boutell of H. linois. Mccall of Massachusetts and Long worth of Ohio have urged lower duties. The other members. Representatives Hill of Connecticut, Needham of California, Dalzell of Pennsylvania and Calderhead of Kansas. have favored protection for the interests of their constituents but have generally been open to compromise.