Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-08
PARTY LINES BROKEN WHEN
TAWNEY AMENDMENT TAKING
DUTY OFF ALL BUT FINISHED
PRODUCT COMES UP.
DUTY RETAINED BY
VOTE OF 173 TO ISL
REPRESENTATIVE FoRDNEY IN
ATTACKING TAWNEY SAYS 1T
WOULD BE SAME AS FREE BAR
LEY TO BREWERS.


the Fordney amendment to the Payne
tariff bill, striking out the countewail-
ing duty on lumber. Tawney at once
offered an amendment which he said
would take the duty off all lumber in
Guided in paragraph 1877 of the bill ex-
cept on finished lumber, the duty on
which would be materially reduced.
He would later, he said. offer an
amendment placing rough lumber on
the free list.
The amendment and proposed
by Fordney, who charged that TaWney
forgot that the raw materials of the
planning mill was its finished product.
| If Tawney was fair, he added, he
would demand free barley for brewers.
In his opinion, he said, Tawney was
not good Republican.
| The Tawney amendment, designed
! to reduce the duty on all lumber, eX-
cept finished lumber, was lost by 151
to 173, party alignments being badly
broken.
Night Sessions in Senate.
| The fixing of rates for the new tariff
| bill was begun today by the senate
committee on finance. Night sessions
will be held by the committee begin
ming today. 1t was agreed no person
shall be heard by the committee from
now on, except that limited time
may be given to some senators during
i the forenoon session.
The Vote on the Rules.
Three o'clock p. M, April 9. was the
time set by the house yesterday aft
.ernoon for vote on the tariff bill. The
| long expected resolution from the COM
mittee on rules closing the general de-
bate providing for certain committee
amendments and full and free OPP
portunity to alter the lumber and
hides schedules was reported late and
| the dap and adopted with sixteen
votes to spare, Notwithstanding the
desertion of twenty Republicans, and
| four of the sixteen votes came from
| the Louisiana delegation, who like
wise broke away from their party.
| Those who left their party lines
| were as follows:
Republicans-Austin, of Tennessee:
| Carey, Cooper, Lenroot, Morse and
Nelson, of Wisconsin; Dawson, Good,
Haugen. Pickett, Woods, Hubbard and
Kendall, of Iowa: Hinshaw and Norris.
of Nebraska; Lindbergh. of Minneso-
| TIA; Murdoch of Kansas; Parsons, of
New York; Poindexter of Washington,
and Young. of Michigan.
| Democrats = Broussard, Estopinal
Pujo and Wickliffe, of Louisiana.
Previous to the adoption of the res
olution there was some criticism of ii
| from The Democratic side.
| Aside from the interest which at
tached to this proceeding was speech
Bryan and Organism, the populistis
and populisn, and who declared he
would support the.Payne bill If it con-
tanned what his constituents wanted
q duty on Sea island cotton and a pro-
lection for citrus fruits, pineapples
etc His remarks led him into an ex-
citing colouqy with Randell of TeXa:
and other Democrats, but he declared
that having been instructed by the
legislature OF his state and his con
stituents as to the stand he should
take on the articles mentioned, he
would not violate his solemn obligation
to them. His whole attitude was one
of defiance to the Democrats of the
/ house. Before the rule was reported
there were numerous speeches on tn,
bill, those occupying the floor beins
Bartlett of Georgia. Calderhead of Kan.
sas, Burgess of Texas, Stanley of Ken
lucky. Hobson of Alabama, Gillespie o
I Texas Thistlewood of Illinois, Saun
ders of Virginia. Reeder Of Kansas
Madden of Illinois.
At 5:49 o'clock the house adjourned
until today