The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
Pressure Comes frd Every where to Hurry id SGt-
 tie the Tai Bill
CHANGES INITIATIVE
 IN cERTN SCHEDULES
1t Is Not BeIieNd That Vote Can Be Taken Uporthe Measure Before April ! and Even That
 $ Doubtful.

WashingJn, March 27.-(Special.)- Yielding tcgeneral pressure from every section odthe country that the tariff schedulesbe settled and all agitation of the oiestion cease at the earliest possible late Chairman Payne and the republich members of the ways and means committee advanced today to leadingrepublicans in the House proposflon to vote on the tariff bill Saturdy night. The proposition is not meetilg with ready acceptance. There are yany schedules against which re- publcans are in open revolt. It is not bellved that any drastic move to en- fore the vote on this date will be myde through fear of the splitting of tle party and throwing the entire bill lbon the House with every paragraph Ren to amendment.
 Time for the Vote. At the present time it is the general belief that the vote cannot be had until April 10, the date set yesterday for the passage of the bill through the House. The republican members of the ways and means committee will sit Monday to consider changes in the bill that seem imperative. These are the modi- fications of the drawback provisions as applied to grain and grain products so that Canadian wheat may not be inn ported practically free; increase of duty on barley Dc a bushel substitution of an ad valorem duty for the counter vailing duty on refined petroleum; cor rection of language in the bill so that preferential rates granted by a mother country to it's provinces or by the pro- vinces to another country shall not pre- vent application of the minimum rates in the American tariff to either the mother country or it's provinces.
 It is possible also that here will be more general consideration of lumber, hides, gloves and iron schedules.
 Result of Conference.
 The results of this conference will ap- pear in committee amendements to the bill which will be given preference over all other amendments under whatever plan may be adopted by the House in the consideration of the bill. Chairman Payne is opposed to any changes in the bill except such as may be necessary to clarify the language of it's provisions. He does not think the bill is open to the criticism of being unbalanced or that it places a heavier burden on the poor than the Dingley bill It is his contention that the increased burdens in the bill must be borne by the rich.
 Francis Burton Harrison of New York made a general attack on the bill in the House today, cheering the democrats by his return to party ranks.
 MT Harrison said the democrats will vote solidly against tariff in the Payne bill. Alluding to the Fitzgerald amend 1nent to the rules in which he left his party to support Fitzgerald, he said they would give opportunity to record a vote against all objectionable schedules.
 Restriction of Vote.
 Experts on the rules say that the amendments give opportunity only to vote on the general bill which existed prior to the Fitzgerald amendments
 Let the republicans, he said, lex change their senseless crying of the full dinner pail for the slogan of the empty coffee pot for the poor of the country will pay the tax on coffee. The new tax on tea and coffee on women's gloves and cotton stockings is a direct provocation to woman's suffrage. If this tariff bill does not bring about the franchise for women, their cause is hopeless.
 "The duties are specific and fall more heavily on the poor than on the rich. In the case of tea the poor man pays over eight times as much duty as the rich man does"
 Mr. Harrison said he hoped that the -ht'. steel and iron schedule, boots and O. lumber, zinc ore, tea and coffee elr be placed on the free list
 was followed by Representatives orth. Hardwick and Gardner of
 chusetts.