Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-08
HOUSE THREsHED OUT PROPOSE
TIoN OF INCREASING THE RATE
ON BARLEY AND THEN VOTED
1T DOWN.
CANNON OVERRULED
ON POINT OF ORDER
HOUSE THEN VOTES TO OPEN EN-
TIRE PETROLEUM SCHEDULE
TO AMENDMENT; CHANGES
MADE IN STEEL AND IRON.

Washington, D. c., April z. - The
barley schedule of the Payne tariff bill
was again threshed out in the house
today. The pending amendments were
one increasing the Payne bill rate
from fifteen to twenty-five cents per
bushel and the other fixing the rate at
ten percent advalorem.
Both amendments to the barley
schedule were lost.
The ways and means committee to-
day agreed to several important
amendments to the Payne tariff bill.
| The duty on crude cocoa was reduced
from four to three cents pound.
Barytes was raised from rs cents to
$1.5O ton and paragraph AIT relat-
ing to toys, stricken out and new
one was inserted excepting toys of
rubber and porcelain, which are taxed
at 35 per cent ad valorem.
On the steel and iron schedules
steel ingots, blooms and slabs We're
reduced from one cent to eight-tenths
Of cent and from four-tenths to
three-tenths cents ad valorem. The
duty on boiler and plate iron and
steel was stricken out and some OF
them were made specific and others
were slightly reduced
Cannon Reversed by House.
Vreeland offered an amendment
striking out the countervailing duty
on oil and fixing Is per cent advalor-
em. Norris of Nebraska moved as a
substitute the imposing of 1 per cent
advalorem. After Speaker Cannon
had been reversed on deciding the
point of order the entire petroleum
schedule was opened to amendment.
Hits at Speculation.
The drawback feature Of the bill
was so amended as to provide that
grain must be manufactured at the
same place where imported grain ia
milled and within twelve months. The
provision is intended to guard against
speculation in grain.
West Gets Worst OF It.
Western members Of the house got
the worst of things yesterday in the
consideration of the tariff bill They
lost first to get rough lumber put on
the free list and failed In their eff
forts to get q duty put on hides In
the second place.
New England's demand for free
hides, coupled with the demands OF
tanning interests, prevailed on the
hides question, while the lumber in
terests were able to corral enough
votes from Republicans and Demo
{ Gratis of one or two southern states tc
> prevent the farmers of the west realiz
ing on their demand for free lumber
Another effort will be made to get free
lumber when the bill comes before the
house. 1t was under consideration
I yesterday in committee of the whole
. No record vote was taken yesterday
and friends of free lumber believe they
+ will have more strength when there
{. is a roll call. Vote on Tawney'!
I amendment, which would have pro
!, vided free lumber was 176 to III
against it. A change of four vote:
q would carry the amendment Man,
6 members lodged the vote, forty-fvt
v not voting.
i Iowa members generally lined up TO
v a tariff on hides and for the Tawne.
Il amendment In favor of free rough lum
ber. Representative Jameson sup
@ ported free hides. Representative
Q Tawney expresses confidence tha
# when there isia roll call and member
+ have to go On record his amendmen
q will be carried. Many western men
bers are keenly disappointed at the re
n suit of Tuesdays consideration of tn
h bill. They think it foreshadows tn
n bill that when passed will be made IL
,r against the interests Of the middl
q west with heavy burdens on neces
e saries Of life and little regard for tn
ultimate consumer.