Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-10

| the free list were in the minority. Be
cause Of that fact Mr. Fitzgerald o
New York, charged that a mdnigh
deal had been made last night where
| by free lumber was to be voted down
and the rates on barley and barley
malt increased. and this notwithstand
ing the oenials OF Mann of Illinois ane
! CLShinan of Washington, who Offered
he barley amendments.
The general public was greatly inter,
estcd in the proceedings and the gal
lcries We're packed. Both the diplomat
ic and executive reservations likewise
wer" fully occupied. Mrs. Taft being
| among those present.
| When the bill actually was passed
IT,, Republicans checred Justify, some
| dancing up and down the aisles anG
patting their fellow members on the
| back
! After adopting a resolution that I'M
til further ordered sessions shall be
held only on Mondays and Thursdays
:hc House at $50 p. M. adjourned.
While more consideration in point Of
time has been given by the House tC
the Payne bill it was passed in few
81 days than the Dingley bill was acted
upon after being reported to tn" House.
Tie PAYNE bill was introduced March
H. reported to the House by the ways
and means committee on the following
day and vas under general debate for
1G days On Monday of the present
week the rules committee reported a
special order which closed the gen
cci, ,,rnyiInl fbf
consideration of the bill under the s.
minute rule. Chairman Payne handled
the bill on the floor and divided the
time in such a way that only para
graphs affected by committee amend
m"nts and the amendments permitted
by the special rules had been consid-
cred when the time to vote on the
measure was reached
The Dinghy bill was under consid-
Grafton in the House for two days
longer than the Payne bill, but TIL.
House was not in session as long each
DAY as during the consideration Of the
latte: measure. All during the general
debate on the Payne bill, the House
sat for l0l. hours each day, thus es-
tabliShiiig q record for that body Mr..
OlmStrad of Pennsylvania presided as
chairman of the committee of the
whole House on the state of tn" union
throughout the 20 days that were given
up to the bill,
on. OF the principal changes effected
III the Payne bill since its introuuc-
ticn was the placing Of petroleum Oh
the free list This involved more
seriously contested fight than any OF
the other amendments. Speaker Can
non. during debate on the amendment
to reduce the duty. took tho floor IN
defence Of the higher rate OF duty. Al
though an amendment to place oil on
tn" free list was los yesterday. SINH
lar amendment offered by Chairman
Payne today was carried.
Among the other important amend
m, hts tina, have been made since the
bill came from the committee were
those striking out the provision for a
duty on tea and the countervailing duty
proViSo on coffee. The elimination OF
tho maximum duty of 90 per cent on
coffee. contained in the maximum and
minimum section of the bill, was also
significant.
To the free list we've added ever
green seedlings. cloves and nut oil
which is used IN making varniSh. The
patent law provision, intended to re
taliato for the new British patent law
was stricken out on account of an IN
tcrnatioral convention. The So-calied
"Jokcr' in tho cotton cloth schedule
which il WAS claimed would increase
the duty OF the Dingley bill NeNtra
hundred per cent was corrected. tht
nroyiso for the method of counting
threads in the cloth being made the
same as in the present law. The see
ton restricting the contents Of pack
ages Of tobacco was amended 70 con
form with the present law III "rdel
that union labels may not be excluded
from such packages. The draw Dact
section was added to 50 that 1t couif
not he taken advantage Of AT once tol
the purpose of SpcculatinS IN gram
and the Philippine free trade prove
si,ns was amended so that rice Wcult
nat he admitted fire" from the islands
| The Countervailing duty clause on llim
bar was stricken out but strong eft
fort to place lumber on the Tree lis
did not succeed.
| The duties on b"ti'A' '"i''' ''''''
charcoal iron, pincapples in crates
soccharine mcdicated cotton, and cot
| -, nol;ars ana cutts was originally il
| w., IN uore inreased. 10 retaliat
| AGAINST Turkey. which country pro
hihits the importation Of American
filler tobacco, a proviso was inciuhe'
in the tobacco schedule Increasing tn
duty on filler tobacco from any countf,
which nrol,ihits the Importation o
| American tobacco.
| The international revenue Ia" va
| also amended 50 that raisers Oh 10
bscco will not have to pay manu-
facturerers license in order 70 alspos
!, ,aaf tobacco There were sev