The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-10
SENATE WILL CHANGE MANY
 SCHEDULES
Senate Bill Promised for Presentation in Upper
 House Monday.
House Bill Admits Lum- Der at Half Dingley Rates; Hides, Free; Oil, Free; Tea, Free; Coffee, Free Tax on Barley Increased.
Special from United Press.)


 Washington, April 10.-Such rapid work has been done by the clerks of the House that the Payne bill, which was passed by that body at SIS last night was ready for presentation to the Senate to-day. At noon when the Sen ate met MT. Browning, the clerk of the House, was in waiting and immediate ly after prayer Vice-President Sher- man recognized him as the bearer of message from the House. Senator Aldrich at once made the motion that it should be referred to the finance committee which was done.
 Speaker Cannon and Representative Payne chairman of the House Com mittee on Ways and Means. were early callers at the White House to-day com ing presumably to allow the President to pat them on the back. The Speaker was not overly enthusiastic when he left the Presidents office and when he was asked if the President had con- graduated him. he replied:
 "Oh. I guess like all other Repupn- cans he is gratified that the bill has got as far as it has. l think we got through in very good time"
 It is calculated that there were about two million words spoken in the House debate since the special rules session began on March 15, pretty evenly dis tributed between defense and excoria- tion of the bill.
 It has filled over HOO pages of the
 
 make a great many changes in the House bill and the measure which fin ally passes the Senate will be much more nearly like the bill which will be- come law. It is the frankly expressed opinion that the House bill is failure It will remain for the Senate to, so change many of the schedules as to meet the popular demand.
 The Senate committee has been working on this subject ever since the bill was introduced in the House, and Chairman Aldrich is confident 1t Wlli be in shape for presentation in the interests who were not satisfied with the provisions of the House bill have had an opportunity to present their grievances to the Senators.
 The Senate bill will probably leave the duties on gloves and hoseries as they are. An important decision reached late last night was to adopt the provision which syvil allow So0,o0e1 free. This has beenS strenuously ob- jected to by q number of big sugar producers of the West and it will not be passed without a contest.
 The reciprocity clause on bituminous coal, on which it is expected the Ca nadian coal will be admitted free, will be stricken from the bill. The prob ability is that the tariff on coal will be fixed at fifty cents per ton instead of 67 cents which is the existing rate. An effort is being made to have slack coal taxed at about thirty cents per ton instead of only 15 cents, as at pres ent.
 Steel rails are to be taxed at about $5 per ton. The present rate is S.84 and the Payne bill cut this just in half, which the manufacturers say is too great a. reduction.
 I. is practically settled that iron ore is to be taxed 20 cents instead of be- ing admitted free as proposed in the Payne bill. This will necessitate a general alteration throughout the metal schedule so as to make them symet- rical. Structural steel. it is said. will remain at it's present rate, instead of being reduced to 3 1-10 of a cent as proposed by the House.
 Hides will be taken from the free list of the Payne biH and taxed either ten or fifteen cents. Lumber will be left just as the House passed it. Can vases of the Senate have shown that these recommendations are looked up- on with favor.
 Wool and wool tops will, it is re- ported, be restored to the existing Dingley rates. Art, whether ancient or modern, is to be put on the free list. In the Payne bill no art produc- ton created within the last twenty years was to come in free. Many art ists protested against this.