The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-04-01
Indications are That Date VIII
be SET on Next Monday
ApriI5
APRIL 10TH MAY BE TIME
Advocates Of Free Lumber Have
Made 50 Much Noise That It Is
Probable That the Vote on Lumber
Schedule viii be Separate.

WASHINGTON, 2. C., March 81.
Indications today are strong that
rule will be brought into the House
next Monday fixing April 10 as the
day for voting on the Payne tariff
bill.
It is understood that the rule viii
provide for committee amendments
and the opening Of the lumber, tea
and coffee scheduls-- to amendment
for placing these articles on the free
list. Ii may be possible that hides
will be included for consideration,
but the sentiment seems to be grow
ing that the Senate will see that the
duty is resored on hides. The rule
viii probably provide for the reading
of the measure under the 6ye-minute
rule during next week. This would
not give time for the reading Of the
whole bill under the rule.
Advocates of free lumber have
made such clamor in the House
that it is said by one Of the House
leaders that the ways and means COM
mittee has consented to have sepa-
rate vote on the lumber schedule.
This means that the free-lumber
amendment viii be proposed, and i
is feared by Pacific Coast members,
it may be carried. 1t will now be
the effort Of Western and Southern
men to prevent separate vote on
lumber. This can only be shut of
by the ways and means committee.
The Senate finance committee will
give a hearing tomorrow to the lum-
Der men from Michigan and the South
who will protest against the lumber
schedule Of the Payne bill 1t IS
learned ,ons good authority, that Rep
resentatives having lumber mills n
their districts, are afraid that if they
ask for a vote in the House on their
restoring the lumber duty |
to s., that the amendment will be
defeated, and that the amendment
placing lumber on the free list will
be adopted.
These members are now willing to
accept a cut to 81 if the ways and
means committee will bring in an
repeating the maximum
md minimum feature as it applies to
lumber. This proposition is now be-
ing considered BY the ways and means
When the House today resumed
of the tariff bill, Nor
gan of Missouri, urged protection
or the zinc industry Quoting from
i speech by President Taft that the
primary purpose of tariff was to
provide more revenue for the govern
nent, Brantley of Georgia declared
his to be a true Democratic doctrine
The primary purpose of the Payne
ill, he contended, was not revenue,
tut the maintenance Of the true Re-
publican theory Of protection, Brant-
ey laid the present deficit at the door
4 what he charged was Republican
Brantley said the Dingley tariff in
awed lumber Of 81 a thousand was
iot prohibitory, but revenue rate,
nd said if given the opportunity he
would vote to have it restored, He
ttacked the cotton schedule on the
round that'it was solely in the inter
st Of the New England manufacturer,
The situation with which the leaders
{ the House find themselves con
ronted in dealing with the Payne tar
I bill continues to give the greatest
oncern at the White House. 1t 5
aid today that Taft has been direct
! appealed to BY Cannon and Payne
nd Dalzell, who are worried BY tao