Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-04-09
FIRST AMENDMENT
ISOUIYON LUMBER
THE HOUSE OVERWHELMINGLY
ADOPTS FORDNEY AMEND
MENT, STRIKING OUT CoUN-
TERVAILING DUTY ON LUMBER
Nv RaInh Smith

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amendent to the Payne tariff bill striking
out the provision for a countervailing
duty on lumber.
On the DeArmond amendment putting
lumber raised on the western hemisphere
on the free list, the Georgias present vot-
/ ed as follows:
For the Amendment: Adamson, Bart
lett, Bell, Howard. Hardwick-S
Against the MISUNDERSTANDING, Liv-
| ingston and Lees
Not voting: Griggs, Hughes, Edwards
| 81
The amendment was lost.
Its ultimate purpose to pit all rough
lumber on the freelist and materially re-
duce the duty on dressed lumber, the
Tawney amendment was this afternoon
defeated by a vote Of III to 1853.
/ The Georgia delegation divided on the
I Tawney amendment. Messrs. Bell, Ed
wards. Griggs. Adamson, Livingston and
Lee voted i'm the negative. Messrs. Bart
/ lett, Hardwick. Hughes and Howard vot-
ed in the affirmative. Mr.. Brantley did
not vote.
After converting today the house took
up the Payne tariff for amendment un-
der the order adopted yesterday for ar
/ gument
When adjournment was taken yesterday
there was pending the Fordney amend
ment from the committee on ways and
! means striking out the provision for the
countervailing duty on lumber. A par
Iiamentary snarl at once was encoun-
tered as to whether or not other amend
ments would be permitted under the rule
! adopted yesterday. The point was raised
by Mr.. Clark, of Missouri. the minority
leader.
A number Of members were immediate
ly on their feet endeavoring to put their
construction on the rule and to allay
the impending excitement the chair had
the rule for information.
Messrs. Fitzgerald, OF New York; and
DalzeIl. fPennsylvania. both on the
committee on rules. contended that in
dividual amendments under the rule
could be offered.
Ruling of the Chair
The chair ruled that other amendments
could be offered. but that the committee
amendment offered by Mr.. Fordney had
precedence. The situation again became
clouded by the offering of a substitute
amendment by Mr.. Clark. who desired
to speak to it, but the chair ruled that
Mr. FOrdney was entitled to the floor
Mr. Fordney said he introduced amend
ment with great regret, as the provision
it sought to strike out was a meritorious
one.
clared, and will vote for Il, but It causes
me 10 sweat blood in doing So"
The Clark substitute, which was then
read, provided for amending several sec
tons by placing lumber on the free list.
Mr.. Tawney contended that two para
graphs could not be covered in one
amendment, and offered an entire sub
stitute for the lumber schedule, modi-
flying but retaining the duty.
The chair ruled that the Fordney
amendment had precedence.
Against the protests of Mr.. Tawney,
the chair recognized Mr.. DeArmond, of
Missouri, for an amendment, as a sub
stitute to the contervailing proviso, pro-
viding for the free admission from all
parts of the Western hemisphere.
Mr.. Tawney received another setback
when the chair overruled his point that
the DeArmond amendment was not in
order, because 1t transferred to the free
list an item on which a duty was i'm
posed.
The point was characterized by Mr..
DeArmond as ''unkind and ungentle-
manly" He said the amendment would
protect Americans against the pauper la
Dor Of Europe, Asia and Africa.
A Right To Violate
Both Messrs. Needham and Payne de-
favored nation clause of many treaties,
but Mr.. DeArmond held that congress
had right to 81 violate IL.
The majority leader protested against
| the ruling, whereby Mr.. Clark was rec
ognized for his substitute, because the
Missouri member was ranking minority
/ member OF the committee on ways and
means. He said various members on
the Republican side had amendments to
because they intended TO support the
| bill.
Mr.. Mann, OF Illinois, denounced the
DeArmond amendment as violative of
the governments treaties, and Of all the
rules OF decency in legislation. II
means nothing but a bill buster" de-
clared Mr.. Fordney, who urged the vot-
ing down OF the amendment.
An amendment by Mr.. Hardy, of
| Texas, designed to meet the objections
| TO the DeArmond amendment was
voted down. The vote then recurring
TO the DeArmond amendment, IL like
/ wise was lost, lO1 to lis, thirty Demo-
Gratis voting with the Republicans.
The Fordney amendment was over
/ whelmingly adopted by viva voce
vote. Mr.. Tawney at once re-offered
his amendment, which he said would
take the duty off Of lumber. included in
4 paragraph lSl OF the Dill except IlnlSh-
/ ed lumber, the duty on which would be
/ materially reduced. He would later, he
said, offer an amendment placing rough
lumber on the free list.
The amendment and the proposed
amendment were vigorously attacked by
/ Mr.. Fordney, who charged that Mr..
| Tawney forgot that the raw material of
the planning mill was it's finished pro-
/ duct. The amendment, he said, affect
/ ed 10000 saw Minis OF the country, en-
| ploying 100000 men. II Mr.. Tawney
| was fair. he added. he would demand
/ free barley for the brewers.
In his opinion. Mr.. Tawney was not O
| good Republican.
Mr.. Fordney said Tawney once was a
protectionist, but he was a free trader on
/ lumber today. Amid applause Mr..
| Clark of Missouri, announced himself
| for the Tawney amendment.
Messrs. Pou. Democrat of North Caro-
lima, and Cushman, Republican OF WASH
ington. opposed the amendment vehe-
mently.
Mr.. Clark admitted he was trying to
do the best possible for his district
/ MessIs. Fassett, of New York; Rams
dali. OF Louisiana, and, Swasey, of Maine,
| opposed the Tawney amendment and
/ NaGGre Reader and Glaxvaay,