Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-04-14
PAYNE TARIFF BILL
PASSES LOWER HOUSE

entire Louisiana delegation: Clark,
Mays and Sparkman, the entire Flor
ida delegation Glass, Lamb, LASH
ter, Maynard and Saunders of Vir-
ginia; Goodwin, Page, Pou, Small,
Thomas and Webb Of North Carolina;
Gregg and Dies of Texas; Gordon,
Moon ard Padgett of Tennessee: Lee
yer of South Carolina and Wilson OF
Pennsylvania.
Vote on Oil Schedule.
In the vote on the petroleum SEIZED
uie, among those voting in the mega
tive were the following republicans:
Alexander, Andrus, Southwick and
Vreeland Of New York; Austin OF
Tennessee; Barchfield, Barclay, Bates,
Burke, Dalzell, Graham, Langham,
McCreary, Moon, Tener, and Wheeler
of Pennsylvania; Bennett, Edwards.
and Langley of Kentucky; Cole. Goe-
bel, Hollingsworth, Johnson and
Thomas of Ohio; Creager of Okla
homa; Englebright, Hayes, Kahn,
knowlard, Mckinley, McLachlan and
Needham of California; Gaines. Hub
bard, Hughes, Sturgis and Woodward
of West Virginia! Howell of Utah.
Lorimer, Mann ard Cannon of Hi
nois; Mondell of Wyoming; Wash
burn and Weeks of Massachusetts
and Young of Michigan.
Record Work for Congress.
While more consideration in point
q time has been given by the house
70 TIE Payne bill, it was passed in
ever days than the Dingley bill was
acted upon after being reported to
the house. The Payne bill was intro
ouced CT March II, reported to the
aodse by the ways and means com
4illttee on the following day and was
under general debate for 16 DAYS.
l1C1day OF the present week the rules
F4onnittee reported a special order
WI Oh closed general discussion and
l15vided f6r consideration of the bill
1cda1' the five minutes rule. Chair
1ssin Payne handled the bill on the
1&s.r I'D divided the time in such a
sssay that only the paragraphs affected
b. csannittee amendments and amend
ns@2ts pzGT tilted by the special rule
had been considered when the time to
Fote or the measure was reached,
The Dingley bill was under consid4
afacion % the house two days longer
lhan the Payne BILL but the house was
ret n session as long each day as
curing tno consideration of the latter
measure. All during the general de-
bate on the Payne bill the house sat
Scr tG1a hours each day, thus estab
Aal5lg a record for that body. Mr.
Csmetead CT Pennsylvania presided as
1has man CT the committee of the
whole house on the state of union
throughout the 20 days given the bill
The Fight on Petroleum.
One of the principal changes effect
ed i'll the Payne bill since it's intro
duction was the placing of petroleum
on the free list This involved a
mCEe sPriously contested fight than
any of the other amendments. Speak
er Cannon, during a debate on the
amendment to reduce the duty, took
the floor in defense of the higher rate
Although the amendment to place oil
on the free list was lost Thursday, a
similar amendment offered by Mr..
Payne yesterday was carried.
Important Amendments.
Among the other important amend
ments made since the bill came from
the comittee were those striking out
the provision for a duty on tea and
the countervailing duty proviso on cot
fee. Tie elimination of the maximum
duty of 20 Per cent on coffee, con
tanned in the maximum and minimum
section e the bill, was also signifi-
cart.
To the a1se list were added ever
green seedlings. cloves and nut OIL
which is used ir making varnish. The
patent law provision, intended to res
taliate ion. the new British patent law
YVES stricken out on account of an in
It's latioral convention. The so-called
jdkzsr' in the cotton cloth schedule
the CIty Of the Dingley bill several
hundred per cent, was corrected. the
proviso for the method of counting
threads in cloth being made the same
as in the present law.
The section restricting the contents
CT packages of tobacco was amended
TO conform with the present law in or
der that union labels may not be ex-
Guided from such packages. The draw
back section was added so that it
could not be taken advantage of for
the purpose of specializing in grain,
and the Philippine free trade provision
was amended SO that rice will not be
admitted free from the islands. The
countervailing duty clause on lumber
was stricken out. but strong effort
TO place lumber on the free list did
not succeed.
Some Rates Increased.
Duties on barley. barley malt. char