The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-04-09
It Is Expected That the Meas
ure Will Be Put Upon Its
Passage at 3 O'clock This.
Afternoon.
FINAL VOTE WILL BE
TAKEN THIS EVENING
Sugar Trust Is Exerting All Its
Wiles to Retain the Pres
ent Duty on the Refined
Product.

Washington, April 9.-The House
ways and means committee today d.
rected Representative Payne to pre-
pare an amendment in the tariff. in
creasing the duty on barley from Is
to "a cents q bushel. and on barley
malt from 25 to 40 cents bushel.
Representative Payne offered to the
committee an amendment to the tar
In bill, taking from the maximum
schedule petroleum and its products.
1t was adopted without objection.
This places these articles on the free
list.
DO Fast Work.
Progress was made yesterday with
tariff revision by congress. The house
made considerable headway with the
schedules of the Payne bill, and will
get through at o'clock this afternoon
when the measure ID put on MS pass
age.
There then will be from six to ten
roll calls, each one of which will con-
sumo three quarters of an hour. so
that 1t will be 8 or 10 o'clock before
the final vote is taken.
In the meantime the senate COM
mittee on Finance is hustling with the
preparation of its bill, which will be
reported to the senate next Tuesday,
and, az previously indicated, 1t will
differ In many material respects from
the house bill.
As anticipated, = tremendous con-
test over the sugar schedule is brew
ing in the senate. The sugar trust is
exerting all its wiles to retain the
present duty Of 1876 cents a pound on
refined sugar. or at least 1.9O cents
pound. as provided in the Payne bill.
Raw sugar now comes In .95 cent a
pound, and 1t Is from this that the
bulk OF the sugar duties are derived,
the impost on refined being almost
.prohibitive.
The beet sugar people Of the West
and the cane sugar planters Of L0ufs-
lama and other Southern states are
clamoring for the present duties on
the raw product, while the American
t6ugAr company is exerting its power
rates on refined.
Analogous to OF Fight.
This situation is analogous to that
with respect to crude and refined Pc
troleum, upon which clear light was
thrown In the house Wednesday when
both the producers and the Standard
OIL company were swatted hard.
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drich appointed as subcommittee on
the sugar schedule Senators Smoot, Of
Utah; Burrows of Michigan and Flint
Of California. These senators repre-
sent states which are largely interest
ed In the beet sugar industry. which
ls insisting on at least the rates Of
protection provided In the Payne bill.
The democrats on the finance COM
mittee have started an agitation for
fre0 refined sugar as q blow to the
trust, and an amendment win be Of
lered on the floor OF the senate to
place It on the FREQ list. The contest
over this schedule. which always
takes place whom q tsriff law is be-
Ing framed, y inevitable. and, since
sugar 10 one Of the most speculative
Of stocks, the customary crop Of insin-
uating suspicious will be 1t the dis
posal Of the public.
The Finance committee has decid-
ID. among other things, to place Z
duty Of 70 oents q ton on, iron ore
This 10 ono half the present duty.
which was entirely wiped out In the
Payne bin. Steel rails. which in the
Dinglsy act paid duty of $74S ton
md which are down in the Payne bill
1t $3e1, may Be restored; at least the
duty will be raised above the house
rate.
Aid for Tobacco Growers.
The ways and means committee pre-
pared IN amendment to the revenue
section OF tho Payne bill which should
be q long-sought relief to the tobacco
growers Of kentucky, Ohio. Tennessee
and other states and cause q discon-
eolsts feeling to permeats through the
personnel OF the so-called Tobacco
Trust
This amendment, which the house
unquestionably win agree to. removes
tho present internal revenue tax OF
cents pound on unstemmed tobacco
9ured or altered In any manner.
It permits any person to buy and
sell such tobacco IN the leaf without
the payment OF any tax. and also a.
lows tho farmers and growers Of to-
bacco to sell leaf Of their own growth
and raising to manufacturers Of tobac-
ca, snuff and cigars without being
considered leaf dealers Of tobacco or