The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-10
At
A fever HEAT
Last Hours Of Tariff Bill
in the House.
VOTING ON AMENDMENTS

Committee recommendations, With a
Few Exceptions, Adopted in Lump
Without Division-BarIey Duty In
creased From Fifteen to Twenty
four Gents 1 Bushei-Tsa placed on
Free List.
Washington. April 1o.-With but
three hours remaining in which to
perfect it before being finally voted
on the house resumed consideration
of the Payne tariff bill. There was
practically a full membership present
and interest was at fever heat.
At the suggestion Of Chairman
Payne the action of the house in Ak
ing a rate Of 1 per cent ad valorem
on crude petroleum and it's products
was by unanimous consent reversed
and the articles placed on the free
list.
Basic Stag, ground or unground,
was taken out of the maximum and
minimum provision, Chairman Payne
explaining that it was used mostly by
farmers as fertilizer.
A substitute for section 3, covering
the maximum and minimum features
of the bill, offered by Chairman Payne,
oceasioned the liveliest debate. When
it became apparent that almost count
less amendments would be proposed
to that section Chairman Payne
sought to rally his cohorts by appeal
Ing to them to vote down all such
propositions. He called attention to
the fact that the substitute section
was an elaboration of the original
section in that it specifically pointed
out the articles which should come
within it's scope.
All attempts to amend the section
except in the case of basic Stag and
petroleum failed and, the vote then
being taken, the entire substitute Sec
ton 3 was adopted.
The committee amendments inoreas-
ing the Payne rate on barley from Is
to "a cents bushel, as we'll as the
duty on barley malt from Is to 40
cents bushel, were adopted.
The amendments to the lumber
schedule, having been offered by Mr..
Cushman of Washington for the COM
mlttee. Mr.. Fitzgerald of New York
limited at "a midnight DEAL" whereby
the possibilities of free lumber were
considerably removed. -..,s..
Mann Denies the Charge.
Denying that a trade had been ef-
fected Mr.. Mann of Illinois said he
believed those favoring free lumber
would maintain their attitude toward
that schedule.
Mr.. Cushman protested that no one
who had talked to him in relation to
| barley had done so IN reference to the
lumber schedule. i
The substitute for section was
then presented by Mr.. Payne. It
stipulates that the maximum provision
| shall not apply to cases where a
mother country gives a preferential
! duty to one of it's colonies, as we'll as
to cases where a colony gives a prefer
entail duty to a mother country,
which was originally prescribed in the
Payne bill ..->.
AS q substitute for it Mr. Lowden
of Illinois offered an amendment CIV
ing the president discretion in the ap-
pllcation of the maximum rate. The
Lowden amendment was lost and the
Payne amendment, the substitute for
section 4, was then adopted.
The committee amendments to the
Payne bill, with the exception of those
affecting tea, coffee, barley and barley
malt, were adopted in lump and
without division. -.
The house adopted the committee
amendment of the Payne bill placing
tea on the free list without restriction.
An amendment was adopted giving
farmers the right to sell their tobacco
In the manufactured state without
paying the tax.
The Tawhey amendment to strike
out the paragraph placing a duty on
hewn timber was defeated by a vote
Of 1874 ayes and 1913 nays.
The Tawney amendment reducing
the duty on finished lumber 80 per
cent and striking out the duty on:
rough lumber was defeated, 1870 ayes
to 200 nays.