The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-18
HALE MAKES STRONG KICK
 FOR THE PAPER INDUSTRY
Outside of the Reductions That Are Proposed In Many Schedules the Inheritance Tax Provision Is
 of Greatest Interest.

bership of the House committee on ways and means, including democrats as well as republicans will meet at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning for formal considera- tion of the Payne tariff bill, which saw the light for the first time in the House today. The Senate committee on finance will at the same time begin informal consideration of the measure.
 The probabilities are that the House committee will have only one sitting on the bill, that the measure will be reported to the House immediately after it con venes tomorrow, and that it's formal read ing in committee of the whole will soon begin. General debate will be postponed until Monday if MT. Payne's present pro- gramme is followed, and after that time the measure will probably be before the House from 10 days to two weeks.
 This plan of operation is slightly diff ferent from that which has been followed in the consideration of other tariff bills of recent years, and it had been expected that the democratic members of the com mittee would be afforded more time than is now contemplated for the consideration of the bill in committee. It is still pos sible that if they insist upon delay and succeed in presenting good reasons for their request, they may be aeeommo dated MT. Clark said today that he would make every effort in the committee, as he would on the floor of the House, to have the bill amended, and for that req son would ask for longer time. He added, however. that he would not press for more time for the preparation of a minority re- port. as that could be formulated as well after the bill had been reported as before.
 Payne's Plan.
 Mir Payne's inclination is to get the bill into the House at the earliest prac- ticable moment, and his plans are so complete that it is not believed he will yield to plea merely to offer amend ments, which the minority as well as the majority know will not be accepted.
 It is probable that a, compromise will be reached and that the democratic mem- bers will accept a proposition which will permit them to present their amendments on the floor.
 MT Clark indicated today that his prin- cipal plea would be for that privilege. He said he did not consider general de- bate as of nearly as much importance as the discussion of the bill paragraph by paragraph with the opportunity to suggest changes in the various schedules It is therefore probable that if MT. Payne and his follow republican members of the committee concede this privilege the dem ocrats will accept it in lieu of similar privilege in committee and make no se- rous protest against the immediate re- porting of the bill.
 Time for Debate.
 No announcement as to the length of time that will be given for debate has been made and Mir. Payne is quite wary on this point. The Dingley tariff was under discussion in the House for only ten days, and of that time four days were devoted to general debate. It was con sidered under a rule fixing the hours of meeting, limiting the time of debate and prescribing the method of offering amend m tc effl ol,ar that under the regulation concerning amendments they found no opportunity to force test votes on any particular schedules
 Senator Aldrich chairman of the Sen ate committee on finance, which will deal with the bill in the Senate, announced to- day that he would call meeting of the republican members of the committee for tomorrow with the idea of immediately beginning consideration of the House measure The finance committee suffered seriously from the defeats of the recent elections, and as consequence the re- publican membership numbers only four senators. They are Messrs. Aldrich of Rhode Island Burrows of Michigan Pen rose of Pennsylvania and Hale of Maine
 Bill In Subcommittee.
 MT. Aldrich says, however, that they can take up the bill as a subcommittee and he hopes to have them do so. AS soon as the republican vacancies are filled the new members will be invited in and the consideration of the measure will proceed with the hope on the part of the chairman that the committee may be prepared to make it's report very soon after the receipt of the bill from the House.
 MT. Aldrich said today that he had not looked at the House bill and he declined to make any comment upon it. It is aaf mo made serious objection to the changes from the present law.
 Senator Hale, chairman of the republi- can caucus, is among those who find the bill objectionable.
 Tt absolutely murders the wood pulp and paper industry of Maine, he said. This Is the most important industry in our state, and we shall resist the change with the utmost possible vigor.'
 Mr Hale authorized this statement, but while he found many of the other features of the bill to be objectionable from his point of view, he declined to specify them He predicted that the bill would be before Congress for the next three months or more.
 No Hearings to Be Given.,
 The committee on finance will not grant any hearings, but will consider any writ ten printed statements which may be presented to it.
 The probabilities are that when the House begins the debate on the bill, the hours of the sessions will be extended The sittings will probably begin at 10 o'clock in the morning and continue until 10 or Il o'clock at night.
 One of the most significant features of the Payne bill is the new drawback provision. It extends this privilege so that an American manufacturer need not use the material which he has imported in order to secure the refund of the duties which he has paid on his material If he uses materials produced in this country in equal amount with the ma terial which he has imported, he will be entitled to the drawback benefits pro- vided the domestic materials are of equal productive manufacturing quality and value