Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-03-30
Hinshaw of Nebraska Has Confer
ence with the President.
OPPOSES NUMBER OF SCHEDULES
Chief Executive Quoted as Favoring
Light Duty on Neoessaries.
BURKE WHIP FOR THE SPEAKER
Detailed to Find Ont just How Many
Can he Mustered to Vote for
Rule Limiting Amend
ments.
From a staff Correspondent.

From a starr Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, March 29-CSpecial Tele-
gramD-Wlth so many divergent interests
pressing for consideration in the tariff BILL
Chairman Payne and his associates on
the ways apd means committee are seri-
ously debating the question whether 1t
would not be wise to permit a vote on
the particular. schedules which are upper
most in the minds Of the American people
seemingly. by reason of letters and tele-
grams now being received by senators and
representatives, than to bring in rule
shutting off all debate and vote direct
on the amendment. While 1t is admitted
that the present tariff bill. as framed by
the ways and means committee of the
house, is a colossal measure and gem
orally acceptable. it has so many points
Of attack that communities most affected
arc up in arms and in consequence thou
sands of kilograms and tens of thousands
Of letters are pouring in upon members of
congress in support or opposition to sew
eral most important schedules, lumber. oil,
tea, countervailing duty on coffee, gloves,
stockings. hides. until the congressmans
life is not a happy one.
Congressman Hlnshaw saw the president
today and presented to him a schedule of
duties for which he could stand and
against which he was opposed. Mr.. Hin
shaw is in favor OF free lumber. he wants
the countervailng duty on oil taken Off,
as we'll as the countervailing duty on cof-
| fee He is in favor of free hides; against
the duty on gloves and 'forninst' the
duty on stockings Mr.. Hinshaw doesn't
hesitate to say that Lucius Litteauer,
maker of gloves of Gloversville. NJ Y,
who at one time talked OF establishing
, glove factory in Omaha, is the African in
the woodpile and who through his asso-
| ciates. raised the duty on gloves
where President stands.
Mr.. Hinshaw, while not quoting the presi-
dent said that he was in favor OF lowering
| the duties on the necessaries of life ana
| that he believed he would so state IL neces-
| sary in a message to congress II conditions
| demanded such a declaration. The con-
| gressman from the Fourth district gave
| Il as his opinion that an income tax as
! It affects dividends stocks would be
| entirely constitutional and that an excise
| tax on corporations would be within the
| limits of the supreme court decisions Just
whether Mr.. Hinshaw reflected the presi-
| dents idea or not on these questions Is
| not known, but they are interesting at
| least.
| Representative Burke of South Dakota
has been detailed as a special scout on
behalf of the ways and means committee
| TO canvass the house on the tariff question
| with relation to particular questions In
controversy. Speaker Cannon is desirous
| of passing the Payne tariff bill at the
earliest possible moment and so are the
| other ultra protectonists, but there are
a large number of republicans who will
J not vote with the ajority for a hard and
7 fast rule prohibiting amendments under the
| five-minute rule and in consequence Mr..
| Burke and two or three other adminis-
| tration men have been deputized to go
about among the majority for the purpose
of sounding members and ascertaining just
where they can be relied upon to support
the ways and means committee in the
pafsage Of the bill.
II is expected rule will be brought In
| covering amendments on the larger diff
ferenoes-lumber. hides, wool, cotton, sugar
tea. coffee and nosiery-pcrmitting amend
ments 10 these individual schedules and
that the rest of the schedules will be passed
en- hJoc That is the situation tonight,
conference on Indian Lands.
Mr.. Burke today had conference will
the commissioner of Indian affairs rela
tive TO Fastening the allotment and ap
praisement of lands in North and Soutf
Dakota so that registration can take plact
this coming fall The commissioner init
mated that II the authority to increase thu
number OF appraisers could be enlarged :
would be possible TO complete the worl
this year. Mr. Burke will corporate will
Senator Gamble I'm endeavoring to get ;
/ resolution through the present special ses
sion of congress granting this authority.
Representative Burke has introduced
bill extending the right OF Communication Il
persons who made a second Homestead
entry who were deprived of right unde
lcontinned ON second Pagel