Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1909-04-01
TARIFF DEBATE ON
Congress Begins Discussion
Of Payne Revenue Bill.
COMBINATIONS OF MEMBERS
Democrats and Republican, Will
Stand Together in Fighting for
Home Districts-Rough Shedding
Ahead-Measure Anglers Women.

Washington, Mar. 22-Congress be-
gan it's intermittent tariff wrangle at
noon to-day. 1t is dignified by the
name of debate on the Payne tariff
bill, but all evidence points to the con-
clusion that it is tariff wrangle.
The bill starts with the approval of
the Republican majority in the main
and the hearty approval of minority
of the Democrats as 20 some details.
Before it has passed through the
house party lines will have been OBJ
liberated Southern Democrats will
be voting with Yankee Republicans,
northwestern and western Repub-
Leans with mid-Western and northern
Democrats, and a half dozen other
combinations will be formed by Re-
publicans and Democrats who have
seemingly forgotten the names of Nc
firm disciples of the teachings of Gen.
Hancock that the tariff is local
issue.
Rough Shedding Ahead.
The Payne bill will have rough
sledding In the house the Repub-
minimum tariff bill is the thing; the
leaders of the senate think it mis-
take and that the Payne bill is re-
taliatory bill instead of a reciprocal
tariff law
Agreeing with the bill in principle,
1,,t oh RI ito ioio
many Republicans will unite with the
Democrats and balk at Mr.. Payne's
effort to add to the tax on the house
hold and continue protection to vested
interests, manufacturers and import
ers of necessities and luxuries.
Objections to the Bill.
The chief objections raised to the
bill at this time are:
That it will increase the cost of the
breakfast table and the home; that
too much has been done in reducing
the cost of raw materials without cor.
responding reductions of the duties
on manufactured articles; that the
countervailing duties on coffee and
petroleum will benefit none but the
dealers in these articles in the
United States; the coffee duty will be
evaded by an enormous supply o. cot
fee already in the United States; the
statistics show that petroleum cannot
be imported into the United States
that the tax on tea and cocoa will di
minish their consumption in the
United States and finally be assessed
on the head of the family; that the
drawback features will work disas
trously on American enterprises; that
South American trade is imperiled by
the maximum and minimum rates
that the system OF valuation based on
the American wholesale price is OF
doubtful wisdom and will tend to in
crease duties on imported articles.
Women Are Angry.
Outside of congress the common
people have something to think about
The women are angry at the in
creased tariffs on stockings, gloves
furs, feathers, perfumes, soaps and {
hundred other little things which Mr.
Payne will make more expensive ii
his bill is passed.
It was Mr.. Payne's purpose to frame
a bill which would provide necessary
revenues. He has done SO, but his bill
hits at every man, woman and chile
in the United States; at every indus
try and every shopkeeper. It is theil
interests which the 90 senators anC
391 representatives will voice from the
time the debate starts until the Payne
tariff law is approved by President
Taft and succeeds the Dingley tariff
law on the statute books.
The inheritance tax provision will
be opposed by representatives from
large cities and by some of the repre-
sentatives in the sc states which nov
have similar laws.