Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-03-24
CONGRESS BEGINS
DEBATE ON TARIFF
WRANcLE OVER THE PAYNE BILL
HAS STARTED.
ROUGH SHEDDING AHEAD
Several Combinations Of Republicans
and Democrats to BE Made
Women Are Angry at
Provisions.

Washington, Mar. 22.-Congress be-
noon to-day. 1t is dignifed by the
name of debate on the Payne tariff
bill, but all evidence points to the
conclusion that it is a tariff wrangle.
The bill starts with the approval of
the Republican majority in the main
and the hearty approval of a minority
of the Democrats as to 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
Kinley and Cleveland and are now
firm disciples of the teachings of Gen.
Hancock that the tariff is a local
issue.
Rough Shedding Ahead.
The Payne bill will have rough
leans agree that the maximum and
minimum tariff bill is the thing; the
leaders of the senate think it a mis-
take and that the Payne bill is a re-
taliatory bill instead of a reciprocal
tariff law.
Agreeing with the bill in principle,
but objecting to its chief provisions,
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
dill 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 of cof-
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 if
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 child
in the United States; at every indus
try and every shopkeeper. 1t is their
interests which the go senators and
391 representatives will voice from
the time the debate starts until the
Payne tariff law is approved by Pres
ident 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 SO states which now