Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-04-06
House Rules Committee Re-
ports Order Limit Amend
ments to the Pending Payne
Tariff Bill.
TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT
AID VALOREM DUTY
FIXED ON PETROLEUM
Log Rolling Was INDUCED in for
More Than Two Hours in Order
To Get the Votes Necessary for the
Rule Report.
BY Ralph Smith
ON Aaaoeiatsd PresAl


WASHINGTON, April 5.-The house
rules committee today reported an order
limiting amendments to the Payne tariff
pin to those which the ways and means
committee will report. and to lumber
hides, barley and barley malt schedules.
An amendment imposing rs per cent
ad valorem on petroleum is provided
Tor.
o'clock next Friday.
AZ 9.2S n m. debate was suspended
and Mr.. DaIxell. OF Pennsylvania from
the committee on rules, reported an
order OF procedure on the bill The Re
publicans loudly applauded as the order
was sent to the desk TO be read
At2 O'Clock today six votes were needed
20 mass the rule cutting OF debate in the
house and expedition OF the Payne OH
I'm its present shape. Pending the log
rolling to get these votes the rule was
being withheld
II appeared very probable early this al
ternoon that the rule to be reported to the
house to govern amendment TO the
PAYNE tariff bill would provide for sep
arate votes on lumber, hides. coal, gloves
and hosiery, and for a duty Of 3 per cent
ad vaIorem on petroleum in place Of the
countervailing duty.
The attitude Of the Republican members
who framed a petition TO the ways and
means committee Saturday and who have
been exercising their influence today 70
prevent the schedule in which they are
interested from being opened up for gen
eral amendment, resulted in much delay
in bringing in the rule.
Speaker Cannon conferred with the vari-
gus members Of the ways and means COM
nfttee, Republican leaders and former
Representatives L1ttauer and Watson.
At Iss0 D. m It was thought the rule
Fould not be ready for the consideration
~ the rules committee before or
o'clock
House Members Busy
As the hour OF noon had been selected
as the time for bringing in the rule
governing the future treatment OF the
Payne tariff bill. the house today
spent the preceding two hours in con-
sfdering routine business and in further
general debate All members had been
notified 10 be present and there was q
good abundance when the body met al
10 O'Clock.
Following a motion by Chairman
PayTSe to take up the tariff bill, Mr.
Clark. Missouri, made a parliamentary
inquiry whether general debate on the
measure could not be dispensed with
and its reading for amendment begun.
he wanted the whole bill considered
paragraph by paragraph
We are ready for that performance
now" he said
While the chair was ruling that the
question was not a parliamentary one,
one OF the Republicans shouted for
regular order" and the house was
thrown into great confusion
Bartlett First Speaker
The first speaker was Mr.. Bartlett
Georgia. who advocated free lumber and
who charged that the bill Disseminated
against the south in favor OF New
England
Mr. Calderhead. Kansas, a member OF
the ways and means committee, denied
that special privileges were granted 70
anybody by the bill. He contended that
the laborer and the farmer are the
principal benenciaries.
The protecting clock strikes twelve
IN this bill as certainly as I am stand
ing here" said Mr.. Burgess, OF Texas
in opposing the protective policy OF the
Republican party. You are deludingi
you are making an EFFORT to give the
people bread, but you know you are
not doing II" he exclaimed.