Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-04-13
TARIFF BILL PASSES
HOUSE AMENDS 1T AND THEN
ADOPTS 1T BY TELLING
VOTE.
TEA is ON THE FREE LIST

TEA is ON THE FREE LIST
Amendments Proposed by Ways and
Means Committee Are Adopted In
Part-other Changes Made from
the Original Measure.
Washington, Apr. 10.-Scarcely rec
ognizable because Of the slashing,
hammering and general buffeting
which it had experienced in the house,
the Payne tariff bill was passed late
yesterday afternoon by the lower
branch of congress and now goes to
the senate.
In the senate there will be more
cutting and amending. The last mo-
ments of the original measure were
marked by a valiant fight by the
house minority. All the ways and
means committee recommendations.
with but few exceptions, were pushed
through the house by the Republican
majority, and other amendments pro-
posed by the powers that be went
through the body as though creased.
The Tawney amendment to strike
out the paragraph placing duty on
hewn timber was defeated by a vote
of 1874 ayes and 1913 noes, indicating
that the house will vote again for lum-
Der. After the committee amend
ments had been disposed Of by the
house long wrangle ensued as to the
order in which amendments to the fur
Their schedules should be voted on. The
chair decided on votes on amend
ments in the order Of the paragraph
affected. The first aye and nay vote
was on an amendment eliminating the
hewn timber paragraph, one of several.
Tea Is on Free List.
The committee amendments to the
Payne bill, with the exception Of those
affecting tea, coffee. barley and barley
without division.
The house adopted the committee
amendment of the Payne bill placing
tea on the free list without restric-
ton.
Payne Amendment Adopted.
Mr.. Payne of New York offered the
committee amendment to the draw
back section of the bill which was
finally adopted 1t is intended to pre-
vent the use of the drawback privi-
leges for the purpose of specializing in
grain This amendment stipulates that
no drawback will be allowed upon
-four or other grain products in which
domestic grain is used unless it is
manufactured in the same city or town
in which the imported grain. to be
checked against Is milled The ar
ticle must be manufactured from do.
nestle grain harvested prior to the i'm
portation against which it Is checked.
The latter change is made to prevent
speculation in the various grain crops,
while the first named provision is In
tended to prevent the milling at the
of domestic grain which is
checked against imported grain that
is milled at an inland city, by which
1t would be possible to save railroad
transportation on the manufactured
product
a-Place Duty on Barley.
At its final meeting before the pas
sage Of the Payne bill, the ways and
means committee decided to place q
duty of "a cents bushel on barley In
place Of the original duty of Is cents
and increased the duty on barley malt
from rs to 40 cents a bushel. The
duty on ferro-silicon was made Is pei
cent ad valorem, instead of four dol
lars ton. 1t was also decided to
take petroleum and basic Stag from the
maximum provisions, so that no in
crease can be made in the duties on
these articles for the purpose of re
taliation.
An amendment to correct an errol
in the classification Of cold rolled iror
or steel bars was agreed to. The
phraseology of the Dingley bill was re
stored to the paragraph covering bar!
that are polished in addition to being
cold rolled.
Basic Stag Clause Unchanged.
Basic Stag, ground or unground, wa
taken out Of the maximum and mini
mum provision, Chairman Payne ex
planning that it was used mostly b.
farmers as fertilizer.
A substitute for section three cover
ing the maximum and minimum fea
lures Of the bill, offered by Chairman
Payne Thursday, occasioned tn,
liveliest debate. When it became az
parent that almost countless amend
ments would be proposed to that sec
ton, Chairman Payne sought to rail-
his cohorts by appealing to them t
3 vote down all such propositions; b
called attention to the fact that tn
substitute section was an elaboration
of the original section in that 1t spe
officially pointed out the articles whic
should come within its scope.
---~> All attempts to amend the section
except in the case of basic Stag and p
troleum, failed, and the vote then b.
ing taken, the entire substitute SCI
ton three was adopted.
WAL KING ARSENAL is MARIE