Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-04-10
PAYNE TARIFF
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| by the ways and means committee the
| following day, and was under general
| debate for sixteen days. On Monday
Of the present week the rules commit
| tee reported q special order which
closed the general discussion provid-
ed for the consideration Of the bill
| under the five minute rule. Chairman
Payne handled the bill on the floor
and divided the time in such a way
that only the paragraph affected by
the committee amendments and the
amendments permitted by the special
rule had been considered when the
time to vote on the measure was re-
ported.
The Dingley bill was under consid-
GRAFTON in the house two days long
er than the Payne; bill. but the house
was not in session so long each day
! as in the consideration, of the latter
measure. All during the general de-
bate on the Payne bill the house sat
for ten and half hours each day,
thus establishing, record for that
body.
Mr.. Olmstead (Pa.) presided as the
chairman of the committee of the
whole house on the state Of the union
throughout the twenty days that were
given the bill. :
One of the principle changes effect
ed In the Payne bill since its intro
duction was the placing Of petroleum
on the free list. This involved more
seriously contested fight than any Of
the other amendments. Speaker Can
non, in debate on the amendment to
reduce the duty, took the floor in de-
tense of the higher rate of duty. Al
though an amendment to place oil
on the free list was lost yesterday,
q similar amendment offered by the
chairman today was carried.
Among the other important amend
ments that have been made since the
bill came from the committee were
those striking out the provision for a
duty on tea and the countervailing
duty proviso on coffee. The elimina-
ton Of the maximum and minimum
section of the bill, was also signifi-
cant.
To the free list were added ever
green seedlings, cloves and nut oil,
which is used in making varnish. The
patent law provision, intended to re-
taliate for the new British patent
law, was stricken out on account of
an international convention. The so
called Joker" in the cotton cloth
schedule, which, it was claimed, would
increase the duty Of the Dingley bill
several hundred percent was correct
ed. The proviso for the method of
counting the threads in the cloth be-
ing made the same as III the present
law. ~
The section restricting the con-
tents of packages of tobacco was
amended to conform with the present
law, that union tables may not be
excluded from such packages.
The drawback section was addad
SO that it could not be taken for the
purpose of specializing in grain, and
the Philippine free trade provision
was amended so that rice will not
be, admitted free from the islands.
The countervailing duty clause on
lumber was stricken out but a strong
EFFORT to place lumber on the free
list did not succeed.
The duty on barley, barley malt,
charcoal, iron, pineapple in crates,
medicated cottonf1 and cotton collars
and cuffs, as originally in the bill,
were increased. ~.
To retaliate against Turkey, which
country prohibits the importation of
American filler tobacco, q proviso was
included In the tobacco schedule in
creasing the duty on filler tobacco
arom any country which prohibits the
importation of American tobacco.
The internal revenue was also
amended SO that raisers of tobacco
Will not have to pay manufacture
er's license to dispose of their leaf
tobacco. TX ..1.. II
S There were several technical chang
es in the s'eel schedule, principally
downward. Lace curtains and netting
included in the proviso which per-
mits the entry free Of duty OF lace
machinery prior to May /, 1910. a
Hides and gloves were left as re-
ported by the committee, hides re-
naming free, and an increased duty
being presented for gloves and stock
ings. c#,s=. se....:;.. b s-s,, III (
When the bill actually was passed
the Republicans cheered Justify. some
dancing up and down the aisles and
patting their fellow members on the
back. -: ..5...s Z. Z .S2
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