Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-08
INSURGENTS AND :.
DEMOCRATS WIN
SIGNAL VICTORY
REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL
MACHINE ROUTED
FREE OIL AND RY.PRopucTs is
RESULT OF COALITION
Ways and Means Committee Receives
Serious Jolt-Tea and Coffee Un-
taxed--Humorou Repartee
Causes Clash
[By Associated Press. }


HT ASHINGTON, April This was
w bad day for the Republican
w organization of the house. By a
coalition between some Republican in
surgents and the Democrats, the ways
and means committee was bowled over
and the advocates of free crude oil and
its products won a signal victory when
an amendment by Mr.. Norris or Ne
braska, placing the insignificant duty
of l per cent advalorem on those arti-
cles, was adopted by substantial ma
jority.
A decision of the chairman that
amendments could not be offered TO the
oil schedule other than the one covered
by the special rule of last Monday,
which provided for the removal of the
countervailing duty on crude petroleum
and applied an advalorem duty or 20
per cent, was overturned, and not even
a fervid appeal by the speaker, In an
endeavor to rally the republican 1orceS'
was sufficient to stem the tide avow-
edly against the Standard Oil company.
BY virtually unanimous vote the
countefvailing duty went out, as the
committee had recommended.
On all other propositions the commit
tee was sustained. The barley schedule
ran the gauntlet without change.
Tea and Coffee Free
Tea and coffee were placed on the
free list.
A colloquy, at first humorous but lat
er resulting In personalities developed
between Mr.. Stanley of Kentucky ana
Mr.. Clark OF Florida, and was termin-
ated only upon an objection by Mr.
Crumpacker of Indiana that IL was
against the dignity of the house.
The ways and means committee
agreed to several important amend
ments to the Payne tariff bill: me
duty on crude cocoa was reduced from
4 to cents pound.
Barytes was raised from 70 cents TO
$3.50 ton.
Paragraph AT. relating to toys. was
stricken out and a new one inserted
excepting toys of rubber and porce-
lain, which are taxed 80 per cent az
valorem, provided that only these arti-
cles should be taxed as toys Which are
manufactured as playthings for chill
dren.
Paragraph 1928 was changed SO as to
tax tire fabrics, or fabrics used Tor
pneumatic tires, at 35 per cent ad va
loren. The steel and iron schedules,
steel ingots, blooms and slabs, were
reduced from one cent to eight-tentns
of cent and from four-tenths TO three
tenths of cent pound.
The ad valorem duty on boiler iron
was stricken out. The Dingley duty
of so per cent ad valorem on silk bind
ings was restored.
Grain Schedule Changed
The drawback feature of the bill was
40 amended as to provide that grain
must be manufactured at the same
place where imported grain Is milled
and within twelve months.
AS substitute for both amendments,
Mr.. Humphrey of washington offered
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free list. Chairman Payne earnestly
opposed all three of the amendments.
After twenty minutes debate, the vote
was about to be taken on the Miller
provision when Mr.. Tawney offered
resolution making the rate twenty
cents a bushel. This was defeated, as
was also the amendment of Miller. The
vote then turned to the Alexander and
Humphrey amendments, both of which
were lost.
ON barley-malt, Mr.. Miller of Kan
sas offered an amendment raising the
Payne rate from rs to 40 cents a
bushel.
Mr.. Mann then sarcastically suggest
ed Kansas was exceedingly moral and
characterized Mr. Miller as a "curios-
ity of the house" who encourages pro-
duction of malt out of which to make
beer
Mr. Scott of Kansas replied that the
brewers should be taxed at every turn
of the road, thus enhancing the cost
of the materials they used.
Amendment Defeated
The Miller amendment was voted
down, whereupon Mr.. Humphreys Of
fered an amendment raising the tax
on beer from 81 to SLIGO a barrel. but
1t went out on point of order by Mr..
Payne.
When the oil schedule was reached
Mr. vreeland offered an amendment
striking out of the countervailing duty
and fixing a duty of 25>per cent ad va
loren. Mr.. Norris of Nebraska moved
a substitute providing for l per cent
ad valorem. Again this Mr.. Dalzell
made the point of order that as 1t
would not be included in the commit
tee proposition it could not be enter
tanned
The chair sustained the point, but
by a vote of 1862 to 173 on division the
chair was overruled. Many Republic
cans voted with the Democrats against
the chair
Tellers being ordered, the negative
vote was increased and the vote stood
1875 to 1853.
Thus the entire petroleum schedule
was opened to amendment. The result
created great excitement.
A vigorous appeal was made by Mr..
Campbell of Kansas for protection for
independent oil producers who, he said,
needed protection while the Standard
did not.
A bitter attack on the Standard Oil
company was made by Mr.. Cooper OF
wisconsin, in favoring the amendment
by Norris of Nebraska placing duty
of one per cent on crude petroleum and
its products.
Cannon Gives Warning
Seeing the wave of sentiment in ia
yor of the amendment. Speaker Can
non took the floor and warned the
members of the dangers ahead. He
made a plea for the American producer
of oil.
The amendment, he declared. was
designed to punish the wicked Stand
ard Oil company.
Gentlemen" he said, "is it not well
enough to see, when you seek to pun
ish somebody that you claim Is bad,
that you do not, like Samson, pull
down the pillars and have the temple
fall upon you?"
The adoption of the Norris amend
ment, he said would let in virtually
free refined oil from Mexico, land still
the gentleman from Wisconsin and
others clap their wings and crow and
cruelty the people while they act the
demagogue in denouncing the wicked
Standard OIL"
Opposition to the Payne tariff bill
amendment providing revenues for the
Philippine islands has become general
on the part of the Democratic senator's,
and attacks upon 1t are expected by
the senate committee on finance- On