Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-04-16
Payne Tariff Bill Approved BY.
Vote Of III to ISL
PETROLEUM on FREE LIST
Other Important Changes Made
- Before Passage.

Washington, April 10.-After three
weeks of consideration the Payne
tariff bill was passed by the house of
representatives by vote of 217 to
161. One Republican, Austin (Tenn.)
voted against the measure and four
Democrats, all from Louisiana, Messrs.
Broussard, Estopinal. Pujo and Wick
life, voted for it. An attempt by
Champ Clark, minority leader, to re-
commit the bill with instructions
signally failed.
One of the principal changes ef-
fected in the Payne bill since its in.
PRODUCTION was the placing of petro-
leum on the free list. This involved a
more seriously contested fight than
any of the other amendments. Speak
cr Cannon, in debate on the amend
ment to reduce the duty, took the floor
in defense of the higher rate Of duty
Although an amendment to place oil
on the free list was lost Thursday a
similar amendment offered by Chair
man Payne Friday was carried.
Among the other important amend
ments that have been made since the
bill came from committee were those
striking out the provision for duty
Oh tea and the countervailing duty
proviso on coffee. The elimination of
the maximum duty of 20 per cent on
coffee, contained in the maximum and
minimum section of the bill, was also
significant.
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
retaliate 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 per cent, was correct
ed, the proviso for the method of
counting threads in the cloth being
made the same as in the present law.
Changes in Tobacco Schedule.
The section restricting the con-
tents of packages of tobacco was
amended to conform with the present
law that union labels may not be ex-
Guided from such packages. The
drawback section was added so that
It could not he taken advantage of for
the purpose of specializing in grain,
and the Philippine free trade pro-
vision 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 last
did not succeed.
The duties On barley, barley malt,
charcoal, iron, pineapples in crates,
saccharine, medicated cotton, and cot
ton collars and cuffs, as originally in
the bill, were increased. To reta1iate
against Turkey, which country pro-
hibits the importation of American
dller tobacco, a proviso was included
IN the tobacco schedule increasing the
duty on filed tobacco from any coun-
Try which prohibits the importation
OF the American tobacco.
The internal revenue was also
amended so that raisers of tobacco
will not have to pay a manufacturers
license to dispose of their leaf tobac-
co. There were several technical
changes in the steel schedule, prin-
cipally downward. Lace curtain and
netting machines were included in
the proviso which permits the entry
free Of duty of lace machinery prior
to May 1, 1910. Hides, hosiery and
gloves we're left as reported by the
committee, hides remaining free, and
ap increased duty being presented for
k1oves and Stockings.
REPORTED TO. THE SENATE