The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-01
TODAY IN
CONGRESS

Washington, April 1.-The plan of
the republican leaders to close the de-
bate on the tariff bill having been g.
bandoned, there was only slight at
tendance in the house today. Consid-
Grafton of the Payre bill was resumed.
Cantrill, of Kentucky, in his maiden
speech, discussed the tobacco and
hemp schedules. Because tobacco is
the prey of the great tobacco trust.
he said 1t needed protection. A general
defense of the Payne bill was made
by GGaines of West Va, a me1aber
Of the ways and means committees
Speaker Cannon after a conference
this morning with Taft, was asked
when a vote would be taken on the
Payne bill and replied:
God knows
In The Senate.
Washington, April 1.-The Senate
by viva voce vote today adorted
the Hale resolution to eonfne the
business of the session to the tariff
measure alone, with the single ex-
ception of the bill for the next census.
The Senate today began considera-
tfon of Senator Bacon'S resolution that
the Democrats should be represented
at all hearings by the finance com
ion, declaring the Republicans would
be responsible for the tariff legislat-
ion and should shape the bill for the
Senate. He declared the minority
would do just what the majority were
doing.
Washington, D. c., April 1.-Politi-
clans here in the national capitol
who make it a practice to keep one
ear close to the ground for rumb1ings
giving indications changes in public
sentiment, are fast reaching the con-
vii that ~ tho pouno hill iS
ed in anything like it's present form 1t
will mean disaster to the Republican
party. -
The Mckinley bill, far less opprea-
sive of the poor than the measure now
before Congress, defeated the Repub-
licans overwhelmingly in 1890. Speak
er Reed, discussing that defeat, said
that the commercial agents who went
through the country explaining to the
small merchants why the price of
goods had advanced, and the women
who resented increases in prices,
were factors in determining that de-
feat
There is a growing fear among the
Republicans that the Payne bill may
have a similar effect. The storm Of
public resentment has already begun
to gather. Letters are pouring in up
on the members of both houses of
SOuSIcSS. he SSHdle Is getting luc.n
from women's clubs and suffragettes.
Complaint is coming from every sec
tion of the country, and from all class
es of the people. 1t comes from the
East and from the West; the North
and the South; from the people who
wear woolenS, and those who drink
coffee, from women who wear gloves
and from those who drink tea. The
trend of the complaint is that the
Payne bill increases instead OF de-
| creases the duties upon articles OF
general use.
The letters Indicate the sentiment
| Of the average American toward tar
1ff as protection measure, has un
der gone a decisive form reversal
since the days OF the Dingley act. AT
| that time the people were led to pfa &c
| more or less confidence in the theory
that if capital engaged in production
were given big benefits by the tariff
1t would fairly divide up with labor;
labor would prosper. and every one
would have money enough to pay the
| high prices.
| It having been proven to the con
sumers' satisfaction that high duties
mean hfgh-prices without a CORE
| spending advance in Wages, the peo
pie are writing here to let 1t be knowr
| what they want ds revision downward
This the Payne bill does not give
them.
| The rates provided for in the Payne
bill, as 1t stands, average 1.56 pei
cent higher than the Dingley rates
When the maximum and minimum ar
rangement begins operation, accord
ing to Minority Leader Champ Clark
they will average 21:56 higher thar
| Dingley bill schedules
| In repeated instances the Payne
bill openly discriminates against ar
| ticles particularly stockings, gloves
hats, and woolens) of the class pur
erased by women and children Of Lit
| tie means, in favor OF, the more ex
pensive articles used by the rich.
1 An illustration is found in the dsI
/ ties imposed upon hosiery and knb
cotton goods. Womenis and children.
hose, of the grade valued at 81 PEI
dozen, which is very cheap, are in
| creased in the bill, from 68 to 80 PEI
cent. The expensive grades of hosier,
are left as In the Dtngley fbin, at s!
per cent.
II Women's and children's gloves shov
the same large advances in taxation
upon the cheaper grades. The in
crease In duty upon the ; cheapes
grade is from SO to 133 per cent, whicl
means that the poor will have to pa,
IS cents more ON every dollars WORT
of gloves purchased. The increase d
taxation upon the costly gloves. or tn,
kind purchased by the wealthy,
from 43 to 30 per cent, which mean