The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-04-13
TARIFF BILL PASSED;
OIL ON FREE LIST
House Casts Final Vote Of 217
to 161.
PARTlESDIvIDE ON AMENDMENTS
The Payne Bill as Drafted by the Ma
jority of the Ways and Means
Committee Suffers Little Change
in Passage.

jority of the Ways and Means
Committee Suffers Little Change
in Passage.
Washington. D. c. - The Payne
tariff bill, drafted by the Republican
members of the Committee on Ways
and Means, and introduced in the
House Of Representatives was passed
by the House On the final vote the
ayes were PIT and the noes 161. One
member, Mr. Leger, of South Caro-
lima, a Democrat, who was paired
with Scott, of Kansas, Republican,
voted Present" -Four Democrats
voted with the Republicans to pass
the measure They were Broussard,
Estopinal, Pujo and Wickliffe, of
Louisiana. One Republican, Mr.. Aus
tin, of Tennessee, voted against the
bill with the Democrats.
A motion made by Champ Clark, of
Missouri, the Democratic floor leader,
to recommit the bill to the Ways and
Means Committee with instructions
to amend it in certain specified par
ticulars was lost by strict party
vote.
There was great cheering when
Speaker Cannon announced that the
bill had been passed. Representa-
tives shouted and banged their desk
covers and clapped their hands. The
galleries Joined in the demonstration.
Then the Republican members gath
cred about Chairman Payne, of the
Ways and Means Committee, who
fathered the tariff measure, and
slapped him on the back and congrat-
ulated him.
AS result of the proceedings the
bill as passed by the House provides
that crude oil and it's products shall
be admitted to the United States with
out the payment of duty. Further
more, it was provided that crude oil
and its products should be admitted
free from countries which discrimin-
ate against the United States in tariff
matters and on whose articles of ex-
port the maximum rates provided in
the Payne bill shall be imposed. The
countervailing duty proposed to be
levied on oil from countries which re-
quire the payment of an export tax
on that product was abolished.
The effort to have lumber placed
on the free list met with failure and
the rates imposed by the Committee
on Ways and Means remain in the
bill as passed. The duty on barley,
now 80 cents, was placed at "a cents,
an increase over the Is cent rate pro-
vided in the Payne bill as reported
originally, and the rate on barley
malt, now As cents a bushel, was
fixed at 40 cents, an increase over the
rs cent rate provided originally in
the Payne bill. Both these increases
were proposed by the Committee on
Ways and Means.
An insinuation by Mr. Fitzgerald,
of New York, that there had been a
deal between those interested in lum-
Der and those interested in barley and
barley malt was denied by Mr.. Cush-
man, of Washington, who offered the
barley amendments from the Ways
and Means Committee.
Strenuous efforts to provide for the
imposition of a duty on hides were
defeated The Payne bill as reported
originally placed hides on the free
list, Much opposition was developed
against this provision by Representa-
tives from the States which have
large cattle raising interests, Demo-
Gratis as well as Republicans, but the
Ways and Means Committee stuck to
its colors and came off victorious af-
ter it's free hides item had been sub
iected to the ordeal of several test
votes.
Although the House after passing
the tariff bill adjourned for three
days the House enrolling clerks We're
busy in an effort to have the official
copy of the bill ready for presenta-
ton to the Senate.
Among important amendments that
have been made since the bill came
from committee were those striking
out the provision for a duty on tea
and the countervailing duty proviso
on coffee. The elimination of the
maximum duty of 20 per cent. on cof-
fee, contained in the maximum and
minimum section of the bill, was also
significant
To the free list were added ever
green seedlings, stoves 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 per cent, was cor,
rected, the proviso for the method oil
counting threads in the cloth being
made the same as in the present law
The section restricting the contents
of packages of tobacco was amended
to conform with the present law il
order that union labels may not bt
excluded from such packages. Thu
drawback section was added to Sc
that it could not be taken advantage
of at once for the purpose of specu
lating in grain. and the Philippine
free trade provision was amended 81
that rice will not be admitted fret
from the islands
The countervailing duty clause oil
lumber was stricken out, but stronl
! effort to place lumber on the free lis
| did not succeed.
In general the changes made by TIA
House In the bill as reported are:
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