The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-22
PARTY LINES
CANNOT HOLD
IN FINAL TEST
Champ Clark and Serene
Payne Will Stand Togeth-
er in the Lumber Fight.
CONTEST IN THE HOUSE
PROMISES TO BE SHARP
DEMOCRATS MAINTAIN THE DOG
Urine OF TILDEN OF A Ia
RIFF FOR REVENUE ONLY.

Washington, March 21.-That there
will be a lively contest over the tariff
bill is evidenced by the preparations
that are being made by the sponsors
for the bill and by those who oppose it.
Chairman Payne, supported by his
chief lieutenant, Representative John
Dalzell, PENNSYLVANIA, and the other
Republican members of the house ways
and means committee, together with
Representative Broussard Louisiana,
the newly appointed Democrat, will be
armed with thousands of documents
and communications for the defense Of
the provisions of the Payne bill
The committees room is on the house
floor of the capitol, and yesterday
'held headquarters" were established
there by Mr.. Payne.
Democrats in Council.
Directly beneath the headquarters of
the Payne forces are the headquarters
of the enemy, the Democrats. Champ
Clark has taken possession of John
Sharp Williams old room, and was to-
day occupied with the preparation of
the report of the minority. The Demo-
cratic members have held councils OF
war" for the past few days in The Clark
headquarters. They viii make q strong
fight against every protective duty in
the Payne bill unless it is a revenue
producer.
While the Payne and Clark forces will
be lined up against each other on many
questions, there probably will be sew
eral duties on which they viii join in
fighting other opposition. This is due
to the fact that Mr.. Payne is not
high tariff man.
VIII Join Forces.
When an amendment is offered to in
crease the duty of one dollar thousand
feet provided for lumber by the Payne
bill, Mr.. Payne and Mr.. Clark viii stand
together in opposition to the increased
duty and each Will find that some. of
As-trusted aides have deserted him.
Thfs illustrates the feeling that pre-
walls throughout the membership Of the
house-that every member shall work
for The interests of his individual con-
stituency, and that the tariff question
is a local one.
There is one point about the new bill
on which little controversy is expected
in the house, but which it is believed
will be mucn considered in the senate.
That is the revision of the present tariff
law with regard to ambiguous phrase
ssiogy. The changes in the wording of
HTarious paragraphs and sections of the
bill have been made in accordance with
the recommendations of Thomas ].
Dougherty, assistant counsel of the
treasury department. who has prose-
cuted customs cases for the govern
ment throughout the country, supple
mented with extensive information and
data, supplied by Major Herbert NJ.
Lord, =. s. A, who was clerk of the
4 he
Dingley revision.
Based on Court Decisions.
Notable among the changes brought
about by the suggestions which are
based on the decisions of the courts
and the board of general appraisers, are
the new para graphs and the metal
schedules providing duties on steel,
wool or steel shavings; diamond steel,
grit. iron and similar articles; chrome
metal and ferTo manganese, ferro,
tungsten, ferro silicon and similar met
ais; alloys and other mixed metals not
specifically provided for; and the gen.
eral provision restricting the use of the
terms iron plates, steel plates and plate
iron and steel, to articles having plain
surfaces for use as parts of construc-
ton, but as tools or instruments in
manufacturing.
Synthetic camphor, a product of syn
thetic chemistry, made from oil of tUr-
pentine. has been assessed a duty of
cents per pound, the same as is now
imposed on refined camphor- As a re-
suit of an experiment conducted by the
department of agriculture with camphor
growing in Florida, this industry prom
ises to become of considerable import
ance, II being proposed to plant cam
phor trees in the sections where the
orange industry has been driven out
by the frosts.
Many changes in the phraseolOgy Of
paragraphs imposing duties on articles
which contain alcohol have been incor-
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