The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-08

they shall remain in the bill, the Cam
mon clique is holding OF agreement on
a rule in the hope that the conces-
sions which they are offering. REIN
forced by pressure from the country
for early action on the bill, may cause
the opposition to weaken and consent
to a rule which will omit any votes on
these propositions.
1--WE will hold up the bill until
doomsday," is the threat made by a
few house leaders to the membership,
unless you agree to rule providing
that oil and beer schedules shall not
be voted upon"
Outside of beer and OF any number
of concessions are made. The ways and
means committee has. agreed to put
coffee and tea back on the free list.
Votes will be allowed on hides. The
countervaling lumber duties will be
dropped out. Votes will be allowed to
decide whether the house wants free
lumber or the present tariff of 81, or
the committees proposal of 81. Iron
and coal and gloves and hosiery and
even the wooden schedule may be per-
mitted a test in the house.
| But beer and oil-Standari Oil
must not be touched.
| The action of the house leaders in
making such desperate stand for oil
and beer is reviving certain charges
made Immediately after the election of
Speaker Cannon and the adoption of
the Fitzgerald rules, following a de-
Election in the democratic ranks.
| These charges in effect We're that a
promise was made that if the Tam
many democrats would not stand with
their party in the vote on Cannon and
tie old rules the tax on beer would not
be raised from where it stood in the
Dingley bill, and that the Standard Oh
would be taken care of in the Payne
tariff bill.
The statement was on everyone's
tongue that the Payne committee had
decided to raise the tax on beer from
81 to $3.50. and to drop out of the bill
the countervailing duty on petroleum.
| but that at the last moment these two
! schedules were restored to where they
were in the Dingley bill. The gossip
was to the effect the committee made
| these concessions in return for the
votes of the Tammany democrats,
which defeated the plan of the COM
bined democrats and republican in
surgents to change the house rules and
dethrone Speaker Cannon.
tho Of 6ornOar9fC ~
surgents for reform was defeated
through the medium of a resolution Of
fered by Rep. Fitzgerald, of New York,
which purported to revise the old rules,
and was supported by stand-pat re-
publicans and % democrats. The Fitz-
gerald resolution has not proven of
any material benefit, and those demo-
Gratis who voted for the measure have
been practically ostracized from the
lparty More particularly have the New
York or Tamnany democrats been
disowned.
Fitzgerald, the father of the alleged
cheating rules revision, is notorious as
the lieutenant and creature of Boss
Pat McCarren, of Brooklyn, the sugar
, and Standard Oil agent and Tammany
representative of the brewery inter
ests.
The democrats would like to see an
official investigation of the charges
which have been more than vaguely
made in the newspapers, and which
are matter of common gossip about
the corridors of the capitol. They be-
lieve almost to a man that the reasons
for the eleventh-hour changes of the
Payne bill, if thrown upon the screen
through the medium of an investigat
ing committee, would result in a great
national scandal that would sweep the
republican party from power. Speaker
Cannon will do all within his power to
prevent an investigation it is believed
and it is therefore doubtful if the
democrats will be able to secure the
probe they would like.
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