The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-04-10
Measure Adopted by House
Is Slightly Modified, But
Stockings and Gloves Re-
main Same.
PAYNE BILL is NOW
BEFORE THE SENATE
Revision Downward in the Ex-
listing Bill Is So Small TAFT
Intimates That Veto May
Follow.

Follow.
Washington, D. c.. April 1O.-Late
last evening the tariff bill passed the
house 1t is substantially the meas
ure reported by the ways and means
committee in the first place, except
That it has been modified by various
amendments submitted by that same
committee in humble acknowledge
ment OF 1.-The fragment of mistakes 1t
has consistently made.
In the tariff bill as adopted by the
house last night hides are free, sawed
lumber remains at 81 per thousand
feet, which Is half the Dingley rate,
tea Is free. coffee is free. oil is free,
and the countervailing duties on oil,
lumber and coffee, which were evident
avenues OF fraud on the people, nave
been removed.
The advances made. to the surprise
Of the people. on hosiery and gloves,
unfortunately remain. The rates now
in operation on cotton, wOOlen and
silk goods of the kind women buy In
dry goods stores are unchanged, and
the present high prices will be main
tanned so far as the house of repre-
sentatives is concerned.
There was no vote in regard to
hosiery and gloves, the leaders of the
house having been fraid to trust their
colleagues to go on record. The pro-
test OF the women was ignored obso.
lutely; furthermore, their petition was
turned down by the objection OF a
Chicago member-James r. Mann,
representing the Hyde Park district
where good many clubwomen live.
More Hope Before Senate.
From now on the tariff situation
centers around the senate, and that is
perhaps. fortunate for the country. be
cause the ruling powers in the house
Of representatives. including all the
republican members of the ways and
means committee. without single ex
ception, and all the republican mem
bers OF the rules committee, also
without a single exception. have beer
singularly unresponsive to the will ol
the people.
Senator Aldrich. the chairman ol
the finance committee Of the senate
has repeatedly been to the whh'
house and has declared that the dis
position of his committee is to correct
the manifold defects OF the Payne
bill and to lower some more duties.
II generally is understood that this
unexpectedly liberal disposition has
been the direct result of q renewed
intimation from President Taft tina,
he would be disposed to veto the
Payne bill as it now stands on >tht
general ground that 1t Is not suffi
cient redemption of the pledges made
In the republican platform and tha
the advances in duty apparently out
weigh the reductions many times.
However that may be, and howeve
surprising it is to find good comm,
out Of the senatorial Nazareth. ther'
1s general understanding that th'
senate finance committee will reduc,
the rates on gloves and hosiery. posi-
bly, not down to the Dingley basis, bu
at feast below the figures fixed by th'
ways and means committee. Further
more, the senate itself may hav,
something to say about the sugat
schedule, there being several PROPOSE
tions to wipe out the differential OF
refined sugar entirely.
Culiom in Favor Of Compromise.
As matters now stand, II the womel
of the country want to have anythin,
~, h<,
in price on gloves and hosiery, the.
will have to appeal to the senate Mi
Cnllom of Illinois is in favor Of con-
promise of some sort, and most OF tn,
other western senators are fairly vel
impressed with the strength of tn,
movement which the house leader
saw Fit to ignore.
In view of the intimation receives
from the president. the temper of tn
senate is much better than it Nigh
otherwise be, and the chances are tha
the petitions written or telegraphe
Senators Cullom of Illinois. Dollive
and Cummins of Iowa, Beveridge q
Indiana. LaFollette and Stephenson q
Wisconsin. Smith of Michigan. Burto
Of Ohio, Nelson and Clamp Of Mime
sofa and some others farther west. fo
the total abolition Of the Payn
amendments on hosiery and glove
may have some effect. more particu
arly because It now is generally al
mitted that those paragraphs in tn
Payne bill would surely result in
distinct loss OF revenue to the govern
ment
There has never been any tim
when there was much doubt as to tn
passage of the Payne bill through tn
house by fair majority. The repnl
lican organization has been In the sas
die from the start. and II never hs
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