Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-09
REvERsEs ITS FORMER ACTION
AND VOTES TO ADMIT CRUDE
PETROLEUM FREE.
MAKES SUGGESTION
THAT CHANGE BE MADE
enate Takes UP Consideration Of the
Census BiIi-oakota Congressman
Wants Lands Allotted to South Da.
kota lndians--cIosins Contest on
Tariff Measure.

Washington. April s-Thc Tawney
( amendments to the tariff bill! placing a
duty on hewn timber, reducing the
duty on finished lumber. and striking
out the duty on rough lumber, were de-
feated by the house by a vote OF 200
to $50.
Washington, April e-Thore was a
full membership preaaa han the
house met goaas ard aed consid-
GRAFTON Of ti,e Patgc AeiT ril Al the
suggestion OF Payaa ne ne isa of the
house in fixing u rate Of aer cent I'D
vaiorem on crudo petroleum and its
products was by unanimous consent,
reversed and the articles placed on the
free list
Basic siag was taken out of tho
maximum and minimum provision and
substitute for the section covering
the maximum and minimum features
of the bill, offered by Chairman Payne
yesterday was adopted.
After the committee amendments
had been disposed OF a long wrangle
ensued as 10 the order In which amend-
ments to the lumber schedules should
be voted on.
| Representative Fitzgerald of New
York said in the house yesterday dur
ing the debate on the Payne tariff bill
that he would Ike 10 see all American
people wear silk suspenders and silk
| garters
| Consequently upon this philanthropio
compassion for the populace Mr. F'itz-
gerald offered an amendment to the
| BIN reducing the duties 80 per cent
ad valorem on suspenders and reducing
the duties 40 per cent in the paragraph
! for laces
MIR. Fitzgerald's opportunity to ex-
| press solititude for the dear people
and endeavor to secure for them a
cheaper rate on luxurious necessities
came about because of an inadyertent
consolidation of the paragraphs cover
Ing laces and articles of silk and India
rubber. BY this consolidation the duty
on bindings. garters, and suspenders
was increased
Mr.. Hill, of Connecticut. offered
committee amendment to have retained
the duties now levied under the Ding
ley law. Upon a division vote the
Fitzgerald amendment was lost and
the committee amendment was car
rie.
9lik suspenders and garters thus
remain where they are at the present
time.
The Dingley pararraph n,ac;nv
duty on toys was restored with a pro-
viso that only art!A>s intended as
playthings for children shall ha .a.
mitted as toys
| In order to meet the decisions Il, 70
gard to the counting OF COTTON clo+hs
paragraph 31s of the hil, y,as s,rtat,s,'
our and the provisio, ~ ~ l,,r,a..
law OF the same snbiac, ,,a, .o..a.s,
in its stead
4 Jacquard feproa rooas r,
( ing covers atc ,s,,,res., .l,',,e
In chiaf or c,tt,,, -. 's VIZ
! fiber vara ei,,a.. r....,,ts ses'Noie
n amy oe "a Ns"s
tox oe
I wass,, 'so
far ~,
4 prov,sta. us
the lonr
ric.
! A dr.,, ,,o.9f
was mn, ,,,ar
n,,r;,ed nb.,lo, ,,,o,,,. -"
I Th, ,t,.;si,,. ,t, t
and Inv rota, os a,,,, - i,,.,
li,o,su,, Vac Ga - -. oil i.~'otp ana
stead ~ nina faat 90 s,s.,.,,,. .eel III
hill 7, ms t,,sl,,s 60. - 10y .,. IN, ~ ,he
IA"
me amendment restoring the Ding
ley rates or 40 cents per dozen pieces
ana 10 per cent ad valorem on collars
and cuffs composed Of cotton was
agreed to In connection with this
chanee MI Harrison of New York took
occasion 10 criticise the method em-
pioyea FOR presenting committee
amendments. He argued thar they
should nave been printed In the record
prior 10 'heir presentation on the floor
me commLttee amendments !ncroas-
ing the Payne rate on barley from Is
10 ~ cents bushel, and the duty on
pafiey matt from 70 to 40 cents per
pushei' was adopted