The Detroit times., 1909-03-20
SENATE TO MANGLE
TARIFF BILL OUT
OF RECOGNITION
NO ONE CAN SAY WHAT SEIZED
UlE WILL FINALLY 8E-klNo
PROVISION FOR moReANs ART
TREASURES.

WASHINGTON. March ls.-Thoss
directly interested ia tariff should not
rush 10 any theories born OF the Payne
bill. says Alfred Henry Lewis, In q
dispatch TO the New York American.
The bill has TO pass the house and
every fashion OF amendment and all
varieties OF change may be worked In
the schedules before II 10 sent to the
senate. What is now on the free list
may be tsrined. and what Is now tarifs-
ed may be free-listed.
Mr. Lewis continues.
Once IN the sena.e the bills trou-
bles are AL 70 begin over. II Will ba
pulled. hauled, twisted. turned. cut.
basted. stitched. until Mr.. Payne. Its
father, and the ways ann means, its
mother. wouldn't know II AZ their
offspring IL they met IL on the street.
For all and several. while those con-
cerned will doubtless hnd the bill In
It's present form most interesting read
Ing. they would shoot much to the
left OF the truth were they to accept
II az q settled tariff thing. No one
can say what the tariff will finally
BE-. What one can say. however. Ia
that II won't be the bill which came
into the house.
And yet. the general feeling runs
in favor OF the bill ~ drawn. The fault
found with II Is not Of fatal kind. The
Inheritance tax lie broadly approved
The $50. 00O. 900 to fow therefrom will
be less criticised In the methods of
it's production than any other among
the hundred features OF the measure.
Few people inherit money; few ex.
pect TO inherit money. and those 10
whom neither description applies are
pleasantly willing that that lucky
minority should pay those $4,000, 006.
What members OF congress | have
talked with are all OF one mind. The
reductions provided upon steel. iron
and iron ore are regarded as com.
promise between tho free list views
OF Mr.. Carnegie, who holds Steel
Trust bonds, and the high tariff views
OF Mr.. Gary. who makes the steel
that pays the interest on those bonds.
Steel Schedule q Middle Course
The steel schedule steers a middle
course between the Carnegie Scylla
and the Gary Charybdis. and good
tariff sailors say II does IL very nicely.
Mr.. TAFT. In one OF his presidential
moments. advised tiis moderate In
between schedule. touching steel and
iron and iron ore.
No quarrels with wood-pulp on
the free list. Also. free hides meet
the wishes of every body save what
western and southwestern handfuls
have hides for sale. The shoemakers
are softened toward the reduced tar
in on shoes by the fact that free
hides will act as compensatory water
on the wheels OF profit.
Free coffee checks n howl. the first
notes whereof were beginning to
gather In the popular throat Mr.
Payne makes no secret Of the fact
that coffee would have been fairfield
at least four cents a pound had not
the Republican party managers-bv
which are meant Mr. Root and Mr.
Knox-feared the political effect
The clause tariffng tea eight cents
and nine cents IL tentative. The
party leaders are holding their ears
close 10 the ground. Should the
rumble Of popular dissent that tea tax
invokes mount to proportions which
seem to threaten Republican success
next year. tea will rejoin coffee on
the free list. Wherefore. oh. tea.
drinkers. clear your valves and roar
Ar Clause Plesses Morgan.
They say-the wise artistic folk
that the free admission OF works OF
art which have numbered 90 years, as
provided In the Payne bill. IL aimed
generously at Pierpont Morgan. That
remarkable man has FOR years ha.
millions of dollars wrapped up In
ancient art-pictu-es. tapestries.
brunzes. marbles AMI artistic what-not
all housed in Europe. there To re-
main until his own ungatefJl country
should so far appreciate his efforts
to uplift her taste as to take down
every tariff bar FOR the free entry OF
6 aid treasures.
Mr. Morgan and the artloyine few
will be greatly moved by the open
door art clause In the bill. The com
mon herd; bound up tn lumber, steel
wood pulp, coffee. sugar, tea will give