The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-12
PAYNE GLOVE DUTY
RESULT Of CLASHES
First Schedule Devoid of the
High Tax Later In
serted.
BOUTELL FATHERS
SPEECH ON SUBJECT
CAicagoan Said to Have Accused
Department Store Owners
of Collision.
By J. c. wELLIvER.

By J. c. WELLIvER.
On the authority of a leading member
Of the Ways and Means Committee. the
following statement is made Of the
facts concerning the glove schedule in
the Payne bill, which has been the oc-
casion of such violent attack:
The schedule at first adoptd by the
committee did not include the huge adj
vanoss which afterward appeared in the
printed bill.
The committee changed the schedule
in the last days. Immediately before the
bill was reported, in order to insert the
immense advances which gave the Lit
tauer industry a practical monopoly.
The motion for the change was
made In the committee by Representa-
tive Henry Sherman Bouteil of Chi
cago. intimate friend and lieutenant of
Speaker Cannon.
II was adopted by the committee I'M
der what was referred to by the Ways
and Means member who tells the story.
as strong pressure from higher up"
Payne's Speech.
After this schedule had been sub
iected 20 violent attacks, in which the
Chicago newspapers took a prominent
part, Mr.. Payne. chairman Of Ways
and Means. under privilege Of print
inserted in the Record a speech, which
was not delivered on the floor. defend
ing these schedules. analyzing the
situation. and making the charge that
the whole fight on the glove schedules
was led by the Chicago newspapers be-
cause they were Influenced by the great
department stores of Chicago. which
owned their own glove manufactures
in Europe.
When this statement was issued in
the Record it had a decided effect on
the situation. and there was reaction
in favor Of the committees high duties.
It is positively charged by the ways
and means member whose story is here
told. that this attack on the Chicago
newspaper and department stores was
written. not by Mr.. Payne. who inserted
it in the Record. but by Mr.. Boutell.
Chicago man ysho induced Mr.. Payne
10 insert it in re Record.
Statements Denied.
After this statement appeared in the
Record and received general publicity
through the press, the Chicago concerns
which were attacked and charged with
owning glove factories in Europe whose
products they wanted admitted here at
the lowest possible duty, made affidavit
that these statements were untrue; and
that affidavit in turn was inserted in
the Record.
This turned the thing the other way.
Mr.. Boutell, as the statement proceeds,
became alarmed over this development,
and began to be nervous. He wanted 10
show some interest in the cause of his
-,
Chairman Payne. the putative author
OF the attack which Boutell had really
furnished on the Chicago newspapers
and department stores, ana intimated
v that he wanted to take the other side
OF the thing, as a matter Of self-pro-
lection.
Payne Bal1s.
what? You do that. and leave me
with that speech to defend? No you
don't" Mr.. Payne is declared to have
replied. I'm substance.
And Mr.. Bouten didn't.
So much for the relations OF Mr..
Payne and Mr.. Boutell to the matter. II
is explained that Of course, In case of
attack on his own attitude. Mr.. BOutell
would have been able. IN the next
Congressional fght, to circulate IN MS
district ho'isSnds Of copies Of the
speech appearing in the Record as the
speech Of AR Payne, but really pre-
pared BY Boutsll himself, attacking the
Chicago newspapers and business inter
ests II would be circulated under the
frank Of Mr.. Payne, and there would
be nobody &c suspect that BOutell him
self had prepared or circulated such an
attack on the powerful interests Of his
own city.
Mr.. Payne's decided attitude kept Mr..
Bouteu from Hopping and taking the
other sioe."
Ore of a Series.
This is only one Of the series Of re-
markable stories about the internal re-
lations OF the WAYS and Means Com
nittee during the preparation Of the
Payne BILL and afterward.
Another member OF that committee is
responsible for story about the lum-
Der schedule, which is only less remark
able He states positively that the COM
mittee decided in favor Of free lun-
Der. being completely convinced that
any other course was utterly indefensi-
Sble: that in he last days OF the con-
sideration-about the same time that
the countervailing duty on oil was put
back in the btll-"pressure from higher
up" compelled the committee to take
lumber from the free list and put the
The WAYS and Means member who
told this story said that the counter
vaiing duty on oil was taken out by
the committee. Then the same pressure
from higher up was felt, IL was de-
manded that the duty be restored. II
was done. This member spent three
days In q debate with himself as q
whether he would consent 20 it. OF
would resign from the committee and
make an exposure and fight the whole
thing on the floor. He finally decided
to remain and stand by the committee
rather than resign and make charges
which he feared would compel an IN.
vestigatiOn whose results might be far.
reaching and disastrous 10 the whole
revision program as well as TO the
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