Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-09
PAYNE BILL WILL NOT be REC
ooNlzED BY PARENT WHEN
SENATE REPORTS.
WILL INSIST ON TARIFF ON
STEEL AND IRON PRODUCTS
Also Probable That Millionaires' Club
Will Seek to Raise Proposed Duty on
Lumber = Tea, Coffee and Spices on
Free List, Senate Will lnsist-Re.
view Of the Situation.

Washington, April s.-If the Hon.
Serene Z. Payne, chairman of the
ways and means committee, doesn't
take thumb prints of the child of his
labors and have it measured by the
Bertillion system, he is not likely to
recognize his tariff bill when it comes
out of the senate committee on finance
That committee, or at least the major
ity members of it, are framing a
measure which will resemble the Payne
bill only as Kentucky thoroughbred
resembles a Missouri mule.
OF course, the great body Of the
measure will be similar to the house
bill, the same as the Payne bill is sim
liar 10 the present Dingley law, bu.
important features that it won't look
like the same bill 1t is now apparen:
that the ways and means committee
had two objects in view in drafting the
Payne bill One OF these was to APP
pease popular clamor with respect to
the rates upon certain schedules, and
ing more revenue. 1t now develops,
after the measure has been under dis
cusSion for two weeks or more, that
some serious mistakes have been made
in attempting to satisfy certain de-
mands on the one hand, and that the
effort to increase the revenue by rails
ing the duty upon articles heretofore
free. on the other. has brought forth
protests which cannot go unheeded.
1t is these errors which the senate
will seek 10 correct. The reductions
made in the steel and iron schedules,
which was a yielding to popular clam
or. has already led to a reduction in
wages in a large number of plants in
western Pennsylvania and Ohio While
it is probable that the old rates will not
be re-established in their entirety IN
the metals schedule, there is likely to
be readjustment which will better
meet the needs Of the situation.
Mr. Pinchot is for forest conserva-
ton, but he does not think that free
lumber would aid in the realization Of
that desire, but on the contrary that
il would interfere with it, because of
the waste which would follow the ne
cessity of leaving low grade lumber
| to rot and burn in American forests
So it is likely that the senate commits
tee will put up the lumber duty to ST.
a thousand and may restore it to the
Dingley rate of 50. 1t is also probable
! that coal now placed upon the free list
| may be restored to the dutiable list.
| The wool men have found a very dan
gerous error in their schedule which
would practically mean reduction of
| duty from II to 51s cents pound,
and here too the senate will amend
| There is likely to be an entirely new
maximum and minimum provision, for
nobody, not even the members of the
committee themselves. seems to know
| just how the Payne proposition will
| operate or what it means.
| If tea, cocoa and spices are not re-
turned to the free list, then the guess
of every we'll informed man will be
wrong. 1t is now generally conceded
| that serious mistake was made in
| placing tea upon the duitable list with
| the only excuse that it would raise
100000 in revenue.
The howl which has gone up against
this tax is second only to that which is
made against the countervailing duty
on coffee, whereby coffee, supposedly
on the frek list, is subject to a count
ervailing duty: that is, tax is i'm
posed upon all coffee coming from a
country which imposes an export duty
This means a tax upon so per cent OF
the product consumed in the United
States, and which comes from Brazil
Coffee spectators and importation in
terests have enough coffee on hand tt
last two years, and taking advantage
Of this countervailing duty would i'm
mediately put up the price, and thus
reap a gratuity of some $4,000, 900 be
fore the treasury would derive a penny
in the shape of revenue.
To make up for the loss of revenue
in placing these articles back on the