Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-13
Bill Reported and Senate Adjourns
Before House Message is Received.
QUEER PARLIAMENTARY TANGLl
Probability that Senate Committee
Will Make Change Requested.
PERIOD SHOULD BE A COMMA
This slip Has Eject of Placing Duty
of Twenty Per Cent Ad ValOrem
on ByprOducta of Pc
troleum.
CFrom a staff Correspondent.)


WASHINGTON. April 12-(special Tele-
gram. m.)-Unexpectedly, but with the evident
purpose of preventing the house from Sc
curing the return of the Payne bill to that
body for the purpose OF correction. Senator
Aldrich, chairman of the finance COM
mlttee of the senate. reported the tariff
bill today at exactly five minutes after
Il o'clock. After a short statement on the
part OF Mr.. Aldrich and a kick" on the
part of Senators Daniels and Culbertson
against the manner IN which the majority
had treated the minority during the con-
sideration of the several tariff schedules,
the senate adjourned without receiving the
message OF the recall of the bill from the
house. which passed that body unanimously
in order that the ''joker In the oil schedule
could be properly framed to meet the po-
sition taken by the house on crude oil and
products thereof"
Representative Payne, anticipating the
resolution from Congressman Norris,
calling the so-called Payne tariff bill so
that omission from the free list provided
for in section 2 of that bill Affecting prod
ucts of petroleum might be correcting by
substituting a period for comma, was on
his feet imediately after the convening of
the house with resolution recalling the
bill and which, as said before was adopted
without debate by the house.
Just what the parliamentary situation
will be on Thursday is not exactly clear.
Courtesy between the two bodies would
seem to warrant the return of the bill
for corrections sought to be made in the
oil schedule. but in view Of the fact that
the finance committee has ordered this bill
reported with sundry amendments, to which
the minority dsagrees a most interesting
situation arises. Is this a house bill or
senate bill? If a senate bill. made so
by senate amendments. has not the house
lost it's control over the measure by hav-
ing been sent in good faith to the senate.
VIII He Corrected by Senate.
No one believes but that slip of a period
for a comma will be corrected. for the
slip affects countless articles made from
petroleum. like vaseline and kindred oils,
which bill under its present reading places
a dut yof 20 per cent ad vaIorem Whether
the bill will be returned to the house for
corrections sought Is problematical. II is
thought the finance committee when it re-
ports additional amendments already agreed
upon, in the new print of the bill author
ized for issue tomorrow morning, that
these corrections will be made and neces-
sity for its return eliminated.
The bill reported by Senator Aldrich, as
viewed by majority members OF the fl
nance committee, is generally thought to be
a much farer measure than the bill which
the house passed. While in some schedules
It makes radical changes in the Payne bill
it is thought to be much more largely in
the interest of the consumer than the house
measure. The market basket is very con-
gNnA H. ,.rf.
yachts. European makes of automobiles.
foreign grown barley, foreign champagnes,
mineral waters. still wines and other arti-
cles which America is making or growing,
have been advanced to almost prohibitive
extent Coffee. tea and cocoa are placed
on free list. The duty on sugar Is re-
duced four one-hundredths of one per cent
Duty on Pumice stone.
Pumice stone. in which Nebraska Is
greatly interested, is left as under the
Dlngley law. but with an additional Sec
ton added providing for 50 per cent ad
valorem duty in manufacturers OF pumice
stone 'or of which pumice stone is COM
ponent material OF chief value" This
| change being made necessary to meet de-
cision of the supreme court of the United
States.
To the farmer ~he bill will commend itself
particularly for II gives him additional
| protection over the Dingley rate. Oats are
raised from Is to 20 cents per bushel; corn,
10 to 20 cents; rye, 10 to 20 cents; wheat, %
to 30 cents. and hops, Il to Is cents per
pound. Barley is raised over the house
bill from "a to so cents, re-establishing the
Dingley rate. Shingles are the same as in
the house bill at 90 cents per thousand.
| same as the Dingley rate.
! Hides and coal are not included in the
bill, being left for later action on the part
/ OF the committee.
Treasury experts are now at work esti-
| mating revenues which this new bill will
produce and which Senator Aldrich hopes
to have in comprehensive shape for presen-
tation on Thursday.