The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-03-12
Insurgents Brought Over
By Taft to Stand For
AIlPOssible Expedition
In Passage of Bill.
WILL RESUME THEIR FIGHT La
TEH-BILL NOW N PRESS
PROVISIONS ARE CAREFULLY
GUARDED-SPEED THE WORD.

WASHINGTON, March 11.-Rep-
resentative Watson, of Indiana, who
was the Republican whip in the last
session of congress, after a lengthy
conference with Taft today estimated
the strength of the Republican insur-
gents in the house at %.
Since the president entered the
fight. said Watson, the insurgents
have been dropping off one by one.
I'VE recognize" he said, that we
have hard fight to adopt the old
rules and preserve the organization,
but we believe we now have the mat
ter in hand and that the old rules
will be adopted. With the Payne
tariff bill ready practically to be in
troduced there is a great deal of in
terest expressed regarding 1t, but its
provisions are being carefully guard
ed"
IL Is stated that the proposition
that has given the committee the
most concern is the plan to tax cof-
fee. Some of the Republican men,
bers declare that taxing of the break
fast table will make 1t impossible to
carry their districts in the next cleo
ton.
The National Coffee and Tea assoc
citation has written the committee
that a duty of 5 cents on coffee would
mean a profit of $20.000.000 to the
owners and holders of four million
pounds of these staples now In the
country and would not bring one dol
lar into the treasury.
Paper and pulp manufacturers
have expressed great alarm over the
report that the committee would in
clude in its bill the changes in the
pulp paper schedule recommended by
the Mann company.
Speaker Cannon and Representa-
tive Vreeland today conferred with
the Republican members of the ways
and means committee regarding the
provisions of the bill. Strict secrecy
was maintained. but 1t was under
stood that the provisions reviving the
war revenue tax and the. inheritance
tax section were roughly explained
to the speaker Mr.. Cannon desires
to become thoroughly familiar with
the tariff measure In order to speec
its passage through the house in ac-
cordance with the understanding
reached at the White house confer
ence of Monday
In order to compensate in a meas
ure for the general reduction OF du-
ties provided, the subcommittee has
incorporated several provisions ex-
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These tend to prevent under valua-
tions and other methods by which
the ambiguity of the Dingley law is
taken advantage of.
To prevent the practice by which
goods imported are not assessed at
their full value proposition has been
incorporated making 1t possible for
the appraiser to base the value on ar
ticles according to the American
wholesale market prices In connec-
tion with the wholesale price at the
point of production abroad. The
provision states that in the absence
of evidence regarding the foreign
wholesale price. the appraisers may
assess the ad valorem duty on a
price not less than the wholesale !
price in this country, less the cost of
transportation.
During the tariff hearings several
instances we're brought to the atten-
tion of the committee in which i'm !
porters combined purchase of two
lots of goods, one of greater and the
other of lesser value. and secured an |
invoice by which the duty would be
paid on the goods of lesser value for !
the entire shipment. There have !
been numerous cases where the COM |
size of package on which !
the duties of Dingley tariff bill were
based have been increased. These |
are to be remedied by the |
new bill, and the committee believes
the revenue will be considerably in