Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-20
FAILURE WAS
 ON FACE 0F
 THE MEASURE
Payne Tariff Bill, Pet Measure of the Taft Administration is Joke From One End to the Other

WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 19.-I Eailure-this was the word indelibly written across the Taft administra ton tariff bill that passed the house of representatives. in the view of ex- perts who have now had time to weigh the measure carefully and ren- der a verdict.
 Filled with jokers that pretend to reduce the schedules but that actual ly advance them, reeking with evi- dence of political barter and myster- ious elevtnth- hour changes at the hands of the committee on ways and means. the now famous Payne bill is in the hands of the senate. It is conceded even by many republicans that the upper house of congress must practically either reframe the bill throughout in the interest of the consumer or prepare to face defeat in the coming congressional elections.
 Will the senate prove itself to be freer from trust influence than the house? Time will tell. If the Payne bill is improved from the standpoint of the people it will be the first time the upper house of congress ever yielded to popular opinion during the consideration of a tariff bill. The Wilson bill, it is recalled, went to the senate endorsed by the people and after over 600 changes was enacted into law along lines dictated by the trusts.
 The special interests still have | representation in the senate. Big | industries that contributed heavily | to republican campaign funds will probably have their way In the end, but not without some difficulty. There are a few insurgents in the senate who will stand with the democrats | in a fight for real revision down
 ward. An interesting fight will un doubtedly occur between the stand pat crowd, headed by Aldrich, and the progressive element of the repup- | iican party and the democrats. | From the first to last the Payne bill dscriminates against the south and west in favor of the New Eng land states. There appears to be little hope of this feature being i'm proved in the senate.
 Here are other striking features of the Payne bill:
 It fails to provide adequate reve- nue to run the government. The dem locrats declare this feature alone brands it a fiasco.
 It fails to provide for an income tax. but creates an inheritance tax
 which is already on the statute books
 of thirty-three states and will there
 fore mean double taxation.
 It does not provide for a perma
 nent tariff commission, which Pres
 ident Taft says he approves of.
 It raises the cost of many neces ] sites, and fails utterly to carry out , the promise President Taft made ir his inaugural address of advancement of few schedules. ''if any"
 ] It plainly discriminates against the poor in favor of the rich. In advanc | ing the rates on necessities the com mittee taxed the class of articles that | would be principally purchased by the poor much higher than the class i of goods purchased practically ex ? clusiyely by the wealthy.
 : These are the principal. flaws 1T
 the great republican tariff bill whict ? Ihas just been turned out of the Can
 non-DalzeH-Payne legislative hopper f And no mention has been made o } the hardships imposed upon the con l sumer by particular increases of du : ties, as on gloves, hosiery, cocoa s spices of nearly all kinds, lumber ant
 agricultural implements.
 In contrast to the Payne bill, thu democrats declare, the resolution in
 troduced by Minority Leader Chaml h l Clark to recommit the measure | " the ways and means committee witl n instructions to make certain amend . ments will go down in tariff histor- . as an earnest to the country of wha i. the democratic members favored. Here are some of the amendment :, of the Clark resolution, which wa , | introduced just before the vote O !, the Payne measure, and was rejecte 2 by the republican majority.
 Reduce the duties carried by tn n bill to revenue rates, so as to rais l, the maximum of revenue with tn s minimum of burden of the America n people, so adjusting the rates ( a duty as to deal fairly with both prt
 ducer and consumer, with due regar
 to the needs of the government.
 Provide for a graduated tax
 be levied on incomes.
 Amend by placing leather, ha
 lness, boots, shoes and all products { n leather on the free list
 M Amend by placing articles ente t ing into comeptition with trusted
 ltrolIed products upon the free list.
 Place cocoa upon the free list Cl
 laH increases made in the Payne bi II on hosiery and gloves.
 Amend by placing all agricuitur;
 Implements on the free list.
 Amend by adding the followir
 paragraph: Whenever the presidel
 shah he satisfied that the urfce ,
 any commodity or article of merchal disc has been enhanced in cons IT. auence of any monopoly or trust y the United States. he shall issu D. his proclamation suspending the co to lection of all customs duties or iI n port taxes on like articles of me in chandise or commodities brougl m from foreign countries