The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-05
VOTE ON FRIDAY.
The House Committee on Rules
Brings in an Order
Limiting Amendments to the
Payne Tariff Bill.
LUMBER AND HIDES
Are Included in the Schedule
for a Separate Vote.
Insurgents Put in Busy Fore.
noon at the Capitol.

noon at the Capitol.
Washington, April 5.-The house
rules committee today reported an or
der limiting amendments to the Payne
tariff bill, to those which the ways
and means committee will report, and
to lumber, hides, barley and barley
malt schedules. An amendment I'M
posing 25 per cent ad valorem on Pc
troleum is provided for. The vote on
the bill is fixed for 8 o'clock Friday.
In anticipation of the bringing in
by the committee on rules, of an order
for the final vote on the tariff bill, the
precincts of the house were the scene
of great activity today.
''Stand pat Insurgents gathered in
numbers in the vicinity of the COM
mittee on accounts, the chairman of
which is Mr.. Hughes, of West Vir-
ginia, who presided over the Satur-
day meeting of these insurgents" Mr..
Hughes was at his desk at an excep-
tionally early hour and many of his
adherents in the stand pat movement
called during the morning in groups of
twoS and threes.
There were frequent consultations
in the speakers quarters and among
members of the rules committee, at
most of which Chairman Payne of the
ways and means committee was pres
ent.
Representative Rodenberg. of Illi-
nois, circulated a petition to the ways
and means committee, signed by 25
members, asking that the drawback
on tinplate be reduced from 80 per
cent to so per cent.
Republicans who have been insist
ing on amendments to the tariff
evinced an intention today following
their meeting of getting back on the
reservation" and voting for the tariff
rule. Their main efforts today were
directed towards keeping the lumber
schedule from coming to vote.
which they. feared would put that
commodity on the free list.
The hour of noon having been Sc
lected as the time for bringing in the
rule governing the future treatment of
the Payne tariff bill. the house today
spent the preceding two hours in con-
sidering routine business and future
general debate. There was a good at
tendance when the body met at 10
O'Clock.
Wants TO Stop Talk.
Following a motion by Chairman
Payne to take up the tariff bill, Mr..
Clark (Mo.) made parliamentary in
quiry whether general debate on the
measure could not be dispensed with
He wanted the whole bill considered
paragraph by paragraph.
I'VE are ready for that performance
now" he said.
While the chair was ruling that the
question was not parliamentary one,
the Republicans shouted for regular
order and the house was thrown into
great confusion.
The first speaker was Mr.. Bartlett
of Georgia. who advocated free lumber
0l,o- hot Ia ri,r,i-
mated against the south in favor of
New England.
Mr.. Calderhead, of Kansas, a mem
Der of the ways and means committee,
denied that special privileges were
granted to anybody by the bill.
He contended that the laborer and
the farmer we're the principal benefi-
Charles.
1.-The protection clock strikes II in
this bill as certainly as 1 am standing
here said Mr.. Burgess, of Texas, in
opposing the protective policy of the
Republican party. You are deluding,
you are making an effort to give the
people relief, but you know you are
not doing it, he exclaimed.
Views of FiIipinos.
Washington, April 5.-Messrs. Le-
garda and Ocampo. the resident Phil
ippine commissioners, today received a
cablegram from the president of the
Filipino chamber of commerce, which
thew regard as a complete rebuttal OF
the statements issued from the insular
bureau to the effect that the business
interests of the islands are favorable
to the provisions of the Payne tariff
bill. The text of the cablegram is as
follows:
Manila, April 5. 1909.
! .Legarda and Ocampo, House of Rep
resentatives, Washington:
THE Filipino chamber of commerce,
at public meeting attended by mer-
chants and manufacturers, passed a
resolution urging the following amend
ments to the Payne bill:
Free entry into all ports of the
Philippine islands of agricultural and
industrial machinery and implements,
raw products, not produced in the
islands and all material necessary for
the construction and repairing of ves-
sells.
Free entry into all ports of the
United states of Philippine sugar and
tobacco, in conformity with letters A,
B. and C of joint resolution No. IL of
the Philippines legislature passed 1908.
"And with a view of protecting i'm
portations already on hand, We re-
quest that the bill with amendments,
suggested above should not be in force
until six months after it's passage.
(Signed) HERNANDEZ,
President"
The letters referred to in the cable
gram relate to clauses limiting the
yearly importations into the United
States from the Philippines under the
900 pounds of raw tobacco and 10000
600 cigars.
KILLED RY LAWRENCE NEGRO