The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-02
PAYNE BILL IS CALLED
 HUGE JOKE BY CRITICS
 OF MEASURE IN HOUSE
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ard oil company and the rich. but you forgot the laboring man, the dinner pail laborer."
 lengthy discussion of the steel bust ness, especially as 1t would be affected by the free admission of iron ore, was pre- sented by MT. Young of Michigan, who urged that a duty should be placed on the ore. He opposed placing hides and coal on the free list and contended that the countervailing duty on coffee and the duty on tea should be stricken from that measure MT. Young criticised the testl- mony given before the ways and means committee by Andrew Carnegie, and sad
 that one of the principal reasons urged for placing iron ore on the free list lis
 the assumed fact, based largely on some loose statements made by MT. Carnegie
 at the first conservation congress, that our iron ore was approaching exhaustion.
 No greater mistake could be made In-
 stead of a scarcity of Iron ore in this
 country, the amount known to exist is SO
 enormous as almost to stagger belief. He
 said it is estimated that 5000 ,00OOOO tons
 of iron exist in Michigan, Wisconsin and
 Minnesota. D
 He deplored the prospect of competition
 with the Cuban iron ore, claiming that
 the difference in cost of labor here and
 in Cuba was very great
 Income ak FaVoreo.
 Devoting himself to a discussion of
 the Payne bill from revenue stand
 point, Mir Finley of South Carolina ex-
 pressed himself in favor of an income
 tax. He said that an inheritance tax
 belongs more properly to state. He
 opposed the countervailing duty on cof- fee and favored a reduction in the sugar schedule. He said the placing of duty on cotton bagging and cot ton ties was discrimination against the cotton farmer. MT. Finley also criticised the issuance of additional Panama canal bonds
 The free list of the Payne bill was again ridiculed by MT. Floyd of Arkan- sas. who said that it allowed free tapioca for buildings, turtles for soup and bologna for meat. He discussed hides and leather and many other ar ticles of which the duties have been changed.
 At o'clock the House took a recess until o'clock.
 The night sesion of the House began at 8 o'clock Mr. Thomas of Kentucky, a new democratic member, was recog-
 nized first to make his maiden speech. I By quoting figures from Dun's review, Mir Thomas endeavored to show that the price of labor had decreased 50 :, per cent instead of increased 19 per | cent as claimed by the bureau of labor | He based his contention on the claim l that the cost of living had increased 1 49 per cent.
 Stating that he desired to supple ment the remarks made by MT. Gaines l of West Virginia, made earlier In the I day MT Hughes of the same state, dis cussed the reciprocity provision for | bituminous coal.
 l Free Iron Orc.
 | Deprecating the provisions in the 1 Payne bill which place iron ore on the l free list and reduce the duties on pig 1 iron and steel MT. Reynolds of Penn /, svlvania said that free iron ore would not help the independent manufacturer | of pig iron to the extent to which the l dutv on the latter had been reduced. | He praised the Payne bill generally. l MT. Hamlin of Missouri speakingf In op- nosition. asserted that the Payne bill' l ike previous republican measures, was 1 written by the protective interests. lie said wrong impression had gone out l about the proposed rates on agr1cul- 1 tuLal implements. Instead of being ad- 1 mitted free of duty they Will De taAeu | Ao nor cent He contended that the l Standard Oil company is protected
 peculiarly by existing law, and that the 1 pavne bill does nothing to bring re lief to the consumers of the Standard l products. | bill is based upon misinformatioh was
 claimed by MT. Hughes. who gave many 1 sfrures regarding the cost of producing
 coal in the United States and Canaoa'