Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-04
REPUBLICANS TO
TAKE TAX FROM
COFFEE AND TEA
REvISIoNISTs COMPELLED TO
F0REG0 DUTY
coNoREssMEN DECIDE TO OFFER
FIFTY AMENDMENTS
Thirty Members of Lower House Pc
tltlon Payne to Place Tariff
on Coal, iron and
Hides

w ASHINGTON, April 3.-Fearing
w that the demands which they
" have made for an opportunity
to vote on some of the principal sched-
ules in the Payne tariff bill might re-
suit in changes which they consider
mort disadvantageous than the pro-
visions now in the bill. nearly thirty
Republican members of the house met
today and agreed upon the changes
which they desired to have submitted
In the form of committee amendments.
At the same time "a meeting of all
the members of the ways and means
committee was in progress to pass
upon the amendments which the sub
committee of Republican members had
submitted.
The committee will report about fifty
amendments, including those striking
oft the countervailing duty on coffee,
and the duty on tea.
Inferring that they would vote
against any rule to restrict amend
ments to the Payne bil1 unless the
changes they desired were provided for
by the ways and means committee, the
Republicans who met today decided to
send the following petition to Chair
man Payne:
1t was claimed by the leaders of the
movement that fully fifty signatures
of Republican members would be sub
scribed to the petition by Monday un-
less the committee offers their amend
ments.
Besides taking off the duty on tea
and coffee, the ways and means COM
mittee decided today to report numer-
Gus other amendments reducing the
duties in the original bills.
Reduce Duty on Peas
fn
% cents a bushel, 5 cents less than at
present. ~
Evergreen seedlings and Glove stems
were placed on the free list. -
The phraseology of the paragraph de-
fining the term cotton clothing ana
the method of determining the count
of threads to the square inch, which
would have increased the duty on cot
toe cloth to two or three hundred per
cent, was amended to read the same as
In the Dingley law.
Minor changes were made in the
paragraphs covering linoleum, horse
hair goods, wood pulp and print paper,
cutlery and wire.
THE duty on charcoal iron is increased
TO $40 ton. while all CLUES are assessed
at % per cent ad valorem.
Guernsey ware, lacquered figured cur
tains and table covers are especially
pIOflQC0 lOt.
The Dingley rates on collars and cuffs
are restored, while shoestrings have a
special duty of so cents per gross pair,
and 10 per cen tadvalorem provided.
Other Changes Suggested
A reduction of 10 per cent ad valorem
is made in the duty on Photographic
papers. Several crude gums for MAX
ing varnish are placed on the free list.
dutv of fifteen n-hundredthS of a
cent per pound is imposed on copperas
or sulphate of iron, which was on the
free list
The duty on crude and manufactured
fluorspar is fixed at $3.50 per ton.
Net and netting machinery are In
cluded in the paragraph which permits
the free entry of all embroidery and
making machinery prior to July,
1911.
An increase of so per cent ad valorem
is made in the duty on briar root and
briar wood, while the duty on carbon
electrodes used for manufacturing Is
lowered Is per cent ad valorem.