Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-04
TARIFF WILL RE RUSHED
 ID A FINISH
Entire Country Is Desirous of Having Tariff Dispute Set tied at the Earliest Possible Moment

WASHINGTON, April 3.-Accord- ing to the present plan of the high priests of the tar'f bill. 1t is proposed to wait until the house is in the frame of mind to pass a special rule which will dispose of that measure in short order
 The country undoubtedly wants the tariff dispute settled at the earliest possible time, but ii can of course much better have that time delayed a great deal than to have the settle ment proceed upon the wrong basis. It is the scheme of the ways and means leaders to frame a rule whicn will relieve the members of the house of the necessity of going on record on some of the most important scheG- ules of the tariff bill.
 This Is an old legislative tric and it has been worked so often that certain members of the house are becoming restless. Mir. Payne and his lieutenants propose to have a vote or two on a few things they don't care about. They are not anxious to reduce the tariff on lumber, and so they are willing that there should be a vote on that paragraph of the wood schedule. They also are ready to concede that the house might vote in regard to free hides or free iron ore. and possibly one or two other things.
 Plan Bar to AmenGments-
 the maximum allowed under the fran The present plan contemolstes an iron bound rule which will prevent Ill. -g.-a. any amendment or securing any sen arate vote on the hosiery iniquity, the proposed steal in regard to gloves. and the failure to reduce the tariff on cotton goods. woolen goods, and s'1k gods, although the rates on those articles are notoriously prohibitory al the present time.
 If the plan for a rule goes through members will be enabled to go back to their constituents, particularly the women. and say they gladly would have voted for a reduction on gloves and cotton hosiery, woolen, cottn ana s'lk goods. except for the fact thai MT. Payne, Mir. Dalzell. MT. Bcutel and other members of the ways and means committee were afraid to trus the house on these schedules.
 There is no reason in the world why the house of representative: should not have a chance to amend every paragraph of the Payne tarif bill That is what the house of rep reseDtatives is for. There Is no ap parent reason why it should delegat to the ways and means committee al it's legislative power and then vote fo the tar f bill, practically as a whole
 The big appropriation bills. carryini millions of money, are considered fin by line and paragraph by paragraph in a committee of the whole Pain stalking inquiry s made as to the pun pose of each provision in the bill. am yet these measures on the whole pro vide for but a single year of the opel ation of the government.
 Will Close Ears to Protest.
 The tariff bill is intended to stan for many years. It was framed by committee wh ch is notoriously oppo! cd to any kind of revision downward Knowing that the people would lik 10 hold their representatives respons bIe for those schedules which are O fensive. the members of the ways an means committee have resorted { the old scheme of a special rule .whic prohibits amendments except on eel Id SCNtuuicS ana CtEldlI p8Ie graphs Of those schedules.
 If Mir. Payne's scheme goes throug it will be impossible for any membe to pay any attention whatsoever ( the protest of the women against tn increased taxation on gloves and hoi iery and the general Indignation tba the present high rates on cotton. sii and woolen goods should be maiT tainec. They VII have to vote for c against the tariff bill as Q whole. an many republicans would not like ( put themselves on record apparent as being opposed to tarin revisio when. in fact. they were only oppo ing certain sections Of that revisoI
 Mr. Payne and bis assoc 'ates ar well aware of the fact that througi out all the western states there rising wave of public opiniO against those schedules which hay been dictated by the cotton and woo