The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-15
HIGH TARIFF VICTOR;
PAYNE BILL PASSES
House Refuses to Listen to Protest
of Women on Increase on
Gloves and Hosiery.
LUMBER TARIFF UNDISTURBED
Oil, However, Is Placed on Free List
Vote of 217 to 161 Passes
Measure.

The Payne tariff bill. almost without
a scratch, was accepted by the House
of Representative in Washington. with
vote of 2i7 to 161 Friday night.
1t was almost pure party vote, Con-
gressmen Brcussard, Estepinal. Pujo
and Wickliffe, Democrats. of Louisiana,
who have been with the Republican
leaders on almost everything, voted
with the Republicans on the final roll
call. Justin of Tennessee was the only
Republican to 20 into the Democratic
camp on the final vote.
The final days work on the Payne
bill proved a series OF victories for the
Payne Ways and Means Comnittee
Every feature of the document that was
finally accepted had the approval of
the committee. Much of this. however
was due TO the efforts of the. committee
to avoid threatening defeats. This was
particularly the case in the rates on
oil, barley and barley malt
Committee Submits to Free OIL.
The committee had fought bitterly
against putting oil on the free list. but
gave up the fight Friday, and it was ON
Chairman Payne's motion that all du-
ties on oil and oil products were strick-
en- off.
On barley and barley malt the COM
mittee had fought against an increase.
and in its first fight triumphed. But
the votes of the barley men were reed
ed to save the committees stand on
lumber and hides. and the barley and
malt rates were increased.
No changes were made in the hosiery
and gloves schedule. although the Dem
ocrats included this in their motion for
a recommitment. 1t was buried there,
however, with Il long list of other Dem
ocratic demands, including an income
tax
The other changes in the bill, which
were made during the last four days by
the committee of the whole, were ac-
cepted by viva voce vote. This in
Guided putting tea and coffee on the
free list
House Packed.
The House and the galleries were
packed for the last day of the fight.
and during most of the voting the buzz
of conversation almost drowned out the
call of the roll. When the subject I'M
der vote was particularly uninterest-
ing and no one seemed to pay any at
tention, the House seemed like cross
between boiler factory and session
of the ID. A. r. Time and again Speak
er Cannon almost splintered a gavel in
getting the members to listen TO the
roll calls.
1t was good natured battle. al
though at the outset there was a storm
of parliamentary debate over the meth
DDS of procedure. When it got under
way, however, things moved more
smoothly. There were ten roll calls in
all, four on the lumber schedules, one
on barley malt. two on hides, one on
oil, one on recommitment and one on
the final vote. With the exception Of
the last two, the party vote was badly
split.
IIIinoisnns for Free Lumber.
The first question which was voted
on was motion to put lumber on the
free list. Fifty-four Republicans went
over to the Democrats on this, and
thirty-five Democrats reciprocated. This
brought the result to 1S4 for free lum-
Der to 1913 against. Three other free
lumber propositions containing minor
changes went down TO defeat in turn.
by votes of $50 to 200, 1873 to 244 and
153 to 22S.
Then came the barley and barley
malt issue, in which the increased rates
already approved by the committee
were put into the bill. Here again party
lines were broken. Then came the vote
on free hides; eight Republicans join
ing the Democrats for free hides. On
the oil vote, two Illinoisans, both Re
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