The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-04-08
TARIFF ON LUMBER
Free Traders Get a KnOck.0u'
Blow.
WILL VOTE ON BILL FRIDAY

Speeches on the Tariff Have Ended
And Amendments Are Now Being
offered to the BiII-F1orida Sem
ator Wants Duty on Cotton to Pro-
tect Southern Industry-Renounce
Bryan and His Works-LiveIy
Scene in House.
Washington, April Wrangling.
confusion, captious objections. per-
sonalities and language bordering on
vituperation, marked the first days
discussion Of the Payne tariff bill for
amendment in the House to-day
With practically Il full attendance.
the members were brought up to a
high tension and were prepared to
fight to the last ditch for those things
which their constituencies were de-
manding.
sumed in discussion of the lumber
and hides schedules. Led by Mr..
Tawney tMinnD, the advocates of
free lumber in the rough went down
to defeat by a narrow margin of six
votes, following the striking out of
the cOuntervailing duty on lumber.
An overwhelming majority was
mustered against an amendment by
Mr. Scott (Kansas) taking hides from
the free list and fixing duty upon
them of 10 per cent ad valorem.
The barley schedule came in for
a lively discussion and when the bill
was laid aside for the day there were
two amendments, one raising the rate
In the Payne bill from fifteen cents to
twenty-five cents a busheI and the
other fixing the rate at 10 per cent ad
valOrem.
The sum total of the days work,
with the exception of the elimination
of the cOuntercailing duty on lumber
which was a committee amendment,
was to leave the bill in identically the
condition in which the committee re-
ported it. This grants free raw hides
and a duty of one dollar per thousand
on sawed lumber.
The FOrdney amendment to the
lumber schedule adopted by the
House, strikes out the proviso in pa
ragraph 1877 of the Payne bill. The
paragraph fixes the duty on sawed
In mi at dollar nd
and also fixes the duty on other class
es of lumber. The proviso requires
that the maximum rate provided for
in sections three and four of the bill
shall be imposed on lumber coming
from any country to the United
States or which in any other way re-
tricts the expectation of lumber or
other forest products to this country.
The paragraph was directed especial
ly against Canada and in case of dis
elimination would have had the eff
feet of increasing the rates provided
for in the main portion of the para
graph.
South Should Share in Benefits of
Tariff
Washington. April 5.-In anticipa-
ton of the bringing by the Commit
tee on rules of an order for the final
vote on the tariff bill the precincts
of the House of Representatives were
the scene Of great activity and the
center of intense interest from an
early nour to-day. Indeed from the
moment that the outer doors of the
south wing of the Capitol were open
ed members began to congregate,
and by 10 o'clock, a large majority
of the members of the House were
in the building if not on the floor.
Mr. Clark, Democrat, of Florida,
got a round of Republican applause
when he said that incidental protec-
ton absolutely was necessary in GER
tain cases. Mr. Clark declared that
all legislation was the result of COM
promise Il don't expect to write
the tariff bill for this majority he
exclaimed. but I say to you that il
they put into this what my people
want. what they sent me here to get,
| shall not dictate to them what else
they shall put into it, The Repub-
licans again applauded and cheered
and the House was thrown into ar
uproar when Mr. Randell asked 'i1
the gentleman believes in the doc
trine that if a representative here
gets some of the swag, he ought tC
go with the Republicans in making
this BILL
Mr.. Clark took violent exception tt
the use of the word "swag," and saiC
that as long as the people of tn
South had to bear the burdens of tn
protective tariff system, they at least
ought to have a division of the bene
fits. Call it swag if you WISH" h
said.
He called attention to memorial
of the Florida Legislature that
duty be put on Egyptian and othe
long staple cotton coming into tn
United States in competition with ii
Sea Island cotton, al Se lat duty b
put on citrous fruit '>t:o nples an
the like. And" he Z;s I'd.
am instructed in that rega- n
hawkers and Opiniated Democl y
make me violate a solemn obliga>
owe"
Florida Senator Renounces Bryan
Il will tell you what I want II
country to understand" he said d
liberately. I'VE don't intend, so f;
as I am concerned, and I believe II