The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-09
In Expectation of Exciting Proceed
inss Galleries Were Packed
and Every Member Was
in His Seat.
LOBBYISTS ARE : JsY
Strenuous Endeavors Being Made to
Line up Members Before Final
Vote is Taken-Petitions
and Protests.

WASHINGTON, April 9.-As today's
proceedings of the house promised to
be exciting, and more hitsoric there
was great crush when Speaker Can.
non called the house to order at
noon. All members received instruc-
t1ons that it was necessary for them
to be in their seats every moment
while the final votes on the tariff bill
and. its amendments would be taken.
( 1t looked from the gallery as though
all were present. Lobbyists display
ed extraordinary energy before the
session IN efforts to line up members
for objects i'll which they are interest
ed. Interest was displayed by mem
bers In petitions in Chicago asking
that reduction be made in the higher
duties on gloves and hosiery. imposed
by the Payne bill Foss of Illinois.
opened the proceedings by asking
/ permission to submit a petition to the
mouse. The rule of the house is to
place petitions and protests in the
hands OF the clerk and they will he
placed in record without being call
ed publically to the attention of the
members.
! Foss thought the Chicago demon
stration entitled special considera-
tion and asked unanimous consent to
tell the house about it. Morse. of
Pennsylvania, said he would object
unless he was given time to present
statistics of the other side of the case.
Other members objected SO the peti-
tons remained before the~ahouse IN
formally. Payne, chairman of the
ways and means committee proposed
that petroleum and its products be
placed on the free list. Payne explain.
ed the sentiment the house seemed to
he in for free oil, and thought it better
to have it so than to let the duty OF
one per cent advalorem voted by a
committee of the whole the other day
stand on the bill BY an unanimous
coneent petroleum and its products
were placed on the free list
A Shot at Oil
Another shot was taken at oil today
The ways and means committee PRINT
ed a record of the list of articles or
which the maximum traiff will be i'm
posed in tariff wars with other coun
tries. At a meeting of the committee
today. it was decided TO recommend
that oil he stricken from the list
PAYNE brought up this matter in th'
committee of the whole, and his prop
osition was adopted unanimously. Tht
affect of this if enacted into Law
would be that no tariff could be placet
on oil even in retaliation to hostile
duties levied in America by othe
, tries.
Inc committee of the whole OF
Payne's suggestion also took from th'
list. articles of wood pulp and bassi
Stag. the latter used in making fer
tilizer. Bartlett of Georgia. offered al
amendment that cotton ties and BAG
ging be placed on the free ilst IN
chair sustained Payne's point OF orde
against Bartlett's amendment DAVIS
Republican. of Minnesota, offered a.
amendment exempting from the max
mum provisions hewn timber an
). rough lumber A spir ted debate el
> sued during which Payne appealed .
/ his coherts to rush things throusi
:, Tho amendment was disagreed TO o.
+ a rising vote, 1873 to l99
6 Petroleum on Free List.
), IN motion of PAYNE, the house i
E the committee of the whole this aftel
/ noon placed petroleum and Its pro
e ducts on free list, An nendmen
e edopted Wednesday had reduced it on
e cent advolorem
T. Bill Reported Back.
II At exactly three o'clock TINS af1el
;. noon Chairman Olmstead Of the con
J. mittee of the whole, reported the la
il iff bill as amended back to the nous
d N regular executive session