Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-03-23
Sixty-first Congress.
Washington, March %.
SENATE.

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Washington, March %.
SENATE.
The Senate was not is session to isy
having adjourned on Monday TIL Thus
day.
HOUSE.
Mr. Payne began bis second days
speech in exposition of the tariff oil
when the House convened at IL O'Clock
today.
There were a crowd Of questionefs
clustered around him and before he
could resume his discussion he was
forced to reply to e dozen or more
queries.
In answer to a question BY Mr.. Nor
ris, Mr.. Payne said that about billion
pounds of coffee we're consumed In the
United Ststes each year but he wss un-
able to state what portion OF that came
from Brbzl,
He once more evaded an attempt Dy
Mr.. Moore, TO pin him down to an ad.
mission a, to whether opportunity
would be given for amendment to The
bill. Mr.. GIrett, aroused Payue's ire
by suggesting thai, taking the bill as q
whole, 1t was revision up6ard.
"The gentleman is not fair to the
committee or to me-" Mr.. Payne
shouted. "Auy intelligent man, if he
read the bill carefully, would see that
it is q revision downward" BE, how
ever, stated that as far IS revenue was
concerned, the bill had an upward
trend, but denied emphatIcally that 1t
hal any tendency otherwise.
Mr. Longworth suggested that, Of one
hundred and thirty paragraphs 10 the
Dingley bill the tariff In the Payne bill
was lower on the same commodities and
that it was only a raise on commodities
10 thirty paragraphs.
M. Garner also got g rise out Of Mr.
Payne by insisting that be elucidste the
Intention OF the committee 10 regard to
hides, the Texan demanding high pro-
tectIve duty.
In answer to another question, Mr..
Payne declared that statement would
soon be issued bF the committee con-
tanning comp r- Il of the ad vslorem
In h. 1rate a md the proposed bill.
He thea b an exposition Offurther
items in the ID al schedules beginning
With tin-plste, declaring that sufficient
protection was contemplated to the tin
plate industry. "If we had followed the
argument of the minority aud fixed
duty which would have afforded no pro-
lection to this industry, possibly we
might have secured additional revenue
but this was not desirable, where ex-
tinclion of the industry would have re-
suited"
Mr.. Payne discussed an investigation
of the file industry which disclosed that
the manufacture was mainly a mstter Of
machinery.
Mr.. Payne discussed various other
sections of the bill lacking those who
opposed them. he condemned the
folly OF men who based criticism on in-
complete information and "come 10
here trying to build up scandal and to
make statements intended to scare
people," He SAID that 40 per cent Of the
hides used here had 10 be imported.
Mr.. Weisse, who is tanning expert,
aided Mr.. Payne by declaring that so per
cent OF the tides in this country came
from the packers and butchers aud only
20 per cent direct from the farmers. Mr..
Payne made a general assault on the
hide trust and the Big Four Of the pack
srs.
Mr.. Young made bitter attack ou
the meat tfust. He said that the trust
hsd gone from the meat business into
the tanning business, and established
hesdduarters in Boston for the sale of
leather. The next step, he said, would
take them into the manufacture of shoes
aud the people would be at their mercy.