Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-04-09
D APRIL o. 1909
SOME INFANT INDUSTRIES

The Payne tariff hill contains many
queer things of interest to the American
people. \ few of them are given in the
following Washington dispatch:
They say there will BE- OPP
position TO the passage of the Payne
tariff bill aS it now stands Certain
infant industries plead that their exist
ence is imperiled 10y a paragraph here
and there in the bill, and il is known
that lobbyists are as thick at the capitol
As bees around a hive in clover time.
Therefore the bill merits careful atten.
ton. But rs a precautionary measure
il is recommended that the seeker after
knowledge provide himself with a
dictionary. an encyclopedia, a pronounc.
ing gazetteer. Il glossary and Il phar-
mAcopca.
Then, when the daily press r~ecounts
the desperate struggle on the floor Of
the house or senate AZ to the duty on
binotrotoluol, myrobolans, fcnugreek,
uIauSeI-wurZri, cudbear, malts. book.
ings. zaffer, the subject under discussion
,-,m y letter understood.
BY careful reading Of the bill one
end, IL Is possible to purchase dragons
blood in foreign countries. Heretofore
one might have supposed that this com.
modify was exhausted and that the
animals themselves had become ex-
tinct, along with the dolo. For |
thUse who want it. Balm of Gilcad
* obtainablc abroad - at least, the 1
tariff bill says it may come into
the United States free 81 duty. |
Blues are also u foreign com
modify 80 the bill informs us-pcrhaps
for those prone 10 mental cxhaltation.
Apparently lakes also can be imported.
Then, there j. bibulOus paper, which
certainly onght To BE- popular in dry
communities.
But just imagine what wild debate
will cnsue when that paragraph of the
hill is reached letting in without a cent
Of duty such things as a~nnatto, roucDu
and ricOa' And what Il bitter fight
doubtless will be waged on the floor
against placing divi.divi, gambler.
ccrium and r~esorcin on the free list.
Ht hiA'At ~ pilh = lhll 1bIs WHICH
lets in absolutely and entirely without
any levy the following: Iridium. os.
MUM. palladium. rhodium and ruthc-
mum and native combinations thereof -
California, 50 members say, is already
mp in arms against the awful possibility
of the passage Of II paragraph Of the
bill which, it is asserted, will flood the
nation with a cheap Oriental product.
That paragraph is the one admitting
free, without reservation. the obnoxious
munieet.
The worst catastrophe of all however.
will occur if paragraph Gi5 is permitted
to remain in the bill. 1t admits the
common variety OF European ''spunk'
without Il cent of duty. Almost rs
disastrous would be the adoption of the
paragraph xylol, toluidinc. xylidin.
cumidin, b~initrobcnzoi, dianisidin,
diphenylamin and bcnzaldchydc.
incidentally. there are forty-six addi
tional ton~gue.twisting words in the
same paragraph, the entire set Of lin,
guistic hurdles being taken 10y the read
ing clerk of tho house in exactly twenty
eight seconds. Previous to tackling the
job the clerks spent several hours with
a dictionary, going over the bill and
spelling ont the more difficult word.
Theoretically on the margin of the hill
Two clerks, alternating each half hour,
read the 53, 900 words of the bill i'm Jus,
-four hours and twenty minutes. For q
time one OF them kept up a pace of 28i
words u minute.
One government official, who Is con
ncctcd with the administration of a dc
tendency of the United States situated
in the tropical zone. when asked us ia
his sentiments In regard to the bill.
declared: well. the only thing | can
understand in it is that il will cost me
more hereafter To hand some one a
lemon"
Congressman Thomas Of Ohio il
struggling with n tariff puzzle tina, in.
wolves the question. "Whcn is a fish.
hook not q iishhookf"
A company in his district that manu-.
features the hooks has appealed to him
to straightcn ont IL tanglo in the tariff.
According to tho information that
reaches Thomas. the Dinglcy bill plac.
oil q duty on fishhoOks that was high
enough to foster the industry in this
country. Troubles arose, however. over
the construction of the law. The treas
ury department classified the hooks as
wire and admitted them at n greatly
reduced rate Of duty. Hooks with flies
of feathers and gay colorcd silk attached
camc IN rs feather beds and as silk.
Nov the hook manufacturers demand
that they be given q section OF the bin
devoted entirely TO fishhoOks and with
a protective duty attached.