Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-07
NOW CLAIM SUCCESS
Leaders Predict Support of
Ways and Means Committee.
BREAK IN PARTY LINES
Southern Democrats Join Eastern
Republicans.
VOTE ON LUMBER SIGNIFICANT
Regarded as Shifting in Sentiment
Bitterness Felt Over Yes
terday's Divisions.
VOTE ON LUMBER SIGNIFICANT

Based upon the divisions manifested in
Yesterdays votes. the House leaders
claimed today that the Payne tariff bill
would pass the House framed along the
lines laid down by the committee on ways
and means and that the amendments
would conform 10 the recommendations Of
the committee.
Profound significance IS attached to the
vote in the House Yesterday sustaining
the protective tariff on rough lumber. The
incident is declared 10 mark shifting III
the protection sentiment from the middle
west to the south. l; may mean that in
the future the south. joining with New
England and the eastern states. Will have
IL fight for the protective tariff principle
against the Mississippi valley and the
west.
After all the theorizing declaimins.
talking ard buncombe. the essential fact
was developed that the democratic and
supposedly low-tarif states Of Arkansas.
Mississippi Alabama, Louisiana, FLORIDA,
Georgia. North and South Carolina.
Texas. Tennessee and Kentucky furnished
from among their representatives the
votes to protect the lum0er- producing in
dustry OF the United States against tile
onslaught Of free traders marching from
hitherto protectionist states to the on
slaught on lumber.
Without those votes all but two or
three being cast by the democrats, the
republican party would have written free
trade in rough lumber into a republican
protectioniSt bill.
Discord Among Democrats.
The voting Of yesterday has left the
democratic ranks torn with discord. and
personal bitterness runs high. Dissenters
from the party program are scored by
their colleagues and held up to scorn and
consumely, which. however. they are bear
ing with Christian fortitude, as they re
call that some of those who berate them
most vigorously were themselves found
supporting proposition 10 put tariff
on hides.
To be sure, the democrats who voted
for a duty on hides excuse their seeming
inconsistency with the comforting argu
ment that such a duty is necessary Ito
raise revenue 1t happens that the 10
per cent duty on hides, however. would
afford protection just as effectively as
protection is granted for protection S sake
alone on other items in the bill.
\ handful of democrats, setting the
standard of protection far in advance of
the hesitating rank and file of the democ
racy, had the courage to come out openly
in justification Of their action and to say
that they wanted the industries of the
south protected on the principle of pro-
lection. and not incidentally along with
raising revenue.
1t is predicted on many sides that the
seed which was sown in yesterdays vote
will take root in southern democratic soil
and that these days of April are witness
ing the beginning of the breakup of old
tariff policies in the south.
Bitterness Among Republicans.
There is also bitterness among the re-
publcans over the dsaffection to party
policy shown by the Prairie state repub-
licans on the lumber vote The charge
of Inconsistency Is made against these
erstwhile protectionists vehemently as
the democrats make 1t against their
brethren.
Like tall pine standing in some de-
forested field of his native state, now
shorr of its timber. Mr.. Tawney of Min
nesota is the mark for the lightning's
bolts darling from the lowering clouds on
the republican side. But Mr. Tawney is
as Indifferent as the NEUROLOGICAL Ajax
and as defiant.
1t is recognized as a case Of life and
death for Mr. Tawney. His denomination
70 Congress Is said to depend upon his
standing for free lumber and a paradox
zeal insistence upon a duty on barley. He
was beaten on lumber, but he made
good fight and came within seven votes
of winning He will wait for the clouds
To roll by
What the effect may be upon his future
influence in the House remains 10 be
developed. 1t is a primary fact, how
ever. that Mr.. Tawney first has to get
himself nominated and elected TO the
House before he can have any influence
there. and his present efforts are devoted
10 the initial steps.
No Duty on Hides.
The factions in the House continued
all yesterday afternoon the ''grab-bag"
scramble around the tariff bill in their
efforts to fix duties on different COM
modities TO suit the interests Of their re
spective constituencies.
The granger statesmen asked for free
lumber. but a duty on hides: they got
neither. Lumber was protected and hides
made free of duty.
Tie sou; hern democrats from the lum-
Der producing states got theirs" in a
duty on lumber, but their colleagues from
Texas were denied protection on hides.
II was pronounced poetic justice.
A lively discussion was precipitated
over an amendment by Mr.. Scott (kanJ
fixing duty of ~ per cent ad valorem
on raw hides.
Discussing the amendment. Mr.. Hill
Comm declared that the proposed duty
on hides was simply "a surrender to
Chicago monopoly"
Rank nonsense" shouted Mr.. Mann
Gid, all the way across the chamber.
II am for free hides myself" he said,
but that is rank nonsense.
The amendment was lost, JOG TO 166.
An unsuccessful attempt was made by
Mr.. Clark fMoD to put leather and all
products of leather the free lis, the
chair deciding that the special rule did
not apply TO that section.
The northwestern farmers demanded
protection on their barley-the same men
who earlier in the day had tried TO pre-
vent the lumbermen of Michigan and
Washington from receiving protection.
The present rate on barley is 30 cents
SbaI no to
IL to II cents. and the farmers want to
raise II TO - cents.
The House was struggling over this
item when the hour of adjournment
rived
Election Row Ends Fatally.
PINE BLUFF. Ark. April 7.-Folowing