The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-16
PAYNE TARIFF BILL
PASSES HOUSE BY A
Good MAJORITY
PUT MEASURE
THROUGH AFTER DEFEATING
AMENDMENTS.
PADGETT OPPOSED FREE LUMBER
Drawback Amendment Offered BY
Payne-Intended TO Prevent Spec
ulation in Grain-crude Petroleum
On Free List.


WASHINGTON, April 10.-With but
three hours remaining in which to per
feet II before being finally voted upon,
the House Friday resumed consider
alton of the Payne tariff bill. There
was practically full membership and
feeling was at fever heat.
At the suggestion of Chairman Payne
the action of the House in fixing a
rate of per cent ad valorem on crude
petroleum and its products was by
unanimous consent reversed and the
articles placed on the free list.
The committee amendments, with
! the exception of those affecting tea
coffee, barley and barley malt We're
adopted in a lump and without divis-
ion.
The House adopted the committee
amendment placing tea on the free
list without restriction.
Mr.. Payne, of New York, offered the
committee amendment to the draw
back section of the bill, which was
finally adopted. It is intended to pre-
vent the use of the drawback privi-
leges for the purpose of specializing
in grain.
A further proviso, which affects all
articles on which drawback may be
collected stipulates that proof must
be given that the imported material.
upon which the drawback is allowed
on a domestic article, has actually
been manufactured.
The provision for the countervailing
duty on lumber was stricken out by
viva voce vote.
Mr.. Clark, of Missouri, forced a
roll call on his amendment striking |
out the whole of Section 1877 providing
for duty on dressed lumber 1t was
defeated-ayes 1853, nays 228.
Undaunted, Mr.. Tawney called up
his amendment placing on the free
list hewn lumber and sawed and
planned lumber, covered by Sections
1876 and 1877, and yea and nay vote
was ordered. This resulted: Yeas
1871, nays 200, which finally defeated
all attempts at obtaining free lumber
so far as the House is concerned.
On this motion the following Demo-
Gratis voted against free lumber: Ad-
amson, Bell, Brantley, Edwards,
Griggs, Lee and Livingston, of Geor-
gia; Bowers and Dickson. of Missis-
sippi; Hobson and Taylor of Ala
Dama: Broussard, Estopinal, Pujo,
Ransdell, Watkins and Wickliffe, the {
entire Louisiana delegation; Clark, :
Mays and Sparkman the entire Flori- c
la delegation; Glass Lamb, Lassiter, [
Maynard and Saunders of Virginia;
1odwin, Page, Pou, Small, Thomas and
Webb, of North Carolina; Greig and
Dies, of Texas; Gordon, Moon and
oadgett, of Tennessee; Ever of South
Jarolina, and Wilson, of Pennsylvania.
An amendment placing duty on
lides was overwhelmingly defeated.
With the adoption of some unimpor-
ant amendments to the administra- Z
i've features of the bill, it's considera- q
ion by the House as in committee OF D
he whole was concluded. y
One minute before 3 o'clock an
mendment was adopted giving farm y
RS the right to sell their tobacco in IL
he manufactured state without paying le
he tax. ~
BY a viva voce vote the engross- o'
lent and third reading of the bill was to
rdered, whereupon Mr.. Lindbergh, of
Minnesota, sought recognition to move III
, recommit with instructions. ye
Tho croakar refused sav;ne that In de
arrying out the new rule known as a
lie Fitzgerald amendment. common
Iirness required that he should recog- q
lie Mr.. Clark, of Missouri, the minor
y leader, the bills chief opponent.
Mr. Clark thereupon made a motion
recommit with instructions the
'ays and Means Committee to make TT
e original minimum rates of the bill lot
,ply as maximum rates, and to pro- ag
de a schedule of rates lower than de
ose to be applied as the minimum at,
ties. 1t also provided that the dis of
iminating duty clause levying an in sal
ease of 10 per cent on goods import The
in foreign vessels, be reversed so as inl
provide for 10 per cent decrease int
the duties on goods imported in the
nerican vessels. II instructed the we
to provide for graduated an,
come tax and to add a paragraph pei