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Show Tile Mew TarllT Hill. Washington, April II. Spccial.l-Speaking Spccial.l-Speaking of the criticisms of the taritf bill, c.v -Governor I'ingley of Maine, one of the members of tho ways and means committee, said: "I have just been reading 1111 inter view published in a newspaper w ith ex-C'ongressiuaii ex-C'ongressiuaii Burleigh of New York, who, as you know, is a lumber dealer. He is very severe on the committee for its lumber schedule, and says that we have constructed the most wonderful schedule, w hich, in liis opinion, shows that we don't know what we are about. Now the joke of it is, the lumber schedule sched-ule is made up exactly as in the present law, and I believe has been in its present pres-ent form for about thirty years. The lumiicr schedule iu our bill is the same as that of the senato bill passed last session, ses-sion, with a slight reduclioii in the dudes du-des on sawed pine boards. The schedule sched-ule is the same as the present law. So it strikes me as very funny that Mr. j Purleigh should talk ill this way about I the committee because of the lumber j schedule. I think that fairly reprc-cnls the character of a good deal of the criticism crit-icism made of die bill." |