Show i HM H-H-HM t 0 44 4 I t 0 I I I I 0 I t t TWENTY PER CENT J I I I M 4 0 M M 4 M M M I H. H 0 The House House Ways and Means Committee by a I vote of twe twelve twee e to six on yesterday decided to make I Ia a favorable report on the Payne bill conceding conceding ing a tariff reduction of twenty per cent on Cu Cuban an products subject to various provisos which will present difficulties moe or 01 less serious to the bene bene- It is announced ced that a number of Republicans purpose to continue the fi fight ht against the measure on the floor of the House but probably they will do so as s individuals and not as an organized organized organized organ organ- faction That wo would indicate that further opposition opposition opposition op op- op- op position is t to be for advertisement in the Congressional Congressional Record and for use in keeping political fences in ui repair during the approaching campaign Of such sue an innocent policy no one one who sympathizes with the woes of the poor pOOl candidate has lIas any right to complain Were Vere antagonism to the pha- pha tom torn relief offered to Cuba in the Payne bill carried to the extent of a genuine obstructive struggle against the proposition we should be inclined TO TObay say bay that representatives of the home sugar industry had lost their wits It has been shown w we think c conclusively that the twenty per vel cent cent abatement proposed will not and cannot injure American beet pi 91 or cane sugar ugar producers in the smallest degree As apparently it is not the intention of Congress Congress Congress Con Con- gress to make any greater seems to us to tobe be wisdom on the part of our home interest to allow the matter to be settled and gotten out of the way on the basis named Otherwise se it is not impossible impossible im mi- possible that t Congress being off its hands the Administration Administration Ad Ad- ministration might invoke the treat treaty making power and ISe use it to give Cuba a reduction of forty per cent There is not the remotest doubt that the tile President and the Senate have full Constitutional authority to do such a thing |