Show ATTACK MADE ON THE PAYNE BilL IN HOUSE Crude Indefinite Sectional and Prohibitive According to the Minority Report OPEN CHALLENGE FOR A Ak k DISASTROUS ROUS TRADE WAR W AR MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM PLAN SURE TO RESULT IN RAISING RATE ABOVE DINGLEY LAW Washington March 22 That the Payne tariff bill will increase the cost of living that it la Is crude Indefinite sectional and prohibitive and that it is isan Isan isan an open challenge to a trade war with every other nation are some of the criticisms of that measure made by the Democratic members of the ways and means committee In the minority report submitted to the house by Minority Leader Champ Clark today The Tho report Is a severe arraignment of the revision which the Payne Pa ne bill pro proposes propos pos poses The countervailing duty provisions provis provisions provisIons ions for coffee and petroleum the max maximum maxImum maxImum and minimum features the Cu Cuban Cuban Cuban ban reciprocity clause the woolen glass agricultural and sugar schedules are bitterly attacked Declaring that a tariff is a tax paid by the and that the only legitimate le legitimate function of a tariff is to raise revenue to supply the needs of the gov government the minority members Insist that instead of an increase of taxes or ora ora ora a new Issue of bonds the correct rem remedy remedy remedy edy for the growing deficiency in the revenues is a reduction of the expenses of government Will Result In Increase Continuing the tho report declares The whole maximum and minimum tariff scheme as ns set forth in the Payne Parne bill enables nables foreign countries to force us to raise the rates of the Payne Pane sched schedules schedules schedules ules 20 O 0 per cent which would after making malting ample allowance for all reductions reductions reductions in the Payne Pane bill increase our tariff rates on the average much above aboe the rates of the Dingley Dingle bill a prospect w which will bring sorrow and display dismay to the great body of the people We are most heartily In favor of such a maxi maximum maximum maximum mum and minimum tariff as will en enable enable enable able our government to negotiate tariff arrangements by making concessions to other governments by reducing the rates of our statute when such other countries will make equally valuable concessions to us but as it stands the maximum and minimum tariff plan of the Payne bill is an open challenge to ton ton toa n a trado trade war with every other nation on onearth onearth onearth earth It is seeking trade with a club or meat ax Crude and Prohibitive Does any an sane man suppose for one moment that the great commercial na nation 6 tion our competitors for lor the worlds trade tra e will concede that Cuba is one of our dependencies It is a thing in ini i The bill Is in many man respects crude indefinite sectional and prohibitive It to us from our examination which was necessarily hasty that on the whole it increases the cost o of liv living 11 ing lug The report s that the tariff arrangement with tho the Philippines should be considered in a separate I measure and not in the general tariff bill The claim that the bill is a sec sectional sectional 1 one Is based largely on the cot cotton cotton cotton ton schedule The treatment of the farmer by b this bill bin is along the same lines as have characterized Republican methods in inthe Inthe inthe the past says sas the report He gets practically no relief and the laborer and producer have greater bur burdens burdens burdens dens imposed upon them Standard Oil Cared For ForThe ForThe ForThe The Standard Oil company Is as handsomely cared for In the Payne Pa ne bill billas billas billas as in the Dingley bill the report con continues continues continues and by b reason of the provision in paragraph popularly known as the joker continues to be protected by bya b ba a tariff duty of 99 per cent which en enables enables enables ables it to dominate and exploit the American market and to levy lev tribute upon the public The report further contends that a similar Joker In the paragraph provid providing providIng providing ing for the free entry of coffee places a duty on coffee equal to the export duty dut Imposed by the country from which It ft ItIs itIs Is Imported and that the consumer must pay pa both the export duty of the theother theother theother other country and the import duty of the United States The tax on tea is also attacked the claim being made that the which It Is proposed to raise by Imposing a duty on tea rep represents represents represents resents the amount by b which the cost of living will be increased by this tax Criticism of Metal Schedule Criticism Is 15 made of oC the metal sched schedule schedule schedule ule and it is contended that hides having been placed on the free list the duty shoes harness and other leather manufactures should also be removed Increases in the chemical schedule are termed unjustifiable A severe arraignment of the wool schedule Is made The only on I noteworthy change in the rates on manufactures of wool the report states Is that in the Payne Pane bill a lower rate is put on tops than upon yarns arns as it should be beThe beThe beThe The compound duties specific and andI ad valorem of the Dingley Dingle and Payne bills on woolens are severely criticised I Referring to the reduction of oC five one hundredths of a cent in the duty on re refined refined refined fined sugar provided by the Payne bill the report declares Called a Sham Theoretically the trust receives a ablow ablow ablow blow between the eyes ees in reality this infinitesimal reduction of the Dingley Dingle r rate will not reduce the price of or refined sugar a prime necessity of or life to the consumer in any degree whatsoever i Certainly Certain that reduction may be prop properly properly property erly erty denominated as a sham shamA A strong protest is made against the method by which the bill was framed and the manner in which the decisions of the Republican subcommittee were kept secret The report also declares that any delay in enacting the bill will willbe willbe willbe be due to this secrecy and the Republicans Republicans Republicans should therefore hold hol themselves responsible for any su ny y The Democrats insist tha e given free opportunity to tb t offer amendment to any paragraph in the bill during an un unlimited unlimited limited consideration of the measure under the rule |