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Show I REPUBLICANS OF HOUSE ASKING FOR AMENDMENTS TO PAYNE BULL I WASHINGTON, April 3. Fearing that the demands which they havo mado for an opportunity Jo voto on soino of the principal schedules in the Pny'no tariff bill m'iplit result in change? which they consider more disadvantageous dis-advantageous than ibo provisions now in tho bill, .nearly thirty Republican inombers . of the houfift mot toda3 and aprced upon tho chanpea which they desired to havo submitted in tho form of committee amendments. At the name time :i meeting of ill the members of the ways and mons committee was in progress to pass upon The amendments whieh tho sub-committee of Republican members had rsab-mitted. rsab-mitted. The committee will renort about fifty amendments, including those striking strik-ing out the countervailing duty on oof-fee oof-fee and the duty on tea. Inferring that they would vote against any rule to restrict amendments to the Payne bill unless the changes they desire aro provided for by (ho ways and means committee, the Republicans Re-publicans who met today decided (o send the following petition to Chairman Chair-man Payne: Desired Arnnndmcnts. "To the Republican members of tho ways and means committee: "The undersigned rennest your com- 8 rnitteo To present the following com- mitteo amendments to the Pavne tariff bill: "An amendment providing for a duty of 15 cents n ton of 2000 pounds on coal and striking out the provisions for reciprocity. "For a duly of 25 cents a ton on iron ore. "For a duty of $3 a ton nn pig iron and scrap iron. "For a duty of 10 per cent on hides. "Tho amendment to the lumber schedule to be confined t.o the proviso. "A rulo which will provide for the above will receive our sunnort." It was claimed by the leaders of tho movomrnt that fully fifty signature,!; of Republican members would bo sub-scribed sub-scribed to the petition by Monday. The meeting of Republicans was attor.ded by three of tho members of the way? and means committee Representatives Fordney (Mich."), Cushman (Wash.) and Gnines (W. Va.)- A number of those who attended tho meeting havo contended that their desire was merely to permit tho offering offer-ing of amendments to tho lumber, hido, iron ore and coal schedules, in order that, there mighrbo a voto on them. That such a vote might, result in placing plac-ing lumber on the free list and that the other changes sought; might bo defeated de-feated has become evident. Change of Plana. It was therefore decided that tho best way in which to bring about the desired changes was to have the rnlo that is to be brought in on Monday t"-stiict t"-stiict amendments to those which tho ways and means committeo will report, and havo that, committeo include tho rive amendments asked for in the petition. pe-tition. Besides the three monikers of tho committee the following Republicans Republi-cans were present at tho meeting: Hughes, Woody a rd and Sturgess, West Virginia; Koifer. Kenned'- Johnson and Thomas, Ohio; Ellis nnd Hnwley, Oregon: Loud and Young, Michigan; Morchead, Howies and Grant. North Carolina; Focht, Bradlov and Wheeler, Pennsylvania; Howell, 'Utah; Moudell, Wyoming; Langley, Kentucky; Humphreys, Humph-reys, Washington. Tho ways and means committeo, upon motion oi Mr. Fordney. declinod to report re-port nn amendment sinking out. tho countervailing duty proviso on lumber, and in their petition the opposition express ex-press the destro Ihnr. the rulo for con- i sidering tho tariff bill will limit, amendments amend-ments in the lumber schedulo to tho jiroviso. ! I This would make it impossible, to have a vote on the question of free I lumber or to raiso the duties to what : the' arc under tho Dingley law. Duties on Iron. Tt bad been the improssion that the ways and means committee would report re-port an amendment placing tho same duty on scrap iron us the bill provides for pig iront it havir .,oen contended that no pig iron would bo imported under un-der the provisions of tho Payno bill, which places a duty of 50 cents per ton on scrap iron and a duty of $2.50 per ton on pig iron. Under the Dingley law both articles pay a duty of $4 a ton. Tho petition seeks to havo tho duty fixed at $3 a ton on both. All but four of tho Republican members mem-bers who were present at tho meeting which decided on the petition, expressed their intention of voting against tho rulo to be reported on Moudav unless the committeo offers their amendments. Besides taking off the duty on tea and' tho countervailing clause for coffee, cof-fee, the ways and means committeo today to-day decided to report numerous other amendments reducing the duties in the original bills. Tho duly on peas was reduced to 25 cents a bushel, 15 cents Ices than at present. Evergreen seedlings seed-lings and clove stoms were placed on the free list. Tho phraseology of the paragraph defining tho lerm ""cotton clothing." and the method of determining determin-ing tho count of threads to tho square inch which would have increased tho duty on cotton cloth two or threo hundred hun-dred per cent was amended to read the same as in the Dingley law. Finding that section -fl of tho Payne bill, which provides that a patent issued is-sued by tho United States to a citizen or subject of a foreign country shall be subject to the same conditions imposed bv that country on a citizen or tho United States was in violation of au international convention, which precludes pre-cludes any discrimination against foreign for-eign citizens in tho patent laws, tho committeo decided to strike out that section. Other Amendments. Tho section which proscribes that no packages of tobacco or cigarettes shall oo permitted to havo packed in, attached at-tached to, or connected with them, nn article other than tho manufacturers' wrappers and labels, the internal rose-nuo rose-nuo stamp and tho tobacco or cigarottcs was amended to conform with an amendment amend-ment that was made to tho Dingloy bill. Tho object of this section is to prevent tho U60 of coupons or other premiums, but, it was claimed that the Pa vne bill would prevent tho upo of union labels. On motion of Mr. Rroiiss.ml of Louisiana, Louisi-ana, an amendment, was agreed to making mak-ing dutiable all rice coming from the Philippines. It was contended that the Philippines, which do not raise sufficient suffi-cient rice for their own consumption, would take advantape of tho froo trade provision of the Payne bill to Fend their rice to this country and import the cheap rice of .Tapnn and China for their home consumption. Specific duties 1 are provided by the amendments for mica, and saccharine, on which the duty was changed from 25 per cent ad vnlorom to 50 conts a pound. J Minor changes were made in tho paragraphs covering linoleum, horsehair horse-hair goodp, wood pulp and print, paper, cutlery and wire. i Tho duty on charcoal iron is increased in-creased to $10 a ton, while nil glues are assessed at 25 per cent ad valorem. ! Guernsey ware, jacquard figured curtains cur-tains nnd table covers are pspccially provided for. The Dingley rotes on collars col-lars and cuffs are restored, while shoestrings shoe-strings have a special duty of 50 cents per gross pair, and 10 "per cent ad valorem provided. A reduction of 10 per cent ad valorem is made in tho duty on photographic papers. Several crudo gums for making varnish are. placed on tho free list. Somo Minor Changon. A duty of 15-100 of a cent per pound is imposed on copperas, or sulphate of iron, which was on tho free list. The duty on crude and manufactured fluorspar fluor-spar is fixed at .$1.50 per ton- Net and nolting machinery is included in tho paragraph which permits the free on try of all embroidery and lacc-making machinery prior to July, 1D11, an increase in-crease or 50 per cent ad valorem is made- on the duty of briar root and briarwood, while "the duty on carbon electrodes UEcd for manu'fncturing, is lowered 15 per cent, nd valorem. Represcntativo Harrison of Now York, moved that wool, lumber, refined sucar, coal, zinc oro and the entire steel and iron schedules be placed on tho froo list and the duties on gloves and hosiery hosi-ery bo retained as in the Diupley law. No ono olsf voted for the mojion. An amendment by Mr. Underwood to strike on the countervailing clnuso on petroleum and a motion offered by Mr, Clark (Missouri) that leather and leather goods be placed on tho free list also fniled. The wnys and means committee will j havo another meeting before the bill ! is considered in tho house for amendment. |