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Show es of Wild Excitement Brirag to a I Climax Three Weeks of Debate and Wrangling Over Question of Revising Schedules, 3UR DEMOCRATS Of LOU5SIANA CAST VOTES WITH MAJORITY howdown Is Demonstration of Ability of the Republican Organization to Get Together To-gether in a Pinch. llOW HOUSE imVtS PAYNE BULL Duty on lumber as recommended by committee retained after hard Petroleum placed on tlic free list. .j. Provision for duty on tea and countervailing duty on coffee stricken r Ut Philippine free trade provision amended to place duty on rice. Committee amendments as to coal, load, iron and other schedulos adopted in a lump -without division. IiPHINfiTOX. April 0. After Ihroo 5 of conssdoratiou the Piiynn tariff vas passed bv ilic. house of Vopto-tivrs Vopto-tivrs lomsht :inid prcat x'.v.oitc-bv x'.v.oitc-bv a ole of -J 7 to 161. One Wican Austin of Tonnossco, voted ist tlie measure, and four Denlo-, Denlo-, nil from Louisiana, Messrs, sard, Es'opiiial, I'u.io and AViok-, AViok-, voted for it. An attempt by ip rinrk. t lie minority loader, to rtmit tlie bill with instructions sig- failed. t dav wns filled witli excitement (be moment, tho session benn at uald ad.iourrtmouf. The. members t;vod up to tho highest pitch, ami j lically a full membership rfTnmiued' July throughout. The final vote jnstratcd the wipacily of the Kc-ican Kc-ican organization to et (oucther. Charge Midnight Deal, se situation with respect to lumber pcatlv relieved to the Eepubhcau crs whon it liceamo manifest. That idvoentes of the proposition plaeinc l the free hst were in the minority. iwp of that fact, Ir. Fitzcrerald ad been made last night, whereby j unber was to be voted down and itcs on barley and barley malt cd, and this notwithstanding tho ! of Messrs. Mann (Illinois) and an (Washington), who offered the amendment. cenoral public was greatly in-;u in-;u in the nroceediucs. and the cs were packed. Both the diplo-Jind diplo-Jind executive reservations liko-Tvero liko-Tvero fully occupied, Mrs. Haft uuioug those present. ?n tlio bill acluallv was passed the ilicans cheered lustily, wmc dane-i dane-i and down the aisles and patting fellow members on the back. History of Debate, i bill was introduced March 17. fd to the house by tho ways and committee on the following day, fas under general debate for six-invs. six-invs. Last Monday the rules com-c com-c reported a special order, which I the general discussion and pro for the consideration of tho bill tho fivo minute rale. 3 of the principal changes in the as thoplacing of petroleum on the Kmc: tho other important amond-5 amond-5 made since tho bill came from littce wrrc thoso striking out the sion for a duty on lea and the availing duly" provision on cof- e 50-callcd "ioker" in the cpltoii schedule which, it was claimed, il increase tlic duties of tlio Dmg-several Dmg-several hundred per cent. v.-cre ted, the proviso for the method of "UK the tlireads in tho cloth being ! the same as in tho present law. Drawback Section. io drawback section was added lo oil! so that it could not bo taken Ullage cf for speculating in grain, tut- Philippine free trade provision .amended so that rieo will not be itied free from the islnnds. Jo countervailing dutv clause on tor was stricken out, but a strong It to nlnoo luiiihrr nn tlio ffL-c list UaKr i "ut'PS on barley, barley malt, pine-W'Wcs pine-W'Wcs m crates and cotton collars and i&KrIS" as originallv in the bill, were a l!B;rc?s A proviso was included in tVWi h3ico schedule iucrcaHing the l5,mi,y fi,,pr tobacco from any coun-KLn coun-KLn tlic ")ort!ltio" oC kpSlJiL010 Wrc several technical changes ' s,co! liodule. principally down- lKf 11,lfi. hosiery and gloves were "j- 'i5 jeported bv the committee, hides "'" frt'e and nn increased duty ,,rcscntca for doves and stock- i K T 7or 1'co Tctroloum, JijtuV1.5 contest over free petroleum was ,tjWovlllri1.' 1,ul tho voU its favor was "HwItJ.v hcll"g. Opposing it were lie-y lie-y qMwlicaiiR ns follows: jMvifn'lcr, Andrus. Southwick and 6rtSWWna Xcw "Vork: Austin of Ten-tJ,3Bihiv!;T.1?:lrollf',,1'l- Barclay. Bates, 'dzell Graham. Langham. lie 'afiHhl.r" l,l0l, Tc"cr and AVhcder, l'onn- iMkrVr Vi; r'ett. Edwards and Laug-J'lSBptorii Laug-J'lSBptorii t 'i,,,,ck3'; fole. Ooobcl, MoU-ngs-vX&.bSn Jo"80" and Thomas of Ohio; fffrmrKer o- Oklahoma; tfnglcbright, llnyes, Kahii. Knowland, McKinley. Mc-La Mc-La fch Inn and Noedham of California: (Jaiuns. irubhard, Hughes, Sturgiss and Woodward of West Virginia; Jlowell of Utah; Mann and Cannon of Illinois; Moudell of "Wyoming; Washburn and "Weeks' of Massacbubolts and Young of Michigau. DETAILS OF STRUGGLE DURING LAST HOURS WASHINGTON, April 0. With but . throe hours remaining in which to perfect per-fect it, before being finally voted upon, the house todav resumed consideration of the Pavne "tariff bill. There was practically a full membership present, and interest, was at fovcr heat, Thp eommiit.ee amendments jo the i-ayue bill. with the exception of those . rrrrectiug tea, coffee, barley and barley , malt, wero" adopted in a lump and with- . out division. The house adopted the committee amendmeut. of the Payne mil placing lea on the free list Without rc-.strict rc-.strict ion. Amendments Adopted. The commit lee amendments increas; in" the Payne rate on barley from lo to"24 cents a bushel, as well as tho duty on barley malt from, 2o to 40 cents, wore- adopted. A further committee amoudmont to correct an error in tho classification or com iuuku uuu . .-vw bars was agreed to. The phraseology of the Dinglev bill was restored to the paragraph covering bars that are no -ishecr in addition to being cold ro led. The amendments to the lumber sclie 1-nlc 1-nlc having been offered by Mr. Cusli-mau Cusli-mau of Washington for tno committee. Mr. Fitzgerald of New 1c ork. hinted at "a midinght deal" wheroby the possibilities possi-bilities of free lumber were consider- ab&n3-SCthat a trade had been effected? ef-fected? Mr. Mann of Illinois said ho believed those favoring .free umber would maintain their altitude toward UlMr!CCuSan protested that no one v;ho had talked to linn in relation to barley had done so in reference to the 1UTbsuttitutPe for section -1 was then presented by Mr. Payne, .It stipulates thft the maxiimim provision shnll not apnlv o cases where another country ?vos nrcfcreutinl duty to one of its jmes. pri,ii where a co onv&"H!os Preferential duty, to a fflr oimtry. which, was onamnlly prescribed in the Payne i ui . -substitute for'scetion 4 "w. aaoptru. Cannon Takes Reins. fter Arr. Olmsted of Pennsylvania, who has presided over the. deliberations nf X " bill by the committee or the whole' ha" descended from the chair c;ne-ilter Cannon assumed the reins. -Mr. 0 mstcd reported the action of the committee, com-mittee, and the houso as such took tho S aid coffee were agreed to cnbloc "'Srscpffiolo being asked regarding regard-ing ea and coffee, the amendments re-Ardin- those articles,. which were in-corpStod in-corpStod in the bill in committee of no'!ffAcs snch as lumber, oil. and barley, separate voTes wore demanded. A wrangle at once ensued as to the order in which t o schedules should . e lawn members practically all stood up and torc t was so intense that many of tl cm occupied the scats well in trout of the speaker's desk. The speaker was unable to unravel the tangle and called Mr Olmsted to set matters right. A rmond of Missouri. TK"'wLolc problem was Bellied by the speaker ordering tho amendment rCTUVbe1wiUi an amendment bv Mr T-iw iev to strike out section 1JH?. wl icl imposes a duty of one-half of one Jont pev cubic foot on hewn umber S limber used for spars and upon which tho ayes and nays wero ordered. Tavncy Tights Hard. r- 'p.iwnev's hewn timber amond-,nv!r,iccalc.l, amond-,nv!r,iccalc.l, 1H lo ,1S. Mr. Continued on Page Tour. PAYNE TARifP MEASURE fSNALLY PASSES THE HOUSE, 11 Con tinned from ijjo One. Tawnoy then offered ., amonrlmcmt to section lih redncijr the duly on finished fin-ished lumher SO cout, JlI1(i strikincr out Lho duly on, rough lumber without: nlaenitf it on ;tib frt,,j lis-t. llu su)porr(jr.s v.-ero wore than snlU-ciont snlU-ciont to ff(.o another rolloall, but lift wis again, defeated, ilio vote result itiir 3 ears LS'.j, u.,yS 2f)i. So fftvint wis the i-or fusion when tho resuJi, of tho soooixl Tawnoy amendment amend-ment was announced that Speaker Can-"Pyi, Can-"Pyi, unaidod, wis unable to restore or-'r. or-'r. ITis pationco finally becoming exhausted, ex-hausted, ho unbred the .serent.wit--inns and the. do- hoopers to proncqd up and down the aisles and enmpol Jiiein-liors Jiiein-liors to sit down and eoaso talking. This proceeding had the desirojl effect and business proreeded. The nasi amendment in Order was one by Mr. Do Armond of Missouri, r-xcniptfng from Uio countervailing duly all lumbor eoining from eountrics of lho Tvestorn hemisphere, and mi thai the Teas and nays lilcewiso were ordered. Tho Do Armond amendment was oted down, l.'tt to 2-1-1 . The provision ot the countervailing duty on lumber then was stricken out bv viva voeo vote. Mr. Clark (Mo.) forced n roll call on his amendment, striking out lho j whole of section Mf)7. providing for a I duty on dressed lumber.. Jt was tie- I feated yeas 153, unys 22S." Undaunted, Mr. Ta'wnev called up his mnendmont placing on "the free list hewn lumber and sawed and planed lumber, lum-ber, covered by sections I'lfi and 107. This resulted, yeas LSI, mivs 200. which finally defeated all attempts at obtain-mg obtain-mg ireo lumber so far as the house is concerned. Vote on Lumbor Duty. Fifty-five Kepublieans voted for free lumber and thirt v-eiirhl. - Democrats against it. The Republicans who voted for tree lumber were as follows: Anthony. Campbell, Madison. Miller. Murdoch, Keeder and .Scot I of Kansas; arv. Cooper, Davidson, Kseli, Kopp, Lonroot, Xolson and Stafford of "Wisconsin; "Wis-consin; Da-i.s, Lindberpr, Miller, Nve. JStecncrson. Stevens. T:i I stead, the entire Republican delegation from Minnesota; Dawson. Good. Hansen, Hans-en, Hubbard. Hull, Kendall, Kennedvr Pickett, Smith and Woods, the entire .Republican delegation from Iowa; Uurko and Martin of South Dakota; fironna. and Ilanna of North Dakota; l-owdcn, McKinlev, M'ann. Prince, Sterling Ster-ling and Graff of Illinois; Uinshaw, Jvii.lcaid an Norris of Nebraska; (lowland (low-land and Joyce of Ohio; Laurence of Massachusetts; Barnard of Indiana; JJriscoll and Perkins of Xew York; Hamilton of Michigan; IT.'fwell of Xew -Jersey, and Morgan of Oklahoma. The following Democrats voted against, free lumber: Adamson, J3cll. Brantley. Edwards, Griggs, Lee and Liviugston" of Georgia; Bowers and Dickson of Mississippi; Hobson and Taylor of, Alabama: Urous-Hard, Urous-Hard, Estopinal. Pu.ii. Randsell, Wat-Mns Wat-Mns and Wicklifl'c, the entire Louisiana delegation; Clark. "Mays and Sparkmnn. lho entire Florida delegation; Glass', Lamb, Lassiter, Maynard and Saunders Saund-ers of Virginia; Godwin, Page, Pou. Small. Thomas and "Webb of North Carolina: Gregg and Dies of Texas; Gordon, Moon and VidgcM: of Tennessee.; Tennes-see.; Lever of South Carolina, and Wilson Wil-son of Pennsylvania. Disorder Prevails. Shortly after the announcement of j the lumber vote t ho speaker was again compelled to send the ?ergeaut-at-arms I and his deputies' to members and order ihem to sit. down. When quiet, was restored (he roll was called on the amendments ineronsingjho rates on barley ami barley mall.. I.iy a vote of !!.' yeas to JHG nays tho amend -incuts wen- retained. ' Amendments by .Messrs. Scott (Kan.) and Henry iTV.vi), fixing a duty of 10 j per cent, respectively, on raw hides, weighing twonty-tlvo' pounds or more, and on raw hides and skins weighing more than One pound, were voted down. i Tho effect, of this action was lo rout ! the opponents of free hides. This, as was supposed, concluded the i amendments, and the speaker was about to put the tpiestion on thei engrossment; and third reading of the b'ill when-Mr. Clark of Missouri insisted on the yeas and nays ou the oil schedule, in order, as he explained, to got n record vote. After considerable discussion over tiic question whether fi;ee oil was actually j in the hill the speaker decided that a I further vote was necessary and the roll i was again culled on the provision of tho countervailing dulv, which, he said, ! if. stricken out would have lho effect of placing crude petroleum and its products prod-ucts on the free list. While the chair was considering I he matter the' house was in great confusion. con-fusion. Olark Fights to Last. Py a viva voce vote the engrossment and' third reading of the bill was ordered, or-dered, whereupon Mr. Lihdbcrg (Minnesota) (Min-nesota) sought recognition to move to recommit with instruct ious. The speaker speak-er refused, saying common fairness required re-quired that he should recognize Mr. Clark (Missouri), the minority leader, the bill's chief opponent. Mr. Clark thereupon made a motion to recommit with instructions. This motion directed the ways and means committee, to make, the original minimum rates of the bill apply as maximum rates, and to provide a schedule of rates lower than those to bo applied as minimum rates. If also provided that the iliscrimi-?i;ifiinr iliscrimi-?i;ifiinr dulv iilniisii lew? in 10 iier cent. I increase on goods imported in foreign vessels be reversed, so as to provide a ! 10 per cent decrease, ou goods imported in American vessels. It instructed the committee to provide for a graduated income tax, to add a paragraph giving the president the right to place any article ar-ticle on the f rco list by proclamation, if he is satisfied that its value has been enhanced in consequence of any monopoly or trust. The motion .also directed the amendment amend-ment of the measure "by reducing the duties carried by the bill io revenue rates, so as to raise (he. maximum of revenue with tho minimum burden of taxation, upon the masses of the American Ameri-can people, so adjusting the rates of duty as to deal fairly with producer and consumer, with due regard to the needs of the government." Sweeping Provisions. It specifically provided that leather, boots, shoes and all products of leather, cotton bagging, cotton ties, agricultural agricul-tural implements and cocoa should be placed tn the free list. It. also stipulated stipu-lated (hat the increased duties ou gloves and hosicrv be taken off. It also provided for tfie granting of American Ameri-can registry to vessels built, in foreign countries when purchased by American citizens for the ocean carrying trade, providing they shall be officered by American citizens.. Almost complete silence prevailed while, the instructions were being read. Chairman Payne moving the previous question Thistwas ordered, and lho ole then recurring lo I lie Clarke mo-tion mo-tion lo recommit it was lost, 102 to 21S. At 7:5f p. in. voting on the bill on its final passage was begun. Tho noiso was so great flint, tho clerks had difficulty diffi-culty in hearing the response. Practically Prac-tically every member was in his seat. The vole" resulted: Voas, 217; nays, 101; present. I. The roll call lasted twenty minutes. Mr, Dnlzcll (Pennsylvania) immediately imme-diately offered a .resolution providing until 'further ordered that the house shall meet only tin Mondays and Thursdays Thurs-days of each week. The resolution was adopted, and the house adjourned until Monday. |