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Show PAYNE BILL HAS (If WMt Tariff Debate in House Shows That Most Speakers Attack Sonic Sections. PROTECTION FOR COAL. ZINC AND HIDES URGED Paper Trust Sharply Arraigned for Lawbreaking Conspiracy in Restraint of Trade. WASHINGTON. March 31. Tho house today resumed consideration of tho tnriff bill. Mr. Morgan of Missouri urged protection pro-tection for the zinc Industry. Quoting from a speech by President Taft that the primary purposoof a tariff, was to provide moro revenno for tho government, gov-ernment, Mr. Brantley of Georgia declared de-clared tills to bo trun Democratic doctrine. doc-trine. Tho primary purpose of the Payne bill, he contended, was not revenue, but the malntenanco of tho truo republican theory of protection. Mr. Brantley laid the present deficit at the door of what he charged was Republican Repub-lican extravagance. Mr. Brantley said the Dingley tariff on sawed lumber of ?2 a thousand was not prohibitive, but a revenue rate, and he snid If given tho opportunity he would voto to havo It restored. He attacked the cotton schedule on tho ground that It was solely in tho Interest of the New-England New-England manufacturer. The countervailing duty on coffee wa3 opposed by Mr. Douglas of Ohio, since, ho said. Brazil, at which country it was directed, would bo unable, without Impairing Im-pairing her finances, to remove her export duty on the product. Paper Trust Arraigned. Mr. Rothc-rmell of Pennsylvania, in a speech favoring a reduction on wood pulp and print paper, severely arraigned the Gould Paper company and tho Continental Paper Bag company. He quoted from testimony of representatives of 'thoso companies under oath beforo tho Mann committee. In which it was stated they knew of no agreement or understanding among them fixing prices, and yet, he said, both companies plead guilty to Indictments In-dictments charging them with unlawful combination In restraint of trade during tho period beginning September 10, 190G, and paid fines of $2000 each. Mr. Rothcr-mell Rothcr-mell maintained that the fines were so small it would result in placing a premium on wrong-doing and also bo considered a good Investment on the part of the lawbreakers. law-breakers. Mr. Mann of Illinois discussed the recommendation rec-ommendation of tho pulp and paper committee, com-mittee, of which he was chairman, for a reduction of the duty on wood pulp and paper, and which recommendation the ways and moans committee adopted. Not Matter of Politics. Mr. Mann said that tho committee, in tho face of the impending campaign last summer, when it might havo been claimed that a report from the commltteo reducing reduc-ing the tariff would havo been of Inestimable Inesti-mable benefit to the Republicans, declined de-clined "to bo Influenced by tho newspa-.per newspa-.per clamor in favor of a reduction of the tariff." In Its tlnal report, he declared also that tho committee declined to be unduly Influenced In-fluenced by tho demands of the manufacturers. manufac-turers. Mr. Mann said the wholo theory of cheap paper depended upon the cheapness of the ground wood and of tho supply of spruce wood. Reading from official statistics. sta-tistics. Mr. Mann said a fair estimate was that there wero fifteen million acres east of tho Mississippi carrying thlrty-flvo billion feet of spruce, but ho declared if the use of spruce timber for a lumber or wood pulp were to be confined to the domestic supply, It would last only from ten to fifteen years, In conclusion, Mr. Mann said that tho pulp and paper schedule of the Payne bill would not injure a single mill In tho United States, would not transfer the paper manufacturing Industry to Canada; would tront Canada fairly; would give to the Canadian pulp an opportunity for being' used by the American manufacturer under un-der fair conditions, and would give tho Canadian paper and pulp mills a better market. Tho bill, as a whole, was attacked by Mr. Sulzer of New York. Voico From Wyoming. The principal criticism which Mr. Mon-dell Mon-dell of Wyoming had to tho bill was against tho coal schedule. He made an urgent, plea for tho abolition of tho reciprocity reci-procity arrangement on coal, and Incidentally Inci-dentally argued for protection on wool and hides. Mr. Thomas (Dcm.. N. C.) insisted that tho reductions in tho Payne bill were more pretended than real, aud more In tho Interest of tho manufacturer and protected pro-tected Interests than of the consumer. Defending tho lumber Industry of his stale, Mr. Pujo (Dcm., La.) protested against the proposed reduction In the duty on lumber, saying it would Inflict joss on the wage-earners in this country, coun-try, and that were lumber lo be placed on tho free list the loss would roach $3,000.-000 $3,000.-000 annually. Ho protested against free trado with tho Philippines. Should opportunity op-portunity offer, ho said, ho would press an amendment providing for the sumo duly on rice from the Philippines as elsewhere.. else-where.. Free Importation of tobacco from tho Philippines was opposed by Mr. Giiest of Ponnsvlvnula. It was a question, he said, whether that provision would not prove a boomerang to the Filipinos 11s well as a detriment to the American people. Tho situation with which the leaders of the house find themselves confronted In dealing with tho Payne tariff bill continues con-tinues to give the greatest concern at tho White House, it was said today mat President. Taft has been directly appealed to by Speaker Cannon and Lenders Payno and Dalzcll. Tho tactics of tho "insurgents" "insur-gents" me worrying the leaders more than thcv aro willing to admit, and it is to bring these recalcitrants Into Hue that the president's aid lias been sought. Unruly "Insurgents." It has been represented to Mr. Taft. . according to current roport, that the "In- 1 surgents" aro not living up to the letter of the verbal agreement they made with him at the time of tho tight against the house rules. At. that time the "Insnr-KenlJj" "Insnr-KenlJj" are said to have pledged themselves them-selves not to oppose the tariff bill If the president would agree to keep his hands off tho light. To remedy tho objections to the extended extend-ed drawback provisions of the bill. Republican Repub-lican representatives from tho wheat-growing wheat-growing states of the west huve submitted submit-ted to the ways aud means committee an amendment in the nature 0f an additional provision to tho drawback section- Their principal contention Is that the P.ivnc provision would result In the manufacture of flour for export at the cities nlong th Atlantic seaboard Instead of at western mills, as is the custom now. in order that the western manufacturers mav retain the export trade. It Is proposed that anv article manufactured from grain raised In the United State?, In order to obtain tho drawback when exported In lien of Imported grain, must bo manufactured manufac-tured In the saim- mill or factory n3 the Continued on Page Three iBILL HAS ONLY FEW FRIENDS iinued from Page One Df3cturcd from the imported admrnt nlso requires that the shsll be made within the In, which the importation of used or checlccd against Is further provision would make torts nnd other by-products of heat manufactured In a bonded and withdrawn from domestic n, subject to a duty of 115 per valorem, bnscil upon the mar-t mar-t the place of manufacture. |