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Show TARIFF BATTLE 15 SIHHE HOT Majority and Minority Lining Uj) Forces for the Struggle in Congress. DEMOCRATS WILL OPPOSE MANY PAYNE SCHEDULES Amhiguous Phraseology Seems Likely to Cause Much Additional Addi-tional Difficulty. "WASHINGTON, Marcli 21. That Micro will bo a lively contest over the tariff bill is evidenced b3T tho preparations prepara-tions that arc boing made bj' tho sponsors spon-sors for the bill and 1)3' those who op-poso op-poso it. Chairman Pa3'ne, supported 1)3" his chief lieutenant, Representative John Dalzell, Penns3'lvania, and tho other Republican members of the house wa3s and means committee, together with Representative Broussad, Louisiana, the newl3' appointed Domocrat, will bo armed with thousands of documents and communications for tho defenso of tho provisions of tho Payne bill. The committee's old Toom is on tho house floor of tho capitol, and yesterday yester-day field headquarters wero established estab-lished thcro by Mr. Payne. Enemy Also Busy. Directly beneath the headquarters of tho Payn'o forces aro tho hoadquartors of the 'enemy, tho Democrats. Champ Clark has 4 taken possession of John Sharp "Williams' old room and was today to-day occupied with tho preparation of tho report of the minority. The Democratic Demo-cratic members havo held "councils of war" for tho past few days in tho Clark headquarters. Tlicy will mako a strong fight against evcr3" "protective duty in theTnyno bill unless it is a revcuuo producer. While the Payne and tho Clark forces will bo lined up against each other on many questions, thore prob-abl3" prob-abl3" will bo several duties on which they will join in fighting other opposition. oppo-sition. This is due to the fact that Mr. Payne is not a high tariff man. Stand Together on Lumber. "When an amendment is offered to increase the duty of ono dollar a thousand thou-sand foot provided for lumber by the .Puvnp bill, Mr. Payjio and Mr. .Clark will "stand together in opposition to the increased duty, and each will fiud that some of his trustod aides have desorted him. This illustrates the feeling feel-ing that provails throughout tho membership mem-bership of tho house that over3' member mem-ber shall work for tho interests of his individual constituency and that ths tariff question is a local one. There is onc point about the now hill on which liltln enntrovorsv is pectcd in tho house, but which it is believed be-lieved will bo much considered in the senate. That is revision of tho present tariff law with regard to ambiguous phraseology. Tho changes in tho wording word-ing of various paargraphs and sections of tho bill has been mado in accordance with the recommendations of Thomas J. Doughort3', assistant counsel of tho trcasur3- department, who has prosecuted prose-cuted customs cases for tho govornment throughout tho country, supplemented with extensive information and data, supplied b3 Major Herbert M. Lord, U. S. A., who was clerk of iho ways and ricaus coiumittco during tho Diugley rovision. jnow ivietai scneauies. Notable among tho changes brought about l)3r the suggestions which were based on tho docisions of tho courts and tho board of general appraisers, aro tho new paragraphs and the metal schedules providing duties on steel, wool or steel shavings; diamond stool, grit, iron sand ana similar articlos; chrome metal aud forro manganese, fcrro tungsten, ferro silicon, and similar simi-lar metals; allo3's and other mixed metals met-als not specifically provided for; and tho goneral provision restricting tho use of tlio terms iron plates, steel plates and plate iron and steel, to articles having hav-ing plain surfaces for use as parts of construction, but as tools or instruments instru-ments iu manufacturing. S3rnthotic camphor, a product of synthetic syn-thetic chomistr3r, mado from oil of turpentine, tur-pentine, hns been assessed a duty of 6 cents per pound, tho same ns is now imposed on refined camnhor. As a result re-sult of an experimont conducted by tho department; of agriculture, with camphor growing in Florida, this industry indus-try promises to beconio of considerable importance, it being proposed to plant camphor trees in the sections where tho oraugo industrj has been driven out by tho frosls. Changes in Phrasing. Ma 11 3 changes in tho phraseology of paragraphs imposing duties on articles which contain alcohol havo been incorporated incor-porated in tho bill and aro expected to increase the rcvonuo considerably. Much complaint wns mado that olive oil, imported frco of duty for manufacturing manu-facturing purposes, has boon used bv foreigners of the' poorer classes for food. This has resulted in a provision that olivo oil, to bo admitted free of dutv, it must be rondorod tuff it for uso as food 1)3' such means as shall be satis-factor3' satis-factor3' to tho secrctar3' of the treasury. treas-ury. Litigation involving thousands of dollars dol-lars still is ponding iu tho courts bo-cause bo-cause of tho difficulty of determining under what paragraph of the Dinglov law a duty on sake, Japanese rice wino, should bo imposed. To prevent 11113' similar sim-ilar difficulties in tho tuturc, rice wino or sake is spucificall3r included in tho paragraph of tho P.ayno hill,- imposing impos-ing a duty of 40 cents por gallon in still wines. Numerous changes for similar purposes have been incorporated in tho new bill. Modjcska Is Bottor. LOS ANGELES, Cal.. March 21. The physician attending Mmo. Helena Modjes-ica Modjes-ica reported tonight that his patient's general condition was conslderablv Improved, |