Show I PAYNE TARIff UK FILL PASSED BY HOUSE After Three Weeks of Consideration and Argument Work of Revision of Tariff Is Completed Washington After three weeks ot consideration the Pane tariff bill was passed by tho house of representatives representa-tives Friday night April 0 amid great oxcltment by a vote of 217 to 101 One Republican Austin of Tennessee voted vot-ed against the measure and four Democrats all from Louisiana Messrs Broussard Estoplnal Pujo and Wlckllffe oted for It An attempt at-tempt by Champ Clark tho minority leader to recommit tho bill with instructions In-structions signally failed j I The day was filled with excitement front the moment tho seslon began at noon until adjournment The members were koyed up to the highest pitch and practically a full membership remained re-mained on duty throughout The final ote demonstrated the capacity of the Republican organization to get together to-gether The general public was greatly interested In-terested in the proceedings and the galleries were packed Both the dIplomatic lomatic and executive reservations likewise were fully occupied Mrs Taft being among those present When the bill actually was passed the Republicans cheered lustily some dancing up and down the aisles and patting their fellow members on Ute back The bill was Introduced March 17 reported to tho house by the ways and means committee on the following day and was under general debate for sixteen days One of the principal changes in the tilll was the placing of petroleum on the free list Among the other Important amendments amend-ments made since the bill came from committee were those striking out the provision for a duty on tea and the countervailing duty provision on cot feeThe The socalled Joker In the cotton cloth schdule which It was claimed would increase the duties of the Dingier bill several hundred per cent wore Corrected thoprovJso fordohl method of counting the threads In the cloth being made tho same as In the present law The drawback section was added to the bill so that it could not be taken advantage of for speculating In grain and the Philippine free trade provision provis-ion was amended so that rice will not be admitted free from the Islands The countervailing duty clause on lumber was stricken out but a strong effort to place lumber on the free list did not succeed The duties on barley barley malt pineapples In crates and cotton collars col-lars and cuffs as originally in the bill were Increased A proviso was Included in the tobacco schedule increasing In-creasing the duty on filler tobacco from any country which prohibits the Importation of American tobacco There wore several technical changes In tho steel schedule principally princi-pally downward Hides hosiery and gloves were left as reported by tho committee hides remaining free and an Increased duty being presented for gloves and stockings |