Show Congressmen Preparing for the Fray Washington Tho Democratic members of the ways and means committee com-mittee mot Friday and began consideration consid-eration of the Payne tariff bill and I prepared for the contest on the floor of the houso Nothing of a definite character was agreed to No restriction restric-tion has been placed upon tho Itepub llcan members of the committee which would prevent them from biter ing amendments to the bill although the measure represents tho views of tho majority of the Republicans on the tariff framing committee |