Eureka Reporter | 1906-01-19 | Page 2 | Confident That Philippine Bill Will Pass the House

confident Conf dent that phil pp ne bill will pass the house washington chairman payne of the house ways and means commit tee announced monday night that he was confident the philippines tariff bill will pass without amendment when put to a vote he said he was unwilling to accept the amendments proposed by the beet sugar men and declared it would be better tor the bill to be defeated than passed in such form that the amount of sugar permitted to come to the united states annually at reduced rates corid be limited to a definite amount in the opinion of mr payne such lim citation would defeat the purpose of the measure