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Show PAYHE TARIFF MEASURE FINALLY PASSED If HOUSE L r. ' j After Three Weeks pi Consideration and Argument, Work ofRevjslon . of Tariffs Completed?1 Washington. After three weeks of consideration tho Payno tariff 'bill waB .passed by the house of representatives representa-tives Friday nlglit, April 9, amid great cxcltment by a vote of 217 to 1C1. Ono Republican, Austin or Tennessee, voted vot-ed ngalriBt tho measure, nnd four Ueirpcrats, nil from Louisiana, Moxrs Broussard, Estoplnal, Pujo and WIckllffe, voted for it. An nt-tompt nt-tompt by Champ Clark, tho minority lender, to recommit tho bill with Instructions In-structions signally failed. Tho day was .filled with excitement from tho moment tho scslon began at noon until adjournment. Tho members wcro koyed up to tho highest pitch, and practically a full membership remained re-mained on duty throughout. Tho final voto demonstrated tho capacity or tho Republican organization to got together. to-gether. Tho general public was greatly Interested In-terested In the proceedings, nnd tho galleries wore packed. Both tho diplomatic dip-lomatic and executive reservations likewise wcro rally occupied, Mrs. Tart being among those present. When the bill actually was passed tho Republicans cheered lustily, somo dancing up and down tho aisles nnd patting their tellow members on tlio back. Tho bill was Introduced March 17. reported to tho house by tho ways and means commlttco on tho following day, and was under general debate for sixteen days. Ono of tho principal changes In the bill was tho placing of petroleum on tho freo list. Among tho other Important amendments amend-ments mado since tho bill camo trom commlttco wero thoso striking out tho provision for a duty on tea and tho countervailing duty provision on cof-feo. cof-feo. Tho Bo-cnlled "Jokor" In tho cotton cloth schedule, which It wns claimed would Increase tho duties of tho Dlngloy bill several hundred per cent, woro corrected, the proviso for tho method of counting tho threads in tho cloth being mado tho same as in tho present law. Tho drawback Bcctlon was added to the bill so that It could not bo taken advantage ot for speculating In grain, and tho Phlllpplno Tree trndo provls-1 provls-1 Ion was amended so thnt rice will not bo admitted freo from tho Islands. Tho countervailing duty clauso on lumber was stricken out, but a strong effort to placo lumber on tho free list did not succeed, Tho duties on barley, barley malt, pineapples in crates and cotton collars col-lars and cuffs, as originally In, tho bill woro Incrensed. A proviso was Included in tho tobacco schcdulo Increasing In-creasing tho duty on filler tobacco from any country which prohibits the Importation of American tobacco. There wcro several technical changes In tho steel schedule, principally princi-pally downward. Hides, hosiery and gloves wero loft as reported by tho committee, hides remaining free and in Increased duty being presented for gloves and stockings. |