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Show TARIFF DEBATE BEGINS. Chairman Payne Says Country Favors Fa-vors Protective Tariff. Washington. A gun in the tariff debate was fired in the house on Monday Mon-day by Mr. Payne of New York. Before Be-fore he began his remarks an agreement agree-ment was reached under which, while the bill is under consideration, the daily sessions shall start at 11 a. m., instead of at noon. In opening, Mr. Payne declared that the country was overwhelmingly in favor of a protective protec-tive tariff. "It is an American policy," pol-icy," he said, "and it seems o be acquiesced ac-quiesced in by the great majority of the American people." He did not believe, he added, that there was a man within the sound of his voice who would rise in his seat and say that he was in favor of tearing down every custom house in the United States from turret to foundation. |