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Show TARIFF EXUDED FROM SERENO PAYNE " -s.. ' S I "- x X x Ciwi you rpniPniber as far back aa the Payne tariff? That's a long time ago ami a whole lot of things have happened, but in those' days Sereno Payne of New York was the Oscar Underwood of the day. Sereno was supposed to carry more seorets con-Yorning con-Yorning manufacturers and rates and imports and to have a broader view of this perplexing and brain-benumb-in;; tariff thing than any man alive. Now in those old days, when Sereno Se-reno sat at the head of the tariff-table, tariff-table, you couldn't get near him. He would almost bite you. He was so full of tariff that It 'exuded from him, but at that no one rould ap proach him with a quiz without running run-ning the risk of an imperial "stand pat" Republican frown. Newspaper men trembled when they had to ask him a question. Augustus Hayward, a correspondent correspon-dent of a big New York paper, want ed to get a word of information from Representative Payne. He waited until the house had adjourned and then went down on the floor of the house. Sereno was in his diair, gazing thoughtfully thought-fully into space. "Mr. Payne " said Gus. There was no reply. "I came to ask you, Mr. Payne " But he might as well have stayed away. "If it would not be too much trouble, Mr. Payne " Nothing happened. Then Gus grew bolder. . He snapped his fingers In front of Mr. Payne's lace. The explosion was terrific. Sereno Payne almost bit him. Gus ran and has never been seen near him sines. |