Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1909 — TEA WILL BE PUT ON THE FREE LIST [ARTICLE]

TEA WILL BE PUT ON THE FREE LIST

Rule Permitting Tariff Amendments to Be Introduced. Washlngton s April 2. —That a rule which will permit amendments to certain schedules of the Payne tariff bill will be brought in on Monday Is now practically certain. The ways and means committee having decided to take off the duty on tea and strike out the countervailing duty on coffee, a great deal of opposition caused by those provisions of the bill has vanished. As it has been agreed to permit a vote on hides and lumber, there are only a few provisions remaining about which there is any considerable contention. The reciprocity provision for bituminous coal and the placing of iron ore on the free list are understood to have been conceded by the house leaders as two propositions upon which the rule will permit a vote. The question of permitting a vote on the vailing duty on petroleum has not been decided upon.