The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-08-06

Western Senators Say They
Were Fooled By Tariff
Coferees
PRESIDENT NOT FOOLED

4A4AyAV1lv1 IVA xVVLlO
Claimed That There Is an Ebony
Hued Person N The Wood
Pile IN BIZ
Washington, D., c., Aug. 2.-Tarift
legislation' has been delayed again by
the hide and leather question and as
a result the conferees were called to-
gether once more today. The ses-
sion was for the purpose of enticdng
out into the OPEN certain ebony
hued person who WAS reported by
western senators to have been seen
lurking at the wood pile"
The westerners complained that the
leather schedule. as arranged by the
conferees with the approval of the
president, is unfair to the states in
terested in protected hides. It was
agreed today that some action must
be taken to conciliate them If the
conference report is to be adopted.
Without thought of serious obstac-
les in the path, Senator Aldrich
caused the report to be taken up to-
day as soon as the senate met.
AS Is usual, the senate leader and
his associates moved about to ascer-
tain whether there had been any
change of sentiment. They were not
long in learning that the charge that
there was ''joker" I'M the compro-
missed hide and leather question had
upset the comfortable majority they
had previously counted for the adopt
ion of the report.
The difficulty appeared to be lack
of understanding between the confer
ees, the president and the western
senators concerning the condition I'M
der which the latter consented to
hides being placed on the free list.
The westerners claimed that they
had been niade to believe that all boots
and shoes of leather were to be duti-
able at 10 per cent and that all har-
ness was to be dutiable at 20 per cent.
When the conference report was is
sued 1t appeared that the reductions
applied only to articles manufactured
In chief part of the class of hides
which were to be made free of duty.
The reductions would not apply to
shoes, the uNpers of which were made
of calf skin, or to harness, the chief
value of which was calf-skin.
Some of the western senators were
extremely bitter in their condemna-
ton of the compromise. They said
that they had been fooled, that the
president had been fooled and that
the trick played on the consumer was
nothing short of buncombe.
Finding that the westerners were
not amenable to argument some of
the senate leaders and some of the
dissatisfied members, hurried to the
White House. There all were inform
ed that the president had not BEEN
fooled. He was reported to have told
all OF his callers that he fully UNDER
stood the character, of the comnro-
mise.
1t is declared by the conferees in
defense of their action, that tho
course pursued was necessary from a
parliamentary standpoint To have
reduced all boots and shoes, they
said, would have compelled the re-.
submission OF the question to the
house. In confining the reductions to
articles manufactured from hides re-
submission pf the paragraph was not
necessary for the reason that the hide
paragraph was in controversy between
the conference committee with a
range of action from free to a duty
OF 5 per cent.
Senator Adricf was among those
who called at the White House when
he returned to the Canito1 he iss,1ed
q call for a session Of the cnnferees.
Including the house repuhlioan mem
bers. They assembletl at AEON n. m.
The western senators were ushered,
into the conferences chamber singlv.
or in pairs. Audiences were given
to Senators Heyb1Iru. Warren. Carter.
Sutherland, Brown, Borah and
Bourne. Invitations had been issued
If wyoming. but they y did did not .tl accept.
Payne stated unequivocal1y that the
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