Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-03
TRYING TO PLACATE THE
TARIFF BILL OPPONENTS

All the forenoon in the Senate was de-
voted to efforts to draw off the senators
likely To cause delay to tarih leslsialion.
Senator Bailey said the democrats mad no
dispos;tion to cause prolonged debate ana
the republicans were Of the same NINA.
President Taft was using his ofhces
with the insurgents not only 10 quiet de-
hate Int to TRY TO win more votes for the
bill. He was at work upon Senators DOL
liver and Beveridge 10 tins ena.
The fac, is the President and all the
republican leaders are very anxious 10
bprron m the boil. fearful lest the grow
mo sniri1 of revolt might cause fresh out
breaks and conscious of the danger o.
such outbreaks in the House.
To Placate Western Men.
In n chastened and d contrlte spirit
the Senate leaders started in their DAY
labors this morning to put the finishing
touches on their much-abused and sorely
buffeted tariff conference report. The cat
tie range senators, whose wishes up to
Yesterday had been made the foot ball OF
eypediency SO they claimed, had been
consulted last night and found agreeable
10 the plan proposed by the leaders 10
correct the conditions complained Oh III
the leather schedule.
After the conference report is adopted
a concurrent resolution will be proposed
in both houses inStructing the enrolilns
clerks to correct the language of the Dill
to suit the western senators. IT was de-
clared this morning that this will be
satisfactory to the range senators and
that their votes for the conference re-
port are assured.
This agreement still leaves several In
surgents in the bush, however-Cummins,
Clop RrfSfDW
erdge and Nelson, who are not likely TO
vote for the bill in any circumstances,
but whose detection will not endanger the
adoption of the report.
Senator McCumber, it is feared, may be
added to the list of insurgents on account
of dissatisfaction with the drawback on
wheat by-products, but the leaders hope
to induce him at the last moment to vote
for the report.
That the concurrent resolution will not
GO unchallenged. however. was indicated
1T the outset this morning by Senator
Culberson. who gave notice that he would
move to include in it's provision authority
to put cotton bagging on the free list
This will lead to some debate, and, While
the Senate originally stood for free cot
ton bagging. 1t will be urged in this case
that to open up the resolution to one item
will open it to a horde. and the motion
will probably be resisted on that ground.
Program in the House.
The concurrent resolution will be pre-
sented in the House accompanied by an
iron-clad rule shutting off amendments.
and the only way to get around 1t will be
to vote down the rule. The democrats OF
course, favor the reduction of the leather
duties, but they will want other items re-
duced also, and will make that attempt.
The outcome will depend upon the course
of the insurgents and their strength.
If the concurrent resolution is once
opened TO amendment in the House it
will be all off for an early tariff agree
ment. and this contingency is being
presented to the republican insurgents
with all it's attendant horrors as a
warning against unholy alliances with
democrats.
Many republicans in the House and
Senate fear that the tariff legislation
has been impeached by the bareback on
the leather schedule and by the quib-
bling over the question of whether the
bill is or is not a reduction below the
existing law in the equivalent ad va
loren, but all are anxious to say as
little as possible and to get the bill
through Congress and on the statute
books and have done with the whole af-
fair.