The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-07-29
ADMIT HIDES FREE;
C0NFEREES REACH
THIS AGREEMENT
SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION ON ALL
LEATHER GOODS PART
OF PACT.
SHOES CUT OVER TO 10 PER CENT
New Englanders Surrender on Manufac-
tured Articles to Gain Bargain
on Raw Material.
PRESIDENT TAFT is NOTIFIED.

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WASHINGTON. ID. c., July "a
Hides will be put upon the free list ana
existing rates on all leather goods Will
he substantially reduced, some of them
below the duties fixed by either the
Houes or Senate tariff bills. While no
vote was taken on the hide question by
the conference committee today prac-
tically every member admitted when a
recess was taken at l o'clock that TINS
programme would be adopted.
Taft Hears the News.
President Taft was notified by mum
Der of House and Senate leaders that
hides surely would 90 on the free list.
As rider to the provision for free
hides there will be a proyiso for mate
rial reduction in the House rates on
shoes and other manufactured products
Of leather.
BY making this reduction on the I'm
ished products of leather a part Of the
agreement for free hides, il Is said that
the conferees will be acting within their
powers and that it will not be necessary
To recommit the bill either in the House
or Senate to secure u reduction IA the
leather schedule.
New England Yields.
Senators Crane and Lodge were among
the earliest Of the Presidents callers to-
day and told him that New England was
willing TO make concessions i'll the mat
ter of reduced rates on shoes, etc, as n
part of the bargain Tor free hides. Tins
opened the way. they said, for an agree
ment in the conference committee, for
IL, M haA
lighting the proposition to place hides on
lr1 free list who have announced time
and again that their objection would
cease whenever the rates on shoes, etc,
were accordingly reduced.
The rates on shoes will he lowered
from 10 10 10 per cent, according 10 the
Presidents advices.
Senator Borah of Idaho, after a con
ference with the President, following
the call of MeSSre. Crane and Lodge,
said there was no longer any doubt that
bideS would 20 on the free list along
with a substantial reduction in the rates
uu finished leather products.
Protectionists Have Little Hope.
The general accepted programme is
us follows:
Hides, free; sole leather, per cent.
ad yaiorem, the same as the House rate,
and 10 per cent. lower than the Senate
rate; leather for uppers, ~ per cent,
which Is One-half the rate of the Senate
ald the House bills: boots and shoes, ~
per cent. as against 10 per cent in the
House bill, and 20 per cent. in the Sen
ate hill.
These rates, ii IS said. are TO be APP
piled 10 articles which are made chiefly
Of NE grades OF Aldes which would be
admitted tree.
As n uarf of the free hide agreement
II was Haid mat the harness and sad
dIery interests have agreed 10 reduc'
ton To ~ per cent, IN the tarlh on those
goods and per cent on the rough leath-
or.
The present indications are that the
advocates u a duty on hldes VIII ac'
cepr the situation after struggle in
the Senate. \ large portion Of their
natural support Will be drawn away
from them by the reduction of the du-
ties on leather and leather goods, and
they have been told that If the present
bill fails another measure will be brought
i'm Immediately. which would not only
make hides free but would strike al
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