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ALDRICH IN CONTROL
Committee Appointments a Vic
tory for Conservatives.
Discussion OF COnfcrc ncc--pcrsonucl
of Members of COmmittec--Dis-
couraging Standardization Body
VIII Work.

How the conference committee on the
tariff will work and what It will do are
questions that are now to the front A
preliminary answer to these questions
has. however. been given by the appoint
inent of the conferrees and by some
FACTS that have been allowed to leak out
with reference to the plans of tho lead
ors. These show that the ideas already
formed with regard to the tariff are by
no means erroneous. but that in all prob
ability 1.-THE half has not been told"
PERSONNEL OF CONFERREEs
The conferrees on the House side are
Messrs. Payne, Dalzel'. Boutel. Mccall,
Fordney and Calderhend. republicans.
and Clark. Griggs and Underwood. demo-
Gratis. on the Senate side the conferrces
nre Messrs. Aldrich. burrows. Penrose,
Hale and Cullom republicans, and Dan
lei, Money and Bailey, democrats In
Fpection OF these names shown Just about
how the selection was made and what is
expected. Messrs. Payne, Daizell. Ford
ney and Calderhead. as is well known.
IRE protectionists of the most extreme
school and exhibited themselves. during
the hearings and on the floor when the
bin was in the House. as bitter ultra
hsh tariff men at every. point 7, Is I'M
necessary to say n,uch ~ ,toesrs Al.
arich. Pcnrose Halo ord pu,-roc.s ov.
cert that tbav ,ra ,or,. .,t,,,,, .o.rs
companions for povnc and tho o,h,rs
lust named with him ,r,oro clio 80
publican conferreos Nassrs po,.o,, o,,
Mccall are the onlv r.uos ,ho. hot, o,,,
the slightest hone of uhoro,it, ,,a =,
H. csc that of Mr.. Routau docs M. bot,
out very much. Occasionollv Ne. ,ou.o,l
showed synontoms of irsiybt durirc tho
House discussion hut no usuar,. h,oo,,,o
Crrhteped bv his own doring o,d ,,,.do
un for II lator nv INSTRUMENTATION, t.,
tended Ia offset any re,,s;or ,oraoroios
n, rnirht have exhibited Serotor C,,,-
Tom Will notably not toxe m,ch mar. Il,
tre work. AS for tho Senate der,oor,+ c
who have been named. Mr. B,i1.v bo.
srcv-,. a disnosItion ia uorL .,th,r ,,o.,
r., with Senator Aidrich ,bronoho,, t,,o
whole tariff DEBATE. and somewhat ,bo
eare has boon ,ruo Of NJ Dor,a,
though he must ne credited with some
sharp speeches directed now and again
a-a!ns, Mr.. Aldrich's high-handed meth
nds These, however. have been purely
general In character and he has at no
dime indicated disposition to adhere to
low tariff principles, as was shown. for
Instance, in mis- classic speech on que
hraoho' Among the House democrats.
Mr.. Gr'ggs is not likely to he very ac-
tive and Mr.. Clark can hardly be looked
10 for very sustained action. This leaves
Messrs. Money and Underwood, the lat
ter well informed but high tariff demo-
rrat, the tormer low tariff man Of
outsnoEen tendencies. though physically
weak, az the only democrats unaccount-
Cd for. On the whole. both from the
democratic and the republican side, a
better choice of men to put through a
reactlonory conference report could not
nav" been made with the material at
Nand. Practically the only real clement
~ Nreadth VII! be Mr.. Mccall, sonce the
democrats Will have little hand in shap-
~ the measure. Mr.. Mccall Is a lib-
tral ana able member, but In the current
DEBATE has shown highly localized
craftsmanship. interesting himself IN
-t'Ie OUTSIDE or New England schedules.
RULES or THE GAME
A good deal Of discussion hos hoar t.,
progress rs 70 tha evten, 70 ub,oh ~,
democrats would he al,oved oc,roI,,. -
share IN the sessions NJ rho corforerca
committee. INQUIRIES have been mazda an
this score and the renlies arc mot alta
gether raassurinc II heins tba ,no,r..
ssion that the Same no,,cv of exc1us,or
which has been adonted from tho drs,
Will be followed with reference 10 tho
conference. thus direrentiatinr the tar.
IF from all other bills and making II a
special sort of nolitical measure Ru,
II is the present understanding that the
policy will be carried ont in n s,iqbtIv
more dignifled way than heretofore and
that there will he sessions at which the
democrats will he allowed to Gonna IN and
have matters cxnlained 10 the,n The
real preparatorv work IN eacb schedule
will, Of course. he carried through nv .bt
usual hole-and-correr n,an In III. con.
ference The dominating MIND .,,u, no tho,
of Senator Aldrch There is no ore
among the Senate conferrees who viii
o'spute with MN the primary or thought
or purpose. There is significance in the
circumstance that he has followed, ir
picking out his associates, strict rule
Of seniority, selecting the old members
of the finance committee who were or
that body before 1t was reorganized and
adding to them the invalid Senator Col
hum while entirely emitting even the
RorYiceable Snloot and Flint. Amone
House conferrees Payne and Daizell viii
stand out conspicuously as the direct
representatives of Speaker Cannon. 1t Is
notable fact that Representative Hill
Of Connecticut, one Of the ablest men or
The ways and means committee. has beer
omitted, just as was predicted some time
ngo. So far as the members of the con.