Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-28
PRESIDENT BALKS
On LUMBER RATE
TAFT DisPLEAsED WITH coNcEs
sloNs MADE BY HOUSE CON-
FEREEs TO SENATE.
WILL INSIST ON RATE
NOT TO EXCEED s1.25
conferees Make Concessions TO Senate
High Tariff Crowd in Order to So
cure Support Of FREQ Hides ar
Lower Duties-Prosressive Not ss :
isfied With Reported Agreement. 9

Lower Duties-Progressive Not Ss
isfied With Reported Agreement. .
Washington, July 2S.--Congressional
visitors at the White House today re-
ported the president as not satisfied
with the supposed agreement of the
house and senate tariff conferees. an
nounced last night. Taft is said to
have expressed himself in emphatic
terms regarding lumber and to have
declared he would insist that the rate
on rough lumber should not go over
S125.
1t was reported last night that rate
of $3.50 had been agreed upon, but
the members of the house conference
committee and other representatives
hurried to the White House to say
that with the presidents help they
would stand out for the lower figure.
Objects to House Glove Rates.
clear on the glove schedule. The house
raised the rates on the better class of
gloves far above the Dingley bin fig
ures. Excuse for this was that a strong
effort is being made in this country to
build up the glove industry. The sem
ate cut the house rates materially and
in this instance the president finds
himself on the side of the senate He
was insistent today, according to his
callers. that the senate rates should
be accepted. Strong influences are at
work in the house to keep the rates
up. but as was the case with hides, a
number of senators and representa-
tives who saw the president today de-
clared he would win his point IL he
persisted.
Fight All Summer if Necessary.
Taft is willing to stay in Washington
as long as anybody else provided he
can get a satisfactory bill in the end.
and the prospect of delay in beginning
his summer vacation is said to disturb
him no longer.
Washington, July 2s.-The tarlf
conferees have settled their difference!
at last. President Taft has won com.
plete victory in his fight for free hides
and radical reductions In manufactured
leather products. The upward revision
lists, wide awake while interest was
centered on hides and leather, have OBJ
tanned a goodly portion of what they
wanted in the way of increasing the
duties on gloves and hosiery
The conference report will be sub
,ritted to congress on Thursday, that
day being devoted to the work OF put
ting thru the house rule to permit
the lowering of leather duties below the
rates provided In the original house
bill. 1t is planned to have the report
| brought to a vote in the house on FRI
day, and the senate. If all goes with
out accident. will take it up on Sat-
urday The final vote in the senate
depends on the length of time sena-
tors want to make speeches.
| Everything in President Tafts pro-
gram has ended in compromise. except
hides and leather, oil and lumber, the
senate rate of $3.50 on rough lumber
standing according to report Not nj
the compromises make for downward
revision, as shown in the glove anG
| hosiery schedules. In other matters
there have been reductions below the
Dingley rates, altho in most instances
where items that commanded particu-
lar attention are concerned, the rates
are above the low level of one or the
other of the bills with which the con.
| ferees had to deal.
The presidents program called for
free oil, free hides, free iron ore and
frre coal. Oil and hides will be free
but on iron ore there is to be a duty OF
Is cents a ton and on coal As cents a
ton. These rates on iron and coal are
marked reductions from present rates;
they are not by any means what the
iron and coal senators wanted. so thai
the claim of n victory for the down
ward revisionists has some reason as
to them. The presidents program alse
favored the senate duties on gloves ant
hosiery. which are the same as the
Dingley rates, but he some time agc
resigned himself to a compromise as t.
hosiery AS to gloves 1t had been ex-
| pected up to the time the cabinet me-
| that the senate rates would pro.
vail. The shrewd Mr.. Littauer seems
to have been playing possum. He hat
given up his fight, to all appearances
but later he came to live again. Hi.
friendship with Vice President Sher.
man and Speaker Cannon has nettet
results. unless by some chance tn,
| president revcrses matters over siS..;:
and forces the conferees to back water
at their final meeting.
| According to the best information OBJ
| tainable, the glove compromise pro,
vides that the senate rates, which are
the same as existing law. will be main.
tanned on Schmaschen gloves and al
gloves of the lower qualities up to four.
teen inches In length, but the house
rates will prevail upon the gloves Of
the finer quality fourteen inches ol
more in length. The house rate or
gloves over fourteen inches In length
was 81 per dozen and 80 cents per doz
en- pairs in addition for each inch II
excess of fourteen. This Is slight ad
vance over the senate rates. Women.
or children's glace gloves over fourteen
and under seventeen inches in length
were to be taxed under the senate bill
1915 per dozen, while those over sew
enteen inches $4.75-and mems glace s.
per dozen pairs. Womens or children
gloves made of leather Of sheep origin
with the exterior grain surface re
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