The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-07-22
PRESIDENT TAFT
AIDS CONFEREES

Washington, July 2l.-Bettcr prog.
TesS was made today by the tariff
conterees than on any day since the
troublesome disputes were reached
Many para graphs were settled without
any renewal Of hostilities.
President Taft is given credit for
the smoothness Of the conference 1t
developed that after Senator Aldrich
and Speaker Cannon told their trout
bles to the President yesterday, he
undertook to bring the warning fac
tions together. He ordered out his
big touring car and went TO Mr.
Payne's home. Soon the chairman of
the house ways and means committee
and the President were riding out to-
ward country roads. The TWO talked
over the situation. What they said
will never be known. but Mr.. Payne
made no objection today to the taking
White House programme concerning
raw materials.
The entire zinc schedule was ad-
justed. Spelter was made dutiable
at S.S cents per pound. which Is 4
reduction from the senate rate of IL
cents and an Increase from the House
rate OF l cent. All the Senate differ
entails were adopted Zinc in sheets
Will be dutIable at l 3-4 cents, and
sheets coated OF plated with nickel
or other material at cents The
House rate at l cent for old and Worn
out zinc ct only to be manufactured.
was adopted
Tungsten ore, which is used in the
manufacture OF Ferro alloys, one of
the chief component parts in the
manufacture Of tool steel and steel
parts of automobiles. was made duti-
able at 10 per cent ad valOrem instead
OF ) per cent, as fixed by the Senate
The lead schedule and products OF
lead were disposed OF
The senate and house rates on lead
ore We're Identical, the duty being one
and half cents a pound. The house
made pig lead dutiable at the same
rate and the senate provided specific.
ally for lead dross, lead bullion and
pig lead at two and one-cighth cents
pound This rate was reduced by
the confcrees to two cents. and as a
result one eighth OF a cent was re.
moved from the senate rates on all of
the paint derivatives.
A'Al'lio ~ III lGN a hNtJ VI OIt stuu
oue-eighth cents a pound, the senate
rate. This Is an increase of one.
fourth of 4 cent over the house rate
and one-half of a cent over the Dingley
rates.
Senator Borah tried to affect an
agreement by which hides may be put
on the free list, He said the plan he
had TO suggest had been originated by
President Taft, This plan contem.
plates the adoption of a joint resolu-
tlon giving the conferees jurisdiction
TO reopen the question of reducing tho
duty on leather goods and in consid.
eratlon of placing hides on the free
list. to make sole leather dutiable al
5 per cent adyalorcm. boots and shoes
and calf skins, 10 per cent; and to re-
duce the rates on harness in the same
proportion In View of the opposition
in the senate to free hides. the indl
cations are that Il combination Will be
affected with the Democrats to defeat
the Borah plan.
Progressive Republican senators de.
Cided TO issue a statement outlining
their position on downward revision
Senator Cummins has been invited to
take breakfast with President Taft TO.
morrow 10 discuss the attitude of the
insurgents, and therefore it was de-
cided 10 withhold the statement until
tomorrow.
There was also a meeting Of about
twenty OF the "anti-free raw material"
members of the house, at which Rep
resentative Gaines of West Virginia,
a member of the ways and means
committee presided
The drawback provision was taken
up today with treasury officials,
Charles P. Montgomery. chief of tho
customs division, declared the French
substitution system, after which the
house drawback feature is patterned,
opened the way to fraud. Under 1t
an article might be imported on the
west coast and a certificate received
by the importer The article might
be manufactured and enter into do
mestic trade, but the certificate could
be used on the east coast and a draw
back obtained upon exported articles
which had been manufactured wholly
from domestic materials. Treasury
department officials take the position.
however. that the risk of being de-
frauded Is too great for the govern.
ment to assume.
No action was taken on the draw.
back feature.