The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-07-28
TAT I IS NOT
SAT ISF| led
Proposed Compromise
on Hides and Lumber
Uncertain

Washington. July 2S.-Congression-
| al visitors TO the White House today
reported that President Taft is not
satisfied with the prospect of the sup
posed agreement of the senate and
house tariff conferees as announced
last night.
MI TAFT is said TO have expressed
himself in emphatic terms regarding
! lumber and to have declared that he
would insist that the rate on lumber
should not go over SIPS.
That hides have been traded for
lumber in the preparation of the re-
port on the tariff bill. was reiterated
about the capitol today. in connection
with the report that the tariff con-
ferees had agreed to the retention of
the senate rate OF $3.50 per thousand
on rough lumber When the confer
ees met today. they took up the glove
schedule, but the action was largely
perfunctory as it practically was
agreed yesterday that the house in
! creases should prevail In both houses.
! around the conference room and even
in the minds of the conferees. the mm-
Der question was much more per-
tinent than the glove question.
Meantime. the pot was boiling along
the northwest border. Senator's Mel
son and Clapp, in one end of the build
ing, and Representative Tawney, In
the other. were stirring It, They, as
well as many other senators and rep
resentatiyes. were quite Incensed over
the change that had been made and
many assertions were heard that no re-
port for a higher rate on lumber than
the house had fixed could be adopted
by the house.
1t was believed 10 be different in the
senate. The low lumber men in the
senate generally had been among the
insurgents. who had voted against the
bill originally. and they were hopeless
OF preventing the adoption of the con-
ference report In that body This state
OF mind was due largely TO the fact
that they did not believe the hide men
would stand with them in opposition
TO the report.
Counting nine insurgents who would
vote against the conference report on
general principles. and whose opposi-
tlon has been intensified by the de-
cision in favor of higher lumber, the
hide men said they would have eigh-
teen Republican votes against the con-
ference report, II II favored free hides.
The insurgents failing TO count up
on the free hide opponents, say their
only hope is in the house. and the low
lumber men there profess themselves
as willing to accept the responsibility OF
defeating the bill. II the $3.50 rate on
lumber stands
They. however. do not believe that
II will stand. Some OF the house con
ferees have already weakened, and the
low lumber men believe they will have
strength enough 10 cause the reopen
ing of the question and 10 bring about
a reduction in the rate.
The low lumber advocates assert
that. when the President assented to
a higher rate on lumber, he was not
in possession of all the facts. Since
the conference of last night, he knows
better say some of them,
II was reported last night that
rate of $3.50 had been agreed on. but
men bers Of the house conference COM
mitee and other representatives hur-
r,ed to the White House TO say that,
with the Presidents help. they would
stand out for the lower figure.
The President also made his posi-"
ton clear on the glove schedule The
house raised the rates on the better
class OF gloves far above the DiaGley
bill figures. The expense for this was
that a strong effort was being made
in this country to build up a glove in
dustry, The senate 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 rate should be accepted,
President 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 a de-
lay, in beginning his summer vaca-
ton, is said TO disturb him no longer.
The list of senate callers today was
unusually heavy. thirteen members of
the upper house of congress paying
their respects to the President
Senator LaFollette talked with the
President regarding the absolute ne
cessity of establishing a commission of
experts to get at the facts of the tar
IN ard TO inform congress. rhe Pres
idcnt, IL was said. Is strongly In favor
OF a commission. and had hoped that
The present tariff bill would carry one,
As matters now stand, the bill will
authorize the President to appoint a
commission TO assist him solely In ad-
ministerinG the maximum and mini.
mum provisions of the bill No appro-
priation. however. is carried, even for
this purposes, so that the prospect Of
commission is very remote.
Senator LaFollette predicted how
ever. that a commission would come,
and that President Taft would WELD
his growing inuence for it,
When at 80 p. m. the tariff con
ferees took their usual noon recess.
il was announced that they had spent
the forenoon considering the glove and
lumber schedules, which two schedules
comprised practically all the unsettled
questions
Both of these subjects have been
posed. when today's session began,
that but little more effort woald be
necessary definitely TO flX all the rates
involved. When, however. the con-
ferees got together, they discovered
that there was dissatisfaction with the
high rates on lumber. They also
found sharp controversy between the
President and the speaker OF the
house over the glove schedule.
There are four items OF dispute in
the lumber schedule-rough lumber,
clapboards, laths and shingles. There
would be no difficulty in fixing the
rates on gloves but for the influence