Arizona republican., 1909-07-30
AS 10 GLOVES AND LUMBER.
So Sure Were the Leaders That He Would Stand for Small Concessions That They Had Admitted the Democrats to Conference.

Washington. July 2s.-The Payne Aldrich tariff bill is completed An agreement on all disputed points was reached this afternoon and at 4:55 pm the report was signed by the republi- can conferees. It will get to the house tomorrow and be voted on by that body or Saturday.
 The senate on Monday will begin the consideration of the measure. The senate session may continue all next week.
 Halted by the mandate of the pres ident. the tariff conferees were com pelIed to turn back and revise their rates on lumber and gloves. Hides will be free. and the rates on shoes and other leather products will be reached.
 When the conferees fixed the lum- Der and glove rates yesterday. shading slightly the higher rates on each, they were so certain the president would consent to that arrangement that mo- tices were sent to the democratic con ferees to be present at 10 o'clock to- day to approve or disapprove of the report The nresident had other ideas of what the rates should be however, and he expressed them forcibly in a letter.
 He said the rate on lumber should not be more than SIPS per 1000 for rough. with the differentials fixed by the senate on finished lumber. He de- clared also that the senate rates on gloves. which are the same as the Dingley rates, and much less than the house rates must be adopted in order to secure his approval of the bill. The president also specified that hides must go on the free list and that the house rates on boots and shoes and other leather manufactures must be reduced. Hosiery too, he thought should be reduced below the house rate. which was advanced over the Dingley duties.
 It was not until after the democratic members had assembled that the White House communication was re- ceived When Aldrich read the letter, he called his republican associates to an adjoining room. The letter was discussed and it was decided that the democrats should be informed that the .conferees' report had not been advanc- cd to the stage it could be submitted to them
 After the democrats had reached the corridors they held a little conference of their own. Representative Champ Clark. was called back to the chamber and was given copy of the bill as the conferees intend to report it. except for the schedules discussed by the pres ident in his letter. The democrats then went into session. After the democrats left there was a scene. Messrs- Ford ney and Calderhead went to the White House and from there to the office of Speaker Cannon and back to the chamber conference. Later they con- ferred with number of northwestern senators who were interested in the lumber question.
 Mir. Cannon hurried to the confer ence room. He has been one of the chief supporters of the house rate on gloves. There was no opportunity to compromise on gloves. The president said the rates must not be advanced beyond the figures named in the Ding ley bill which are the same as the sen ate duties except for the fact that Schmanchen gloves, were reduced by the senate from $1.75 a dozen pairs to $125. These rates were accepted On