The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-21
TARIFF DEADLOCK
 PAYNE AIDS TAFT
Sudden Halt in Conference, Then Aldrich and Cannon Hasten to White
 House.
HOUSE CONFEREES HAVE ROW

| Washington, July 21.-The plain sail ing that had apparently characterized the proceedings of the Conference com mittee on the Tariff bill came to an | obvious and abrupt end yesterday. After a session of an hour and a half a complete deadlock was reached, and an adjournment was suddenly taken | until today.
 The House conferrees repaired at once to the south end of the Capitol, | where MT. Payne engaged in confer l ences with Representative interested l in the schedules at stake. MT. Aldrich drove to the White House in company with Speaker Cannon and had a pro | lonSed conference with the President. Later MT. Aldrfch and Vice President | Sherman discussed the details of the | parliamentary situation.
 l The particular point at issue when l adjournment was taken is said to have been gloves and hosiery, on which the the higher rates. But there are many other differences, and it is practically admitted that the deadlock meant sim ply that the schedules on which there | were differences had been showed aside | and that the first attempt to raise them had caused trouble.
 The unexpected termination of the | morning session of the conference and Representatives as to the occur renceS then. It was said that strong language had passed between Chair | man Payne and Senator Aldrich. The this account. but reveal for the pres ent at least the apparent impOsSibility | of further advance. PAYNE STARTLES ALDRICH. Discussion in the committee had dragged all morning over the question | of free raw materials. Efforts to put l through the Presidents programmes were blocked, and no progress could be | made on schedules affected, as many rates on finished products depended on the rates on raw products. After fruit | less discussion of these points they were laid aside
 Tten, suddenly. hosiery and gloves were taken up. Here MT. Aldrich de- manded the acceptance of the lower Senate rates. MT. Payne is said not to have been entirely averse to reduc. | tions from the House rates. but he suggested that corresponding conces- Senate. That brought the Senate con- fewees up in arms, and 1t was stated flatly that such reductions were inn possible. In view of that sharp re 5oinder, MT. Payne is quoted as having stated that 1t seemed that matters had gone as far as possible, and that unless both sides were willing to make re- auctions there was no further use in talking over threadbare subjects. Shortly afterward adjournment was taken. It was declared by the confer rees that the settlement of differences between the two houses had gone so far that any further, agreements would need practically -the consent of persons in one house or the other who were interested in particular rates. To en- able conferences with those men to be held adjournment was taken, it was said and later in the afternoon MT Payne was in his committee room, sur rounded by his followers. Still later, after the Speaker and MT. Aldrich had left the White House. MT. Payne went up and had a talk with MT. Taft. CANNON AIDING LTTAUER The significance of the Speakers visit to the White House with MT. Aldrich lies in the fact that MT. Can non, although he does not pretend to be a tariff expert, holds much to heart the rates on gloves which were insert representations of tive Littauer. MT. Littauer was for many years one of the leading spirits in the Speakers inner circle The President yesterday talked earnestly with MT. Cannon in behalf of the lower rates on gloves and hosiery, but as far as could be seen he made no impression At 10 o'clock yesterday morning the Speaker was invited by telephone to a second conference, and MT. Aidrich was summoned for the same hour. What happened at the White House is not known, but Mir. Payne'S chal-
 
 cotton goods in return for reductions on gloves and hosiery has put prop osition within the Presidents immed- fate observation that is being watched with acute interest by the insurgents in the Senate. They made their big gest fight for reductions on cotton goods
 HOUSE CONFERREES AT ODDS.
 The general disclaimer of personal breaches between MT. Payne and MT. I -f.1, <7<@ 1~v1 l-I,n n1 known to have occurred among mem bers of the house delegation in the conference. Between MT. Payne and MT. Fordney yesterday. for instance, there was a sharp passage.
 From a. creditable source it was learned that a crisis was reached when an effort was made late yesterday to vote on lumber. MT. Payne argued the President, as this was one of the subjects practically submitted to him for adjustment, providing he could get votes enough in the two houses to adopt compromise rates.
 ''If we cannot agree lets settle the question by voting on the question" Mir. Fordney is reported to have sug- gested. It is reported also that MT. Aldrich acquiesced in that proposel.
 That MT. Payne had little part in lecting the conferrees to represent the House in the conference is well known. He made recommendations that were
 
 selections. MT. Payne is said to have complained to some of his friends at the time that the Conference commit tee had been packed with high pro tectionistS, and that Senator A1drich had been able to wield more influence with the Speaker than had he as chair man of the committee which prepared the House bill.
 When MT. Fordney, who had been placed the Conference committee regardless of the fact that he is the junior Republican member, said Tets vote," MT. Payne protested with a ve- hemence that startled his associates. Some one said that the majority should rule. That remark, it is de- clared, came from one of the Senate members of the conference, and it in censed MT. Payne still more
 MT. Payne. it is said, told MT. AL drich that he could vote the Senate members of the conference if he chose, but that he could not vote the House members so easily. Full of wrath, he