Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-26
SENATOR SM0 ] D
COMEDIES NOTHING.
No Reduction IN the Lead sched-
uIe While Hide Question
IS Not Settled.
is ANTI FREE RAW MATERIALS.
Most OF Them Arc Finished Product
or Mines. Farms and Ranches
US OF tho West.
,special 70 the "News.n,

II Washington, D. c., July 26.-In re-
Spouse to a question as to whether he
cared to- answer the charge In a Salt
Lake paper that he has betrayed vest.
ern interests by conceding reductions
In the lead and hide schedules, Senator
Smoot said this afternoon that there
has been no reduction in the lead
schedule In any particular SO far as 1t
relates to mining of lead ores. He
further added that he has conceded
5nothinggi1li the matter of hide duty
| and that a hide tariff has not been
| agreed uTron. The senator added that
The is opposed to the. policy of free
.raw materials,n so called because
most of these raw materials aresthe
finished product, OF the MINES ss,s iar a,l
and ranches of the west. In TINS COR
nection it can be said that Senator
Aldrich's positive declaration that ne
must NOT consent to free hides Is prl-
n1arily due to the loyal manner IN
which Senator Smoot has aided the
chairman of the finance committee,
Sin framing the bill.
TREE HIDES. z ls
on Saturday 1t was reported that the
gconferees on the tariff bill had agreed
upon free hides" there never has been
"a moment since the tariff Dill Went , to
1.-the conference committee, 5Wn lee 1 li's
senate members we're willing to con-
}cede SO much to the house, or to the
president. "a ,1s
At one time last week a compromise
might have been reached on the basis
Of Nv per cent duty on hides, but this
was not satisfactory to the house ana
on the. other hand. the shoe manu-;
facturers have positively refused 20
nd heI goods
placed on the free list SO that al Az
tenapts to reach an agreement nave
failed thus far.
.arhere is nothing like leather" used
to be an old cry. today it is there's
nothing like hides
81 With the differences between the atHo
thouses on this one item adjusted, all
l5other differences can be smoothed OUT u
IN an hour, but hides are worrying both
sides ana the western senators. es-
| apeciallyi Senator'S AZ Smoot, Sutherland
and 4 Borain, Garter, Clark (VVyo0, and
\ Warren vii mot consent to vote for an y
| con ference report which ignores the
claims of the cattle growing states. "
4 is the cattlen,en and not the packers,
who are making this fight. 4 The cattie
growers have an office here. and the ne
Officials of their organizatio are e,,, ire
1 suuently seen ID in wv ashing ton. mere
packers in the city. for a mont l:. y, 4
1t IS held thai il hides are made free
there is no good reason why raw Wool
| should not be treated in the same
manner, especially as the duty on hides
4applies only to those OF full grown an
imals, while every pound of imported
wool is subjected to tariff charges.
For this reason, 1t IS feared that II q
rule Is brought in to permit the house
oonferees to place leather goods on the
/ free list, it will give the adherents OF
! free wool, free marble and free gram
/ tie opportunity to amend the rule
Hence q the objection. Apparently
therefore, the only hope Of agreement
rests upon the chance to- secure q
1 compromise. on hides and the western
4 cattle growers, insist that they will
4 never consent to free hides. even II
they aid in keeping Congress In SEES
Il sion until September.