Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-07-10
PAYNE
ANGRY WITH
UNCLE JOE
LEADERS CLASH OVER
SELECTION OF C0NFEREES
Speaker Accused Of Picking
Only Stand-Patters; Commit
tee Gets Down to Business by
Excluding Democrats.

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lost today by the conferees Of the
house and senate in getting together
to map out the program for the many
sessions thar must be held to put the
finishing touches upon tariff legisla-
ton.
| Many of the differences between the
two bodies represented by S47 amend
ments are likely to be contested with
| bitterness, but senator Aldrich of the
senate finance committee and Chair
man Payne of the house ways and
means committee agree that it may
be possible to reach an agreement
within ten days
The two leaders, however, are not
SO Sanguine of their ability OF getting
the conference reports adopted speed
lily after they have been presented to
the house and the senate. The man
ner in which the house conferees were
selected by Speaker Cannon Is occa-
sioning much criticism in the house
ana an effort is being made to have
President TAFT take a part in the
threatened controversy.
According to current reports, Mr.
Payne sought to have the republican
cunferees named in order of their
seniority AS was done in the senate.
The speaker chose the conferees him
self, ignoring Representative Hill
of Connecticut, and Needham of Cali
fornia. Representatives Calderhead of
Kansas and Fordney of Michigan, who
were named in spite OF the fact that
they are outranked by Messrs. Hill
ana Needham, are declared to be
stand patters" of a pronounced type.
Friends of Chairman Payne are anrt
thority for the statement that he dld
not consent to Speaker Cannon's Sc
lections until after he had entered a
vigorous protest. 1t is currently re-
ported that the two We're engaged IN
a heated argument over the question
before the house assembled today
MI Payne was powerless to prevent
the speaker from selecting such con-
ferees as he chose. After his confer
enCe with the speaker he Is said to
have told a number of his friends that
he believed the conferees had been
chosen with view to putting the tar
iff bin through as speedily as possible
q lpllS Seudlt llIltS. ny tiiif' 80 ''~''iAN
that the house conferees were expect
cd to acquescc in the principal increas-
os in rates that had beer made by thet
senate.
As soon as the senate adjourned to
day Mr. Aldrich telcphoned to Mr..
Payne asking him to get the house
conferees together ANA meet the SEN
ate conferees in the finance commit |
tee rooms in the senate office building |
at . 80 y. m.
senator Aldrich then went t. the |
White House where he had an e%tend-
ed conference with President Tart VINO |
had Just returned from New England
The president questioned Mr.. Aldrich |
many of the amendments
to the tariff bill made by the senate,
but it is said. that he did not criti-
cize any of the proceedings in that
body except the acceptance of an am
endment to the corporation tax porvi-
sion making it applicable to hold
ing companies. The inference gained
by Mr. Taft's callers today is that he
would not sanction the adoption of the
taxing the net earnings Of
corporations, unless the utmost caution
is taken to prevent double taxation.
After the conference with the Pres-
dent, Mr.. Aldrich said that it might be
necessary to entirely re-draft the cor
poration tax provision i'm conference.
If this is done. he said, the new pro-
vision will be along the lines agreed
upon at the recent White House con-
ference.
All of the conferees including the
democratic members met in the sem
ate office building at the appointed
hour They we're in session about an
nour. when the democratic members
were dismissed senator Bailey and
Champ Clark, walking
out together laughinely told num-
ber OF waiting newspaper men that
they could not expect much help from
the democrats in covering the news
pf the conference.
1--WE have been dismissed" said Mr..
Bailey. "and we will not be called in
again. until the majority completes its
Job of fooling the people"
senator Aidrich frankly told the
minority that the majority would pre-
pare its report without assistance. No
protest was made by the democrats.
A. it had been known all along that
they would not be permitted to parti-
-ipate in making up the conference re-
port any more than they had been per-
mitted To- have a hand in making upI
he bill in committee.
After the departure OF the demo-
rats the republican conferees talked
'or short time without taking up
he bill. They agreed that it might be
advisable to appoint sub-conferees to
'onsider portions of the bill Of which
he phraseology is vital. This never
las been done in previous conferences
lCnntinued on Paoe , CnInmn IL |