Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-04
CONF FERRIES
BILL WILL GO TO HOUSE TODAY
AND TO THE SENATE ON
MONDAY.
TAFT WROTE NOTE TO COMMITTEE
Tart, Wins Victory on Lumber and
GIoves-letter Does the Work.
Mccumber Loses on Grains and
OingIey Drawback Re.enacted.

Washington.-The conference re-
port on the Payne-Aldrich-Taft tariff
Dill Is completed. 1t represents vic
tory for the president in the sched-
ules on which he fought hardest
lumber, hides and leather, gloves and
hosiery. While the hictory does not
meet the views of revision with
which the western members of the
house and senate went into the tariff
fight, it represents the actual defeat
of the high tariff forces in some of the
schedules on which they had stood
pat" wit hthe greatest vigor.
Nothing short Of the special letter
which President Taft sent to the con-
ference committee could have forced
that body to agree to $1.25 lumber
and the lower duties on gloves. The
Democratic members of the confer
ence had been called in and were CO.
ing over the report with the Republi-
cana when the letter from the presi-
dent, demanding lower duties. arrived.
They were forthwith elected from the
room, while the Republicans once
more set about the task of adjusting
differences to meet the presidents
views.
Rhodes Loses Battle.
J. E. Rhodes, of Minneapolis, and
others prominent in the fight for high
lumber tariff, after consultations with
Mr.. Fordney, of the conference COM
mittee, stated that the lumber tariff
would not be put below $1.4O. They
insisted that the lumber forces were
strong enough in the senate to beat
the bill if the lumber went down to
$l.25. Even at that moment, however,
the rate had been fixed at the figures
demanded by the president.
That the bill will go through the
senate seems certain. The president
is expected to give the conference re-
port his endorsement and that en-
dorsement will mean that he will give
his support. The far western senator's
have been partially Modified and in
place of the $3.50 rate on lumber that
was traded to them Tuesday for
their hide duty, they were given
an increase from 81 to $3.50 on lead
ore. This may help to placate some
of them, but it is safe to assume that
Mr.. Aldrich would not have agreed to
the conference report unless he had
been sure of the adoption of the re-
port in the senate.
The glove duties, under the further
influence of President Taft's demands,
went tumbling back to the senate
rates. The section was redrafted by
putting in the Dingley rates. Hosiery
was reduced materially, but on the
common grades, those that sell at
from 81 to 81 per dozen, wholesale,
the rate is still 20 per cent increase
over existing laws. Hides remain on
the free list and shoes and leather
goods at reduced rates, which the
president insisted must be put in the
bill.
The attitude of the northwestern
members and senators to the bill is
largely a matter of conjecture at the
present time. Senator Clapp is out
spoken against it and it is believed
that Senator Nelson has seen no rea-
son to change his attitude toward the
measure. Senator Cummins and Sen
ator Bristow, of Kansas, say that they
see nothing in the schedule to induce
them to withdraw opposition to the
measure. Senator Dolliver is appa-
rently of the same mind.
In the house, however, the situa-
ton is not so easily analysed. Con-
gresham Tawney would not commit
himself on the bill. He did not want
to accept the $1.25 rate on lumber,
but in view of other reductions made
in the report, and the declaration of
the president that this was the best
reduction that could be secured as a
compromise between the two houses
it is considered likely that he will
support the report if it bears the ap-
prevail and Endorsement of the presi-
dent.
Congressman Stevens said that he
would not commit himself on the mat
ter until he sees it.
On the drawback, specific informa-
ton is not yet cbtainable, as to the
exact changes that have been made in
the Dingley schedule. The Dingley
drawback Is re-enacted, but there
have been some changes. The Nc
Cumber amendment, prohibiting a
drawback on wheat, has been stricken
out and in cutting it out there is some
question whether the conference has
not also eliminated the prohibition
against drawback on oil-cake.
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