New-York tribune., 1909-07-25
PRESIDENT WINS
IN TARIFF CONTEST
CONFERREES GRANT MOST
OF HIS DEUANDS.
Report To Be Ompleted To-day,
Only Formal VOteS IN Committee
Remaining To Be Taken.
IFrom The Tribune Bursau.I

| tically over All that remains is the taking Jf
] formal votes by the conference committee On the
! adoption OF the hides. lumber, iron ore, petro-
leum and print paper paragraphs. and the ad-
justment of certain rates in the cotton scheduIs
| which have the effect Of reducing the duties on
the lower grades. These votes viii be taken az
special meeting Of the committee Tomorrow
morning. The completed conference report Will
/ be sent to the Government Printing once to-
/ morrow night and submitted the Democratic
| conferrees on Monday It Will go to the House
/ on Tuesday.
/ The question Of whether hides shall be free or
/ dutiable. which was settled tentatively yester-
day in favor OF free hides. was discussed at some
! length by the conferrees to-day. Were it not
! for the insistence of President Taft that hides
shall be placed on the free list there is doubc
I that the Senators from the range states Of The
West would De successful in their fight 10 retain
at least half the present duty Of 15 per cent
Il is now apparent that the President has won
his fight for free hides and free petroleum. n
nominal duty iron ore reduced duty on
lumber. against the increase of the duty on
gloves, for greatly reduced duty on coal for a
material reduction from the House rate on
hosiery and for considerable reductions in the
cotton schedule. especially for the lower grades
which are bought in large quantities by persons
Of very moderate means.
i last desperate effort was made tc-niSit by
Senator Burrows to persuade the President 70
consent To the retention Of the Senate duty-Ot
- cents a ton on iron ore. For two hours the
Senate Republican conferrees discussed this
question with the President when they left
the White House at midnight they sand no
. agreement had been reached as 10 the rate on
ore. but acknowledged that the dury os - cents
would not be satisfactory to the President The
hides question was again reviewed tonight. but
no change from the dec.sf, 20 put them on the
free list was seriously proposed
/ WANTED FURTHER COTTON REDUCTIONS
I The President did not approve unqualifedly
the agreement reached yesterday BY the con-
ferrees and announced in The Tribune this
morning Instead. he urged 4Ir- Payne to naks
still further effort To obtain additional red1c-
tions in the cotton schedule 10 offset the con-
+ cessions he (the PresdenD was making on
+ those raw materials which he recommended
I should be placed on the free list Mr.. Payne
/ had been working throughout the morning ses-
I sion for reducJiors II the cotton schedule with
/ some measure OF success He went 70 the White
I House as soon as the recess was taken, accoIn-
PANIED by Representative Mccall. and altar
/ luncheon with the President he returned deter
/ mined 10 win still further concessions on the
/ lower GRADES OF cotton Mr. Mccall and the
F Massachusetts Senator's. although greatly n
+ terested in unfolding the rates CT the cotton
schedule bowed gracefully 70 the viii OF rhs
F z.
/ in their power to make the bill conform 70 his
views
FarIv III the forenoon session Senator A1drtcn
/ sanr for Senator's Warren ard Snoot. and the
news that hides had been placed on the tree hss
was broken 70 them Senator Warrens mug
nation knew no bounds and he DID not hsSit-i7
70 rr7-esr n vehement terms 1Ir- Sn1cot- Vfo
j. a younger Senator. and owes Hucn 70 NJ
aIdrich for his rapid advsncer1ent N NE sen
a.. accented the situation move calmly ser
.+o- rorah vino IS greatly interested in hides
exprsssad Willingness 20 accept the lnevlta pie
HIDES PUT ALrFIcH II DILE2I2IA-.
s.-.-,- Ar5-ieb has been placed in an ex-
+,ar, 6t45cr,Ir POSITION U.- the colhlctins views
- ,ba prasi5a7t and Nj Warren Mr. Warren
- --ohab1,- rh- most influential member of M
.z,zts from vest n rhs Mississippi ne "a
chairman II -rs Cemmlttes on Military Afralrs.
and IN the natural order viii BE chairman 81 ne
T.7vrarf1,I Con1mirree On APFropriarlH1s IN -
nor 4fsrarr future He threatened 70 ioin issus
with The insurgents 7nd seek 80 p'st-is.C'
,re Ar4rtch organization il the senate II the
senator from, Rhode Island failed - maintain
the duty hides
nm 4h- other hand. 70 have insisted o1 ratsin-
f- +b. duty ,n hides would have InvoiVed Er-
,15~f-r i'm = serious confict Win the President.
He was compelled 70 choose between the two.
and in the fnaI euatvsis he choss the President
and accented rhS severe d-Ainciitict1 ~ M
y,-sr-an with z,.ch eqrIzni1itv IS hs eo1lr con-
r1and NIr Warren found his disappointn1ens
tI,s greater because he had been led 70 6Atisvs
all aIons. not L. ny. Aldrich 6ut ~ a certain
norton Of the press THAT the duty on hides
1rouId be retained. or at least would not be RS
duced below ~ per cent
AR Burrows. who is as antagonists 70 tbs
President as Nr. Warren being conferres. Oh
tained a concession on iron ore. and this did
not. add 10 the comfort of Mr. Warren. senator
Clark Mr.. warren's colleague. Obtained a ma
terfaI concession from the Presidents demand
for free coal, which further augmented the dis
comfture Of the senior Senator from Wyoming-
Early in the afternoon the conferrees disposed
Of the drawback provision. which has been max
ing them some trouble, and only the COTTON
schedule remained each side contesting every
inch Of the ground or rather every fraction OF .
per cent that
II {s ganaraIIv doubted il there viii be u1ors
than five or six Republican votes against ths
,,osa-e,ca raport- IT is regarded as certain that
Senators Bristow. Clapp. La Toilette and Nelson
i,1 o,,,.oss IL Mr. Nelson served notice to-day
tbo+ he could be counted against the bill unless
+ba 1,,4,, on lumber was reduced 70 the HOUSE
ra+a nj 81 a thousand feet The leaders did not
s,rsct the vote Of the Minnesota Senator. for he
- been a consistent low tariff advocate for
,,a,v- wears They were somewhat disturbed.
however lest he should become so aroused on
the humber question that he would try 70 or
vanize the Minnesota members OF the House to
oDnose the report II he should succeed IN sep
aratins from the House organization such prom
fnent and active Representatives as Tawney and
Stevens there would be serious trouble ahead
for sneaker Cannon and his ueutenants.