The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-28
PAYNE LEADS <
 TARIFF REVOLT

AFTER APPARENT AGREEMENT
 OF CONFEREES HE TELLS | PRESIDENT TAFT HE WILL DE-
 FEAT SENATE RATES.
 | Washington, July 2S.-After an ap- parent agreement had been reached on
 the Tariff bill in conference yesterday, | members of the House went to the
 White House last night, headed by
 Chairman Payne of the Ways and Means committee to tell the President | that they had votes enough in the House to defeat the Senate rates on lumber, and would do so.
 l Besides MT. Payne there were Mo Call, the only other conferee of the 1 group; Tawney, Smith of Iowa, Per kins of New York, Martin of South
 Dakota, Stevens of Minnesota, Esch of | diana.
 They pointed out to President Taft
 that free lumber had been defeated in
 the House by only five majority and l that the House rate of $1 a thousand
 on rough lumber had been accepted
 overwhelmingly and would be insisted
 on. They pointed out, further, that
 the only compromise they would be
 willing to accept would be a flat re-
 duction from the Senate rate of $1.5O
 on rough lumber.
 The Senate. differential on dressed lumber is already smaller than that fixed by the House, so that the House attitude is decided stand for lower rates.
 | The President heard all their argu- | ments, but gave them no expression of | opinion on intention. It is regarded as certain that this position on the part of the House will tend to further delay.
 CONFEREEs ALMOST FINISH BILL | Work of the conferees awas practic-
 ally completed yesterday. The agree
 ment on hides and leather paved the
 way for quick action and agreements
 were speedily reached.
 | The general trend of the agreements
 was contrary to the desire of the Pres ident. One apparently wel1-informed | report from the committee had it that
 in the House he had been able to gain | only free hides and free oil for MT. | Taft, in addition to high duties on l gloves and hosiery, which Speaker | Cannon wanted, and that the Senate l had been able to hold substantial du-
 ties on lumber, coal, iron ore, and print
 paper. One authority outlines the | agreement as follows: | Oil-FNree.
 l HideS-Free.
 | CoaI-FOrty-five cents a. ton | Print Paper-Three dollars and 50 1 ton.
 Iron Ore-Fifteen cents a ton. l Lumber-Rough, s1.50 thousand
 feet; one side finished. g; two, sides | finished, s225; three sides finished, which may include tongnir1g and
 grooving, s2.621z; four sides finished,
 s3.
 | GIoves-F'our dollars per dozen pairs, not exceeding IA inches in length,
 which is the standard length Exceed added for each inch. This rate does
 not apply to the Sschaschen, or cheap | glove, on which the Senate rate of
 SIPS per dozen pairs is retained. The i Dingley rates, but the House rates ac- cepted on the higher grades of gloves
 represent heavy increases over exist | ing duties.
 Hosiery-valued at s1 or less per
 dozen pairs, 70 cents. as against the | Senate and existing rate of 50 cents. On values up to g, the rate is slightly | in excess of existing duties, and a l shading below the rates fixed by the
 House. On the highest grades the
 Senate and House rates were identical.
 FINAL PLEA BY LITTAUER- Ex-Representative Littauer appear | ed in person in the conference commit | tee room to urge his plea for the high
 House rates on gloves, for which | Speaker Cannon has been holding out | so insistently. Whether the figures given above are correct is not definite | ly known. One conference put it that | a flat compromise had been effected on gloves and another summed up the results by saying that "Littauer had | won his fight" These statements
 were taken to mean that some conces- i sions were made on the House rate and | that several of the classifications would undergo slight reductions. MT.
 his last chance, and he worked like a Trojan. When he left the Senate of
 flee building his face was flushed and he was dripping with precipitation. On print paper it is certain the House did not secure an even break with the 1 Senate. The question finally settled down to $3.75 a ton or $3.5O, and It was | flatly asserted that the Senate rate of . l,< | though MT. Mann was quoted as be- Heving a compromise as low as $3.25 would be effected. He announced two days ago that he would vote for no report carrying a rate higher than $3, and experience has generally shown | Mir. Mann as little inclined to recede | from any position he may assume. TRICK ON DEMOCRATS. | Cotton bagging, which was put on | the free list in the closing. days of de | bate in the Senate, has been restored | to the dutiable list, though whether
 the full rate of 6-10 of a cent is re- | tained or not is not known. MT. Al | erich accepted an amendment offered by MT. Bacon of Georgia putting the | article on the free list simply to shut
 off a long speech by that Senator It
 was announced by prominent Repub- lican that afternoon that the duty will | be restored in conference. Exactly | the same trick was played on the
 Southern Democrats when the Dingley bill was under consideration | CANNON PLANS HOUSE. PRO CEDURR
 Speaker Cannon and other House managers had a long conference about | the special rule which is to be brought | in to empower the House conferees to put duties on leather products below | the rates fixed by the House bill. It had been urged that this rule should | be passed before the conference report | was brought in, but it was declared | that separate consideration of it was | likely to precipitate a fight that would | get beyond the control of the leaders. The rule, therefore, will probably be
 brought in with the report itself.