Lower coast gazette., 1909-08-07
PAYNE ALDR|CH
BILL COMPLETED
coNFEREES' REPORT IS SIGNED
AS INDICATED BY PRESIDENT
IN LETTER.
HOUSE VOTES ON It SATURDAY
Measure Will Co to Senate Monoay
Where It Will Remain a week.
Hosiery Duty Goes UP From
/ to 3 Per Cent.

Washington. The Payne-Aidrlch
tariff bill is complete.
An agreement on all disputed points
was reached and the conferees report
signed by the Republican contereeS
II will 90 to the house and be voted
on by that body Saturday. The senate
will on Monday begin consideration
of the measure as agreed to by the
cOnferees. The senate session may
consume all of next week.
Halted by the mandate Of President
Taft. the tariff conferees were com
PEELED to turn back and revise their
rates on lumber and gloves.
When the conferees fixed lumber
and glove rates by shading very
slightly the higher rates on each, they
were so certain that the president
would consent to the arrangement hat
notices were sent to the Democratic
members OF the conference committee
to be present to approve or disapprove
OF the conference report.
The president had other ideas OF
what the rates should be, and he eX-
pressed them very forcibly in a letter.
He said that lumber should not be
more than $1.25 per thousand feet for
rough with the differentials fixed by
the senate on finished lumber. He de-
clared also that the senate rates on
gloves, which are the same as the
Dingley rates, and much less than he
house rates, would have to be adopted
In order to obtain his Endorsement.
Specified Hides IN Free List.
The president also specified that
hides must go on the free list and the
house rates on boots and shoes and
other manufactures Of leather must
be reduced. Hosiery, too, he thought
should be reduced below the house
rates. which are advanced owe the
Dingley duties.
It was not until the Democratic
members had assembled that thu
White House communication was re
ceived at the conference chamber
When Senator Aldrich read the presi
dents message he called his Republl
can associates to an adjoining room
The contents of the letter were dis
cussed and it was decided that tn
minority should be informed that tn
conference report had not been ad
vanced to a stage were it could b
submitted to them for their judgmen
After the Democrats reached tn
corridor outside the conferenc
chamber they held a little conferenc
of their own. Representative Cham
Clark Of Missouri was called back t
the chamber. He was given a copy
the bill as the conferees intend to r
port it, except for the schedules di
cussed by the president in the lette
The Democrats then went into sessio
The minority members were in IL
conference chamber less than an hou
Representative Griggs said that II Il
Republicans would consent to put &C
ton bagging on the free list his a
sociates would show great celebrity
bringing the conference report
q vote. Many Of the conferees we
disposed to grant this request, b
Representative Mccall Of M:
sachusetts protested vigorously
the ground that it would inJure t
manufacture Of his state, which tn
out cotton bagging. So emphatic we
his objections that 1t was seen that
agreement would be delayed If su
action were attempted.
All Seek a "Final Word"
The Republican members continu
in ession after the Democrats left t
chamber. There followed one Of t
busiest scenes witnessed about I
corridors of the senate office buildi
during the three weeks the bill
been in conference. SURVIVING to a
from the chamber were senators q
members Of the house, vying with
personalities of special interests
get a final word" with the confere
Late in the day Representa-
Fordney and Calderhead went to
White House and from there to the
flee of Speaker. Cannon and then b;
to the conference chamber. Later Il
conferred with a number of No
western senators who were interes
in the lumber question. After Il
activities without the c~onfere
room. Speaker Cannon hurried to
conference room.
Speaker Cannon has been one of
chief supporters of the house rates