The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-08-04
TARIFF GRAFT FIXED.
PRESIDENT MAKES SHOW OF
PROTESTING AGAINST HIGH
Err RATES.
me Measure rs Finally Agreed Upon
In Committee Gives Full Protec-
tion to All the Favored Trusts and
Wakes The Burdens People Must
Bear Heavier Than Ever.

washington. July 29.-The Payne
Aldrich tariff bill tonight stands com
pieted. An agreement on all disputed
points was reached late this Afternoon
and the conferees' report was signed
by the Republican conferees. 1t will
60 to the house tomorrow and be vot.
cd on by thar body on Saturday. The
senate will begin consideration of the
measure as agreed to by the conferees
on Monday.
Halted by the mandate of Presl-
dent Taft. the tariff conferees were
compelled to turn back and revise
their rates on lumber and gloves. In
a communication to Senator Aldrich
and Representative Payne, the presi-
dent demanded that the high rates on
gloves az fixed by the house and the
htgh rates on lumber as fixed by the
senate should not be made a part of
the conference report.
After struggling over these ques-
uons throughout the entire day the
conferees surrendered to the presi-
dents view and signed the report. The
report will so to the house tomor-
row at noon and will be ordered
printed. The house may be called to
meet at 10 o'clock on Saturday for
u is the intention of the leaders that
the report shall be pushed through In
one conference report In the senate.
When the conferees fixed the lum-
Der and glove rates yesterday by
shading very slightly the higher rates
ron each. they were SO certain that the
,rrestdent would consent to the ar
,rangemcnt that notes were sent to the
Democratic members Of the confer
.ence committee to be present at 10
o'clock today to approve or disap-
prove Of the conference report.
The president had the ideas of
what the rates should be and express
,ed them forcibly In q letter to the
.tarin conferees today. He said that
lumber should not be more than $1.2s
per thousand feet for rough. with the
cifferentiais fixed by the senate on
finished lumber. He declared also
tliat the senate rates on gloves. which
are the same as the Dingley rates and
much ess than the house rates, would
haze 10 be adopted In order to OBJ
tain his Endorsement
Not content with issuing an injunc-
tion against high rates on these ar
ticles the president specified that
hides must go on the free list and tho
house rates on boots and shoes and
other manufactures OF leather re-
duced. Hosiery. too. he thought.
should be reduced below the house
rates. which were advanced over the
Dingley rates.
IL was not until after the Demo.
cratic members had assembled that
the White House communication was
received at the conference chamber
After Its contents had been discussed
by the Republican members Of the
committee. the minority were inform
ed that the conference report could
not yet he submitted to them.
The minority members were In the
conference chamber less than an
hour. Representative Griggs. speak
ins for his associates. suggested that
IL the Republicans would consent to
put cotton bagging on the free list
they would show the utmost celebrity
in bringing the conference report tC
a vote.
None OF the conferees were dis
posed e. grant this request. but Rep
resentotive Mccall. of Massachusetts
protested vigorously on the groun,
that II would injure the riaaufac
troies N his state. which turn ou
cotton 1agglng. SO emphatic wer
his objections that II was seen a
agreement would he delayed II sucI
action were attempted.
The Republicans continued i'm con
ference after the Democrats left tn
chamber II was busy scene. Hur
rying tO and from the chamber wer
senators and member of the house
vying with representatives OF specia
interests to get "a final word wit
the conferees.
Late ia the day Representative
Fortrney and Calderhead went to tn
White House and from there TO tn
office OF Speaker Cannon and the
back To the conference chamber. La
ter they conferred with a number G
Northwestern senator's interested
the lumber question. soon aftc