The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-22
TAFT SATISFIED
WITH RESULT OF
TARIFF DINNER
But President Is Not Optimistic
as to How Soon Before
Measure Is Ready.
CUMMINS AT WHITE
HOUSE FOR BREAKFAST
lie and Executive Go Over En-
tire Ground and Find
Opinions Coincide.

WASHINGTON, July 22.-In discuss
i~g today with various of his callers
the results of cst nights tariff dinner
at the White Hous., President Taft ex
pressed himself as entirely satisfied.
The President declared, with reference
70 the placing of raw materials on the
snee list. especially hides, that his
chief interest now lay in finding out
what could be done with reference to
manufactured products. Western sena-
tors. who are fighting the proposition
to put hides on the free list. are using
their best endeavors to have a reduce
ton made in the manufactured goods
schedule to offset any concession they
may have to make with regard to the
duty on hides.
President Taft called attention TODAY
to the fact that he has been inadyert-
emily misrepresented as demanding free
raw materials all along the line. The
PRESIDENTS position, as a matter of
fact, as outlined in his statement of
H.
quiry to find out what degree of protec
tion, If any, was necessary in the mat
Ter of ore, hides, coal, etc. The PresI-
dent has not committed himself ire
trievably to free hides, free COAL free
oil and free iron ore, and the fact that
he called attention to this fact today
leads to the impression at the White
House that some sort of working basis
Is about to be reached
Won't Discuss Compromises.
Inc PRESIDENT, as result of the stand
he has taken in the conference consid
Grafton of the bill, will win nearly all
of the wishes he has expressed, and.
while he declined to discuss "compro-
mise with any of his callers, it is quite
likely that the concessions which the
conferees will make will in the end
prove satisfactory to the chief execu-
tive
PRESIDENT Taft was not optimistic in
MS talks today as to the time that vet
VIII be required to whip the measure
into shape. One of his callers asked
I'm the organization of the bureaus of
the department of commerce and labor.
and then added that perhaps that was
late summer matter which the Presi-
dent was not ready to take up.
senator Cummins, of Iowa. who is a
leader among the Progressive" Sena-
tors, today took breakfast with the
president and spent two hours with him
In discussion of the tariff situation.
They went over the entire ground, and
1t Is understood found themselves to be
very much in accord.
Mr.. Cummins spoke for the coterie of
ten Senators who voted against the
Payne-Aldrich bill as 1t passed the Sem
ate. He assured the President of the
>eontinued adherence of those Senators
to the policy of a lower tariff, and was
told in return that the President was
losing no opportunity to impress the
wisdom of such course upon Senators
and members of the House.
Mr.. Cummins had prepared state
ment regarding the attitude of the
''progressives" before he went to the
White House, but after his return
from his interview with the Presi-
dent made some changes in it and
probably will give it out tonight In
this statement Mr. Cummins will ira
verse the whole situation and viii state
the position of himself and his sena-
torial cooperators. He will say that it |
is not iaecessarily free raw material |
that the 'progressives" demand, but |
lther general lowering of duties.
& when the conference committee ad- |
fvnrned for the day at ! o'clock it had |
len decided that the customs court |
hould be established in Washington I
instead of New York. The House con-
ferees viii meet this afternoon to de-
eide upon program regarding coal.
hides. lumber, iron ore, oil, hosiery,
gloves and the cotton schedule