The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-10
COP. BADLY MIXED ON TARIFF BILL Changes Must Be Made To Suit President Taft NO HOPE FOR GOOD RESULTS Senator Clay Expects to See Taft Sign the Bill But Latter Will
 Make Changes Before
 Signing Up.
NO HOPE FOR GOOD RESULTS

Washington, June 9-(special.) )-All the l republican papers agree that President | Taft will be a potent force in settling the differences between the House and
 Senate on the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill
 and that as a result the measure which will come out of conference and ap- | proved by the President will be satisfac- tory to the latter and therefore a re- vision downward.
 There is no solid basis for the circula- tion of such reports. The Senate has gone so far that 1t is obvious that drastic changes in the forthcoming law cannot be worked out by the conference commit tee. The point is that the conference
 committee has no power to deal with
 items in the bill which have passed both
 the House and Senate They must re-
 main as they are, the conference commit tee devoting it's time to working out
 differences between the two bodies. Sena- tor Clay of Georgia made all of this
 clear today in discussing the matter. The senator is preparing a statement on the subject which he will shortly make ] in the Senate and it will fully dispose of the idea that the conference committee is going to form what many are claiming will be new tariff bill in line with the
 Presidents views.
 Senator Clay points out that there are about 4200 items in the bill. Only about $50 have been changed, leaving 3900 the same as ip the Dlngley act. The senator adds that only about 150 items will be in conference; that is, there will be only about 150 items in the entire bill of some
 400 which the conference committee will
 have power to change. The others, which
 are concurred in by the House and Sen
 ate, will not be subject to dispute and
 are actually the rates which are now law. It will be seen from this the futility
 of hoping for any material results from
 the conference committee. At the same
 time it is expected that Senator Aldrch
 will make great grandstand play to-
 ward yielding to the prediction views of
 the President when the bill gets in con ference. On majority of the items the
 Senate is expected to recede, which will
 put it in the attitude of being influenced
 by the President in favor of lower rates
 whereas, has been pointed out, a conces-
 sion of everything would not bring out a.
 bill of the kind the President was sup
 posed to be for.
 Senator Clay looks to see the Presl-
 dent approve the makeshift measure
 which will be sent him. The senator be-
 lieves that as result the democrats
 will carry the House next year. Demo-
 cratic division, he states, has been con
 fined to lumber and iron ore and he
 does not believe the country will hold the democratic party responsible for the
 failure of the republican party to re- deem it's campaign promises.
 A monument of marble or granite to
 cost about $9000 Is to be erected by the United States government in the Confed- crate section of Finn's Point National
 cemetery at Salem, N. J4 to mark the
 resting place of 2460 officers and men of
 the Confederate army and navy who died
 as prisoners of war at Fort Delaware
 Former Governor Oates of Alabama, the
 commissioner for the marking of the
 graves of Confederate dead, will open
 the bids next week. The adoption of d
 monument for the purpose Is due to
 the fact that 1t has been found impos- sible, because of imperfect records, to place distinctive headstones at each indi-
 vidual grave, as contemplated by the act
 of Congress. Commissioner Oates has also arranged to place wrought iron fences around Camp Chase Confederate ceme- tery near Columbus, O., and also around the Confederate cemetery at North AL ton, H.
 Representative Richardson of Alabama who called upon the President today declares the republicans will not be able
 to turn out a tariff bill that will satisfy the country.
 The people have demanded downward revision of the tariff. said MT. Richard son, 'and they are going to get just the opposite. They are pretty well informed too, and trouble will follow
 What the democrats want to do in the next campaign for Congress is to
 go before the country on the true dem ocratc doctrine of tariff for revenue with unavoidable protection"