The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-07-14
EXPECT TO SUBMIT BILL
TO BOTH HOUSES ABOUT
TUESDAY.
FIRST CLASH EXPECTED TO
CONE OVER PAINTS AND
LEAD.

washington, July l4.-Tarin con-
ferees are making such rapid progress
II Is the hope of members of both
houses that the result of their labors
will be submitted by Tuesday. The
first reading of the bill was conclud-
ed at the late session last night. To-
day the schedules from the beginning
were taken up and a number of these
schedules already have been adjusted
The first real contest of the confer
ence is expected to come over paints
and lead. The house wanted lead
duties increased and the senate asked
to increase paints, the basis of
which il lead.
Work of Congress.
By passing over the cotton and
wooden schedules without taking up
any of the amended paragraphs, and
skipping the disputed points con-
nected with the rates on lumber In
the wood schedule. the tariff con-
ferees were able TO dispose of about
400 amendments. This number, how
ever, includes subjects that were
settled tentatively on Monday and
Saturday.
Many important subjects, such as
the house drawback feature of the
alcohol paragraph, the rates on oil
cloth and the various items under
the head of lithograhs were submit
ted to sub-conferees.
The treasury experts who helped
the senate finance committee in its
consideration of the bill are assist
ing the conferees in gathering in
formation about these subjects.
When the last session was begun
the conferees had reached sundries.
nearly the last of the schedules. So
many matters had been put over for
future sessions, however, that it is
difficult to tell Just how much prog
ress has been made.
The conferees are making every
effort to prevent the advance publ
cation of decisions reached by the
conferees regardless of how unim-
portant are the questions deter
mined.
The corridors about the confer
ence room in the senate Office build
ings are about as thickly peopled
with representatives of special inter-
ests and lobbyists generally as they
were when the bill was in house and
senate committee.
The moment a member of the
conference energies from a session
he is surrounded and briefs relating
to various schedules have adopted
the plan of refusing to accept these
arguments, basing their declination
upon the ground that the bill has
been considered in both branches of
congress and that 1t is now the duty
of the conference committee to har-
monte the differences without out
side influence of any kind.
Few of the conferees predict that
report can be made before a week
from Saturday and some go so far is
to forecast August 1, or later for the
adjournment of the extra session.
Conferee interviewed.
A representative OF the press in
terrogated one of the conferees as
to the progress that has been made.
A list of practically all of the amend
ed paragraphs of public interest was
submitted to him. II covered nearly
one hundred subjects and not one
of them had been settled definitely.
it was learned.
Members of the senate committee
on finance are preparing a statement
replying to charges that are senate
amendments to the tariff will result
in increasing the cost OF wooden and
cotton clothing, shoes and other
articles of common wear, as well as
other necessaries of life.
The statement will show that the
duty on shoes has been reduced and
that there has not been a single
change in the rates on wooden goods.
and that the rates on cotton have not
been increased.
There will follow a list of about
500 decreases in rates from the Ding
| ley duties, and list of about sixty
or seventy-five increases. An effort
will be made to show that most of
the latter are not in reality, in
creases of rates. but that they pro-
vide for the collection of the rates
fixed by the Dingley law, which had
been set aside by the misinterpreta-
ton of that law.