The Colorado statesman., 1909-07-31
REPUBLICAN, CONFEREES CON-
PEELED TO ACCEPT PRESI-
DENTS MANDATE.
REDUCTION is FORCED
LETTER FROM WHITE HOUSE AN,
NouNcES THE EXECUTIVES
ULTIMATUM.

Washington, July 29.-The Payne
Aldrich tariff bill is completed.
An agreement on all disputed points
was reached this afternoon and at
4:55 p. m. the report was signed by
the Republican conferees.
1t will go to the House tomorrow
and be voted on by that body on Sat
urday.
The Senate will Monday begin con-
sideration of the measure. The Sen
ate 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.
Hides will be free, and the rates on
shoes and other leather products re-
duced.
When the conferees fixed lumber
and glove rates yesterday by shading
slightly the higher rates on each, they
were so certain that the President
would consent to the arrangement
that notices were sent out to the Dem
ocratic conferees to be present at 10
o'clock today to approve or disapprove
of the report.
The President had other ideas of
what the rates should be, however,
and he expressed them forcibly in a
| letter.
! He said that lumber should not be
more than $1.25 per 1000 feet for
rough with the differentials fixed by
the Senate on finished lumber.
He declared also that the Senate
rates on gloves, which are the same as
the Dingley rates, and much less than
the House rates, would have to be
adopted in order to obtain his indorse-
ment
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 be reduced below the House
rates, which were advanced over the
Dingley rates.
There was no opportunity to com
promise on gloves. The President
| said the rates must not be advanced
beyond the figures named by the Sen
ate bill, which are the same as the ex-
listing duties except for the fact that
: Schmaschen gloves were reduced by
the Senate from S1.75 a dozen to
$1.25. These rates were adopted.
On lumber some concessions were
made, in spite of the fact that the
Presidents instructions were com.
piled with to the letter.
Rough lumber was made dutiable at
SLIPS per 1000 feet; finished on one
side, $1.75; finished on two sides, or
one side planed and tongued ana
grooved, $2.15; finished on three sides,
$2.52R, and finished on four sides,
$3.50.
To conciliate Senators Piles and
Jones the conferees adopted the Sen
ate rate of so cents per 1000 on shin.
giles instead of the House rate of 80
cents.
In order to obtain the support of
Senator Hepburn the industries OF
whose state had been assailed through
the abolition of the duty on hides, the
reduction of the duties on lumber anc
the reduction in the differential on
pig lead in bars, the latter schedule
was reconsidered and restored to 21s
cents per pound.
In view of the action of the con-
ferees in putting hides on the free list
a concession also was made to the cat
tie industry. by taking tallow off the
free list and making it dutiable at 11a
cents per pound.
The rates on hosiery were fixed by
increases of about 20 per cent. in
Fl q Q q N
a dozen pairs. This is an increase
over existing rates, but material de-
crease from the House advances. On
all other values of hosiery the Dingley
rates re-enacted by the Senate were
retained.