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to do with sugar and molasses, as they
are on Schedule f, dealing with tobac-
co. After agricultural products, comes
Schedule H, where the Senate has rails
ed the duties on wines and spirits. The
House is expected to accept most Of
those increases with little discussion on
the part of its eonferees. Only few
items in Schedule I, pertaining to cot
tons will be within the jurisdiction of
the conference, but those few, touching
yarns and thread and countable cotton
cloths, as they are styled will provoke
big fight in conference in all prob
ability. The Senate raised the duties
materially on those classes of goods.
Senate and House have agreed in
most of the items in the jute and fax
schedule. The conference contention
win center over the action of the Sen
ate in placing duty on jute and jute
butts. which is the raw material of the
manufactures in much of that schedule,
and in the Senate IS placing cotton bag
cling on the free list The outcome
will probably be the recession of the
Senate in both eases so that jute butts
will go on the free list and cotton
bagging will be restored to the dutiable
list.
Little or no contention is expected
over Schedule K, affecting woods and
woolens The only differences between
the two houses are over low grades OF
woods used in making carpets and over
certain grades of tops and waste. The
Senate put several increases in duties
Unto the silk schedules, to which the
House is expected to accede. These are
chiefly in the shape of substituting
specific duties for advalorems but at
higher rates.
There is a good fight or two for the
third legislative body in Schedule NJ,
covering pulp, papers and books, but
it may not be very tenacious. 1t VIII
center around the duties on print paper
and wood pulp. The only other sched-
ule is that on sundries, which have two
items over which there will be real
battles. One will be on coal and the
other on hides. The House voted free
hides and approximately free coal.
IF there is much delay in an agree
.ment by the conferees, it may be due
to differences on the administrative
features. The Senate is for very
different maximum and minimum tarlH
than the House voted. It is also for
a customs court, which the House may
resist. How much of battle there
will be over the Taft corporation excise
tax is matter of conjecture. The Sen
ate has substituted it for the inherl-
tanee tax voted by the House.
Conference reports on important
measures are often brought in by sec
tions. This will hardly be done by
the tariff conference, which promises
to be holding sessions within few
days. For political reasons the pro-
gram will almost certainly be to present
the report on the entire bill, as Ear
as its provisions are IN dispute, and
there will be no report till there IS
a complete agreement. Then the Sen
ate and the House will have to vote the
report up or down. with a certainty that
it will be voted up.
The sessions of the third legislative
body will be of unusual interest be-
cause of the widely disseminated I'M
preston that President Taft is TO be
virtually a member of the conference
in the hope of securing measure OF
revision downward The leaders have
been observing craftily. of late, that
the conferees would be President Taft,
Senator Aldrieh and Speaker Cannon.
Anyone familiar with the conditions
under which the conferees meet and the
jurisdiction they have, can but know
that the statement of the leaders can
prove to be true only in a minor degree.