The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-07-27
Claim Strength to Defeat
Any Report Of Com
mittee Which May Put
Hides on Free List
TAFT HOPEFUL OF RE-
PORT TO CONGRESS BE-
ING MADE TODAY-EX-
PECT CLOSE THIS WEEK

WASHINGTON, July 26.-In both
the senate and the house, the anti
free hide element is making active
preparations for vigorous resistance
to any report from the tariff con-
ference committee which may look
to the taking of the duty off hides.
In case the conferees bring in a
free hide report, the opposition will
resort to the tactics of adopting a
resolution of authorization to con
ference committee to place all kinds
of leather goods on the free list
along with hides.
By this course they count on
obtaining the support OF all but one
democratic member in the senate
and all but four in the house. The
democrats are committed to lower
the duties and while they would not
directly help the hide men by vot-
ing to put higher duty on their
product, they are found to be willing
to force all duty off shoes.
The hide men think that rather
than accept free leather and free
shoes, the manufacturers and con-
ferees who represent their views
would be willing to concede the duty
ON hides. The fight will be close in
both houses At meeting of the
western Republican senator's this af-
ternoon, Senator Warren was au-
thorized to say to the conferees that
those present would oppose any re-
port that proposes free hides.
The western senators assert that a
canvas which they have made in both
houses assures the defeat of such a
report and are tonight highly opti-
mistic. After adopting a concurrent
resolution empowering the president
to transmit to the Governors of the
various states, copies of the resolu-
tion heretofore adopted by congress
authorizing an amenument to the
constitution, relative to the leying of
an income tax, the senate today at
12:40 adjourned until next Tuesday.
The day brought no cessation of
President Taft's tariff activities. His
conference with house and senate
leaders covered practically the entire
day. The President admitted frank
ly to some of his callers today that
the situation was not all that could
be desired, but expressed the hope
that another "a hours would
straighten out the tangle and that
the report of the conferees would
be presented in the house tomorrow.
1t is also hoped at the White House
that congress may acjourn by the
last of the week.
President Taft has not receeded in
any way from his demand for free
hides, regarding free hides as under
living the whole principal of down
ward revision.
The president, on the other hand,
it is declared, has not been much i'm
pressed by the arguments'of western
senators that free hides would be fol
lowed by a demand for free wool
Hides never were protected until the
enactment of the Ding1ey law.
President Taft, it is said, does not
suffer the delusion that revision OF
the tariff downward is going to bring
reduced prices or would be OF i'm
mediate benefit to the ultimate con-
sumner. instead Ol d iCuuotioii, ~ ~
declared there will be actual IN
creases during the coming year on
MANY necessaries of life, including
wearing apparel. Even the putting
of hides on the free list and the ac-
companying reduction in duty on
finished leather products is not eA-
peeted to work reduction IN the
price of boots, shoes. harness or
other things manufactured from
leather. AS a matter of fact, the
presidents adyices are that NOES
are rapidly increasing in prices ana
that the demand is so great that
even the largest importations ex-
pected from Argentine under Tree
entry clause will not suffice TO keep
the prices at current figures
An advance of % to 25 per cert
in wooden goods already has been
announced, despite the fact that no
change has been made in the wooien
schedule. This schedule, the PIES
ident has been told will not permit
of a re-opening at this time. 1t is
a closed incident as regards the con-
ference.