The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-08-03

they would be ready TO vote by 2
o'clock, Thursday,
IF the mistakes of this bill are TO
be corrected" Mr.. Bailey added. II
think the debate on the resolution viii
require quite as much time as the
tariff measure Itself has consumed"
Mr.. Bacon desired to have an un-
derstanding of the scope of the debate
on the proposed resolution. Mr., Aid
rich, with some show OF irritation.
withdrew his acceptance of the propo-
sltion for unanimous consent.
Promptly renewing that request. Mr..
Bailey without further debat0 OBJ.
tanned an agreement 10 vote on tho
acceptance of the report at 2 o'clock
Thursday next.
Senator Bacon referred to the non
participation by the Democrats in the
conference on the tariff
An apparent indiSposition of the sem
atOrs TO discuss the conference report
followed. and Mr.. Aldrich surprised
everybody by moving an adjournment
The motion carried. and the senate,
at LOS p. m, adjourned until neon
tomorrow.
Washington. Aug. 2.-Tariff legisla
tion has been delayed again by the
hide and leather question and the CON
ferees were called together once more
today Western senators Will compel
further changes in the hide and
leather schedule. These senators COM
plain that the leather schedule as ar
ranged by the conferees with the ap-
proval of the president Is unfair to
the states interested In protected
hides. 1t was agreed that some ac-
ton must be taken TO conciliate them
If the conference report is TO be
adopted.
Without thought Of serious obstacles
Senator Aldrich caused the report to
be taken up today as soon as the sen,
ate met AS Is usual the senate leader
and his associates moved about to
ascertain whether there had been any
change of sentiment They were not
long in learning that the charge that
there was joker In the compromise
hide and leather question had upset
the comfortable majority they had
previously counted for the adoption
of the report. The westerners claimed
they had been led to believe that all
boots and shoes of leather were to be
dutiable al 10 per cent and that all
harness was to be dutiable at 20 per
cent.
When the conference report was is
sued 1T appeared that the reductions
applied only to articles manufactured
in chief part of the class of hides
which are to be made free OF duty.
The reductions would not apply to
shoes the uppers OF which were made
of calf skin. OF TO harness. the chief
value of which was calf skin.
Western senators were extremely
bitter in their condemnation Of the
compromise, They said they had been
fooled; that the president had been
fooled, and that the trick played on
the consumer was nothing short of
buncombe Finding that the western
ers were not amenable to argument
some Of the senate leaders and some
Of the dissatisfied members hurried
TO the White House. There all were
Informed that the president had not
been fooled He was reported to have
told all of his callers that he fully un-
derstood the character of the compro-
mise
1t was declared by the conferees
that their course was necessary from
q parliamentary standpoint To have
reduced all boots and shoes. they said,
would have compelled a resubmisslon
OF the question 10 the house.
When Senator Aldrich returned
from the White House he called a ses-
sion OF the conferees. The western
senators were ushered into the confer
encc chamber singly or in pairs. Au-
diences were given TO Senators Hey
burn. Warren. Carter, Sutherland.
Brown. Borah and Bourne Invita-
tlons had been Issued to Senators
Dixon. Burkett and Clark of Wyoming
but they did not accept
Senator Aldrich and Representative
Payne declared the language employed
In adjusting the hide controversy was
not Joker" An effort was made TO
reach an understanding with the west
ernerS. They said the word had gone
out over the west that free hides had
been given for cheaper shoes and har-
ness and that their constituents would
not be satisfied with any other bar
gain.
letters from the president bearing
upon the alleged Joker" which they
read. The letter TO Senator Borah
was in response TO one he had written
The president asserted In the letter
that the leather and hide schedule, as
adopted by the conferees. was just
as he had understood IT. He said that
his understanding was that the re-
ductlon on leather goods should be
made on those manufactures of the
hitherto dutiable hides and should not
include manufactures OF hitherto free
hides.
Continuing. the president agreed
that farmers wear shoes made OF the
kind of hides that would pay the low
duty. and that practically all harness
Is made from dutlable leather, and
therefore would be reduced to twenty
per cent ad valorem. In the Brown