The Elk Mountain pilot., 1909-08-05
REPUBLICAN CoNFEREEs COM
PEELED TO ACCEPT PRESl.
DENTS MANDATE.
REDUCTION IS FORCED
LETTER FROM WHITE HOUSE AN
NoUNCEs THE EXECUTIVES
UlTlMATuM.

Washington, July LS.-Ine fdyHo'
Aldrich tariff bill is completed.
An agreement on all disputed points
was reached this afternoon and at
ASS 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
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-
D.. 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 3I.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
listing duties except for the fact that
Schmaschen gloves were reduced by
the Senate from 31.75 dozen to
H25. 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 AZ
S.25 per 1000 feet. finished on one
side, Sl.75: finished on two sides. or
one side planed and tongued ano
grooved. sails: finished on three sides
3252k, 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 30
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 ana
the reduction in the differential on
pig lead in bars. the latter schedule
was reconsidered and restored to "a
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 11z
cents per pound.
The rates on hosiery were fixed by
- n
grades valued at $1.00. $1.50 and $2.ot
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.