The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-07-30

corridors Of the senate office building
during the three weeks the bill has
been In conference. Scurrying to and
from tn chamber were senators and
members of the house. vying with rep
resentatives of special interest to get
In a final word with the conferees.
Late in the day Representatives
Fordney and Calderhead went to the
white house and from there to the
Office of Speaker Cannon and then back
to the conference chamber. Later
they conferred with a number of
northwestern senators who were in
terested in the lumber question. Aft
er their activities without the con-
ference room Speaker Cannon was
seen hurrying down the main corri-
dor. The door of the conference room
was thrown open and he was permit
ted to enter without delay.
Cannon Jolted
Speaker Cannon has been one of
the chief supporters of the house
rates on gloves. He said he believed
these rates were necessary to stimu-
late manufacture Of women's gloves.
Former Representative Littauer of
New York, the largest manufacturer
of gloves in this country, is warm
friend of the speaker. He has urged
for number of years that the rate ON
Women's and children's gloves be rails
ed In order to encourage manufacture
In the United States. The house rates
SO the leaders say, were adopted at
his suggestion and because they believ-
ed his argument.
When the speaker concluded his
visit to the conference chamber, he
hurried down the corridor without
stopping. One of the waiting news
paper correspondents asked him If the
conferees had finished.
II am not member of the confer
ence committee. How do 1 know"
! responded the speaker. His reply,
however, was garnished with certain
emphatic expressions which gave 1t
considerable weight. The speaker wore
the unmistakable air of man who had
capitulated before a superior force
| There was no opportunity to COM
promise on gloves. The president said
the rates must not be advanced be-
yond the figures named by the sem
ate which are the same as the exist
ing duties, except for the fact that
Schmaschen gloves were reduced by
Led
Lumber Concessions
On lumber some concessions were
made, In spite of the fact that the
presidents instructions We're complied
with to the letter. Rough lumber was
made dutiable at $1.25 per thousand
feet; finished on one side, $1.75; fin
ished on two sides or one side planed
and tongued and grooved, $2.15; fin
ished on three sides, $2.52 1-2, and
finished on four sides. $3.50.
To conciliate Senators Piles and
Jones, the conferees adopted the sem
ate rate of fifty cents per thousand on
shingles instead of the house rate of
thirty cents. In order to obtain the
support of Senator Hepburn, the in
dustries of whose sta, had been as
sailed through the abolition Of the du-
ty on hides, the reduction in the du-
ty on lumber and the reduction in the
differential on pig lead in bars, the
latter schedule was reconsidered.
The senate fixed the rate on pig lead
at two and an eighth cents per pound,
but this was reduced in conference
to two cents. In view of the dissatis-
faction of the Idaho senators this
subject was reopened today and a rate
of two and all eighth cents a pound
on pig lead in bars was restored.
| In view of the action of the con-
ferees in putting hides on the free
list, a concession was also made to
the cattle industry by taking tallow
off the free list where it had been
placed by the house and restored it
| to the dutiable list.
| Tallow had been put on the free list
by the house, but the action of the
conferees today makes it dutiable at
one and a half cents per pound.
The rates on hosiery were fixed by
i increases of about twenty per cent in
grades valued at $1.0O, $1.50 and $500
! a dozen pairs. This is an increase
over existing rates. but a material de-
crease from the advances made by the
house. On all other values of hosiery
the Dingley rates, which had been re-
enacted by the senate, were retain
! ed. This action, the conferees be-
lieve, was in conformity wit hthe spir-
| it of the presidents request.
The minority members of the con-
ference committee were in session
most of the afternoon. They had call
ed in a number of tariff experts in Or
der to compare the conference bill
with the existing law When their ses-
sion adjourned last night, it was an
nounced that the experts had proceed
| ed far enough to show that the new
bill will be an increase of from one
to three per cent over the ad valorem
of the Dingley law. 1t Is understood
that in reaching this calculation, the
experts do not take into consideration
transfers of articles from the dutiable
to the free list: which the Republic
can conferees say would reduce the
average ad valorem considerably be-
low those of the existing law.
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