Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-07-27
CONFEREES WILLING T0AGF EE
UNDER CONDITIONS
MANUFACTURERS MUST ~
PRODUCERS HALF WAY
If Skins Are Admitted Without C r
Fabricators Will Have to Reduce
Duties as Fixed in House
Bill

w be put on the free list If the
rates on boots and shoes and
other leather manufactures are reduced
below the house rates.
Unless the advocates of free hides
are able to carry out this bargain the
whole is to be called off.
A decision to this effect was reached
by the tariff conferees today.
The conference adjourned tonight
until IL o'clock tomorrow morning, but
the house members will assemble d
half hour earlier in order that they
may plan for executing their part of
the agreement. 1t is expected they
will have a report from the house lead
ers as to the possibility of passing
rule comforting jurisdiction on them
to agree to lower rates on leather than
those named in the house bill
Senator Aldrich has informed sem
ators from northwestern states he viii
not consent to free hides unless there
is d material cut on the rates on boots
and shoes and other leather goods. In
no other way, he said, can he get the
necessary votes in the senate.
Senators from cattle raising
have insisted that the only way
sumers can get any benefits from
removal of the duty on hides wou.
through duties on boots, shoes
harness.
Should the house not give its
ferees jurisdiction to adopt the low.
rates on leather manufactures, the con
ference committee has what is regard
cd as a trump card in reserve.
This provides for a conference report
putting hides on the free list and re-
ducing the rates on shoes and orhar
leather manufactures.
Report Will Be Doubtful
The report, it is said, then would g.
presented to President Taft with ths
statement that the conferees had no,
been able to muster sufficient votes 90
assure it adoption and it would dev0iss
on the president to procure the neoss
sary support for the program.
In the event of failure, the confera"a
would submit a report placing a small
duty on hides and the house rates uu
leather
Few of the conferees believe it will
be necessary to resort TO such tactics
Senator Warren said the western sen
ators will not be representing their
states if they consent to the abolition
of the duty on hides in the interesl oi
the manufacturers of shoes and C-her
leather goods unless manufacture
are compelled to concede lower rates
on leather products. While the wet.
ern senators take the position thai the
removal of the duty on hides would in
jure the cattle business, some of tdorl
say they will withdraw their protests
because of the insistence of Presidout
Idllt IL I6uuClltilS dlG IllejOlG oil oiolI1
the line in the leather schedule.
The program on which the conferees
are working is as follows:
| Hides free, as provided by the hotsC.
against the senate rate of Is per cent
ad valorem.
Sole Leather Reduced
Sole leather, 5 per cent, the same MS
in the house bill. as against the senate
rate OF 10 per cent.
| Dressed upper leather, 71a per CEN, as
against Is per cent in both the hoasc
and senate bills.
Boots and shoes, 10 per cent as
against 10 per cent in the house bin
and 20 per cent in the senate bill.
| Saddlery and harness, 20 per cen. as
against 35 per cent in the house i.l
and 40 per cent in the senate bill
| According to Senator Warren, he
story that beef packers are enga ns
extensively in the tanning business aud
will be the principal benefciaries 70.
duty on hides, has been used by the
free hide lobby in manufacturing me-
timent against the protection aske a nv
the cattle industry.
He submitted figures to Senator Aia-
rich to be used in refuting this aCgu-
ment.
Senators entrusted with the task al
canvassing the senate reported gaCav
it would be impossible to adopt q re-
port making hides free. The senators
ers and were informed that it is just as
impossible to pass a report through tho
house without free hides.
This information was cOmmuni-atCd
to the conferees and convinced them
it would be futile to pass any more
time trying to agree unless concesslors
were made to cattle interests.
To Give Payne More Time
1t is desired that Representatte
Payne have opportunity to prepare am
exhaustive statement which will bo 1r.-
| sented to the house with the confe rsuco
report This will require two or fhras
DAYS, and it is likely that no efforl w
be made to get rule through the house
tomorrow.
The Philippine tariff section wa re-
opened by the conferees at the request
of President Taft. An amendmen. was
adopted yesterday providing that goods
manufactured in the Philippines must
be admitted free to the United Ste.-os
The president took the position that
this amendment would stifle marufar-
ture in the islands.
Gen. Clarence Edwards chief OF the
bureau of insular affairs, called on sew
eral of the conferees and urged shat
an amendment be adopted providing fol
free admission when not more than ~
per cent of such goods were composed
of foreign material. The suggestion
was adopted.
The conferees took steps toward che
final disposition of the wood pull and
print paper schedule, although it Is
understood no rates were definitely
fixed.
1t is reported that duty of $ rs
ton would be levied on print paper
1t is expected vote on coal, oil, luu
ber, hosiery, gloves, print paper ana
iron ore will be taken tomorrow.
Anti-Free Hide Element to Fight
In both the senate and house the
anti-free hide element is making sccive
preparation for vigorous resistance TO
any report from the tariff conference
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