The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-07-23

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inclosure Of the terrace.
The president sat at the heni of the |
long table, and altogether thef2 were
nineteen diners about the board. Cap
tain Archibald Butt, the presidents
military aid was the only guest at
dinner whose supreme interest was not
the tariff, and he withdrew at the con-
clusion of the dinner and when the
discussion of the tariff situation was
earnestly begun.
In announcing his invitation to the
conferees to dinner the president fol-
lowed the custom at the capital of in
Guiding within that term only the Re
publican members of the conference
committee. All of these were present,
with the exception of Senator Cullom
of Illinois, who is detained at Atlantic
City because of the serious illness of
his wife. From the senate came
Messrs. Aldrich. Hale, Burrows and
Penrose. From the house We're Messrs.
Payne, Dalzeil, Mccall, Boutell, Cal
derhead and Fordney. To meet with
the conferees the president had in
vited Vice President Sherman, Secre-
tary Of the Treasury MacVeagh, Attor.
ney General Wickersham, Speaker
Cannon Senator Crane, Senator Root
and Representative Dwight Of New
York, Republican "whip" Of the house.
These are the men with whom the
president has consulted most freely on
the subject of the tariff, and 1t was
felt that if some satisfactory working
arrangement could not be made as a
result of the conference and counsel
of those who composed the dinner
party the hope of an early solution of
the tariff tangle would be remote in
deed.
The conferees had worked diligently
to prepare a program for discussion
with the president and his advisers.
They started off with the five big
propositions which have caused the
greatest worry and to dispose of which
the presidents aid has been invoked.
These five problems are the proposed
placing on the free list of hides, iron
ore. oil and coal and a material re-
duction in the rate of duty proposed
on lumber. Each of these propositions
is surrounded by it's own series of diff
ficulties. but the question of free
hides has been the hardest with
which the president and the conferees
!. have had to deal.
President Taft greeted each of his
> guests with hearty good nature,
which was characteristic of the entire
prandial feature of the evening. 1t
, was said to have been one of the most
, carefully prepared banquets ever serv-
ed from the famous old White House
kitchens, and it was due to the efforts
of the president, his steward or his
:, Old Virginia "darly" cook that it was
such success from the culinary
, standpoint.
, Better progress was made by the
tariff conferees than at any time since
> the really troublesome disputes were
reached. 1t was feared that further
efforts to adjust the differences would
= be unavailing until after the White
House dinner. This impression was
, gained because of the attitude of Mr.
. Payne, who continued his objections
to the apparent willingness of some of
= his associates to yield to the senate
, conferees without any great show OF
>. fight. After the discussion of raw ma
terials, schedules were taken up, how
y ever and many paragraphs were set
: tied without any renewal Of hostili
= ties.
-, The entire zinc schedule was ad
= justed. Spelter was made dutiable al
. 13s cents per pound, which Is reduc
=, tion from the senate rate of ~ cent;
- and an increase from the house rate
: of / cent
All the senate differentials were
adopted. Zinc in sheets will be dutia
BILE at ~ cents and sheets coated o.
!, plated with nickel or other metal a
- = cents. The house rate of l cent fo
- old and wornout zinc, fit only to be re
: manufactured, was adopted. The sen
= . ate conferees receded from thei
4 amendment, doubling the house rat
of cents a pound on salicylic acid.
e The lead schedule and the product
&c of lead were disposed of. The senat
. and house rates on lead ore were iden
The house made pig lead duitable a
the same rate and the senate provides
10 specifically for lead dross, lead bullio
5 and pig lead at 21A cents a pound
l. This rate was reduced by the cor
ferees to cents and as a result one
III eighth Of a cent was removed fror
D the senate rates on all of the pain
dertvitives. This action settled one @
the most troublesome questions in tn
n bill.
a. Lemons will pay a duty OF III cent
y. pound, the senate rate. This is q
u increase of one-quarter of cent owe
y the house rate and one-half cent owe
u the Dingley rate.
The window glass schedule was Sc
u tied by slightly reducing the hous
lg rates, which were higher than the SCI
70 ate rates on the cheap grades in a
II sizes The new rates on this schedu]