The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-07-28
HOUSE WON OUT
FOR FREE HIDES
BUT SURRENDERED TO sENAT z
ON COAL, IRON ORE AND
PRINT PAPER.
OIL ON The FREE LIST
This Seems to he The Situation With
REGARD to the Tariff Bill Now
The Lumber Rates
Gloves.

best Information dbtainable tonight
| it appears that the house has won It's
battles for free hides and oil and in
creascd rates en- gloves and hosiery,
In return for its surrender TO the set
ate on lumber, coal, iron ore aud print
lpaper The rates on these schedules,
as they are tentatively arranged pend
| the program for reduction in the du-
ties on manufactures of leather below
the rates fixed by the house, are:
| Oil free; hides, free; coal, 45 cents
per ton print paper $3.50 ton; iron
ore. Is cents Per ton; lumber, rough,
$3.50 per Thousand feet; one side fin.
lished, 81: two sides finished, $225;
three sides finished which may II
clude tonguing and growing, $22Gh
four sides finished $500
Gloves, 81 per dozen pairs, not eX
ceeding fourteen inches which IS
standard length; exceeding fourteen
Inches, thirty.fve cents a dozen is AL
lded for each inch. This rate does not
apply'to cheap gloves, on which the
Isenate rate of $l25 dozen pairs Is
retained. The latter rate is a reduc-
ion from the Dingley rates, but the
house rates accepted on higher grades
Of gloves represent heavy increase
over the existing dnt:es.
Hosiery valued at 81 or less PEI
dozen pairs. 70 cents, against the sen
ate and existing rates of 80 cents. On
values up to 81 the rate Is slightly IN
xcess of the existIag duties, and a
shade below the rates fixed by the
house On the highest grades the
,enate and the house rates were iden-
fical.
For nearly week the question ol
lutting hides on the free list or i'm
posing a nominal du'y on them has
bean before The conference commit
tee. Not even a nominal duty proved
acceptable TO Payne, whose position
was strengthened by The support OF
President Taft, and tle senate was
compelled TO yield In spite of the fact
that free hides threatened to provoke
an insurrecticn among tie 'stant
pat" sena ors from the cattle raising
states. 1t appears, however that
Payne's victory was costly one, In
asmuch as the house eonferees were
defeated on coal, print paper, iron ore
and lumber.
Although new oaths of secrecy
were taken by every member of the
conference committee before today,
session was adjourned, it is under
stood that the foregoing rates repre-
sent the understanding reached or
all subjects which ensag1. the execd
tive attention during the last few
weeks. AS the house passed the bill
coal was made dutiable at siXty-sever
lcents per ton, with slack at the SAINT
rate, but the reciprocal: provision hat
the effect of putting coal on the fre'
list The senate commended for dut,
= on coal and compromise on forty
n FIVE cents per ton was accepted II
6 lieu of the house rate and the FREE
9 reciprocal arrangement. Slack wa
made dutiable at. tifteep cents per ton
The house put iron ore on the free
q list aud the senate fixed the rate a
| twenty-five cents per ,on. but the cou
= ferees agreed to accept fifteen cents
/. The chief victory won by the sen
+ ate was the duties Oh lumber Thes'
e represent reductions from the Ding
= ley rates, but are not nearly as low
as the house rates, waich began will
81 on rough lumber Likewise vic
tory was won by the senate through
the acceptance by The conferenc
committee of rate of $3.50 per to
on print paper instead of 81, as iixc'
), by the house.
The placing of oil upon the fire.
list was a foregone conclusion by rea
son of the strong opposition In bot
branches of congress to making thi
It article dutiable.
II There seems 10 be no doubt tonigE
G that the house leaders will be All:
u to put through rule permitting III
a conferees to make reductions in III
Il rates on manufactures of leather i
l. accordance with the program -
rangeG in the conference yesterday.