Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-07-27


will be necessary. never cross a
bridge until l get to it," These re-
marks we're made by Speaker Cannon as
be left the White House today and were
made in reply TO q query about the
special rule thst is supposed to be neces-
ssry in the House before lower tam
rates can be secured on leather goods
The spaaker bad half an hours talk
with the president but asserted that ne
had nothing of Information to impart.
Rspresen alive Payne, the chief House
conferee, and representative McOsll, Of
Massachusetts. another member OF tbs
committee, were early morning callers
at the White House and had 40 hours
tariff talk with the president before be
went to HE Office The president held
conferences with other senators and rep
resentatives during the morning.
A better feeling prevails among the
tariff conferees and the insurgent sens-
tore today. 1t Is now practically GER
tain that the compromise proposition on
the hide and leather schedule will De
adopted. The House conferees had q
meeting by themselves this morning,
ADD agreed to accept free hides with the
ma erial reduction proposed by the Sen
ate 10 manufactured leather goods. The
western senators who yesterday resolved
that they will not sccep! free hides en-
less free leather goods went with tbem,.
are now disposed to be more compro-
missing. They will keep up the appear
ance of a fight bat there are indications
that they will finally yield to the wishes
of the president aud accept free hides
with the cut in the manufactured srli-
cles. Boots and shoes are to be reduced
to 10 per cent instead OF twenty-five per
cent, which is the present law. Other
reductions are also to be made.
Thus the president wins substantial
victory for lower rates on this schedule.
The CANVASS which has already been
made shows that there will be little
trouble 10 inducing the House to pro-
vide the necessary ways and means by
which the conference committee will be
enabled to write into the bill these re-
duced rates which are lower than those
which were sent to conference by either
/ house.
OF the progressive republicans In the
| Senate who voted against the passage OF
the bill in that body, it is said that only
six or seven out of the ten will refuse to
vote for the conference report. Those
who are expected to vote for the report
are Senators Beverage, Burkett, Craw-
ford and Brown.
The influence of the president is still
being exerted to put the proposed pro-
srsmme through, ADD there were many
conferences among individual senators
going On at the Capitol today. Senator
Root of New York, who has just return
from a brief vacation, saw the president
this morning and was present st some OF
The conferences. He predicts that the
conference report will go through the
| Senate.
Senator Aldricb Was busily engaged all
morning in seeing the recslciLrant
western senators. This afternoon he is
convinced that be has votes enough to
put the conference report through the
senate with the hide and leather sched-
ule as agreed to with the pTesidnt. He
lold the westeruers that he had gore IS
far as he could to maintain their posi-
ton for duty on hides. 1t was neces-
sary, however, he pointed out, to pass
the bill and to do it as speadily as pos
sible. He told the irreconcilable sens.
tors from the csttle-rsising states that If
they wanted to vote against the bill to
satisfy home sentiment, they could do 30
without fear that it would endauger the
fual passage Ofthe bill.
The parliamentary program which has
been mapped out in order to secure the
low rates on the ltather schedule is that
a role is to be introduced in the House
declaring that 20 point Of order shall
be eDtsrain1d upon that schedule. In
the Senate Vice-President Sherman will
submit the matter to vote of the Sen
ale. 10 both bodies it is claimed sufii-
cient votes have assured to carry out this
programme.
In the effort to promote economy and
to cut down the government expend-
lures $50, 600, 400 or more year, the
Senate commit &c on public expenditures
expects to hold meeting before Com
gress sdjoins to consider data which has
been collected and to lay plans for the
/ formation of permanent commission to
develop business methods In the govern
ment service. Former Senator Hemen-
way, OF Indiana, who has been doing
the preliminary work on the subject,
says there is no doubt that millions of
dollars may be saved to the government
every year by a proper systemizing of
the business of the department. He
says it has been found that, through
duplication of work the government has
been spending thousands of dollars un-
necessarily. Following up his campaign
for "revision downward" 10 the esti-
mates for the Treasury Department for
the year 1911, Secretary MacVeagh to-
day called together the heads of bureaus
aud chiefs of divisions for review of
! the situation, and for the consideration
in particular of preliminary estimates
which had been prepared under direction
OF an order of the secretary some weeks
ago. A special committee composed OF
assistant secretaries Norton, Reynolds
and HIles was appointed to make a
further study of administrative econmies
with the preliminary estimates IS q
basis.
A delegation of iron ore producers
and pig iron manufacturers called upon
President Taft today to assure him that
unless they could get tariff Of at least
25 cents 8 ton on iron ore, they would
be seriously crippled and many of them