The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-11
A|drich Will Yield to House In Some Things
TALK WILL BE CUT SHGR4
Some of the Older Members of t conference Committee Will cave Most of Discussion
 to the Younger Ones.

l Washington, July 1o.--(Special) )-Accord- l ing to reports from the conference com
 mittee Senator Aldrich today tentative | ly yielded to the House some 50 or 50 | amendments in the tariff bill None of them was of any importance and simply
 bear out the view that the Senate organi- zation is reserving itself for fight on the major schedules of the bill.
 That Aldrich is prepared to yield con siderable is thoroughly believed by politi- cal observers. Some of the rates were placed high in order to make semblance of compromise by yielding to a reduction
 of them in conference, but this is not so of tobacco, sugar, wool and cotton schedules, nor of the steel and chemical schedules which will raise most of the revenue expected from the bill. Para 1 graphs In which the Senate has made no change in the House rate or language cannot be modified by the conference committee. Where the Senate has changed a rate from the House rate the commit | tee must either accept the Senate or the House rate or agree on an intermediate rate.
 Sugar Schedule.
 | Tn the sugar schedule the conference | committee can make no changes except in the paragraph relating to saccharine, and in the tobacco schedule the only para graph open to amendment is that relat- ing to wrapper and fller tobacco. and as
 to this paragraph the committee and juris-
 dictfon will be confined to the proviso. | fa-
 on tobacco which were substantially in
 creased by the Senate, will be open to
 general amendment in conference.
 Most of the paragraphs in the cotton,
 silk, lumber. paper, metals, earthenware and spirits schedules will be open to
 material amendment. Although the wool
 schedule was the center Of the attack l in the Senate practically no amendments 1 tc 1t can be made by the conference con- 1 mittee The paragraphs relating to tops.
 wools of the third-class and woven fab
 rics composed of camels' hair combined l with either cotton, silk or wool are the
 only paragraphs in the wool schedule
 within the Jurisdiction of the conferees.
 AS has been explained in these dis 1 patches i. conference committee is deal | Ing witl less than one-fifth of the en- ! tire bill, and no concessions can | change Its ultra protective character. Few | | have held their peace consistently in the l last three months, while the tariff discus l sion has been on, and have taken no l part in debate. The temptation to talk 1 has beer almost irresistible. Millions of
 words have been spoken and stenograph- l CTS have been driven to the verge of pros ] tration. But through it all Senators
 Briggs of New Jersey, Burnham of New | Hampshire, Chamberlain of Oregon, Gull l lom of Illinois, Crane of Massachusetts, l Dillingham; of Vermont, Richardson of l Delaware, Nixon of Nevada, Stephenson
 of . Wisconsin and Wetmore of Rhode 1 Island have sat silent.
 Not All Takers.
 Most of these senators never speak in l the Senate, except to utter the few words l necessary to make a motion, present a resolution or introduce a bil or to go : through some other formalities incident to l the proceedings. This is not true of all l of them, however Senator Chamberlain ! of Oregon being new senator, and has
 not seen fit to take a hand in the tariff.
 save to vote on it, but he will be heard from later. ! "Uncle Shelby" Cullom. who is four
 score years, does not feel as vociferous in 1 the matter of debate as he once did, and
 is content to let the younger men wrestle
 with the discussions. Senator Crane has "a horror of making Senate speech and
 never does, but is, nevertheless, an inf1u- 1 ential member of that body. He prob
 ably keeps as closely in touch with the 1 temper of the Senate as any senator, not
 even excepting Aldrich. It would be | great event if Uncle Ike" Stephenson
 were to get up and make speech, but he l allows all the talking for Wisconsin to
 be done by his Colleague, Senator LaFol-
 lette. Senator Dillingham; speaks occasion | ally, but he has done little but vote on
 the tariff. Rurnham, Briggs, Richardson
 and Wetmore systematically ref ain from | speaking and the same Is true of Nixon.
 Census Appointments.
 President Taft and the two democratic
 senators of Tennessee, Taylor and Frazier had a talk today about the ap- l pointment of enumerators for the census
 in the south. The President declared he
 did not propose to permit the taking of l the census to develop into the making of l political machines. Therefore, he wanted l the best men that could be found in the l south for enumerators All he desired | was that they should not be partisan. He would care little whether they were dem ocrats or republicans, but he did want | the best men he could find. 1 The Presidents talk was pleasing to the l democratic visitors. While they desired l to have some democrats appointed, they l will not object to republicans of standing l and character in their congressional dis l tricts. Where such republicans cannot l be found they intend to ask for demo- l crats. The President told Senators Taylor and Frazier that before making appoint ments in Tennessee he would confer with
 them.