Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-28
r,GHT GETTING VERY BITTER |! +
reiterated at Capitol That Hides
Have Been Traded for
Lumber .33
Pot Is Boiling Hard, Senator'S clapp
And Nelson mud Hep. Tayncy
stirring II Vigorously. @

Il 1pssSington. July IS. Gong rcssional
4 ,,isttors to the White House today re-
norted tina Preside Ia 1t is not satis-l
4 fed with the prospect of the supposed
agreement Of the senate and house
tariff conferees as announced last night.
Mr.. Taft is said to have expressed
himself in emphatic terms regarding
lumber ana to have declared that he
would insist that the rate on lumber
should not go over $1.25:
HIDES FOR LUMBER.
That hides have been ira dcd for lum-i
her IN the preparation Of the report
oil the tariff bill was reiterated about
The Capitol today iii connection with
the report that the tariff conferees had
agreed to the retention Of the senate
rate of $3.50 per thousand on rough
lumber. When the conferees met to-55
day they took up the glove sche dule, &
but the action was largely perfunctory
as it was agreed yesterday that the
house increases should prevail, III both
houses around the conference room and
even in the minds Of the conferees the
+ lumber question was mucl: more per-
tinent than tho glove question.
POT BOILING HARD.
Meantime the pot was boiling along
tile northwest border Senators Nell
son and Clarp in one end Of the build
Z ing and Representativ Tawney In the
other We're stirring it, They as well
as many other senator's and representa- y
aftivcs We're quite incenseds over the
change that had been made and many
assertions We're Heard that no report
. for n higher rate on lunl her han the
house had fixed could be adopted by
Z tho house. 5
IT was believed to be different in the
4 senate. The low lumber men in the.
senate generally had been among the in-s
slrgents who had voted against the bill,
originality and hey We're hopeless of
Z preventing the adoption OF the confer
ence report in that body. This state
of mind was due largely to the fact
that they did not believe the hide men
would stand with them in opposition to-
the report,
{ Counting nine insurgents who would
3 vote against the conference report on
general principles and whose opposi-
ton had been intensified by the decision
Z in favor OF higher lumber, the hide
men said they would have IS Repub-
& llcan Votes against the conference res
port IL 1t favored free hides. Tho
insurgents failing to count upon the
free hide opponents, say their only
hope is In the house and the low lum-
7 Der mer there profess themselves as
B willing to accept the responsibility of
+ defeating the bill IL the $l.50 rate on
lumber stands. {ss 5t "a
They, however, do not believe that it
will stand. Some of the house corr
ferees have already weakened and the
low lumber men believe they will have
strength enough to cause the reopen
Ing of the question and to bring bout
production in the rate.
The low lumber advocates assert that
when the president assented to a higher
rate on$lumber he was not In possess
sion of all the facts. Since the confer
tnce of last night he knows better
8 Say some OF them.
8 i was reported last night that
rate of Sl.59 had been agreed on but
q members ofwthe house conference conl-
nlittee and other representativ hut-
5$ried to the White House to say that
! with the Presidents help they would
E stand out fort lower figure.
= PRESIDENTS POSITION CLEAR.
clear on the glove schedule. The house
raised the rates on the better class OF
gloves far above the Dingley bill fig 81
4nres The excuse for this was that
strong effort was being made in this
4 country to build up a glove industry.
Tile senate cut the house rates mate
tally and In this Instance the president
ands himself son the side of the senate.
He was insistent today. according to-
MS callers. that the senate rate should
De accepted.
President Taft is willing to stay in
Washington as long as anybody else
provided he can get a satisfactory bill
N the end. and the prospect OF a de-
lay IN beginning his summer vacation
Is said TO disturb him no longer The
list of senate callers today wa s unus-
nally heavy, IS members OF the upper
house of Congress paying their re-
Z 'pects to the president.