The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-29
TARIFF BILL IS
MOVING ALONG
Conference Committee Has Gene TO
an Agreement After Nearly
Three Weeks Of Consider.
alton on Measure
LUMB, AND GLOVES
r 9 Two Articles Seemed to be the
Sticking Point and May Yet
Create Considerable Of
Debate.

WASHINGTON. July 90. After
working for nearly three weeks on
the tariff bill the majority OF the men,
hers of the conference committee
brought their lahors to rudden close
last evening. Aldrich and Payne i'm
mediately took the measure to the
president who was at Fort Meyer.
All day long the conferees struggled
with the question Of bringing down
the house rates on gloves. and the
senate rates on lumber to a figure
they felt would meet the executive
approval. In this effort the conferees
failed and they appeared to appre-
ciate the fact.
Lumber was made dutiahle at rates
ouly little below those named by
the senate, and there was a very
slight shading from the house rates
on glovs of good quality.
It was announced officially that
the democratic members sf the con-
ference committee would be called
into session today 1t was stated
also the conference report would be
presented to the house probably Fri
day.
IN view Of the presidents utter
| ances, the senate and the house read
ers were predicting tolay the confer
ence rates on gloves and lumber would
not prove satisfactory to him. At the
same time 1t was recognized that the
conditions were such tha. unless COM
promises were MADE by the conferees
1 it would be many days before the re-
port could be made. 1t required a
roll call to fix the rates on lumber
which are: Lumber. rough. s1.4o a
thousand feet, house rate was 81.
senate $3.50: senatefdifferentials were
adopted, making lumber dressed on
one side dutiable at $3.50; two sides
s215. three sides s2.52is, and four
sides. $3.50. Senate rates on lath and
shingles which were higher than the
housesywere also adopted.
Advocates Sf dollar lumber called
on Taft last night and were quoted as
saying he had said that if the rates
were fixed at more than $l25 a tho~
sand he would not accept the rates.
When this report was received at
the capitol some senators from the
timber states declared they would not
permit adoption of the conference re-
port If duties were forced down to
slips.
| Undoubtedly the threats influence
| the conferees for when the roll was
called the representatives of each
branch gave majority for the sl.4n
rate. The rate fixed is very little
different from the house rates On
1 finished lumber as the house diff
4 entails were greater than those rxtd
by the senate.
Gloves We're made dutiable at rates
considerably in advance OF the duties
1 fixed by the senate bill which were
for the most part the same as the
Dingley bill
4 The conference rates are: Wo-
mems and childrens gloves, valued at
more than 81 dozen. $3.50 dozen;
valued at more than $4 but not more
i than $12 a dozen, S4 dozen; for
those valued at more than Sl2 a
dozen, % per cent ad valorem
I Schmaschen glove cheapest skin glove
manufactured raade dctiable at 81 a
dozen. This Is a heavy reduction
from the house rates which made all
gloves dutiable at S4 a dozen and is
even less than the senate rate of LES
and the Dingley rate of SITS.
4 The conferees adopted an amend
ment which cuts in half the cumula
4 tive duties of 40 cents dozen pairs
provided by the Dingley law for
gloves of certain stitching or when
+ lined, or finished in a manner adding
to the ordinary value.
Just before the close of the session
the print paper schedule was reopen
ed and the rate fixed at $3.75 ton
This is 25 cents less than the senate
q rate and $l.T5 more than the house
rate Hides were left on the free list
contingent upon adoption OF rule
) In the nouse approving the action OF the
conferees in the house approving the
rates in king rates on leather.
Taft is standing pat on his determin
alton to secure reduction of the tar
f iff on lumber to sl.25 per thousand
and g. retention of the reduced senate
rates on gloves, according to the
statement by Congressional callers n,
the white house today.
The democratic members of the tar