The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-10
HILL NOT ON CONFERENCE
 COMMITTEE
CANNON VIOLATED PRECEDENTS OF 40 YEARS IN JUMPING ANOTHER MAN OVER
 HILLS HEAD
FavoredDownward Revision
New England Manufacturers Looking to Foreign Markets for An Output Want Lower Schedules and Free Raw Materials-Aldrich Talks With Taft
Special to the Farmer.)


 l Washington, July 10-Speaker Can non refused to make Representative Ebenezer J. Hill a member of the conference committee on the tariff bill. This is a serious blow to many New England Manufacturing interests of which Hill is typically representa- tive in desiring a downward revision of the tariff. For it should be known that at the present time the tariff is only in a limited sense a question in which the ordinary man has become interested. The forces which have been put in motion to make a lower system of schedules on the one hand given momentum by opposing groups of manufacturers, one group desiring free trade, or free trade in certain ar ticles; the other group desiring pro- lection to the highest power of the cube.
 The attitude of the manufacturer upon this important question is de- cided by a number of factors. If he has reached a stage where he believes that he can manufacture at cost which will enable him to compete in foreign markets he will desire low tariff on goods, or none, for the req sons that a country which can sell its own goods freely to this country will trade more with this country.
 Other manufacturers use great quan- titles of raw material upon which they pay a duty. Even if they wish the du- ty retained on the manufactured pro- raw material. In this class are the manufacturers of shoes, an important industry in New England.
 Bridgeport is the home of strong manufacturing interests which mich desire lower schedule. Such are the industries engaged in rolling iron and in the manufacture of tubing. The heads of these concerns desire free scrap iron, or at least a. low duty upon scrap iron and low duty upon pig iron, which would Gpen to them sour ces of raw material now available un- der a high tariff, and free them from the domination of the steel trust.
 All these interests have confidence in Hill. They are much disappointed because he has been left off the con ference committed.
 New England feel that they will be driven to seek foreign markets to get an output for their products. The western and southern markets are be- producers by the construction of great plants in other sections of the country, which as in the case of cot ton, steel, copper and iron mills, are raw material. Hill understands these little understood conditions. He would have taken care of the New England industries better than any other man. That is why it was hop ed he would be a member of the con- ference committee. It is claimed that Cannon violated the precedents of 40 years in jumping another over Hills head.
 Senator Aldrich last evening had an extended conference with President Taft.
 The President questioned Mr. AL ~c to the tariff bill made by the Senate, but it is said that he did not criticise any of the proceedings in that body except respecting an amendment to it applicable to holding companies. The inference gained by MT. Taft'S callers to-day is that he would not sanction the adoption of an amendment taxing the next earnings of corporations un- less the utmost caution was taken to prevent double taxation.
 After the conference with the Presi- | dent MT. AIdrich said that it might be necessary to entirely redraft the cor poration tax provision in conference l If this was done, he said, the new provision would be along the lines of | that agreed upon at the recent White | House conference. |
 Democrats Excluded
 All of the conferees, including the | Democratic members, met in the Sem | ate office building at the appointed | nOur They were III session dDOut an | hour when the Democratic members | were dismissed. Senator Bailey and | Representative Champ Clark, walking | out together, Iaughingly told a num- 1 Der of waiting newspaper men that | they could not expect much help from | the Democrats in covering the news | of the conference.
 ''We havc~been dismissed said Mr. | Bailey, 'and we will not be called in | again until the majority completes its job of fooling the people,