The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-22
MAKE GOOD PROGRESS
/. ON TARIFF
MANY PARAGRAPHS SETTLED
n WITHOUT RENEWAL OF +,
USUAL HOsTLITiES.

Washington, July 21.-3etter prog
ress was made today by the tariff
conferees than on any day since the
troublesome disputes were reached.
Many paragraphs were settled With
ont any renewal of hostiltes. Presi-
dent Taft is given credit for the
smoothness of the conference. 1T de
veloped that after Senator Aldrch and
Speaker Cannon told their troubles to
the president yesterday he undertook
to bring the warning factions together.
The president today went To Mr..
Payne's home. Soon the chairman of
the house Wars and means committee
and the president We're riding out to-
ward country roads. The two talked
over the situation. What they said
win never be known, but Mr.. Payne
made no objection today to the taking
up of subjects not involved in the
White House program concerning raw
materials
The entire nine schedules were adj
justed. Spelter was made dutiable at
/ 3S cents per pound, which is a
reduction from the senate rate of -
cents and an increase from the house
rate Of cent. All the senate diff
ferentials We're adopted Zinc in
sheets will be dutiable at ga cents,
and sheets coated or plated with
nickel or other metal at cents. The
house rate at cent for old and worn
out zinc, fit only to De rcmanufac-
tured, was adopted,
Tungsten ore, which is used in the
a., ,t.,u.z f. -
the chief component parts in the man
ufacture of tools and steel parts Of
automobiles, was made dutiable at
10 per cent ad valorem instead of Is
per cent as fixed by the senate. The
lead schedule and the products of
lead were disposed of. -..
The senate and house rates on lead
ore We're identical, the duty being IL
cents a pound The house made pig
lead dutiable at the same rate and the
senate provided specifically for lead
dress lead bullion and pig lead at
2 1-s cents a pound. This rate was
reduced by the conferees to 2 cents,
and as a result is of a cent was re-
the paint derivatives. ......
. senator IoOfan tried TO ERECT an
agreement by which hides may be put
on the free list, He said the plan
he had to suggest had been originated
by President Taft. This plan con-
templates the aaoption Of a joint res (
Dlution giving the conferees jurisdic- /
ton to reopen the question of reduc 1
ing the duty on leather goods and in /
of placin" hides on the
free list, to make sole leather dutabe
at s per cent ad valorem, boots and /
shoes and calf skins, 10 per cent and /
to reduce the rates on harness in the
same proportion. IN view of the OPP /
position in the senate to free hides
the Indications, are that "a combination +
will be effected with the democrats to /
defeat the Borah plan.
Progressive republican senators de-
cided to issue a statement outlining
their position on downward revision.
Senator Cummins has been invited to
take breakfast with President Taft to-
morrow to discuss the attitude of the
and therefore it was de-
cided to withhold the statement un- +
til tomorrow There was also meet
ing of about 20 of the "anti-free raw
material members of the house at
which Representative Gaines of West
Virginia, a member of the ways and
means committee, presided.