The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-28
HOUSE WINS AT | I
B.C'SACR|F|CE
Senate Yields Point on Free
Hides.
ExAcTs HEAVY TRIBUTE

Secures Consent OF confcrees to Its
Own Rates on Lumber, Coal, Iron
Ore and Print Paper - surrenders
Contention on Hosiery and Glove
Schedule as Good Measure In Deal
to Satisfy President TAFT and
Chairman Payne.
Washington, July 2s.-From the
best Information obtainable 1t ap-
pears that the house has won Its bat.
ties for free hides and oil, and In
creased rates on gloves and hosiery,
in return for surrender to the sen.
ate on lumber, coal, iron ore and
print paper. The rates on these
schedules, as they have been tenta.
lively arranged pending the accept
ance by both houses Of the program
for reduction in the duties on man
ufactures of leather below the rates
fixed by the house, are as follows:
OIL, free. Hides, free. Coal, As
cents ton. Print paper, $3.50 per
ton. Iron ore, 10 cents a ton. Lum.
ber, rough $3.50 thousand feet; one
side finished, So; two sides finished.
1925; three sides finished, which may
include tonguing and growing,
$2.62h; four sides finished, So.
Gloves, $4 per dozen pairs lot ex-
ceeding IA inches In length, which is
the standard length; exceeding IA
inches. 80 cents per dozen is added
for each inch. Hosiery. valued at 81
or less per dozen pairs, 10 cents, as
against the senate and existing rates
OF 80 cents. On the highest grades
the senate and house rates were iden.
tical.
For nearly a week the question OF
putting hides on the free list or i'm
posing nominal duty upon them has
been before the conference commit
tee. Not even a nominal duty proved
acceptable to Representative Payne,
whose position was strengthened by
the support Of President Taft, and
the senate was compelled to yield In
spite Of the fact that free hides
threatend to provoke an lnsurrec-
tion among "stand-pat" senators from
cattle raising states. 1t appears.
however. that Mr.. Payne's victory
was costly one, inasmuch as the
house conferees were defeated on
coal, print paper, iron ore and lum-
ber.
AS the house passed the bill, coal
was made dutiable at 81 cents ton,
with slack at the same rate, but re.
ciprocal provision had the effect Of
putting coal on the free list. The
senate contended for a duty on COAL
and a compromise of 40 cents ton
was accepted in lieu of the house
rate and the free reciprocal arrange
ment Slack was made dutiable at
10 cents ton. The house put iron
ore on the free list and the senate
fixed the rate at 20 cents ton, but
the conferees agreed to accept a rate
OF 10 cents. \
The chief victory won by the SEN
ate was the retention OF the duties
tions from Dingley rates, but are not
nearly as low as the house rates,
which began with 81 on rough lum-
Der. Likewise victory was won by
senate through the acceptance by the
conference committee of rate of
$3.50 on print paper instead of the
81 rate fixed by the house.
The placing of oil on the free list
was foregone conclusion by reason
OF the strong opposition In both
branches Of congress to making this
article dutiable. The senate adopted
form of countervailing duty, but the
conferees we're unable to retain 1t in
she bill.
There seems to be no doubt that
the house leaders will be able to put
through rule permitting the con-
ferees to make reductions In the
rates on manufactures OF leather in
accordance with the program ar.
ranged in conference.