The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-10
SPEAKER CANNON
 NAMES CONFEREES Insurgent Republicans Get Rap
 In Appointments UNDERWOOD'S CRITICISM Alabamian Says Tariff Bill Is the Most Radical Measure Ever
 Passed and That Rates
 Are Very Unjust.
UNDERWOOD'S CRITICISM
BY PATTERSON sTEALEY.

Washington, July 9.-(Special )-Speaker Cannon out-Heroded Aldrich in the pro- ceedings today and the House orgapiza- tion had its way sending the bill to con ference and naming nine conferees to represent the House. As rap to the insurgent republicans Calderhead of Kan sas was placed on the conference com mittee. In order to do this Hill of Con the ways and means committee, was not appointed on the committee. He is some- what of revisionist. Neither was Need ham of California, the result being that the additional vacancy went to Fordney of Michigan, one of the most pronounced standpatters in the organization, espe- cially on the lumber schedule.
 The republican members of the con ference committee were all quick to an nomce that they would make the best fight possible in conference for the House bill. Realizing that they would be ex- cluded from the important meetings of the conference committee, the three dem ocratic members are merely waiting to be called in and enter protest against the back downs for which the repub- AiSohiS ui O PioPdiin6 tutllloSiNtS
 Representative Underwood of Alabama one of the House conferees on the tariff bill thinks the conferees will reach an agreement by Monday week. But I do not believe" said MT. Underwood, that the republican conferees will reach an agreement on any proposition that will maerially improve the bill. The bill as passed by the Senate is certainly the most radical protective tariff measure with which it has ever been attempted to burden the country. Throughout ths rates are inequitably and unjustly dis tributed."
 MT. Underwod's estimate of the length of time to be consumed in conference Is shared In by most members The Ding ley bill was in conference ten days, the Mckinley bill two weeks and the Wilson bill seven weeks. The reprint of the bill with amendments, numbered as 1t passed the Senate, shows there are S47 Senate amendments. There are something like 1900 rates of taxation in the measure, hence nearly four-ffths of the entire bill Is not subject to the action of the conferees. The rates which have been agreed upon by the Senate and House closely correspond to the Dingley rates In most instances they are identical. Of the SAT amendments or one-fifth of the piii, dpOut oD Ol them can De SeItled at one sitting of the republican members The principal differences will come over the question of hides, lumber, print pa per. iron ore. the silk schedule, cotton schedule, the wool schedule and glove and stocking parapragh.
 Hides are free as passed by the House. The Senate restored the present rate of IS per cent. Lumber as passed by the House was s1 per 1000 feet. The Senate in l. FA TN. en a ton on print paper, the Senate s4. Iron ore was made free in the House bill. The Senate taxed 1t at 25 cents ton. The silk and cotton schedules have been changed from ad valoTem to specific and do not differ materially from the present law. The wool schedule has been sub jected to a series of increases over the Payne bill. the Dingley rates being re- stored, as have the rates for gloves and stockings.