The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-26
SUNDAY WORK ON TARIFF FAILS TO BREAK DEADLOCK Taf's Stand for Free Hides Is Apparently Cause of
 the Friction WESTERN SENATOR'S ARE
 AGAINST FREE HIDES Situation Is Very Complicated and In Spite of the Many Conferences at the White House No Solu-
 tlon Is In Sight.
BY PATTERSON sTEALEY.

BY PATTERSON STEALEY.
 Washington. July 3.-(special)-Th tariff deadlock has held tenaciously over Sunday. President Taft has been in al- most hourly touch with the conferees. He Is having a most trying experience. So vexatious has the fight become that he realizes the danger of alternating the west and of greatly widening the breach be- tween the two factions of his party.
 In the meantime there seems little doubt that the differences in the confer ence committee are being purposely ex- aggerated in order that the one side or the other may appear to be yielding much more than is actually the case when the final agreement is reached. For instance, everyone knows that Senator Aldrich is for free hides, but he appears in the con ference committee as the champion of the b per cent rate.
 Taft Stands Pat.
 The President this afternoon reiterated his determination to have free hides in the tariff bill. But for this reiteration and the fact that 1t Is likely to be about all he can claim by way of victory many believe that the Senate conferees would abandon their tentative decision of a couple days ago. Then the outcome might be the House rates on boots and shoes and leather and low rate of. perhaps. 71k per cent on hides. There has been more wrang1ing today over the parliamentary status if a rate of 10 per cent on boots and shoes should be agreed upon Speaker Cannon was with the conferees for while. The House parliamentar1an. Mir. Asher c. Hinds, accompanied him to the Senate office building.
 Mir Cannon was asked whether he would sustain point of order, were it raised. over rate of 10 per cent on boots and shoes for the reason that it was be- low the rate that either house had voted. He is said to have informed the conferees that he would be compelled to sustain / such point. MT. Hinds thinks a way \ around the difficulty could be found in a special rule which would confer authority 70 uphold a violation of the regular ones governing conference. It is conceded, however, that such programme would be unwise if it can possibly be avoided.
 Insistence of House.
 The u1slStence or the House on >nlueS and leather, the opposition of the western senators to free hides. and their deter imitation to have lower rates than the House voted on leather, if there be free hides. and the inability of the President to bring the factions together upon any common ground all complicate the situa- ton.
 Senator Crane of Massachusetts believes there will be free hides. He spent part of the day at the capitol The situation. however, has passed beyond him as the Presidents representative. The President how must deal directly with the conferees. Several of them have been in communica- ton with him during the last 12 hours. Senator Aldrich was the last he having been caller tonight.
 The adjournment of the conferees to- night till 2:3O p. m. tomorrow was pug zling to outsiders. Some thought it meant the certainty of an agreement upon prac-. tlcally everything and final meeting to- morrow afternoon It is still possible that tomorrows meeting will be final. al- though that has been expected of every meeting for the last two days. Repre- sentative Dalzell of Pennsylvania one of the conferees, was quoted around the capitol this afternoon as having the opin- ion that the agreement would be upon free hides and that the bill would be rounded out tomorrow afternoon.
 Downward Revision.
 The President talked with a few visitors this afternoon. outlining some general views he has about tariff. He said he had studied the tariff plank in the Chicago platform very carefully of late in its re- lation to the cost of production here and abroad He thought the American people had probably misconstrued the signif- canoe of that plank in expecting pro- nounced revision downward. The object of the revision, to the Presidents mind. should be to revise downward sufficiently to eliminate prohibitive rates and at the same time to avoid revising so low that there would be a great increase in i'm portations to the embarrassment of do- nestle manufacturers. He thinks the tariff bill will be pretty good one, and. with a provision for free hides, will sign it gladly
 Late this evening the western senators, including Warren and Clark of Wyom- ing and Carter of Montana, had a meet ing and resolved to fight to the last ditch. Other warlike aspects. which interested the large contingent of people who are following the work of the conferees, com prlsed reports about Senator Aldrich and Chairman Payne having engaged in tart exchanges before the conference broke up. Mr. Payne was very emphatic for the House rates on leather and hides and Senator Aldrich told him, as the reports 90, that he was exceedingly tired of MT. Payne's dictatorial manner and proposed to stand no more of 1t.