Mexico Missouri message., 1909-08-05
coNFEREEs' REPORT is SIGNED
AS INDICATED BY PRESIDENT
IN LETTER.
HOUSE VOTES ON IT SATURDAY
Measure viii Go to Senate Monday
Where It Will Remain a Week.
Hosiery Duty Goes UP From
I to Per Cent.
Payne-Aldrich

Washington. The Payne-Aldrich
tariff bill is complete.
An agreement on all disputed points
was reached and the conferees' report
signed by the Republican conferees
1t will go to the house and be voted
on by that body Saturday. The senate
will on Monday begin consideration
of the measure as agreed to by the
conferees The senate session may
consume all of next week.
Halted by the mandate of President
Taft, the tariff conferees were COM
PEELED to turn back and revise their
rates on lumber and gloves.
When the conferees fixed lumber
and glove rates by shading very
slightly the higher rates on each, they
were so certain that the president
would consent to the arrangement that
notices were sent to the Democratic
members of the conference committee
to be present to approve or disapprove
of the conference report.
The president had other ideas of
what the rates should be, and he ex-
pressed them very forcibly in a letter.
He said that lumber should not be
more than $1.25 per thousand feet for
rough with the differentials fixed by
the senate on finished lumber. He de-
clared also that the senate rates on
gloves, which are the same as the
Dingley rates, and much less than the
house rates, would have to be adopted
in order to obtain his Endorsement.
Specified Hides on Free List.
The president also specified that
hides must go on the free list and the
house rates on boots and shoes and
other manufactures of leather must
be reduced. Hosiery, too, he thought
should be reduced below the house
rates, which are advanced over the
Dingley duties.
1t was not until the Democratic
members had assembled that the
White House communication was re
| ceived at the conference chamber
When Senator Aldrich read the presi
dents message he called his Republic
can associates to an adjoining room
The contents of the letter were dis
| cussed and it was decided that the
minority should be informed that the
conference report had not been ad
vanced to a stage were it could be
submitted to them for their judgment
After the Democrats reached the
| corridor outside the conference
chamber they held a little conference
of their own. Representative Champ
Clark Of Missouri was called back tc
the chamber. He was given a copy OF
| the bill as the Conferees intend to re
| port 1t, except for the schedules dis
cussed by the president in the letter
The Democrats then went into session
The minority members were in the
conference chamber less than an hour
Representative Griggs said that if the
Republicans would consent to put cot
ton bagging on the free list his as
Sociates would show great celebrity IL
bringing the conference report Il
vote. Many of the conferees were
disposed to grant this request, bu
Representative Mccall OF Mas
saohusetts protested vigorously OF
the ground that 1t would injure the
manufacture Of his state, which turn
out cotton bagging. So emphatic were
his objections that it was seen that an
agreement would be delayed if such
action were attempted.
All Seek a "Final Word"
The Republican members continued
in ession after the Democrats left the
chamber. There followed one Of the
busiest scenes witnessed about the
| corridors OF the senate office building
during the three weeks the bill has
been in conference. SURVIVING to and
from the chamber were senators and
members Of the house, vying with re
personalities of special interests tC
get final word" with the conferee.
Late in the day Representative
Fordney aud Calderhead went to the
White House and from there to the of
fee of Speaker Cannon and then bach
to the conference chamber. Later they
conferred with a number of North
western senators who were interested
in the lumber question. After theil
activities without the conference
room, Speaker Cannon hurried to the
conference room.
Speaker Cannon has been one of the
chief supporters of the house rates or
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Tries to Wipe Out Family.
Hannibal, Mo.--Charles Beasley, {