The Cairo bulletin., 1909-07-25
BUT QUESTION HAS NOT YET
BEEN REPORTED AS OFF,
DECIDED.
OTHER LEATHER GOODS
Gets His Demancs-Boot and
Shoe Interests Agree
Other Matters.

washington, july 24.--Tne hide
question was settled and unsettled to.
day, and while there seems litle
doubt eventually that hides will fall
among the unprotected articles on the
tariff bill, the contest over their stat.
us cannot be regarded as closed. When
the conferees adjourned for luncheon
several of them said 1T had been de-
clded that hides should go on the free
Hist. Tonight some OF tie conferees
declare that hides viii be free but the
question has not been decided official.
Ily.
None of the questions made promi.
nent throughout the country by pres
ident Taft's IL crest in them has been
adjusted
The adjournment tonight was until
tomorrow and the conferees expect
to spend large part OF Sunday wrest-
ling with these problems. From
careful analysis Of the statements by
the senate and house leaders taken
in connection with tae altitude Of the
president, indications are tonight that
ant questions still in dispute will be,
first: Hides. free; oils, free lumber.
rough, si25 a thousand feet with
dfferentlals soal IS
cents ton, without the house recip-
rocal clause; iron ore, is cents ton;
print paper, 1915 a ton.
Most ~f the week has been devoted
TO discussion Of hides. This subjec,
was complicated by reason of the
statements coming from the boot and
shoe interests that they were really
10 agree to substantial reductions In
the duties on leather goods II hides
were put on the free list. These in,
terests apparently fe:t sure that there
could be no reductions on boots and
shoes below Is per cent adyalorem.
the house rate, when is lower than
the senate rate, or the existing law.
President Taft staed to number Of
callers today that he would insist up.
on a reduction to at least ten per cent
ad vaorem, with proportionate do
crease in the rates rn other leather
goods. This complicated the s.tra-
tion, and as result there were many
conferences upon that phase of the
subject.
Little consideration ias been given
lumber coal or oil. The senate con
ferees are insisting upon $3.50 on
rough lumber, while tle mouse mem
bers say they will held ow for s10)
lumber They may split the differ.
ence.
Coal. 1T is said will be made du T.
able at IS cents per ton, although
some conferees thins It should be
made as low as 40 cents. and others
desire so cents. II is settled that the
reciprocal free trade provision adopt
ed by the house will De eliminated;
also. that oil will go ON the free list.
though a rejection of the countervail-
ing duty provision adopted by the sen
ate.
The glove and hosiery schedules,
which were materially increased by
the house over the Dingley rates. re-
mains unsettled. although compromis-
es have been suggested with regari
to each.
The advocates of protected hides
declared there must be a proportion
ate reduction of leather to offset the
abolition OF the duty on hides If their
votes were to bc counted upon TO
adopt 'he conference report
As result of this declaration by
men interested in protected hides.
which amounted almost 10 an ultimat'
um, some of those who are looking
for an early adjustment of the tariff
differences were filed with cons,erna-
tion.
A movement has been started -
meet parliamentary tangle by the
adoption of a joint resolution au' hoT-
izing the conferees to adopt rates On
leather goods lower than those tixsd