The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-07-21
TARIFF TAKEN
TO WHITE HOUSE
cONFEREES ABANDON MEETING
AMC LEADERS CONSULTED
PRESIDENT. 4
BITTERNESS AROUSED
BY Attitude of Payne, Who Believes
He is in Minority in Confer
ence--Taft Entertans
Toninht.

Washingtoa. July 20-Tha tariff
bin was hols ed above the chickering's
OF the congressional conferses today
and transferred bodily from the eali
tol to the White House. Deadloeked
because of the attitude of Representa-.
tive Payne who apparently has be-
| come possessed with the grow ng
| conviction that he is In the mi crity
the conferees abandoned the usual
afternoon session. Aldrlch and Can
nc, repaired To the White House
post haste to consult with the prssi~
| dent. literally taking the tariff bi
with them.
| What happened at the White House
| between the presi cnt and the SEN
ate and horse leaders is a sealed book,
! When Aldrich AMI Cannon returned
10 the capitol they mlnmized the
difference that had aroused the bi ter
ness In the conference room and in
sisted that nothing ususual had oc-
Cured
Aldrlch said that tomorrow would
| find the conference committee asain
Mt work and he expected that by
might, when the conierees are 10 be
entertained by the president at din
mr. most OF the problems apart fir, m
these receiving the personal at.en-
ton Of the president would have leen
solved,
Nevertheless. there has ben
| tpo,,biat hahiuI fhoga ahead Ioarz
that shut the public from the 70 M
| where the real tariff bill II being
| constructed. Some say the differences
between Aldrich and Pace haya
taken srch form tai progress II i'm
possible unless the presiaelt has in
1uenee enough t. compe action.
This story Is defend by bo,h the prn.
cipals. 1t is not denied that there
was a clash yesterday betwea- Payne
and Forlney, Of Michlban.
| From creditable sour2e II was
learned that tie crisis was reached
when an effort was male late yes
terday TO vote on lumber. Payne pro-
tested and argued that such a move
would be unfair to the president as
this was one CT the subjects rrac-
| tically submitted TO him for adjust
ment, proyidirg he could get tie
xotes in congress to adopt the com.
promise rates. Fordney suggested
the vote and Aldrich acquiasel But
Payne protested with velemapCe
| that startled his associates. Some one
said the mai r.ty Should rule, TIE
remark. 1t is declared, came from one
of the senators and it incensel Payne
| still more.
Payne told Aldrich he could vote
the senate members of the conference
| If he chose, but that he could mt
vote the house members so easily
Full OF wrath he told his house col,
leagues that 1t was their duty to
stand up for the house bill and to
yield only after every possible effort
had ben made to wiz. Payne is re-
ported 10 have said that he would
not sign the conference report merely
because the majority Of the house
Republicans had agred to it. Payne
then angrlly left the ROOM Today
however. he was present and no ref
erence was made TO the iccident.
II is declared by Payne's friends
| that his answering attitude on the
low rates in the house bill is dictated
solely by the desire to see the pre5i-
dent successful in his contention for
downward revision of the tariff.
A conference of progressive Repuh-
lican senators was held Immediately
after the senate adjourned. There
were present: Nelson, Clapp, Do l.
yer. Cummins, Burke Brown, Bever-
idge, Bristow. Crawford and Board.
All except Borah voted against the
serate bill LaFollette was mt in
the city An effort was made to
dents apprvalagree upon sore pro
gram. but after a discussion of politi-
cal exigencies and conditions in tie
senators respective states, II was
stated that all thUse preset could
not vote against the conference re-
port il il is framed to meet the presi-
dents approval Net all these who
voted against the hill in the senate
will vote against the conference re-
port.
After the conference Dolliver said:
"The Republicans NO were u1abla
to vote for the pending tar n bill
when il passed the senate have been
greatly pleased and e-corragl by tie
efforts of the president to change the
character of the measure by the ex-
ercise of his influence with the con-
ference committee. 1t is our ernst
hopes that he win be successful in
securing real revision.
1T is evident from what he hes
said through the press that the aresi-
dent seeks not only TO reduce the