Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-20
OLD RATES TO GOVERN TAFT STANDING PAT
Huher Premiums of Bonding Insists That Hides Go on the
Companies Not to Be Paid. Free List.
HOUSE ADOPTS NEW RULE CONFERENCES HELD TODAY
Subject to Making Clean Fight and Not Using
Of Order. Patronage Club.
VAIN EFFORTS TO DEFEAT IT CABINET PAIRING ESTIMATES
Palmer Attacks for Will Probably Be
ethods of Procedur low ActualA APP
in
Insists That Hides Go on the
Free List.
CONFERENCES HELD TODAY
Making Clean Fight and Not Using
Patronage Club.
CABINET PAIRING ESTIMATES
Budget ASKED for Will Probably Be
$50, 100000 Below Actual Ap-
preparations of Last Year.

| Tariff conferences and regular cabinet
session kept President Taft occupied I'M
til his lunch hour this afternoon. and
after that he played a match game OF
golf with Senator Bourne. of oregon.
Th. tariff conferences began at 10
o'clock the President consulting Vice
President Sherman, Senator Crane and
Representative Dwight. republican whip
OF the House. He next saw Senator Cur
| It's OF Kansas and Representative Hin
shaw of Nebraska. After the cabinet
meeting he saw Senator Warren of
Wyoming, one of the men holding out
most strongly against free hides. Then,
just before starting out to beat Senator
Bourne at golf. he conferred with Sen
ator Aldr;ch and Speaker Cannon.
With practical unaninity the visiting
statesmen said the outlook vas good for
agreement all along the line. Senator
Curtis of Kansas. who has been put down
as one of those standing hard for free
hides. said he believed the conferees
would agree by Friday or Saturday of
this week When the Kansas senator was
asked about the statement that he Is an
insurgent against the administration de-
mands he said that he was first of all
republican.
Senator Curtis said that while he be-
lieved the conferees would agree within
a few days he did not know that the bill
would be Immediately voted upon by
both houses. He had been told that the
democrats were talking OF asking for
week to caucus upon the bill before
bringing it to vote He did not know
whether this was true, and had been told
by one democrat that no time would be
asked for caucusinR.
Insistent Upon Free Hides.
There was at least one important de-
velopment in the days considerations at
the White House. Visitors discovered
that the President stood pat for free
hides and would oppose any compromise
upon a reduced rate from the Senate bill.
combats the strongest combination in
the Senate and will have to do some
unusually good missionary work to Sc
cure his wishes. He has stood better
chance to win on iron ore or any of the
o;her raw material schedules. Accord
ing to Senate reports he confronts fifty>
one senators opposed to free hides.
Picking these off one by one will prove
q difficult task.
Representative Hinshaw said that the
President showed confidence in obtain
ing the things he is fighting for and
Is encouraging his friends to use their
influence to settle the fight at an early
date.
Not Withholding Patronage.
President Taft is credited by friends and
opponents with making clean. personal
fight, making no use of his patronage
power to club anybody into line. This
is an old game. put into EFFECT, by many
Presidents, and nobody Would have been
surprised had the White House used it
this time. There are said to be dompara
lively few appointments hangin<,iu the
air and in no case are these due 10 q Wish
10 use pressure.
The filling of the vacancies has been
delayed because the President was too
busy to get to them or because there was
lack of harmony in some of the states.
This is true of Kentucky. where four col
lectors of internal revenue, several United
States marshals and other Offices are to
be filled.
In that state, however, the republican
representatives have failed to show har-
mony in agreeing with Senator Bradley
upon the offices, and the President does
not desire to do anything until opportu-
nifty has been given for harmonious ac-
ton.
Cabinet Considers Estimates.
The cabinet meeting. lasting over two
hours. was given to considering estimates
Of appropriations for the departments for
the next fiscal year.
All along the line President Taft has
insisted upon economy to meet the pro-
babie deficit in revenues in the next fiscal
year, and he is going into the depart
mental expenditures with much detail
with each Of his cabinet advisers. 1t is
estimated that department he DIS will pre-
sent to Congress this winter estimates
| that are SOOoO00O below the actual ab-
preparations for the same departments
for the present fiscal year. The Navy De-
partment alone has shaved its estimates
100000
Secretary Dickinson has made a big
saving in the War Department and Sec
rotary Ballinger has done things along
the same line in the Interior Department.
Want Special Cotton Agent.
E. j. Watson. commissioner Of aeri-
culture and industry for South Carolina,
presented to President Taft today a copy
Of resolutions adopted by the State
Farmers Union Of South Carolina, and
later by the National Farmers Union in
session at Atlanta, asking for the an
pointment by the government of a spe-
cial agent. thoroughly versed in the cot
ton industry from beginning to end, to
go abroad and secure all the data posi-
BILE that will be OF interest and benefit
to the cotton industry In this country
The President was told that in the
past special missions have been directed
10 securing information abroad more for
the benefit OF the manufacturers than
the producers The special man now
asked for is to report largely with the
view Of the producers In mind.
For Better Marketing System.
The resolutions state that the produc-
ers are trying to better the present crude
system of marketing cotton. and that
skilled man, travelling abroad. can secure
valuable information. The President will
give the matter his prompt attention.
Representative Dawson of Idaho today
asked the President TO stop at Daven-
port. Iowa. when he goes west and he
President said he would try to do So
President Taft may go to see himself
III moving pictures at Washington
nicIeiodeon tonight. While at Peters
burg and Charlotte, n e.. in May last
he vas maze into moving pictures while
speaking. Tie has never seen himself
speaking, and he may conclude to do SO.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the readings OF the