The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-06
coNFEREEs, REPORT is SIGNED
40 INDICATED nv PRESIDENT
IN LETTER.
ROUSE VOTES on It SATURDAY
Measure Will 60 TO Senate Monday
Where It viii Remain 4 Week.
Hosiery Duty Goes Up From
to 3 Per Cent.

tariff bill Is complete.
An agreement on all disputed points
was reached and the conferees' report
signed by the Republican c%onferees
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 cons
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
pressed them YER 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
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.
It 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 Republi-
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 sad-
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 to
the chamber. He was given a copy OF
the bill as the conferees intend to re-
port it, 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 il the
Republicans would consent to put cot
ton bagging on the free list his as
sociates would show great celebrity in
bringing the conference report to
a vote. Many of the conferees were
disposed to grant this request, but
Representative Mccall of Mas
~sachusetts protested vigorously on
the ground that it would injure the
manufacture OF his state, which turn
out cotton bagging. So emphatic were
his objections that 1t was seen that an
agreement would be delayed il such
action were attempted.
All Seek a "Finat 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 to
get a final word" with the conferee.
Late in the day Representative
Fordney and Calderhead went to the
White House and from there to the Of
fee Of Speaker Cannon and then back
to the conference chamber. Later they
conferred with a number of North
western senators who were interested
in the lumber question. After their
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 on
Tries to Wipe Out Family.
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