The Sentinel=record., 1911-08-08
FAIL ID REACH
 AN AGREEMENT
AsHa LA TOILETTE AND UNDERWOOD SEEM TO BE DEADl--., FED oN
 FARMERS FREE LIST.
.Lt ] AsNa
Wisconsin Senator is Unaltcrahly op- posed to the House 6ill-Of'
 fers Half Loaf.

Washington, Aug. Senator Ia Toilette and Chairman Underwood, Iof the House Ways and Means com Imlttee. who nave undertaken 10 re
 concile the differences betweea ,... senate and the house on The wool and tthe farmers free iisI pills for the lfuu conference committee, are In an lunquestloned deadlock with tne pos sibility of remaining so and thus forc- ling an adjournment of the sesslon without final action on eltner of those measures.
 The tie-up is due to the uncom, lpromising position of MT. La foliette in opposition to the house bill. lie has told Mir. Underwood that reduc- ton of the rates below those fixeu by the D-l as it passed tie senate | Is an impossbility and in response the chairman of the ways and means committee, who had great difficulty in getting an agreement by the house to the rates fixed in his bill, has said that the house never will con sent to accept the senate figures.
 Mir. La Follertes contention IS that the senate rate constitute d reuucuon of about three -fourths of the uiIter- |ence between the rates of the Payne Aldrich law and those of the house bill; that 1t Is impossible to go low CT and hold anything like the progres- i've republicans and that it is bet ter for the democrats to take a halt loaf than get nothing in the way ot tariff bread.
 MT. Underwood did not accept the senate figures but is quietly asking the house to ascertain that increase over the house rates may be possi- ble. He has told some of ais Iriends the house to ascertain whaT increase the senate half way, put the progress i've leader merely smiled and in re- sponse to suggestions of this char acter he told MT. Underwood tho difference was with his party rrlenos rather than with himself and they sustained in the statement.
 The progressive republicans con sider it important that they stand as T body and have found 1t impossible to obtain anything like unanimous consent of less than s per cent on raw wool and the corresponding rates on woolens fixed by the senate bill. The difficulties pertain entirely to the wool bill. An agreement on tIe free list could be had at any time The deadlock has given rise 70 all kinds of suggestions and surmises | Accepting the tangle as lnextrlca- ble, some senators and representa- tiyes have suggested a movement tor final adjournment of the session re- gardless of the conference and the
 senate is being sounded on that prop ositlon. Most of the regHlsr. repuDli- cans are willing to agree to this as are some of the democrats. lnciua- ed in the latter list are those South lern senator's who would like to sec
 the further consideration or the cot
 on bill postponed until next sesslon.
 They are wiling to accept almost lany legitimate reason for delay ant
 would welcome any exigency thai
 would carry cotton over.
 The cotton bill is unquestionably
 playing a part in the conference, Du
 all the facts have not come to tnt surface. The power to hold the cot ton measure rests with the conferees