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Show COMPROMISE FREE H LIST BILL PASSES ORIGINAL FREE LIST M BILL FIRST DEFEATED Kern-La Follette Compromise Meas- H ure Gets Very Decisive Majority H Democratic-Insurgent Combine In H Good Working Order, H Washington, Aug. 1. Combined 1n H the same alliance that resulted In the H passage of a compromise woolen tar- H iff revision bill in tho senato last H week, the Democrats and Republican H Insurgents of that body toJay 'passed H a compromise farmers' free list bill. H Tho original house bill first was do-. B ' fented, 30 to 39, and then re-offered In B modified form by Senator Kern of In- H BBa As amended and finally adopted the BBl bill differed but little from tho origin- H The Kern cc apromlse takes fresh meat products out of tho free list BB bill, except such as come from couu- BH tries that admit certain American BJH products free of duty. The senato H varller had dofeated Senator Bailey's H amendment taking all meats out of H tho free list bill. The Kern amend- BJB ment represented tho attempt to rn- BBJ conclle the Democratic Interest with BJH tho Insurgent Republicans who bollcv H oil tonif" further concessions should B b obtained for agricultural products. B |