Show j DUTIES SURf SURE TO WIN OUT IN END NO House Conferees Will Yield on Cotton and Woo and the Senators on Gloves and Hosiery Result Will Be Upward rd Revision in Its Most Aggravated ted Form Inheritance Tax Looming Up Again July cotton j ook gods and cheap hosiery and former demanded men l and the th latter by ti the im MIl sn te to t be among the most inot questions in the con conS S v conference on ni n the OH tariff bill bin billat r at that H jg j the way things appeared cn of tho first days session on t was a great g at deal of ot speculation 11 re anang leaders in congress oon who ial aV to the conference as a to tot tobe not ot t parties t win be done tione with these the e items nY numbers expressed the opinion the house would yield on cotton it l j t woo and the senate on gloves and aAd ItY In compliance with the S tV t li ka i of f Would Raise a Storm l thus this should be bt the outcome it is that vigorous protests would Trade mad in both the senate and the thew theae w ae I advocates of downward re renn renn nn Pome members went so far as u asa a 1 that an effort would be made to tor ct r th h conference reports in the theu u 11 i of such a glaring insistence tenee of ot ofard ward ard The Th eff effect e t of amendments to the cot coti i and It woolen schedules in the house hoWle housea i 5 a VerY ery material reduction of the nc ting lUt tS The senate enate restored e by ty a e vote ote hand the house advanced i fl the Ih other ther rates Tates on hosiery and women gloves r al n the duties fixed by the Ding law aw and the senate declined decODed to ac act jt t the increases Conferees In Session wo Ms on of or the conferees were held lay ay The first began at 10 1 a m and tinned until 15 p m A recess was wasn nn n until 2 30 when the af after ter tern n fl anon began It was agreed that s se hUTS hours shall continue through the theror wr The afternoon session last f nearly 6 when heft an ad adas adent ent was as taken until II 10 a m mc c day VI U of the conferees were present to toy toS y S zest t in the city It IB Is expected that toot his place in the conference will be filled much of ot o othe the time by Senator Smoot Amendments were considered con today in their numerical order When the sos ses session slon sion closed for the day the conferees had passed through the chemical and earthenware schedules schedule and more than halfway through the metal schedules All Alt of oC the amendments in the schedules schedule however were not settled Differences Not Serious The adjustment of ot the differences dl be between between between tween the house and the senate will not prove so serious a task as is Indicated by b the large number of ot amendments More than OO of ot the amendments con eon consist consist slit of ot changing the phrase as pro provided provided provided vided by section one and two of ot this act to read as provided by this sec see section tion These changes were made necessary necessary necessary sary by the action of the senate in con consolidating consolidating consolidating the dutiable and free lists and making the maximum and minimum provision the second section of oC the bill Nearly other amendments relate to phraseology over oer which there will be no dispute whatever Eliminating these it itis Itis ItIs is pointed out that there are less than amendments that represent opposing opposing opposing ing views Few members of ot the conference com corn committee committee are willing to place the time nee necessary essary IJ for the completion of the bill In conference at lees l s than ten days Some of the conferees place the probable length of ot the conference at a fortnight or more I Corporation Tax Amendment I The corporation tax amendment has not been beers considered by the conferees in any way Nevertheless it was predict predicted ed d in congressional congre elona circles tonight that the proposed tax on the net earnings of or corporations would be reduced in con conference conference ference from 2 to 1 per cent It was also reported that the cor corporation corporation tax provision may be eliminated eliminated eliminated and the house inheritance tax provision prevision restored to the bill but no confirmation of this story could be had be traced |