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Show PROTEST AGIST TARIFF Oi BAIIS Nicaraguan Minister and Other Oth-er South American Diplomats Diplo-mats Call on Bryan. WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 Tho tariff tar-iff conferees got along so well today that Chairman Simmons of the sonato finance committoo predicted tonight that their roport will be mado to tho two houses of congress next week. The conferees today practically finished fin-ished tho cotton schedule and tho flax and hemp schedule A few paragraphs in each woro loft for further consideration. considera-tion. In tho cotton schedule changes were largely agreed to. The clasifica-tion clasifica-tion of stockings was changed and a slightly higher rate placed upon them. Flax and hemp wero allowed to remain re-main on tho free list where the senato put them. The paragraphs relating to bagging and burlap, which caused much debato in tho sonato, woro not acted upon. House leaders insist the senato rates on these articles would mean a decrease in revenue of several million dollars annually. The difficulty diffi-culty over free listing forro manganese man-ganese and pig iron in the steel schedule, sched-ule, tho only serious disagreement that so far has devolopcd, was not taken up today, but it was said a settlement will bo reached Monday. . Genoral Chamorro, Nicaraguan minis-tor, minis-tor, and other Central American diplomats, diplo-mats, held a further conference today with Secretary Bryan and, it is understood, under-stood, renewed their protest against tho proposed tariff on bananas, includod in the tariff bill now pending before the conference committoo. In its protest the Central American delegation is unanimous in declaring that tho imposition imposi-tion of tho tariff would curtail their banana trade and so interrupt reciprocal recipro-cal trade relations with the Unitod States. |