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Show I SHAFROTH WILL URGE AMENDMENT Special to The Tribune, Washington: d. c, July i. senator sena-tor Sliafrotn jas prepared an amend-ment amend-ment to the sugar schedule ot tho Un- dcrwood bill, which lie will submit to the Democratic members of the .senate llnance committee anil ask them to adopt it. as a proviso to the frcc sugar provision" of the bill. He has shown the proposed amendment to his colleague. Senator Thomas of the finance committee, commit-tee, who says he favors It, and other members of the finance committee, anxious anx-ious to escapo from the political mistake mis-take of putting sugar on the free list, arc expectod to give it their support. The amendment Is as follows: "Provided, however, on the 1st day of April. A. .D. 1916; the secretary of the treasury shall transmit, to ihe president the estimate of the revenues and expenditures expen-ditures of the government for tho fiscal year ending- June 30, 1917, and. If the estimated expenditures shall exceed by $20. 000.000 such estimated revenue, then one-half of the duty on sugar hereinbefore hereinbe-fore enumerated In this paragraph, to wit, one-half cent per pound, shall thereafter there-after continue to be collected until the estimated revenue, loss that derived from sugar, fehall equal the ostlmated expenditures, ex-penditures, jvhen the president shall Issue Is-sue 'his ""proclamation to that efCccl and thereafter sugar shall no admitted free of duty." |