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Show Compromise Possible. There is even a possibility that the president, recognizing the immediate sit-i sit-i uation to be faced in this country, might : meet a Republican congress half way, and agree to sign a compromise tariff bill. But the president has yet to give the first indication of a purpose to compromise com-promise with the Republican congress. The probabilities are that Republican leaders are oversanguine as to the possibilities possi-bilities of revising the tariff upward but. even so, the passage of a tariff bi'l by the house and senate would give the I Republicans a chance to make a record ! on which to go to the country in It 'JO. 1 Their record, and their bill, if carefully i and fairly drawn, would constitute the i basis for the tariff issue in the next j presidential and congressional campaign- |