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Show m BILL GETS SENATE SETBACK . Unexpected Developments Stay Relief From Prevailing Prevail-ing Market Conditions. CChieaco Tribune Special ServiceA V.'ASJJIXGTOX. Jjec. 17. Relief from 'the present sugar scarcity and high prices is further away than ever today as a result re-sult of unexpected developments in the senate today. When the senate pa1 tiie McXar' bill hist week, the scope of the measure was carefully restricted to the graniing of authority to the sugar equalization board to purchase the Cuban crop, o.-ti-I mated at o.ooo.oo) tons. In this form, 1 the bih ropre.-onted u compromise be-I be-I tween the recommendations of tho equalization equali-zation board and the Louisiana sen;ilors who insisted they would never permit an extension of tho war powers of the board. The house yesterday passed tr:o lull with an amendment continuing the licensing licens-ing powers of the equalization board nn-(r-v the T.ovor act. The board insisted (Continued on Page 10, Column 3.) ISll BILL GETS"" SENATE SETBACK (Continued Frcxi Page One.) i' . : ; ' ' t a .'i e I'; o : U Yc Si! U.lull ul . :e Tin? 'amen i.-d 1-i'd v.-as s-r.t ba -to tii i . .'v.-.iii; todav (. r.ir house aod im- .!::;i;:;y it c;.,iid. d wi'h ::u Impassal b-trri'-r of o; r '. i i ion. Se-iaror Jxan-ib :! of Louisiana ''a.e notice tha; he and his col" --a .'lit', .S.-nu ,nr ' ht y. v. ere nreparcl t.ui: ;i we- k ur 'vi da'.'s on t!-r rneas-er--. I:! t':.e fa'-e of t'is threat, tile eil-' eil-' y a vole of 41 I" l:) iv.u.-cd to jeo-f- if ?. i h .- ra i Iroau i - di by i:.y iir-r :t aside to lake no t :e sui-'a r rciiei measure. Tiie souar id !1 will now eo to conference. confer-ence. J: ii cV'-r en. rues at all, its supporters sup-porters iii.imitted. it '.-ill p-robably e too bite to do any good toward relieving the siiir:ir fauiine'or bringing down prices. S'-ii:r.or Harrison of Mississippi, Democrat, Demo-crat, w!-.o muved to t ake up the suuar bill, declared that t.-onirress was "ficbillug whlb- Lome I'urned" in delaying action on 'he measure. "T.;e house has pn-s.'d a real 1 ill. ho paid. "If we are going to get relief the senate ouirh.t to act im mediately. If we are going to act at ail we've got to act now." Senator Grnnna of North Dakota, chairman chair-man of the agriculture committee, indignantly indig-nantly denied that congress was "fiddling while Home ni trued." "Tim fact is," ho said, "that the president presi-dent did tho fiddling last summer when be refused to act upon tiie sugar equalization equali-zation board's recommendation that lie buv the Cuban crop." Senator Ransdoll caused a ripple of laughter when he solemnly assured the senate that he had no intention of flli-. blistering, but would regard it as his dutv "to exolain the measure most thorough! thor-ough! v to the senate." Senator Williams of Mississippi scolded his colleagues for proposing to take tip such a relatively unimportant measure as the smrar bill at the expense of the railroad rail-road bill. Tie charged that the sugar bill was beinc used to delay action on the railroad bill by the enemies of tlrt; latter. "Sugar is not a necessity." he declared. "We got aloncr without it for several years dining the civil war." |