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Show VOTE Oil TIFF IS EXPECTED BY END OF AUGUST sxessexeaawaswsxaxaaax Republicans and Democrats in Unanimous Agreement to Limit Debate on De-r De-r tails of the Schedules COMPACT MADE IN DEBATE ON SUGAR Smoot ofUtahand Harrison "of Mississippi Engage in . Discussion Over Alleged Deal With Cuban Growers WASHINGTON, Aug. ( (By A. P.) A final rote on tha tariff before September 1 la hoped for by Republican Repub-lican and Democratic leaders under ths operation of a unanimous consent agreement entered Into today by tha senate. While th agreement flxs do date for a trote. It provides for sharp curtailment of debate and disposition dis-position before next Saturday of all amendments to the more Important : sections of -tha bill atlU In eontro- TfThe agreement was entered Into aa .a compromise snd wss approved In i the midst of debate on the eugar i schedule. Opening that debate. Sena- itor Harrison, Democrat. Mississippi, ! renewed discussion of ths lstterwrlt- ten to Major Qensrel Crowder at lHavnna by Senator Smoot of Utah. , ranking Republican on the senate i finance committee. rlouction proposed. ! Mr. Harrtaon said ths letter pro-: pro-: posed x a reduction In tha duty on " ; Cuban raw sugar If Cuban producers I would curtaH their crop this year ta . 1.600.000 tone. Senator Smoot told fthe senate ha had written a letter, I but not such a letter aa thai de-1 de-1 scribed. Senator Harrison alao read 'what purported to be aa evreseasnt by certain interests concerned In the 'importation of Cuban eugar, ' who I were to accumulate a fund of 114.000.-' 114.000.-' 000 to be contributed by member on , the basis of one-fourth of a cent a pound on sugar from Cuba, thla sum , 'to be paid to the American producers of csn and beet augar upon some 'arrangement agrsement .Involving the fixing of tha duty on Cuban sugar la the pending bill. WANTS TO INVESTIGATE. Tha Mississippi senator said this aliened agreement waa draw a after Cuban producers had refused to snter Into an arrangement to curtail their crop. The paper was signed, he ' added, by the Cuban Sugar Producers' Agreement Syndicate, lnc, by Alfred Grover, director, and that tha headquarters head-quarters were given sa New York City. Inquiry waa made as to the Identity of Mr. Grover and after a oross-fire of debate Senator Harrison aald he would propose a senate Investigation, In-vestigation, both as to the alleged syndicate and tha -eported effort a of government offloials to bring about a reduction of the Cuban crop la return for reduced tariff duties. Later he Introduced such a resolution and asked, - for . Immediate consideration, " but denotes- Ledge ef ' Massachusetts, the Republican leader, objected, saying say-ing there was not time today to discuss dis-cuss It. x. SMOOT STlOUOHT IN. Senator Harrison charged that, before be-fore Senator Smoot wrote to General Crowder. Cuban producers, after negotiations, ne-gotiations, had refused to agree to curtail thla year'e crop. He read from the last January number of the "Economic Bulletin of Cuba" as to tha negotiations. This stated that a curtailment cur-tailment of production had been insisted in-sisted on by tha United States beet sugar tntsreets and government officiate offi-ciate of tha United States," sad Mr. Harrison asserted that a threat had been mada that unless ths crop wss decreased a tariff duty of S cents a pound might be Imposed la place of tha proposed 1 cents a pound. Also, hs declared the Cuban producers were i promised that If they would comply with the request tha l.t cents would be cut t 1.4 cents. UTAHN IN REPLY. - " "When ' was a blacker paxe aver written In the legislative history of this country V asked lfie Mississippi srnstor. "When wss a mors Inexcusable Inex-cusable proposal mada ta another country with which were on , friendly terms?" Senator Smoot told the senate that he would read his letter to General Crowder later and would abos "whether there la any agreement on my part or on the part of General Crowder aa to what wa would do or . what congress would do. I had no power to do Itr Referring to tha alleged syndics ts sgreement. Senator Smoot said hs hoped hs would live long enough to "bring In here a document that 1 know nothing about and then try to blacken tha character of aaoiher senator." : I . CAN SHOW COUNTRy. -. J "I say now." hs sdded. "that I can show tbs . country that I am Just aa clean; aa I can be in every-j thing I hsve said and done, and la my -whole heart I am willing to have 'laid before the whole American people peo-ple 'not only thla. but every other act of "my Ufa. I have never done any-' any-' thing that I have not been perfectly willing every living soul on earth should know all about." Under the aoanlmoua ceneeitt agreement, worked out by the xaa-(CoaUaeed xaa-(CoaUaeed oa page !) VOTI ONJARIFF (Continued from nag l- Jortty and minority leader after eeV-ral eeV-ral hours of conference, th eenate will vote it I p. in. next Tueeday on all amendment to .th eehdul and before adjourning that day It will dispose also of amandments to the paragraphs dealing with potash and tha proposed bounty thereon and white arsenic. On next Wednesday a vot will be had on all amandments amand-ments to the section relating to hide boots, ahoea and leather and thoae proposing a "aclsntiflc" tariff, will b acted upon. TO BEGIN SATURDAY. Beginning on next Saturday, th senate will then proceed to the con-sidsratlon con-sidsratlon of remaining committee amendments to th bill and after that will dlapoa of Individual amendments amend-ments that may be proposed- After 11 a. m. next Saturday no senator will be permitted to apeak longer than fifteen mlnutea on any amendment amend-ment or motion nor longer than thirty mhtn-raa" WjMir - tno-fcw. rror nrar Monday until next Saturday senators will be allowed to apeak not more than an hour m th aggregate upon any one of th paragrapha. especially named for consideration during that time nor mora than aa hour oa amendments to any of th paragrapha. |
