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Show CUBAN SUGAR TARIFF Reciprocity Measure Soon to Come Up in Senate. UTAH DIRECTLY INTERESTED Debate on tho Philippine. BUI Will Bo Concluded Next Week Next Business Busi-ness ln Order Is the Isthmian Cnnnl Bill Senatorial Opinion I. Debate Will Continue a Week, but Bill Will Not ra.s Volcmlc Eruptions Erup-tions in West Indies Hive Shaken Faith ln Nlcaraguati Route. TR1MUND HURUAU, j 160S lv Street. V Washington I). C , M ly 17 I The Senile will finish the clebvte ort tho Philippine bill next week The next business In order Is the Nicaragua rnnal bill lit the opinion of Senators this will be debated ft week but will not pass It will be deferred In order to give tho Frenldcnt time to get further fur-ther Information The volennic eruptions erup-tions lu the West Indies lnve shaken the faith nf the Senate In the Mcaia-gutn Mcaia-gutn loutc Next comes the Cuban reciprocity bill1 whose fate dlrectls concerns the beet sugar in mufiicturers of Utih The Demoernts In the Senate will It Is said Indorse the attitude of tho Democrats Demo-crats towardt the Cub m sugar tariff, nnd stand eolldls for tho bill bb 11 cdmo from tho House, which provides for a twenty per cent reduction of the tariff on sugnr with differential duties du-ties nn sugar abolished. Senators Aldrlch and Piatt of Connecticut Con-necticut nnd Republic in leidore generally gen-erally are opposed lo this arrangement arrange-ment Thes propose a twenty per cent reduction without disturbing differential dif-ferential duties, that Is, to leave differ ential outies as iney now exisi in law nnd In lieu of thai n reduction ot fifty pcr cent with tho dlftcrcnllil duties stricken out Republic en leaders expect to get Democratic votes foi the proposed reduction re-duction nncl nt tho same time, snss ft Democratic nuthorlty, threaten Republican Repub-lican champions of beet sugar ln Iho Senate with n fifty per cent reduction If Democrats do not let tho present law as to differential remain as It Is, but If tho Democrats stand put for the bill as It came from the House It la rTot likely that the bill will becdin a law nt this session It Is slid the session will not close before July 1. |