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Show The Republican members of the Ways and Means committee held another conference December 2.) and decided upon &evera' changes in the two revenue bills which will be introduced in tin. (ouse Thursday. The most important im-portant change in the tariff bil' was to drop the clause putting in cereal breadaluffs, live-stock and dairy products and an advance oj 25 percent over the Wilsou-Goi-mnn rates, so these features will simply have the 15 per ceni advance under, the horizontal clause. It was also decided to advance carpet wools to the Mckinley Mc-kinley bill rates, but other wools and manufactured products 0! wool remain at 60 per cent of the McKinley tariff, according to tin -tgll")ta fjt&Uduy.' The other change was to exempt sug.n from the provisions of the clausi for the horizontal advance of jj per cent. Lumber will 1 emain as was decided esterday, at 61 per 1 ent of the McKinley duty. In the bond bill the principal issue authorized by the act of 187,' from 4 to 3 per cent, and them bonds will be payable at the option of th: Goeinment after lliret yearn. The 1 ate of interest foi the oie-year trcasun certificati. of indebudi ess was raised from i to 3 per cent. This bill will alst provide for the temporary isolatioi of llic greenbacks, &o llies Will l) lit Id .ivp.w.ite in iho treasury am not included within the genet a asses of the government. |