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Show Tariff on Sugar Fixed Washington. The v duty on Cuban Bitgnr, undor tho lorllney-MeCumbor tariff bill, will bo .$irrcfl n hundred pounds, that figure having boon definitely nnd finally ngreod upon by tho conferonco o mmlttee nt Its clns-lug clns-lug session Monday. This Is n fifty-fifty fifty-fifty compromise- botweon tho house rate of 1.00 and tho sjf-noto rato of $1.8-1, nnd tho fact thnt tho conferonco finally concontod to rnlso tho houso rato wns duo almost entlroly to tho of-forts of-forts of Senator Itoed Smoot of Utah. |