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Show REPORT ON TARIFF MAY BE READY BY END OF WEEK Washington, Sept. 17 Democratic mombors of tho tariff conference committee com-mittee now engaged in adjusting differences dif-ferences between tho two houses on tho tariff bill decided today not to make public any further argecments until tho conference work Is completed. complet-ed. Publication of agreements in, the lalpt few days has brought many demands de-mands upon tho conferees for'ihe-re-open'ng of certain schedules, and they havo determined hereafter to maintain main-tain silence. Chairman Simmons of tho Senate conferees said tonight the work was progressing more rapidly than he bad expected and he thought a report might bo completed by the end of this week. The conferees finished up today with the free list arid began .on the re-main'ng re-main'ng items In' the dutiable schedules. sched-ules. Whon they adjourned they had gone over tho bill for the second time as far as the third schedule, that covering cov-ering metal and metal products. There was a long debate over tho wheat and. flour provisions of tho bill. House members objecting to the Se- nto amendment Imposing a! duty of 10 cents a bushel on wheat coming from a country that levies a duty ngainsi wheat from tho United States. This question was not settled. Tho conferees agreed to leave p g Iron on tho free list, where tho Senate Sen-ate put it, but did not detenu no whether forromanganese ere clsa should bo freo. A compromise waa o' fected on the automobile schedule by which the low rates fixed by the Senate wcro Increased slightly and an agreement was reached on tho glov: schedule, reducing somewhat tho Increases In-creases In rates made by the Senate. |