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Show AGREE OF! SUGAR TARIFTREVISION REPUDLICANS IN SENATE GET TOGETHER ON COMPROMISE AND FINALLY PASS BILL. The New Measure Reduce the Duty en Refined Product From $1.90 to $1.63 and Abolishes the Dutch Standard. Washington. A Republican sugar tariff, the llrst purely Republican re vis un measure of t!it present con-Ki't'fM, con-Ki't'fM, wuh ailo)t'-il In tho senate on Saturday. Deserting their all iH of the previous two days. tli Republican ii.nn gents, by an Iron-dad agreement with the regulars, succeeded In pissing a tarirr reduction bill which they be-lice be-lice President Tatt will sign. The sugar bill wan it compromlso between the Iodgo plan, Indorsed by the regular Republicans, and the Hrls-taw Hrls-taw bill, behind which tho Insurgents lined up. It would rut the present sugar duty or film to J I. CO; would abolish the Hit eh iftandard, under which practl c-ally no retincd m?,-r ran be lmiwrt-'d; lmiwrt-'d; and would abolish the seven and a half per cent "lethirrs' dlffcrentl an additiot.al duty on refined miKar, which. It in claimed, has accrued directly di-rectly to tho pro lit of the refiners. I The attitude of tho senate Demo-rrais Demo-rrais in finally uportlns the Republican Repub-lican bill Is expected to have Infill ence with the IXMiiocrata of the house when the amended bill Roe hack there. The senate probably will name .Senatom 1'enrone and Iidt;e, Republicans, Repub-licans, and BlnimonH, Democrat, on the conference committee. |