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Show Tariff on Sugar Fixed Washington. The duty on Cuban sugar, under the Fordney-McCumher tariff bill, will be $1.7C6 a hundred pounds, that figure having been definitely and finally agreed upon by the conference committee at its closing clos-ing session Monday. This is a fifty fl"ty compromise between the housf rate of $1.60 and the senate rate ol S1.S4, nnd the fact that the conferenes finally concented to raise the nous; rate was due almost entirely to the I forts of Senntor Reed Smont of Uta!- j 1 |