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Show iwhi nil Tuosrir Is P -r WASHINGTON, July 26. The ttf -t- fight of the beniocratlc-progres- mv slve coalition for broader tariff -f fi -t- revision gained grounti today R and It was confidently piedictcd P -f In both houses that a conference I1 committee compromise wool bill, 'if the farmers' free list bill and -f- b possibly the cotton bill, with steel, sugar and other Hchedy .ft ules, would be passed. 11 M - I Meantime the Indications are J stronger than ever that President I t Taft wlllt exercise his veto power on , ) tariff legislation prior to the eub- f mission of the tariff board report In r ;, Uocember. t The cotton bill probably will pass i ! the house next Thursday. Doinocrat- iu leaders say that if the prosent ! program Is carried out, there is noth- j ing to prevent adjournment about the ! , middle of August, j The plan contemplates a compro-.l compro-.l i " mlse wool bill on a tmsls of 30 per c-sjr' ctnt ad valorem duty on raw wool. t"9g' This measure will go to conference JL2 f next Monday or Tuesday. &l No Hantf,caP fr Free List Bill. ' I The free ll6t bl11, lnstond oI being If handicapped with the sugar, steel and other schedules as riders, Is to 1 1 be changed only by the Bailey amend t j nient, which strikes out the provi- a sion placing farm products on the $ i free list This amendment is neces- A. sary to insure the Republican insur-$ insur-$ -j gent vote. Ml Democrats of both houses express- i ed certainty thai the free list bill d I will be put through the senate next J$ ' Tuesday by the same combination K I that put the wool bill through m The intention of the free list bill " Qs a whole, as the insurgent scna- 1 , tors regard It, Is to compensate the I farmer for the loss supposed to have been Inflicted upon him by the ac- vr ceptance of Canadian reciprocity, I and they will not consent to an exten sion to other countries- of the free import provision on the products of r the farm. Practically all the opposi tion to the bill on the Democratic ' side will be because of this amendment amend-ment Will Leave It to President. "We are not going to try to put any of tho big products on the free list," said one Insurgent senator. "We want the president to say Yl whether he Is willing to do anything I to recoup the farmers for the loss occasioned them by forcing the passage pass-age of the reciprocity bill, and we shall not give him the excuse for a , veto that he might find In a cotton ! or a steel schedule." j The wool bill will bo sent to con's con-'s ferenco Monday or Tuesday. It will S be called up in the house then by H ', Democrat ic Leader Underwood, as )jJl agreed to, and both houses will ap-mk ap-mk point conferees. The house conferees Mm "w ill be Representatives Underwood of ! t Alabama, Randall- of Texas, Demo it! fi ciats, and Payne of New York, Re ikm a publican. Senator Penrose said the jf i Republican members of the finance E& R committee would not participate in the conference and added that he l would make an official statement to I this effect whenever the question of ft selecting conferees comes before the i ; senate. Jji ; Applause Greets News of Passage. q ' t Senator McCumber of North Da- jh ; kota, it developed, will decline to ; serve, notwithstanding he voted with I ; the committee for the modified La-i La-i Follette bill. Mr. McCumber wants S i got away from Washington early 0 - next week. ! Senator LaFollette, Progressive Republican, and Senator Simmons of North Carolina, Democrat, doubtless will be among the senate conferees. The wool bill reached the house today, tho formal announcement of Its passage by tho senate being t greeted by Democratic applause. Tho ? bill now lies on tho speaker's tablo, where It will remain until called up !j next week for action as to a confer- J ence |