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Show SMOOT DISLIKES RATE ON SUGAR Effort Is Being Made to Reopen Schedule in Tariff Bill WASHINGTON. April 4. With a number of more or loss Important iriit reopened at the request of in-I in-I dividual nwiamrs Republicans of the senaU finance committee made but J slow proxroK Monday in their final drive to get the long-awaitod "per-I "per-I manent" tariff bill ready for the sen- I ! ntc. but continued hopeful thai the measure could reached before th.' end of this week. An effort Is being made to have the committee reopen th'' BUgai I schedule Senator Smoot of l.tah v.is; represented aa being diasatlsfled 1 n nh the action of the commillee ma-jorlty, ma-jorlty, accepting the hnu?o rates of 3 ; I cente I pound on full duty sugars! and 160 cents on Cuban row The! I tah senator favors a duty of 2 cent OB Cuban sugar, the rnte urged by: American beet sugar manufacturer I I Aside fiom a number of mlscel- ; lanrous rates the maJoril has yet to decide on the duty on molng plc- I turc films, antl w hen Ihe subject or y rates flnoll is . losed the big question ques-tion of valuation nnd administrative features will have to be threshed out, with a stiff fight In prospect, particularly particu-larly on viluation |