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Show TARIFF DELAY IRKS M'CUMBER Senate Argues Vinegar Rate for Eight Days; Not Decided Yet WASHINGTON. April 29 I om plaint about what he charactered as j the slowness with which the senate h prni '' di .1 with he con -ideratiup I of the administration tariff bill was made in the senate today b halrman McCumber of the finance committee in charge of the measure Senator licCamber said the bill had been reported nineteen days ago, that ; eight days ago the first item in the measure acetic acid "vinegar in I common parlance,' had been taken up and that, "the senate still has not passed pass-ed the vinegar stage." i ailing attention that ihe senate had spent two hours today discussing the naval oil leasing Investigation reso lufion. after the measure had been adopted, Senator McCumber said he sincerely hoped that attention would b- cjivon in the tariff bill and items in that measure disposed of without so much discussion of extraneous objects The basis on which the rates in the bill were written was again the subject sub-ject of debate today. Senator Simmons Sim-mons of North Carolina, the Demo cratlc leader declared that the committee com-mittee had not given the senate and the country the fact6 and until such had been done there was no way of determining the Justice of the duties proposed oo |