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Show jURGEON'S KNIFE LOOMS FOR MRS. HARDING I MEASURE SOON TO BE READY FORJIARDING Conferees Next Will Take Up Bonus Bill for Final Action AGREE UPON TARIFF1 Only Slight Cuts Made in I Rates on Wool and Sugar WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. Hepubll- j can conferees completed today their task of rewriting the administration tariff bill, and it was announced that, the meaaUre and conference report j would be presented to the house DC a Thursday Action by the house Is look- ; ed lor on Wednesday and then tile report will go to the senate. Those In charge of the bill hope to have It In the president's hands by the end of n-xt week. . American aluation as the basis for a'-ssing tariff d titles wa discard, d. Y,...,n mnnnriTS vleldinu on this -md aqrepum; th" So-Ha IW1 -flexible-tariff as a substitute after that had been brosjdened so as to give the prea-Ident prea-Ident authority to declar. Ajncrlcan valuation in any cases where investigation investi-gation show-d that an American industry in-dustry could not be protected by BS-ses-in- duli-s un th- .foreign alua-tlon alua-tlon ' Authority for tiie president to Increase or decrease rates also was rppr ed. SEN ER M DOMPROMIS1 8 There was a compromise on all of th- high spots in the bill, in the case ,.i sugar, the conference agreed on a duly of 2.20 cent a pound or 1C cent a pound on Cuban raw sugar, as against the senate rates of 2.10 con! and 184 cent, respectively, and the house rates of 2 cents and 1 60 and those In the Underwood law were 1.16 c ent and 1 cent. The raw wool duty said to have been agreed upon was 31 cents a pound. SCOUr-U eoni-Ul. an aS,i.i. senate rate of 33 cents, the house rat-of rat-of "i cents and the emergency tarlit duty of 46 cents. The senate Itepub- ; Mean aprlcultural tariff bloc held out for the senate rate to the last, but the house, conferees insisted on a reduction. reduc-tion. t lll.MIC U.s M, ISHED A sharp reduction was made in the rates on dyes, synthetic chemicals and explosives, the products of coal tar which were voted by the senate just before it passed the bill, but It was understood that an agreem-nt as reached to continue the present dye licensing li-censing embargo system for on.' year with authority .for the pr-ld-nt to extend it for u second year should he . dei in that to be necessary. There was a last minute row In i on-ference on-ference over the question of a duly on sh ingles, but whether these were left on the free list, where they were voted by th senate, was not disrl.,s- , ed Senator Kellogg. Republican o Ulnnesota. cohfertrod v.ith th conferees confer-ees m support of rree shingles, while Senator i lHlir o. Idaho. . hairn.al. , of the Republican tarllf bio- and Me-Nan, Me-Nan, and Slanfield. Ib publlcans, of nr. -on. urg-.l the managed to Ho a dutv of 25 cents per 1000 or half the rat. voted by the house TAKE UP ' s ! With the tariff bill out of the way the conferees plan to get to work nwl week on the soldiers' bonus bill a Mew to having that ready for f nal action of the house before the end of the week. . i Democratic managers from the house and senate win be called Into conference on the bonus, as that Is not a partisan measure. They were excluded ex-cluded from consideration of the tar-in tar-in r. bin will be ... ii d m after the rr,ipl-te.l bill bus been printed and Will cast their votes on the measure at that time. oo |