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Show TARIFF BILL WILL BE RECOMMENDED PROMPTLY Washington, March 24. The tariff bill to be recommended by the senate j committee on finance, wili be ready to be reported on the day tho Payne bill passes the house, according to present indications of the Republican members of the commute, who are holding daily sessions. Consideration of the schedules sche-dules on earthenware and pottery was begun and concluded today. Ideas presented by Senator Aldrich yesterday in favor of reducing public expenditures so as to fit the normal revenues of the government, rather than expending the Income, to gtow-ing gtow-ing extravagance. Is receiving general support araung senators. It is now believed be-lieved It will be possible to avoid all forms of special taxes, and especially as the government officials are counting count-ing confidently upon better industrial conditions throughout the country as soon as disposition in made of taritl legislation. Few controversies between Republican Repub-lican members of the finance committee commit-tee are anticipated. The tariff exports ex-ports in tho employ of the committee, as regards such questions as those of free lumber and free hides as purely "sentimental," being Convinced that placing them on the free list woul 1 subtiact little from the revenues of the country and that the importations would be bo Infinitely small as not to enter appreciably Into competition with American lumber aud Amerlcau hides. |