Members of the Senate agreed to-Jaay to vote on the finance committee's proposal to increase the Jduty on sugar before noon on Thurs-Jday. Prospects indicate a very close vote.
Jan. 16.
The Senate to-day adopted the Harrison amendment to the tariff eliminating the proposed 25 per cent. increased duty on imported sugar.
South American and other sugar producers had put up a spirited battle to oppose the proposed raise on the ground that it would mean robbery of the American con sumer.
Western sugar beet states asked the boost as a measure of protection for domestic industry. a Jan, 17.
Despite indications that more than "100 individual amendments will be offered, it is expected that the tariff bill will be passed within the next fortnight, it was learned on good authority to-day.
The dill has already dragged through the special session and a month and a half of the regular session, By a vote of 53 to 22, the Senate today defeated an amendment offered by Senator Robert B. Howell of Nebraska, providing for a sugar bounty plan." The Senate is accordingly still adhering to the existing, sugar schedules, despite a stiff battle by domestic beet sugar producers for greater protection.
On the "prohibition front," reported plan by prohibition leaders} to increase the enforcement appropriation failed to materialize today, as indicates that the $84,000, (000 which is already contained in the Post Ofice Appropriation Bill is satisfactory to the dry forces, and will pass without a boost.
Tt was pointed out to-day that it dificult at present to determi the amounts necessary for enforcement work under the proposed transfer of enforcement activities out of the hands of the Treasury Department and into those of the Department of Justice. Consolidations of the enforcement forces also render it hard to estimate expenses—United Press.
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