Increases in Duties Far in Excess of the Proposed Decreases: Value Hotly Debated Washington, June 9.
Members of the House-Senate conference committee to-day arrived at compromise on the final provisions. of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill, completing their discussions of fon watches and clocks, and apnounced that the bill was ready for the final vote in both houses.
The fate of the meastire remains doubt as regards both House and Senate votes and with reference to the attitude of Prasident Hoover. Compromises achieved by a conference committee are not always acceptable to the chambers from whose membership the committee has been constituted, while there have been recent intimations that Hoover veto was not improbable.
Recent declarations by such in dustrial leaders as Mr. A. P, Sloane General Motors, coupled with turbulent dissatisfaction in the western "farm states" which see meant relief in the form of higher prices for their own products and extra burdens through higher prices on industrial products, have caused political leaders to feel that it would be no overwhelming catastrophe if the much-debated tariff ill were at ast to die as painlessly as may be.
How far President Moover subscribes to this opinion fs still a matter for conjecture, but a White the "Grundy Grab" by those hostile to the measure, but some sections fof the bill are not satisfactory to] the Pennsylvania manufacturing interests.
Senator Reed Smoot, chairman of the committee which is sponsor of the hi declared that the measure is certain to pass the, Senate.
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