Uncertainty Felt Over the President's Attitude Washington, Aug. 18.
The US. Senate to-day passed the hotly-debated compromise sugar bill and returned it to the House of Representatives for confer mee differing House and Senate amend ments, 'Opposing the measure, Senator Claude Pepper, Democrat of Florida, charged that the "administration. (s with-holding 59,000 tons of Amer-tean sugar' from, consumption for "trading. purposes." "The negotiation of trade treaties, he averred, is: sacrificing American production and fat Arading Would block the remit expected from the large quota giver the Philippines, which "they "wilt undoubtedly not All", Senator Pepper emphasized the Dill specifically provides that the unused Philippine quota is allotable to other nations except Cuba, and as-Serted that "no other nation in the world" would adopt a policy restricting domestic production to a. point below consumption.
It fg, still uncertain whether Presldent Roosevelt will veto the measure, Which provides for an excise tax of 50 cls, per 100 1b—United Press.
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