Arizona republican., 1913-10-03
Confidence Expressed That Executive Will Have Com pleted Measure by To- night and That It Will Be Signed Immediately
BACK TO HOUSE
 EARLY TODAY
Will Be Formally Voted Upon by That Body and Hurried Over to the White House for Wilson $ Approval
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 WASHINGTOE, Oct. 2.-The dom- ocratic tariff revision bill probably will be in the hands of President Wilson for his signature by tomor- row night. The senate at the end of a Hstless debate, adopted the con ference report at 80 o'clock tonight by d vote of 36 to r. only four more than is necessary for 9 quorum Senators La Toilette. republican. ana PoindeXter, progressive, voted for tine conference report as they did for the bill on passage and Ransdell and Thornton. democrats, voted against f as they did against the bill. Other wise it was a strict party vote.
 Action on motions made by Chair man Simmons of the finance com mittee the senate rejected the Smith Lever compromise on the cotton fu- lures tax amendment. passed by the house on Tuesday and then receded from it's own amendment, known as the Clarke cotton futures tax plan. Each of these motions carried with out roll call The effect is 10 leave cotton futures questions out or the tariff bill so far as the senat" is concerned. The bill will be re. turned to the house early tomorrow.
 At a conference with house lead CTS early today was taken up whether the bill might not go directly Iron the senate to the president. While many parliamentaryans held that this course would be legal. Chairman Ur- derwood and Speaker Clark decided the house should take formal action tomorrow and recede from the cos ton futures amendment. Such action would eliminate the subject from the bill and send the completed measure to President Wilson at once. It Is thought at the capitol tonight that the bill will become d law on Satur- day Anticipating suJh a conclusion the treasury department was busy to- day making final preparations to put the new rates into effect on foreign merchandise the day following the signing of the bill by the president.
 Eight and one-half hours debate in the senate today produced but little real criticism of the tariff bill cr the conference agreement. The chiet interest was in the speech of Sena- tor Penrose, who raised the standard of the angora goat over the demo cratic party and moved the senate to continued bursts of laughter with al fusion to the new duty that has been put on angora wool.
 The principal criticisms of the con- ference committee came from Sena- tor Pomerene of Ohio, whose amend ment. imposing a tax of S1.I0 Ter gallon on spirits used to fortif" sweet wines has been dropped cut of conferees. and from Senator Borah. whose amendment prohibiting the i'm portation of goods made by child labor has also been eliminated.
 Tariff Not Land Law
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-Officials here are inclined to believe the pros pect of the new tariff bill and not the controversy over the CalifOrui4 alien land legislation is responsible for the suggestion in dispatches from Tokio that a new commercial treaty will be negotiated between Japan and the United States.
 It became known today that at an early stage of the negotiations over the California legislation. some dis cussiOn of the proposition was ld- vanced from Japan's side that if the existing treaty did not affirm the right of Japanese residents in tl-, United States to hold land on evcu terms with the citizens of other nations. the omissions should be cor rected by an amendment