Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-23
House ls Tariff
 Bj| Conference
There Are 2,436 Changes From Original House Bill to be Adjusted by the Con- ferees.

sEUashington, Aug. 22.-By a, vote of sfS to- 69 the house sent the tariff bill to conference today for it's thxd re- drafting The six republican conferees- three from the house and tlrre from the senate-pr probably will have a preliminary meeting tomorrow and get down to work i'll earnest Thursday
 ySThe size of the task ahead of the con- ference committee was revealed today with the reprinting of the bill as it was approved last Saturday by the senate The rerrint showed 2ss4s6 changes from the original house text-a rsew high rec ord-ands the conferees will have to. ad- just differences of each of these
 In the hours discussion which preceded the house vote, sdeJ ocra1ic' leaders pre- dicted that the bill folIld net be reported l out of conference until after the Novem- Der elections, arguing that the repubIi- cans did not want to have to defend it in the coming campaign.
 Republican leaders made no prophecy. but Representative. AdondeIl of Wyoming, the majority leader, expressed ffie hope that 1t would be tout at no distant date ? presentatiye Campbell of Kansas charged that the democratic campaign managers had arranged a very "cuRHing9 | campaign to Efe inaugurated the day after the measure became a law.
 Already the, arrangements. are made. he asseTtedF The stage is set. the prices are fixed: tine advances are to bt 1 made upon every article ens1nacrated ir ithis bill either with specific or ad valo rem duty.2and the price is to be advanoet on the orders of the importers dowr through to the retailers '
 Chairman Forlney of the ways ant means committed, who heads the hous. l conferees, promised that he would go int, the conference insisting upon the origina house bilL He said the senate chang I from American to foreign valuation al the basis for assessing ad vasoreTn dutie
 was the most important amendment to 1b
 considered, but added thar@tfere wer
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 Both in the matter of specific and a.
 yalorenl duties" he stated, 5stfies senat
 rates are generally higher than thos
 hxed by the house sin some instance
 very much higher. and in certain ,specifi
 instances from 100 per. cent. to 800 pc I Reprsentatfve Garner,. Texas rankin, democrat on the ways and means con1 mittee, predicted that the house wouIl have To accept the se1latess foreign. vaiua Il ton plan if 1t wan 4t6 have any tarii Ebili. s'f S-s4'' ! Immediate action on .Anlerica1 val lua 'tion was surged by Representative Gsr , rett Tennessee the democratic leade
 Hef said the conference could make iittl
 progress on the bi unt il the fouse iha fi settled til is issue.
 ReFresentatiyei P,lis eernoc4af Nor, | rolirla, declared the houseswas sendin to ccqa ference a bill n,cre~ 'viciois in fl terms than any ever resented to a
 AfTaefica-n congress and one that had th il 'el1tfn siastic support of nobod57 " ., .es.3.
 h the vote to send the. measure to GOT . ference three democrats voted with. tl solid rerNahliean ma torfty They were I,e of California Campbell of Pennsyly.an nj : and IlazaTos of Louisiana.