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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
July
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Washington, D. C, July 13- Wlm pine goes baak to $2 and several othe changes iii the hirnber schedule of tli Duigley bilí made by the sonate hav beeii rescinded 'by the conference com mittee. The action witli regard ta white pine whieh was ñually taken today is aknost a complete reversal o ■the attitude of the conference co;nmit tee yesterday. The senate couferees were instructed to stand out for the $1 rate, although individually almos every member of the Republican cou tingent favored the original $2 rate The house cxhibited a willtagnesa to agree to a compromise at $1.00. If the decisión had been made yesterday the eompromise rate would probably have carried. This morning, however, the liouse conferees had their bacfebones stiffened by a few score xf telegranjs from the lumber barons and tbey want at it tooth .and nail to pull their senate colleagues over. Ie proved an easier task than they had expected, for the senators v.ere a il halfhearted dollar men. and Walter Eddy and lus contingent of hinalber men from the north had done semíe effective work between the sessions of the conference, and when a vote was finalIy taken the senate conceded the pomt and went over bodily for the house rate.

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Ann Arbor Democrat