7 AUGUST 1909, Page 2

Friday's telegrams from Washington announce that the Senate passed the

Tariff Bill as amended by the Conference by 47 votes to 31, and that later it was signed by the President. It is too early to say what will be the exact working of the new tariff, but the general opinion seems to he that from the Free- trade point of view the new tariff is ae bad as the old, if not worse. Mr. Taft, however, is said to have expressed the opinion that "while the Bill is not perfect, it is a sincere and honest effort to caner out the Republican platform pledge, and embodies a real revision downwards,"

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