Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Question: "Is it true . . . that manufacturers care nothing about the rates in the Tariff Bill as long as they can get what they want in the administrative sections...
...Question above was asked by Utah's Democratic Senator King. The Answer was given by John E. Edgerton, president of the National Association of Manufacturers (membership: 50,000). Witness Edgerton had been arguing at length before the committee in behalf of increased "flexibility" in the new tariff bill. Others who had demanded the same thing were Vice President Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor; Chester Gray, legal representative of the American Farm Bureau Federation; John G. Lerch, counsel of the American Tariff League. Mr. Lerch also called for a change from foreign to domestic valuation in administering...
...longer needed for military purposes. Even the General Staff conceded this at a hearing before the Senate Military Affairs Committee. The War Department one time considered selling the Island and even went so far as to have its value appraised. I stopped that by introducing a bill calling for the return of the land to the State as intended in the original grant...
...Tariff Bill, passed by the House and now pondered through the hot summer days by the Senate Finance Committee, became more than a domestic matter when 43 protests against its high rates were filed with the U. S. State Department by the diplomatic representatives of 25 countries. Collectively, politely, the protests told the U. S. that increased tariff schedules might prove injurious to that expansion of U. S. foreign trade so anxiously desired by President Hoover...
...persuader, had come into his hands. Philip Snowden, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, had announced that if France paid the U. S. the $400,000,000 which nonratification of the debt agreement entailed, Great Britain would insist on the immediate payment of a like sum against her debt bill (see p. 23). Not 400 but 800 millions, therefore, was the price of non-ratification...