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Like all other bills, H. R. 2667 begins: "Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. . . ." That is about all that the Senate was expected to leave unchanged of the House's tariff handiwork. Senator Smoot prepared to begin hearings on the Senate rewrite on about June 11 behind closed committee doors. A month or more will be spent in this preliminary revision. After that, when the Senate gets the bill, the House will have to swallow its pride of authorship and the real Tariff Fight will...
...passage of the bill in the House occurred precisely as the Republican leaders had planned. Their amendments, and only theirs, were adopted. Minority Leader John Nance Garner of Texas, under the rules, was permitted but a single motion. He moved to recommit the bill to the Ways & Means Committee with instructions to eliminate the flexible provision which gave new and enlarged powers to the President to alter duties. This issue was not Mr. Garner's own. It belonged primarily to Republican Congressman James Montgomery Beck of Pennsylvania who last fortnight had flayed the doubtful constitutionality of this provision (TIME...
Then came the final vote, with 264 members approving the bill, 147 voting against it. Small but significant were the breaks in party lines. Twenty Democrats, mostly from Florida (which got higher duties on fresh vegetables and fruit) and Louisiana (which got a higher duty on sugar) sidled over to vote with the Republican majority. Twelve Republicans joined the Democratic opposition. Most of them were midWest insurgents. One of them was an eastern regular-Philadelphia's Beck...
...Beck's vote took courage. The industrialists of Pennsylvania, led by Joseph R. Grundy. had demanded the high duties of this bill, and more. To defy them involved a man-sized political risk, even for a constitutionalist like Mr. Beck. The Philadelphia Congressman declared the whole policy of the extra session a "mistake," insisted that he had voted his "personal convictions," left his more orthodox Republican colleagues thoroughly startled by his independence, as he departed to Atlanta to tell the Georgia Bar Association that, like the Parthenon, the constitution was "still beautiful in its ruins...
After the House had passed the bill, Prof. Zechariah Chafee Jr. of the Harvard Law School discovered in it a little-noted provision designed to exclude from the U. S. all seditious literature. Prof. Chafee complained that this restriction would cut the U. S. off from a large sector of the political and economic thought of Europe, would transform the customs service into literary censors...