Word: billing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Appeals. Importers were irate at a provision of the bill which would take from them the right to carry their appeals on valuation matters before the U. S. Customs Court. The valuations fixed by appraisers were made final, subject to review only by the Secretary of the Treasury (i. e., a staff of clerks in the Treasury Department...
...Revolt." The reception of the new Tariff Bill in the House was so muddled, so many grievances of special groups were so massed together, as to give the appearance of a major revolt against the Hoover-dominated Committee which drew the Bill. The old axiom, "The tariff is a local issue," was never more clearly demonstrated...
...Huddle. Republican House leaders?Speaker Longworth, Floor Leader Tilson, Rules Chairman Snell?banded together to praise the bill, to consolidate their voting strength sufficiently to run the legislation through to passage under a special rule barring amendments from the floor. But the discontented Republican element in the House was too large to execute this scheme at once. The leaders had to let the disgruntleds "talk themselves out" first in a shut-door party huddle...
Iowa's Dickinson, erstwhile staunch Hooverite, derided the bill as "one of the worst, from an agricultural standpoint, ever presented to the House." His Iowa colleague, Representative Ramseyer, echoed his sentiments, denounced items in the bill as "indefensible." Chairman Haugen of the Agricultural Committee grew more grumpy than usual over the lumber and shingles duty and the failure of the measure to restrict vegetable oils...
Defense. When debate opened in the House, the bill's principal author, Chairman Hawley of the Ways & Means Committee, gave a three-hour lecture on its meaning. His chief points were: 1) tariff protection means Prosperity; 2) rates on basic commodities (beef, butter, wheat, wool, etc.) were first fixed, then related products were adjusted therefrom; 3) minor crops were given special protection to induce farmers now producing surplus cereals to turn to them as crop variants; 4) "apparent changes greatly exceed actual changes" in the bill; 5) "We should be self-sustaining and self-sufficient...