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Laboriously sawing wood on the Tariff at the special session last fall, the Senate struck a new and screechy knot-independence of the Philippines. Great has been the growth among U. S. beet and cane growers of the notion that the free importation of Filipino sugar menaced their industry. Senator King of Utah (beets) and Senator Broussard of Louisiana (cane) offered amendments to cut the Islands loose and thereby put their sugar production outside the U. S. tariff wall. Their amendments were defeated, but the agitation for getting rid of the Philippines to reduce agricultural competition by no means subsided...
...Washington last week arrived a Filipino Commission headed by Manuel Roxas, Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, to plead before Congress for the islands' immediate independence, to take advantage of this new economic, rather than moral, sentiment for their liberation...
...matter of astonishment. But the Philippines and the Tariff have one thing in common-Sugar. Senator King's Utah is a great beet sugar State. Senator Broussard's Louisiana is a great cane-sugar State. The Senators did not argue about imperialism, about the rights of the Filipino, about the ethical or sentimental aspects of independence for the Philippines. They argued about Philippine sugar, vegetable oils and tobacco. Not free Filipinos but free trade was chief topic of debate...
...Park camp. For work he held two Cabinet meetings, attended an American Legion baseball game, listened to Senator George Higgins Moses talk New England politics (see p. 16), accepted the credentials of Don Ernesto Argueto as Minister from Honduras, received Congressmen and Senators praying for appointment favors, endurance flyers, Filipino businessmen, members of the Order of Railroad Conductors...
...Rain fell upon President Hoover on his weekend outing at the Shenandoah National Park camp. Indoors he talked tariff with Senator Reed Smoot, congestion in U. S. prisons with Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell He amused himself by cooking ham and eggs over a coal range, while Filipino chefs stood about as assistants...