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...President Hoover last week began to flex "injustices and inequalities" out of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. On the recommendations of his new Tariff Commission he cut the rates on woodflour (33¼"% to 25% ad valorem), pigskin leather (25% to 15%), straw hats ($4 per doz. plus 60% to $3 per doz. plus 50%), maple sugar (8? to 6? per lb.). Upped were the rates on woven wire fencing and netting (45% to 50% and 60%). Explanation of the Commission's celerity in investigating these rate cases was its use of foreign invoice values on imports...
...Tariff Commission which President Hoover expects to tell him how to flex out scientifically the injustices and inequalities of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act stood complete last week. The President revealed the names of only his first three selections: Henry P. Fletcher (chairman), Republican, of Pennsylvania, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Italy; Thomas Walker Page, Democrat, of Virginia, chairman of Wilson's Tariff Commission; John Lee Coulter, Republican, of North Carolina, chief economist and chairman of the Advisory Board of the present Commission, onetime president of North Dakota Agricultural & Mechanical College, able rural economist. Meanwhile Citizen Calvin Coolidge took...
President Hoover had searched the land over for a suitable person to head the Commission he expected to flex out the "inequalities and injustices" of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. Scared of Senatorial inquisitions, men he wanted would not take the post. Finally he chose the suave, immaculate guide and counselor of his pre-inaugural South American tour...
...bill (TIME, June 23), obtained passage by the Senate of a resolution calling upon the Tariff Commission to investigate at once the rates on shoes, furniture, cement and farm implements. In effect this resolution said: "If the new tariff is flexible, let's see you flex it." The old Commission, which must be reorganized within 90 days by order of the new law, was thus confronted with a big eleventh-hour...
Provisions. Stricken from the bill was the Senate's Export Debenture Plan. The President's power to flex rates 50% up or down is preserved much as it is under present law, with the difference that he cannot determine for himself the degree to which duties are to be changed but must act on specific figures given him by the Tariff Commission...