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Died. Porter James McCumber, 75, longtime (1899-1922) U. S. Senator from North Dakota, co-author (with Michigan's Representative Joseph Warren Fordney) in 1922 of the famed Republican Fordney-McCumber Tariff Bill; after a stroke; in Washington...
...voted for: Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1922); Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930); Bonus (1924, 1932); Tax reduction (1924, 1929): Tax lipping (1932); Equalization Fee (1928); Federal Farm Board (1929); Boulder Dam (1928); 15-Cruiser Bill (1929): Government operation of Muscle Shoals (1931): War Debt Moratorium (1931), "Lame Duck" Constitutional Amendment (1932); Sales Tax (1932): Beer tax for relief (1932); Borah currency inflation plan...
...18th Amendment (1917), Volstead Act (1919), Tax Reduction (1924, 1927), Restrictive Immigration (1924), Soldier Bonus (1924), Reapportionment (1929), Farm Board (1929), Bonus loans (1931), "Lame Duck" Amendment, (1931, 1932), Philippine Independence (1932), Sales Tax (1932), Federal employes paycut (1932), Unemployment Relief Bill (1932). He voted against: Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1921), Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930), State option on liquor (1932), Wartime income taxes (1932), full Bonus cashing (1932). He votes Dry, drinks Dry, has announced that, in line with the party platform, he will vote to resubmit the 18th Amendment to the States. Legislative hobby: taxes & tariffs...
...voted against: Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1922), Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930), equalization fee for farm relief (1928), Congressional reapportionment (1929), the Sales Tax (1932), State option on Prohibition...
Light wines and beer should be permitted by law, according to the platform of the Harvard Republican Club, made public last night. It also comes out with a definite low tariff policy, favoring "a reversion immediately to the rates of the Fordney-McCumber...