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Bareheaded. Trouble broke into the open when members of the Ways & Means Committee appeared before the House traffic cop, the Rules Committee. Tennessee's Democratic Representative Jere Cooper, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee and longtime advocate of reciprocal trade, briefly explained the bill, emphasized its moderation, promised that "there will be no drastic tariff reducing." Cooper asked for the "usual and customary" closed rule, i.e., one that would bar amendments on the House floor but would permit a motion to send the bill back to committee for rewriting...
Opposition flared forthwith. Mississippi's Democratic Representative William Colmer, a Rules committeeman from Pascagoula (fisheries, textiles), leaned far back in his chair and drawled: "Isn't it true that a closed rule is really a gag?" Jere Cooper looked hurt, answered the attack with a defense of the trade bill itself. Said he: "The studies show that where a product is in bad shape, it is not so much the tariff rate that is causing it, but normal changes in tastes and customs. The felt-hat industry has complained. Well, it's not the tariff that...
...proposed the bill on Jan. 11 and it was immediately referred to the Ways and Means Committee," Multer said yesterday. "But so far, the chairman, Rep. Jere Cooper, hasn't even scheduled a hearing for it. He probably won't either, unless he gets a lot of pressure from those interested...
...Next day, also at Geneva, Tennessee's Democratic Congressman Jere Cooper, the House Ways and Means Committee's prospective chairman, promised that tariff revision will be "one of the first major pieces of legislation" that his committee will take up, come January...
Foreign Trade: Chances are greatly improved for passage of Clarence Randall's tariff-cutting program (see below). The new chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, Tennessee's Jere Cooper, favors lower tariffs and freer trade, unlike his Republican predecessor, Dan Reed, who fought Randall's program...