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Tariffs. Then the Senate snagged on the bill's four tariff items-oil, coal copper lumber. Progress was halted under a deluge of angry oratory. Night sessions failed to break the deadlock. Republican Leader Watson dolefully announced: "Adjournment is still a long way over the horizon...
Amid great acrimony the oil and coal tariffs were finally voted (43-to-37) and (39-to-34) into the bill. Then the Senate stalled on copper and lumber, bitterness of the antitariff opposition rose to a startling pitch. As a reprisal Senator Tydings engulfed the chamber with 504 tariff amendments to the tax bill. Shouted...
...bill's proposed tariffs on oil, coal, lumber and copper spoiled its non-partisan character. Five Democrats of the Finance Committee signed a minority report flaying the log-rolling which put such duties into the measure. Democratic committeemen who did not sign this report were Kentucky's Barkley, proponent of a coal tariff; Texas' Connally and Oklahoma's Gore, proponents of a duty on oil; and Utah's King, copper...
Died. Robert Dollar, 88, shipping tycoon, "Captain" through courtesy; in his San Rafael, Calif, home; of heart trouble aggravated by intestinal infection and cold. Scotland-born, he began his career as a cook's boy in a Canadian lumber camp, later became the owner of great timber stands in California. Not until 1901, when he was 57, did he turn to the sea. His first ship was the steam schooner Newsboy, a freighter to carry his timber. Shipping fascinated him and he increased his investment, going many times to the Orient to "drum up trade" with Chinese merchants...
...late 1870's a woodcarver named Dirks left his home in Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, and shipped himself, wife and nine children to the New World where he settled down in Chicago's West Side lumber yard and railroad district. One son, Rudolph, soon picked up broken English, discarded newspapers which he sold for 1? profit, and a knack of drawing. In time he | drifted to New York, originated in 1897 a color page of comics called "The Katzenjammer Kids," became one of the world's most beloved cartoonists...