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Master of tariff ceremonies was Oregon's Republican Representative Willis Chatman Hawley, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee and No. 1 House conferee with the Senate. Big, slow-spoken, slow-witted, substantial, Congressman Hawley is a high protectionist to the bone. Only too proud is he to have his name go down to posterity on the 1930 Tariff Act. In last week's House contest he personified the orthodox high tariff Republican ideal. Against him were arrayed insurgent Republicans and low-tariff Democrats, leaderless through the absence of Texas' Congressman John Nance Garner, minority chief...
When the House voting was over Chairman Hawley cast up his winnings and his losings. He had triumphed on only three points while his low-tariff adversaries had trounced him badly on five others. By and large the House had turned against his super-protectionist proposals, had sided with the Senate for lower rates. Hawley winnings...
...States and up for re-election this year, went over to the Coalition. Three Progressive Republicans from beet-sugar-growing States (Howell of Nebraska, Nye and Frazier of North Dakota) supported a higher rate. Four Democrats (King of Utah, Kendrick of Wyoming, Ransdell and Broussard of Louisiana) joined the protectionist Old Guard...
...speaking as a protectionist, and I cannot see how it can be well argued that where the exports are increasing and the imports decreasing-and we import only 4% of our manufactured goods-is necessary to extend the doctrine any further...
Trench Talk. Sometime ago the protectionist forces abandoned manganese to the free list. The antitariff army taking possession of the trenches in the abandoned manganese sector, taunted their opponents. Brigadier-General Bingham denied that he had been asked by President Hoover to put manganese on the free list. denied that he had changed his vote upon the question (TIME, Aug. 26). General Couzens cried that the motion to abandon the sector had been made by "our leader" (i. e., Lieutenant-General Watson...