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Washington, March 26--Conservative forces attacked the administration program on three fronts today, charging that the tariff, stock market and Wagner Bills would injure industry and investors...
...moment to make the late great William Ewart Gladstone turn in his grave, but, full of turtle soup and tawny port, the National Liberals took it calmly. All his life a Free Trader, Sir John Simon. Secretary for Foreign Affairs, was explaining his conversion to a high tariff policy...
...confess that I did not expect that the new British tariff system would work but I am bound to admit that it is producing remarkable results. . . . Three years ago Great Britain had dropped to third place in the list of exporting countries, but today she again stands first...
There are a number of matters like the tariff, for instance, which will require a difference with the administration. Thus to Speaker Rainey's list of 21 who voted "wrong" there now might be added by the same logic about 90 Democrats who voted for the bonus, though it is not certain yet how many of these will vote to override a veto...
...Legislature refused to accept their independence on the terms of the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Bill, the principal monkey wrenches in the machines of ratification were the provisions that the United States Army and Naval bases would not be given up to Philippine control, and that a practically prohibitive sugar tariff would be levied at once. There is hardly any question as to the justice of the Island objections to harboring American Army bases on their otherwise independent soil. Obviously, independence in such a case would be but a gesture of none too friendly diplomacy. The McDuffie Bill provides that these...