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...Republicans at the Capitol, President Hoover sent word as follows: The U. S. is being flooded with cheap goods from foreign countries with depreciated currencies; unless these currencies can be stabilized. U. S. tariffs must be upped in self-protection. House Republicans responded by holding tariff hearings before the Ways & Means Committee...
...conference. It was not up to him and his incoming Congress to see that, in the event the British burden of $4,398,000,000 indebtedness is eased, the U. S. would receive some compensating advantages. Possible bargains which he may drive in return for downward debt revision: lower tariff on U. S. exports to the British Empire; stipulation that Britain return to the gold standard...
Newshawks found Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippine Senate, sick abed with a hot compress about his small brown neck. The peppery little man hunched up out of his sheets to bark: "It is not an independence bill at all. It is a tariff bill directed against our products. It is an immigration bill directed against our labor...
...Philippine Legislature must, within the next year, call a convention to frame a republican constitution. If this document is satisfactory to the U. S. President, Filipinos will vote it up or down. If they accept, a ten-year probationary period under an intermediate government follows, during which U. S. tariff and immigration walls gradually rise against Philippine products and people. On the tenth July 4, the Stars-&-Stripes come down all over the islands except over U. S. naval stations and military reservations. Meantime, the U. S.-which freely admitted after the London Naval Conference that the islands would...
...South Carolina passed its ordinance to nullify the tariff, threatened secession...