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...Senate: ¶ Passed (42-10-30) the House bill transferring tariff flexibility from the President to Congress, suggesting a world economic conference and creating a "consumer's counsel" before the Tariff Commission; sent it to conference. President Hoover was expected to veto. ¶ Ratified, with six minor reservations, a League of Nations treaty to regulate the manufacture and distribution of narcotic drugs...
...Adopt a 1¢-per-gal. import tax (i. e. tariff) on crude oil and gasoline. Unsuccessfully (190-10-97) did Representatives from the Atlantic seaboard attempt to block this concession to the Southwestern oil producers. Next day the House chaplain opened the session by reciting . . . Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies; Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. (Psalm...
...letting down empty upper berths? The Supreme Court says Wisconsin would unconstitutionally deprive the company of its "liberty." May Florida fix certain below-cost freight rates on special commodities to build up a local industry? No, says the Supreme Court. Does North Dakota want to establish a freight tariff so unreasonably low that the Northern Pacific cries "Robbery!"? The Supreme Court agrees with Northern Pacific. Laws compelling school attendance, vaccination, burials within city limits, junk dealing, theatre-ticket scalping, regulated rents?for all such questions of State experimentation the 14th Amendment is a judicial catchall. Only hairline distinctions divide...
...present Speaker of the House has been most outspoken on occasions without number, and he has some very positive views on most matters, notably such important signposts on the nation's economic course as taxation, finance, and the tariff. Everybody who has followed events in the last dozen Congresses is perfectly aware of his position...
...fight against the Fordney-McCumber tariff bill and succeeded in lowering a number of the rates at which he aimed his guns. He led the fight on the Scott-Hawley tariff bill and on the Mellon tax plan. Credit is given him for the graduated income...