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...unofficial" three-day visit to Washington was spent in the company of President Hoover, Secretary Stimson and his assistant William R. Castle Jr. Also present: Hanford MacNider, U. S. Minister to Canada. Although no intimation of what was discussed was forthcoming, it was generally assumed that Liquor, Tariff, St. Lawrence River power, and a possible U. S. embargo on Canadian wheat furnished dinner conversation. Only public utterance on Mr. Bennett's visit was made by President Hoover. Said he: "We are mutually interested in the common welfare of our peoples. Informal conversations of the future always lead to better...
...French Government does not fix wheat prices, but from time to time the Ministry of Agriculture announces what wheat is worth, serves notice that if the price falls much below the announced figure the Government will: 1) up the tariff on foreign wheat; 2) reduce the legal proportion of foreign flour in French bread; or 3) cancel wheat import licenses. So successful has been this system that last week French farmers rejoiced in a price of $1.72 per bu. of wheat, while at Chicago the price hovered around 80? in Canada 57? But so peculiar are French politics that last...
Senator Borah last week did just the sort of thing that makes his critics call him a trimmer, and the Insurgents despair of him as a member of their group: Before the Senate were the Tariff Commission nominations. Senator Borah arose to say: "What kind of hybrid monstrosity are we creating by constituting these special commissions to deal with expert subjects and placing upon them men who are in no wise qualified as experts? Congress is rapidly delegating its power. We are surrendering the duties imposed upon us by the Constitution. ..." But when the vote came on Commissioner Edgar Brossard...
...greatest fights have been against the 18th Amendment (though he is crusading Dry), the 18th Amendment, the Child Labor Amendment, the League of Nations. Charles Beecher Warren as Attorney General, Charles Evans Hughes as Chief Justice, the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. Constructively he worked for the Income Tax Amendment, the creation of the Department of Labor, the Kellogg Peace Treaty, the direct election of Senators...
...believe, now is the time to strike." Immediate reason for the Doherty blast was a conference of independent oilmen, called by the Governors of eleven oil States. But at this meeting, in Washington, Government-control was not an issue. Loudest and longest were speeches urging an oil tariff...