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...Adopted the conference report on the Tariff Bill...
Senator Grundy: "I am not satisfied with the proposed new tariff law because I do not believe it is a fulfillment of the 1928 tariff plank of the Republican Party. . . . The method by which the bill was drawn up never met with my approval. ... In secret [committee] sessions the provisions were drawn up with little or no regard for the facts. ... I know of no other tariff revision where the administrative features were considered in the light of party politics. . . . On these principal reasons, I base my dissatisfaction with...
...shall vote to accept the conference report . . . because I believe the long-drawn-out duration of this tariff revision has contributed to business and industrial uncertainty and the quickest and surest way to end that uncertainty is to get rid of this measure...
...President's power to flex rates 50% up or down is preserved much as it is under present law, with the difference that he cannot determine for himself the degree to which duties are to be changed but must act on specific figures given him by the Tariff Commission...
Rates. Import rates under the Tariff Act of 1922 and under what, with the President's signature, will become the Tariff Act of 1930: Commodity...