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...Last week 1,028 professional economists in a joint appeal asked President Hoover to veto the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill (see p. 17). Among their reasons: 1) Increased domestic prices; 2) Damaged export trade; 3) Foreign reprisals...
...Adopted (240-154) the conference report on the Tariff Bill, rejected the Senate's flexible tariff provision and Export Debenture plan; adopted the Senate's lower duties on sugar, logs, lumber, shingles, silver, cement...
Such well-worn legislative phrases jumbled about in the House of Representatives for three days last week as that body got in its last licks on the Tariff Bill. Before the House was a conference report on the measure which settled all but eight items of dispute with the Senate. These eight items were thrown open for House debate and action...
Master of tariff ceremonies was Oregon's Republican Representative Willis Chatman Hawley, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee and No. 1 House conferee with the Senate. Big, slow-spoken, slow-witted, substantial, Congressman Hawley is a high protectionist to the bone. Only too proud is he to have his name go down to posterity on the 1930 Tariff Act. In last week's House contest he personified the orthodox high tariff Republican ideal. Against him were arrayed insurgent Republicans and low-tariff Democrats, leaderless through the absence of Texas' Congressman John Nance Garner, minority chief...
...question of filling the Supreme Court chair left vacant by the late Justice Sanford. Party lines have been more tenuous than they were in the good days when a Republican lived on bread and beer a Democrat lived on bread and beer and both fought for hours about the tariff...