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...successful. It took, he realized, a politician to get along with politicians and there his predecessor had had a distinct advantage over him. The men who campaigned the hardest for him?Iowa's Brookhart, Idaho's Borah?were now his chief critics. The apparent uncertainty of his stand on tariff rates had become a standing Democratic joke, in spite of his careful explanation that it was not his duty to legislate on such matters. Some of his friends were urging him to exhibit a new and bold leadership, to carry his conflict with the Senate to the country by radio...
...Continued debate on the Tariff Bill...
Long ago the Senate's day-to-day ploddings through the Tariff Bill ceased to be newsworthy. For five months the coalition of Democrats and Progressive Republicans has been painstakingly revising downward industrial rates set by the House and by the Senate Finance Committee.* Last week the Tariff got back into headlines, not because of any startling new developments, but because of the lack of them. A great juggling match of political blame-fixing for the delay ensued. Once more the position of President Hoover, who last November "hoped" the Senate would pass the bill in a fortnight became...
...mainspring of last week's tariff upheaval was the Congressional elections in November and the shadow they cast across Republican success. The Senate's long tariff siege was frankly harmful to G. 0. Politics. In sharp contrast to the first year of Woodrow W'ilson, the Hoover record on which its supporters must stand in the campaign is blank, except for Farm Relief, still largely experimental. Unless the monster tariff can be got out of the way Congress is likely to adjourn in June with little else accomplished. Old Guard leadership is shattered. Where the President stands on tariff rates...
Such was the situation last week when Connecticut's Representative Tilson, House Majority Leader, went to see President Hoover. He complained of the Senate's tariff dalliance, declared: "I deplore the situation that has developed. I can't remember any time as bad as this...