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Laboriously sawing wood on the Tariff at the special session last fall, the Senate struck a new and screechy knot-independence of the Philippines. Great has been the growth among U. S. beet and cane growers of the notion that the free importation of Filipino sugar menaced their industry. Senator King of Utah (beets) and Senator Broussard of Louisiana (cane) offered amendments to cut the Islands loose and thereby put their sugar production outside the U. S. tariff wall. Their amendments were defeated, but the agitation for getting rid of the Philippines to reduce agricultural competition by no means subsided...
...weeks ago M. Pierre Etienne Flandin, Minister of Commerce, sent an ultimatum in the direction of the U. S. Senate: "If others build tariff walls, France will build tariff walls!" (TIME, Dec. 2). M. Flandin's wall, scheduled to go before the Chamber of Deputies this month, provides: 1) Increased duties on assembly parts ranging from 30% to 200%; 2) The present ad valorem duty of 45% on complete cars raised to 90%, practically a prohibitive duty...
Some of the bitterest passages of the Senate's investigation of lobbying occurred between the chairman of the investigating committee, Thaddeus H. Caraway of Arkansas, and the head of the manufacturers' tariff lobby, Pennsylvania's Joseph ("Old Joe") Grundy, now a Senator himself by retaliatory appointment of Governor Fisher. In reply to Senator Caraway's sharp jabs and insinuations, Archlobbyist Grundy dropped a remark about "backward commonwealths," implying that Arch-Democrat Caraway came from one. Arch-Republicans were delighted and their most resonant organ, the New York Herald Tribune, printed editorials applauding Mr. Grundy for standing...
...duty, of course, not preference which prompted the Senator's actions. Against his will, the Senate had heeded the plea of New Mexico's Harvard-taught Senator Bronson Cutting, and by amendment removed from the Tariff Bill a provision under which Customs agents could censor imported literature. As ammunition to make the Senate reverse itself in the name of public morals, Senator Smoot had obtained from the Customs Bureau 40 of the "rawest" foreign volumes which had leaked into the U. S. Excerpts from these he was prepared to read to the Senate as concrete arguments for censorship...
Because of his quixotic, personal resentment at the high tariff utterances of Calvin Coolidge and his successor in the White House, President Irigoyen still refuses to send an Argentine Ambassador to Washington, seemingly in the hope that by persisting in this snub he will sooner or later make President Hoover unhappy. Though the Argentine Treasury has ample funds, quixote Irigoyen's dislike of paying bills is such that for months he has held up payments to the State's legitimate creditors. In British shipyards lie two destroyers, ordered and approved by the Argentine Government. Congress has voted the money...