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...your issue of Nov. 18, referring to the Senate Committee's investigation of the Southern Tariff Association, you state: "The sum of $77,936.44 went to Lobbyist Arnold and his three chief assistants, one of whom, a Mrs. Darden, had a stage name for collecting money...
...fight in the Senate for higher tariff rates for Pennsylvania's wares. Thwarted by the Progressive Republican-Democratic coalition, he testily predicted the Tariff Bill's death. He is ever active to lower surtax rates on large incomes, to reduce the corporation tax. In general his fiscal policy is identical with that of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, his great and good friend, whom he has repeatedly defended against attacks by Senators Couzens of Michigan and Walsh of Montana...
Like his 434 colleagues in the House, Speaker Longworth was thoroughly cognizant of the Senate's recent fumblings and gropings with the tariff. Even he had spoken critically of what parliamentary practice required him to refer to as "another body." With his two trusted Lieutenants (Floorleader John Quillan Tilson, Rules Chairman Bertrand H. Snell) he was prepared to shame the Senate with exhibition of legislative despatch...
...public's jibes and jeers at the Senate's summer saunter through the tariff were enough to account for the Speaker's state of mind. What perhaps amused him most, what certainly incensed the Senate most, was the frequent charge that, like Nero, the Senate had fiddled while U. S. business burned (TIME, Dec. 2). Like many another, the Speaker had observed the Neronic figure of Senate Leader Watson, helpless to extinguish the spreading blaze of Senate insurgency...
Shamed by the House's despatch on tax reduction, the Senate began an attempt at imitation. Finance Committee approved H. J. Res. 133 quickly, unanimously. Out upon the Senate floor, however, it stirred old dissensions. Republican Leader Watson wanted to set aside the tariff bill for the tax bill. Others clamored for a completion of the tariff wool schedules first. Western Senators scowled at reduction of the corporation tax, beneficial chiefly to eastern industry. Senator Couzens of Michigan complained that the consumer, having already paid the 1929 tax to corporations, would not profit by that phase...