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...Debated the tariff bill, revising downward the rates on earthenware, metals, manufactures...
...lobby and one lobbyist, the Senate investigating committee kept James A. Arnold on the witness stand for five days last week while its members probed and pricked every nook and corner of his legislative career. Middleaged, heavy-jowled, canny. Lobbyist Arnold is manager of the Southern Tariff Association (organized to develop protective sentiment in the South) and of the American Taxpayers League (pledged to repeal the federal inheritance...
Interlocking agencies, the Tariff Association and Taxpayers League share the same Washington 'offices, the same office staff, the same cash solicitors. Their collections are pooled. Their field agents last year brought in $209,586. In return they supplied contributors with "educational bulletins" on tax and tariff matters, gave "expert" advice on fiscal affairs. Sample expenditure: $700 to Frank D. Mondell, onetime Republican floor leader of the House, now a lobbying lawyer, to urge a higher duty on peanuts before the tariff commission. The sum of $77,936.44 went to Lobbyist Arnold and his three chief assistants, one of whom...
Sharply the committee scrutinized Lobbyist Arnold's activities on the current tariff bill. Testimony indicated a broad streak of duplicity. Letters showed that while he was working with Southern Democrats for special protective rates, he was also passing along to the Republican Regulars secret information of the Democratic-Insurgent coalition against the measure. Once he wrote that he would "put courage into" President Hoover to make him "stand" for the House rates on sugar...
...white flag was run up over the Republican ramparts on the tariff battlefield in the Senate last week, but the Democratic and Progressive Republican warriors, their honor stung by vile names hurled at them across the trenches, refused to cease firing...