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...Adopted (48-37) the conference report on the Census & Reapportionment bill. ¶ Rejected a resolution by Idaho's Borah to instruct the finance committee to limit tariff revision to the agricultural schedules. ¶ Rejected (46-43) the Debentureless conference report on Farm Relief; later adopted...
...With the Tariff rolling along toward the Senate, the Watson leadership collapsed utterly. Where the President had declared for a "limited" tariff revision, Leader Watson declared for a "general" tariff revision and then, amid heckling, attempted to draw a fine distinction between "general"' revision and "unlimited revision" which he technically opposed. His argument: there would be 4,400 items in an "unlimited" tariff bill; the pending tariff bill contains only 3,000 items; ergo, it is a "general" bill...
When Idaho's Senator Borah attempted to instruct the Finance Committee to limit tariff revision to the agricultural schedules, Leader Watson interposed "violent" objections...
...Last week President Hoover spent evenings poring over a newspaper made especially for him. It was compiled by Clerk John McCabe, who had gathered together a vast assortment of press clippings on the pending Tariff and Farm Relief Bills, pasted them in large scrap books. The President was disturbed to find that 90% of the press sentiment was against the House's Tariff handiwork. Around Washington sped the gossip that he would veto the Tariff Bill unless the Senate altered it to conform more nearly to popular desires...
...increase in the present tariff...