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...hours were required for the 71st Congress formally to get seated in the capitol last week and prepare itself for work. Called by President Hoover because Idaho's Senator Borah induced him during the presidential campaign to promise quick legislative action on farm relief and tariff revision, the session, an "extraordinary" one, was to prove a testing ground of the President's potency as a political leader...
...Tariff. Still in committee, this legislation promised to furnish prime excitement for the session. That rates on agricultural products should go higher no one denied. Whether rates on raw materials and manufactured goods would be likewise increased, contrary to the wishes of President Hoover, remained the major uncertainty...
...have the word of those in authority in the neighboring Republic that there are to be certain measures introduced at a special session of Congress. An important measure, we are led to believe, is a measure relating to farm relief. Another measure relates to certain limited adjustments of the tariff; I think that is the expression which has been officially used. . . . "I say that, with the knowledge that we have before us at the present time, had we done what honorable gentlemen opposite wish us to do, raised the tariff, we would be creating in the minds of the American...
...United States. But may I say to my honorable friends opposite it is not a red-blooded attitude that is needed at the present moment so much as a cool-headed attitude, and a cool-headed attitude is the attitude which this Administration has taken with regard to all tariff matters from the time it came into office, and that is the attitude which we intend to take during the time we are serving the people in the posts which we now occupy...
...point-scored when shipped from Sydney, was scored again on reaching London by judges whose lips soon grew greasy. Wiping his own thin, determined lips after the ordeal by butter, Mr. Amery spoke cautiously on the question whether His Majesty's Government in Great Britain would grant imperial (tariff) preference to Australian butter. "Any such policy of preference," said the Secretary, "must be based on quality. We can never ask the people of this country in the long run to pay a high price for the mere sake of Empire preference unless the butter offered them...