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...farmer, supposedly, is the motive power behind the current legislative enterprise to revise the tariff. Had he not made loud complaints and evoked campaign promises of a domestic market wholly protected for his produce, it is doubtful if the House Ways & Means Committee would now be. hearing pleas for duty changes...
Last week the Committee reached Schedule 7?the agricultural section?of the Tariff Act of 1922. Into the Committee room in the House Office Building strode, not the farmers themselves, but their hired lobbyists, suave, well-garbed, soft-spoken gentlemen, prosperous on their fees. They came to make the farmers' argument. Here and there a "dirt farmer" (as he always carefully introduced himself) would get in by mistake, but by and large the touch and feel of the soil was noticeably lacking from the agricultural witnesses who journeyed from New York and Chicago offices, from chambers of commerce, from large...
Educated at the University of Virginia. Member of the House of Representatives (1895-1915); author of the Underwood Tariff Bill; majority leader...
Chemicals. The Manufacturing Chemists Association of the U. S. asked for sufficient tariff on chemical imports to protect U. S. chemists from the European chemical cartel. Representative FIull. Republican, of Illinois, argued specifically for protection on butyl alcohol, made from corn raised by Illinois and other farmers...
...called the English Steel Corp., Ltd. Capital: about $100,000,000. Then came another merger-the union of Dorman Long, Ltd. with Bolckow Vaughan & Co., Ltd. Capital also about $100,000,000. An export agreement has been concluded and an effort will be made to secure a protective tariff on steel...