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...Tariffs. Then the Senate snagged on the bill's four tariff items-oil, coal copper lumber. Progress was halted under a deluge of angry oratory. Night sessions failed to break the deadlock. Republican Leader Watson dolefully announced: "Adjournment is still a long way over the horizon...
...Four and no more" was the motto of the Finance Committee when it wrote these tariff items into its tax bill. Progressive Republicans and low-tariff Democrats loudly denounced their inclusion as the result of logrolling. An apparent Democratic trade: Barkley of coal-producing Kentucky would vote for an oil tariff if Connally of oil-bearing Texas would vote for a coal duty. Hayden of copper-mining Arizona would support both levies if Messrs. Barkley and Connally would help him get a rate on copper...
Light wines and beer should be permitted by law, according to the platform of the Harvard Republican Club, made public last night. It also comes out with a definite low tariff policy, favoring "a reversion immediately to the rates of the Fordney-McCumber...
...statement which London editors unanimously called "ill timed," Mr. Thomas threatened that if the oath is abolished Great Britain will retaliate by refusing to renew the tariff preferences she now grants to the Free State. Obviously the timing of this threat was such as to enrage the Irish Senate just before it voted. It increased the chances that the bill would pass. Quietly jubilant in Dublin, teacherish President de Valera dryly said...
...been felt. Last week copper dropped to 5½ per lb., lowest price in history Metal & Mineral Markets said nothing has occurred to bring on the present wave of pessimism. But observers thought that low prices, possibilities of complete shutdowns, might influence Congress' attitude towards a copper tariff...