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...McAdoo argued that the next war would "convert the civilized world into a madhouse." He chided the allied powers for not keeping their disarmament promises to Germany, warned that the U. S. could not safely purchase Europe's disarmament with War debt cancellation, viewed the Republican tariff with alarm...
...Passed (214-to-182) a Democratic tariff bill which: 1) left all existing rates unchanged; 2) requested President Hoover to convoke a world conference for the reduction of "excessive" rates; 3) transferred from the President to Congress his power to flex rates; 4) created the office of "consumers' counsel" with the Tariff Commission. The measure was sent to the Senate. If passed there, President Hoover is expected to veto it as a political trap set to embarrass...
Died. Joseph Warren Fordney, 78, longtime member of Congress (1899-1923) from the 8th Michigan District, co author of famed Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act (1922); of erysipelas; in Saginaw, Mich...
...That the Tariff Commission should submit to the Congress via the President (.instead of just to the President for action by him) its recommendations for duty changes...
...committee's chairman, Senator Robert Marion La Follette Jr. of Wisconsin who likes to play a sort of political Robin Hood; 2) a $375.000.000 appropriation backed by Senator Edward Prentiss Costigan of Colorado, Virginia-born Harvardman, old-time reformer, Bull Mooser, Anti-Saloon Leaguer, longtime (1917-28) Tariff Commissioner. Having no stake in the proceedings, the rest of the committee went home for the holidays, leaving Senators La Follette and Costigan to prepare what amounted to a record on reasons for relief...