Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-14
BY WILLIAM HARD.

This new tariff bill certainly seems
at this week end to be getting cracked
on the head from every angle.
The Democrats and the Republican
agricultural insurgents" In the Senate
having done their best to shatter the
moral regulations Of the proposed
duties on such Eastern industrial prod
! ucts as brick and cement, the regular
Republicans are now prepared to direct
q storm of moral indignation upon the
proposed duties on Southern and West
ern products dear to Democratic and
"insurgent" legislators.
Turning into tariff reformers, the
Republican regulars propose to de-
nounce, for instance, the lowering alti-
tude Of the tariff on peanuts. This
tariff, as enacted by the House of Rep
Senate, is one Of the half dozen most
skyscraping structures in the whole bill
It works out-on shelled peanuts-to
the equivalent Of approximately 12s
per cent.
It riles the regular Republicans TO
hear complaints about high tariff
duties from Democratic Senators from
Virginia, North Carolina or Georgia
when the peanut, which has It's favorite
habitat In their States. is soaring to
unrebuked tariff heights. The position
of the regular Republicans is ennphati-
cally on its way now toward being as
follows:
IF the Southern Democratic Sena-
tors will not vote for Q duty Of 621a
per cent on New Englands velveteens,
we will not vote for duty Of 12e
per cent on the South's peanuts"
Drastic Advance Demand.
They add that neither in such cir
the duty on graphite, which Is one Of
the proudest products Of Alabama, and
which the Spokesman for Alabama in
the House Of Representatives succeeded
In advancing from 20 to % per cent ad
valorern on its crystalline lump variety.
Those Spokesman are not satisfied with
that slender triumph and demand q
much more drastic advance. Particu-
larly or also on the additional variety
known as crystalline fake. They have
q strong case for their contentious, If
the ordinary Republican methods OF
tariff augmentation are to be adopted;
beginning to be determined that those
methods shall not be adopted for South
ern products If the Southern Demo-
cratic Senators persist in denying their
validity for the products Of the indus
trial East.
The Republican regulars note with
satisfaction that glimner of their
views and purposes was able to secure
an entrance into the thoughts Of SEN
ator Helm Of Alabama when on the
recent famous roll call in the Senate
a HrN&AA 0RafAe& AAN%AfAAy @aR{%P rA0A-
iustmentS to agricultural commodities.
The South now has industrial as well
Is agricultural commodities TO protect,
and the Republican regulars are start
ing out now to insist that the price for
that protection shall be paid. The
price will be that at least a certain
amount of considerate and companion
able silence shall be contributed by
Southern Democratic Senators to the
passage Of duties on such Northern
specialties as watches and clocks.
Drawing Of the Lines.
The Republican regulars propose
further to make all the eXuberantly
agricultural Senators feel miserable by
drawing an extremely strict line for
them between agricultural and manu-
featured articles. Senator Connally OF
Texas, for instance, who was one OF
the ablest members Of the House OF
Representatives, who will soon be one
of the men of outstanding recognized
influence in the Senate, has distributed
on Capitol Hill neat, cute, little jar of
preserved figs composed by his Texas
constituents Preserved figs In the
present tariff bill, as passed BY the
House, were advanced from IS per cent
to 10 per cent ad valoren. They ap-
pear In the agricultural schedules. The
Republican regulars viii now maintain
nevertheless that only fresh ffgs are
agricultural and that preserved hgs,
having been subjected to o manutactur-
manufactured article and are not to be
deemed worthy Of an advance In duty
unless the agricultural Senators will
leap into the tariff pool and swim
around with all the rest OF the boys and
say that the water Is fine and admit
that advances on manufactured articles
in general may sometimes be mertted
and desirable.
Of the counterattack which the regular
Republicans are deliberately and care
fully planning out. They rejoice IN the
loud outcry made by Senator Harrison
of Mississippi against the international
difiiculties which most certainly would
be created by the tariff bill In its pres
ent form. they rejoin, however:
what is the country which is most
outraged by the bill? What Is the
country that is angriest? Canada
without q doubt, Canada, our biggest
and our most profitable neighbor. And
what are the duties that annoy the
Canadians and make them resolve that
uever--ilo, never--wtll they allow that
earnest engineer, Herbert HooyeEs r
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