Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-02
REED MAY SPLIT
. C. 0. P. ON TARIFF
Potential Battle Is Seen Over
Increase Demands From
Pennsylvania.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.

The real commotion that Senator
David Reed of Pennsylvania may start
In this Congress is not the present one
about national origins, but potential
one about the tariff. AS to national
origins, Senator Reed is for it and
President Hoover is against it. In that
discrepancy, Senator Hiram johnson OF
California humorously sees Schism
in the Republican party.
Senator johnson pictures Senator
Reed and Reeds associates as regular
Republicans who pirate of their regu-
larity opposing President Hoover
the President of the United States and
the head of the Republican party OF
which the Senator (Reedl is such an
ornament and in which I am such an
outcaSt"
johnson Sounds Warning"
Senator johnson warned Senator
Reed that there will come time, per-
haps not very far in the future, when he
(Reed) will be shaking his CORY locks
at me, and want to make very plain
where he stands today in his regularity
and in his following of the President"
There isn't much in that, and Sen
ator johnson didn't mean there should
Senate laughter. National origins is
good deal short of fundamental queS-
ton of party policy. Republicans and
Democrats will vote indiScriminately on
both sides of 1t. Congressman will be
Influenced by whether they have or have
not among their constituents large
groups of German, Scandinavian or
Irish voters more than by party af1il-
iation.
But there is just ahead the tariff, and
on that Senator Reed seems squirting
toward a position which may cause
real commotion and real cleavage IN
the Republican party. On the tarln
President Hoover has said the revision
of the industrial part of it should be
Limited" Speaker Longworth means
the same thing when he says the
changes should be las few as possible.
1t may fairly be said that the official
Republican program is to restrict the
industrial part of the tariff revision to
a very small number of changes in
very small number of schedules.
Pennsylvania Hints" Rife.
But out of Pennsylvania almost daily
come hints associated with the name
of Senator Reed of Pennsylvania which
point at broad general revision. The
latest printed in the leading Repub-
lican paper in Pennsylvania, speaks OF
Senator Reed being joined by the
Pennsylvania Republican delegation in
the Lower House in behalf of general
revision to include Pennsylvania big
gest industries contrary to President
Hooyer's desire"
Without any doubt, formidable
number Of manufacturers, in Pennsyl-
vania and elsewhere, expect to defeat
President Hoover'S wish to keep the
tariff revision limited" Some manu-
facturers express the intention quietly
in washington. Others proclaim it
publicly elsewhere. The Manufacturers
Record carries in large type on the
cover of its current issue a call for
complete revision of the present tariff,
however much President Hoover may
desire that only slight revision Sfel
be carried out at the present time"
Real Commotion May Follow.
II Senator Reed, or other Republican
Senators as powerful as he, expect to
become spokesmen for this demand,
there will be real cosnmotion. Their
desire is for general revision, with the
revision all upward. They will be joined
on the first half of their journey by
Western Senators who favor general re-
vision, but revision downward. After
the two groups get their common desire
for general revision, but at the. point
where they part company as to direc-
ton, there will be a world of grief for
the Republican party.
Possibly Senator Reed and the Penn
sylvania Republican delegation may not
really intend to start anything. Pos
sibly these noises coming out Of Penn
sylvania are blank cartridges fired to
impress the committee on ways and
means which is now writing the official
tariff revision. Possibly the Pennsyl-
vanian may be satisfied with such small
changes In their favor as they can scare
the committee into giving them.