Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-11
VARE CASE DELAY
ASKED IN SENATE
Pittman, Nevada; Wants Re-
port of Elections Com
mittee Before Action.

By the Associated Press.
A suggestion that action on the Nor
ris resolution, which has showed aside
of Pennsylvania a Senate seat be post
poned pending report on the case by
the elections committee was made in
the Senate today by Senator Pittman,
Democrat, Nevada.
Pittman's proposal was offered after
Senator Reed, Republican, Pennsyl-
vania, had urged adoption of a mo-
tion by Senator Watson of Indiana, the
Republican leader, to defer the three
year-old case until the regular session
In December.
considering contest brought for
Vare's seat by his Democratic opponent
in the 1926 election.
Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the
Democratic leader, however, insisted
that in fairness to the Senate and to
the State Of Pennsylvania, the Ware case
should not be deferred any longer. He
said influences were at work which ''are
quite powerful to prevent an adjudica-
ton OF this matter until Mr.. Ware is
good and ready to have it adjudicated.' -
Senator Reed said the Senate should
not consider the question of Wares
eligibility because of charges of excess
sive expenditures in his. primary cam
paign until it has received the report
of the two years inquiry made into the
1925 Pennsylvania election by the
elections committee.
He again said Ware was not well
enough to appear in the Senate, but
he agreed to dispose of the case in
December whether Ware was well or
not.
Study Simmons Resolution.
Meanwhile, with the tariff bill in its
present status, Senate leaders were
studying the possibilities of the Sim
mons resolution, adopted late yesterday,
under which the finance committee was
directed to obtain from the Treasury
income tax information regarding the
profits, losses, wages, production costs
and related data of American manu-
facturers and importers for use in con-
sidering the bill.
The resolution was adopted by vote
OF 81 to 27, which saw many Republi-
cans, some Of them ordinarily rated as
administration dependables, joining the
Democratic Independent Republican
coalition which is opposing the tariff
bill drawn up by the finance committee
majority. The ballots against the reso-
luton. which was opposed by admins
VI dOAO14 ACoOGAc, WClC OO1lIl1y 1tSpuUl1Cd1I,
while 81 Republican and 80 Democrats
voted for it.
Under existing law, the finance COM
mittee is entitled to the information
sought in the resolution. Now, either
the minority or majority groups Of the
committee can obtain this data from
the Treasury.
Sponsors of the resolution, in speeches
prior to the vote, said that the infor-
nation affected would not be abused by
dissemination to the country as whole,
but would be used only for the purpose
of justifying an increase or decrease in
the tariff schedules.
Accepts Blaine Amendment.
As originally framed the resolution
would have called for only the profits
and losses of taxpayers whose products
might benefit by the tariff changes, but
Senator Simmons accepted an amend
ment by Senator Blaine, Republican
Wisconsin, to call for additional figures
and another by Senator Couzens, Re-
publican, Michigan, providing the f1nan-
cia1 status of importers as well as do
mestic manufacturers be produced.
After its adoption, Chairman Smoot
who, with Senator Reed, Republican
Pennsylvania, were the only speakers
against the resolution on the floor
moved that the tariff bill be laid aside
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