New Britain herald., 1929-11-18
WALCOTT HELPING
 ID SAVE HOOVER
Junior Senator Credited With
 Guiding Tariff Over Shoals
By GEORGE II. MANNING

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 Washington, D. C., Nov. 18.-Re- member in the late unpleasantness that brought the landslide last No- vember, some of the wise ones said that Herbert Hoover wasn't much Of a politician?" If the election figures left any doubt as to his po- litieal sagacity, the sudden switch in the senate lineup on the tariff has convinced the national capital. at least, that he's mot so dumb" as the saying is, in political manipula- ton.
 The administration is going to have a tariff bill-a limited revision bill the major purpose of which is to place agriculture on a parity with industry in the matter of tariff bene- fits. It may not be exactly the bill that President Hoover would have written, but it will approximate the sage to the special session, and the senate group that started in to make the tariff rates resemble the skyline Of New York city are in no position to complain because they had their try at it and got nothing much but sound drubbing from the coalition of insurgent republicans and the democrats.
 Oddly enough the so-called farm bloc" senators have had less to do with the new lineup on the repub. lican side of the senate, than have senators from the industrial states. When the inside story of the strategy that broke the stalemate in the sen ate is written Senator Frederic c. Walcott of Connecticut and Senator Hamilton r. Kean of New Jersey may be revealed as the two men re- sponsible for getting tariff farm relief for the farmers, preventing a general massacre of industrial tariff rates and saving the administration S tariff policy from rout and ruin.
 Both Remain Silent
 Neither Walcott nor kean have had much to say during the months that the tariff has been under dis cussion, that is not much to say publicly. Both have been busy. cspe- cially during the last few weeks, dis cussing the situation with colleagues in the Senate. Senator kcan repeat edly has had groups of Senators as his dinner gueSts-iust for a social evening. of course, but if the tariff matter happened to come up for dis cussion, it just happened and the most was made of the opportunity.
 From reliable sources within the new senate group it is learned that kean and Walcott were among the first to sense the fact that if the coalition and the Shoot Bingham Reed group were permitted to fight it out, the resulting bill. if one ever were passed, would resemble some thing that the cat brought in. Start ing out on the proposition that the congress had been called to do 6 special job and that it ought tc complete the job before recessing ol adjourning, the New Jersey sena. | tor and Connecticut senator found i that most of the new senators en. tertained this view and the task ther became one of getting those who think alike to act alike.
 Within the new group, which Sen. ator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Mich, igan says should be referred to az
 'the sons of toil." it is asserted tha, the revolt back to administration policies has the blessings of the White House and it is intimated re- peatedly that Senator Walcott has been something of a go-betweer keeping the sons of toll" in har. mony with the presidents views, SC | that as matters now stand President Hoover approves of the new group. program. It is recalled that Senator l Walcott very recently spent a week. end with the president at his camI | on the Rapidan river, and 1t wa! shortly thereafter that the senate be gan to suspect that a new alignmen | had been made which might import antly influence tariff legislation. Both Kean and Walcott deny tha they have had any more of a part il organizing the newer senators, thar others in the group. The gossiI among their colleagues, however clearly indicates that this reticenct springs from modesty rather thar from facts.
 Decline Credit
 "All did" Senator knan in sists, was to have a few senators tt dinner"
 T had no more to do with i than a dozen others" Senator Wal colt insists.
 Very well, the fact remains tha the organization of the new senator' | has been the sensational deyeloD