Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-06-06
NEW TARIFF BILL
DRAWS PROTEST
Great Resentment in Northwest Over Bill Just Passed
by Lower House of Congress; Petitions Being Sent
to Senate Asking for a Better Deal for Agriculture
and Fulfllment of Campaign Promises

The lower house of the national con-
gress passed last week the socalled
Hawley tariff bill after it had been
given consideration in public hearings
for nearly five months. The measure
carries substantial increases in i'm
port duties on articles embraced in
every section of the Seven-year-old
Fordney- McCumber law. The new bill
passed the house by vote of 264 to
147. Twenty Democrats Joined the
PA Republicans in support of the
bill while II Republicans and one
Farmer-Labor combined with 1874
Democrats in opposing it.
The Party Pledge.
The pledge of the Republican party
in the campaign last fall was to the
effect that agriculture and the north
west would be given relief through
the tariff. The bill that has just been
passed by the house and which now
goes to the senate has caused a great
protest from the northwest for the
reason that while it raises the tariff
on agricultural products it also gives
a great boost on import duties of in
dustrial products. Farmers asked for
a 300 ad valorem duty on hides. The
Hawley bill gives 1870, while it makes
leather from 1919 to 800; boots and
shoes 20%o. All three articles are
presently duty free. There is just one
instance of how the farmer is helped"
through the new bill. The worst of
all however. is the duty placed on GER
tain building materials which are now
free. Cement gets SC per 100 pounds;
shingles, $3.50; cedar lumber, 25G6;
maple and birch lumber, 1870. 1t is
estimated that about 706 of the wood
shingles used in the United States
are used on the farms.
Sign Petition.
The American has drawn up a pc
titiOn to be sent to congress in protest
of this tariff bill. The measure can
be remedied in the senate and is
therefore addressed to Senator SmOOt,
chairman of the Finance committee.
Copies of the petition will also be
sent to the two L. S. Senators from
Minnesota, Henrik Shipstead and
Thomas d. Schall. A few signers
were secured to the petition yesterday,
but it is hoped that all who are read
ers of the American, and others in
tereSted in a square deal for the
northwest and agriculture in general,
will send in their names to the Amer
lean or sign on petitions that may be
circulated by interested parties. Pro-
tests have been sent in from Mime
apolis and other large cities and it
is also well to let congress know that
their work is being watched out in
the smaller communities, rural coun-
ties and congressional districts. This
is a voice from home and it should
be made emphatic. 1t is no begging,
just simply asking the fulfillment of
campaign promises. In this cOnnec-
ton the American will also be glad
to receive letters from readers on the
subject. They should be short and
to the point, and all of them will be
published if space permits.
Out of the ~ Republican congress
men who voted against the Hawley
tariff bill, five of them are from Min
nesOta, including G. G. Goodwin, from
this, the tenth district. The one Farm
er-Labor member who voted against
the bill is Congressman Kvale from
Minnesota who went his Republican
colleagues one better, by not only vot-
ing against the bill but voting for
the motion made by Representative
Garner to recommit the measure with
instructions to revolutionize the adj
ministrative features.
Statement from Minnesota Con.
greSSmen.
The five Republican members from
Minnesota who voted against the bill
issued the following statement:
1.-The special session of the seventy
first congress was called by President
Hoover for the sole purpose of enact
ing agricultural egislatiOn-general
legislation to deal with the marketing
of agricultural products and tariff
legislation to place agriculture upon
a par with other industry.
I'VE feel that it was the duty of
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