Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-24


Senator Walsh.
They will not amount to thre
whoops, If you let the foreigners writ
the invoice" retorted Grundy.
Walsh Hears List Of Rates.
Senator Walsh thereupon read loni
list of rates in the Senate tariff bill, a
compared with rates in the House bill
and the existing law. This list, he said
showed that 10 of the IS leading indus
tries Of Pennsylvania would benefit BY
increases IN the pending tariff bill, a!
reported by the Senate finance com
mittee.
Mr.. Grundy said that these change:
in the tariff were "in accordance with
the Republican platform"
How do these rates fit in with the
Presidents program for limited rev.
sion of the tariff"
Mr.. Grundy insisted the Senate bill
was in accord with the Presidents
recommendation.
"How?" demanded Senator Walsh.
1.-THE changes are limited to things
that are necessary" said Mr.. Grundy.
| Senator Walsh asked the witness to
! give his idea of general revision" of
the tariff, and Mr.. Grundy replied that
| the Dingley and the Fordney tariff bills
/ were general revision measures, es-
| pcCldlty GI1c TOIuIlGy DilI.
Grundy Explains Tariff.
Senator Walsh sought to have Mr.
GrlIndy define for the committee gen.
eral revision of the tariff and limited
revision. Mr.. Grundy insisted that the
pending tariff bill is not a general re-
vision. He said that when the present
tariff act was put through in 1922 con-
ditions were unsettled and that many
4alr ~ fyNE - co.
bill at that time. The present tariff
bill, he said, dealt with those things.
He said that when Democratic tariff
act was enacted in place of Repub-
lican tariff act, or vice versa, there
was a general revision. Senator Walsh
would not agree to this definition. He
called attention to the fact that PreSi-
dent Hoover had asked Congress for
limited changes in the tariff" when he
called the special session of Congress.
What did the President mean by
that language" asked Senator Walsh
Il do not care to say what the PreSi-
dent of the United States MEANS" said
Mr.. Grundy.
do you think the President was anx-
iouS to see such a general revision OF
the tariff" asked Senator Walsh.
Mr.. Grundy said that the President
had favored tariff revision during the
campaign, and that he hoped the Presi-
dent also favored it when he called for
the special session OF Congress. He
added:
1T is not for me to criticize the
President of the United States. think
that the President meant when he
summoned Congress to deal with the
tariff just what the platform called
for"
In rely to Senator Walsh, Mr..
Grundy said that he had made no ef-
fort to bring about the decreases in the
tariff, not even in the case Of man
ganese, which is used by Pennsylvania
steel manufacturers.
Senator Walsh wanted to know If
Mr.. Grundy would have come to Wash
ington and recommended decreases in
the tariff If the Democrats had won the
last election.
Argue Over Commodity Effect.
mo. would not have done So" said
Mr.. Grundy.
Senator Walsh argued with the wit
ness the point as to whether high tariff
duty raises the price of commodities to
the consumer Mr.. Grundy insisted
that it does not. Senator Walsh fig
ured that the increases carried in the
tariff bill for articles manufactured In
Pennsylvania would raise the cost to
American consumers by $504 100000
Mr.. Grundy said he thought that the
foreign manufacturers paid the duty
not the American consumers. With
this Senator Walsh disagreed fatty.
Senator Robinson asked Mr.. Grundy
If he had asked EyanSon to return to
Washington after Eyanson had left the
employ of Senator Bingham last Au-
gust.
Mr.. Grundy said that he had called
up Eyanson one day and asked If
Eyanson we're coming down here. He
also said that he had asked Eyanson
to stay in Washington.
"If there had been 40 fellows avail
able like Eyanson," said Mr.. Grundy, Il
would have liked to see them all in
Washington"
Mr.. Grundy agreed to furnish to the
committee a complete statement OF all
his expenditures while in Washington.
The committee, after hearing Mr..
Grundv, adjourned until Tuesday.
In the statement which Mr.. Grundy
had prepared to read to the committee,
but which he was not permitted to
read, Mr. Grundy criticized four of the
five members of the lobby committee,
Senators Caraway, Borah of Idaho,
Walsh of Montana and Blaine. He
quoted from speech by Senator Borah
in Boston. November 2, 1923, in which
Senator Borah said: What We want
my friends, in the next four years. is
policy which undoubtedly will protect
American labor and American indus
tries against the inroads which may
come from Europe. both in manufac-
tured goods and in labor"
Pictures "Borah of 1929"
"This," said Grundy in his statement,
as Senator Borah-not in 1929, stand
ing in the United States Senate, doing.
his utmost to limit tariff revision to
agricultural products - but Senator
Borah on November 2, 1928, standing
on the platform of the Arena, in BoS-
ton, interpreting and proclaiming to
the industriallStS and industrial workers
of Massachusetts and the country at
large the Republican party's pledges
and his own pledge of adequate and
effective tariff protection for American
labor and American industry. What in
f1uences have caused the esteemed Sen
ator from Idaho to completely reverse
himself within a period of few
months; what changes Of mind have
prompted him to regard the Republican
platform as mere scrap of paper I
do not pretend to say. But do say
that he is the embodiment of one of
the many reasons why I or any other
Republican and industrialist who has
the courage to fight for his rights,
| should be here in Washington to do
whatever he legitimately can to Offset
the determined effort of one who, in
| the campaign, publicly proclaimed him
| self and his party to be for one thing
and when the campaign is over and the
people have voted for the pledges made
stands for quite another thing"
| The first witness tOdaV FrpHpFipk
| H. MeiSnest, assistant to the vice preSi-