Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10

ton. it is fostering disrespect and dis
regard for the Constitution itself.
My committee will have charge of
this legislation. We will report bill
without delay, and press for prompt
action by the Senate.
MY time is nearly up. The mentor
is ready to call me down. have en-
joyed this Is minutes very much,
whether vast audience has or not. I
wish my audience. large or small, a
pleasant good night.
Senator Harrison:
IAN humble member of the minority
in the next Congress can accomplish
little My observations. therefore. must
necessarily be from the outside and
through Democratic keyhole.
by the imposition of stringent rules,
the Longworth- Tilson-Snell leadership
in the House can and probably will de-
wise their own limited plan and carry 1t
through. Not so in the Senate. When
that body meets on April Is, every COM
mittee will be organized and neither
speech nor action will be restricted.
While reapportionment and repeal OF
the National origins statute will be adj
vanced by some, it is believed that IN
the end only two questions suggested by
President Hoover IN his proclamation
for an extra session, namely farm re-
lief and tariff revision, will receive the
consideration Of both Houses of the =
Congress. -
GAS for farm relief it will be recalled
that President Hoover IN his accept
ance and campaign speeches stated
that The most urgent economic prob
lem in our Nation today is agriculture
and We have pledged ourselves to find
a solution In summing up that solu-
ton he asserted that it could be OBJ
tanned first by Giving the farmer the
full benefit of our historic tariff, sec
ondly Reduction of transportation
charges thirdly Reorganization of our
marketing system and fourthly The
Improvement of our inland waterways,
including not only a shipway from the
Great Lakes to the Gulf, but from the.
Great Lakes to the Atlantic AS to the
latter he asserted There is no more
vital method of farm relief &c.,
Says Hoover Has Forgotten.
cit would seem now from reading
of the Presidents proclamation that he.
has forgotten the Importance and
urgency for reduction of transporta-
ton rates, the improvement of inland
waterways and the consideration OF a
shipway from the Great Lakes to the
Atlantic. We are told that further.
farm relief is to be restricted to the.
consideration of the tariff and the re
organization of our marketing system,
This will not solve the farmers prob
lem. Such a program Is not only a.
reputation of recent campaign pledges.
but means. the imposition of additional
burdens upon agriculture. 49, ~.
10 ifxy Nf
its numerical strength will be impo-
tent to carry through its program, but
it will redeem its promises to the
American electorate and make every eff
fort 10 leglSlate not only for the i'm
provement of our inland waterways
and highways, the enlargement of
our cooperative marketing system.
providing additional agricultural credits.
but it will attempt to enact a law that
will establish In agriculture an effec-
tive control of exportable SURPRISES by
imposing the cost upon the commodities
benefited. That was the principle
enunciated in the Democratic platform
adopted at Houston; that was the prin-
ciple that was battled for by both our
candidates for President and Vice Presi-
dent in the late campaign and that will
be the principle which We will en-
deavor to have incorporated into the
law In the consideration of farm relief
in the coming Congress.
Higher tariff rates to protect manu-
facturers only widen the disparity be-
tween the purchasing price OF the farm.
erS dollar and that of the dollar OF
protected industries. The Democratic
party has declared and its leadership is
dedicated to the principle that agri-
culture should be placed and maintained
upon an equality with every other in
dustry. 1t cannot be done through the
tariff. Crops of which We have an
exportable surplus cannot be protected
through the tariff. It is the exportable
surplus In the domestic market that
prevents the farmer from getting the
benefit of the tariff. 1t Is this export
able surplus with which the farmers and
the Democratic party are concerned and
which must be controlled if real farm
relief is extended.
In the consideration of the tariff
question the Democratic minority will
oppose the enactment OF such increased
tariff duties as will license tariff
pirates to gag and gouge the consumers
of America by exacting higher prices
to swell their already too great profits
upon water stock. 1t will strive to fix
tariff rates. not at the whim and die
tation of that interest that seeks only
greater profits, but upon facts. after
careful study, if possible. by nom
partisan commission of experts.
Tariff Is But Tax"
I'm the consideration of the rate to
be imposed, 1t will not only strive TO
do justice to the industry affected, but
the general welfare of the whole couns
try. and that includes the consumers
of America 1t will seek to safeguard
legitimate business against monopolistic
domination. TO preserve. and. II pos
sible. further raise, the standard of liv-
ing for American labor.
"A tariff Is but a tax, and any tax
that diScriminateS or operates in
euuitably Is unjust. Whatever burdens
or dement's arise from it should be fairly
distributed between all industries and
among all the people.
The policy of the Democratic party
in the consideration Of tariff legislation
in the next Congress vii be in keeping
with the Jeffersonian principle of
equal rights to all and special privi-
leges to none 1t will WELD no bludgeon
against any legitimate industry. 1t will
see that they are protected in their
every Just claim and constitutional
right. 1t appreciates that this Is an
age of invention, new methods and
progress, and that safe and sane policies
must be adopted to meet the readjust-
ments of new conditions. In doing so.
It will strive to write new code of
opportunity justice and equality for