Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-30

Adjournment of the special session of
Congress without tariff action is accept
ed by the country generally as evidence
Of failure, but there are many different
verdicts as to responsibility for the re-
suit In some quarters 1t is pointed out
that lack of tariff legislation is not
vitality important, while the country
may be satisfied with the creation of a
Farm Board
LAS a whole, the failure of the Sen
ate to come to final decision for or
against a definite plan has been dis
heartening," according to the New York
Sun. The bloc system has become
more firmly fastened upon a chamber
OF Congress. The ancient tWo-party
system has been disrupted, for the time
being at least. for another which has
produced nothing but futility." The
Seattle Daily Times concludes: 1.-THE
outlook is not very propitious. OF re-
cent years the Senate has shown an in
creasing propensity for wasting time.
but In a country so happily addicted
to hopefulneSs 1t would be useless to
deny the chance Of change for the
better"
"The Senate must answer to the peo-
pie" in the Judgment Of the Kansas City
Journal-Post, for its waste of the pub
lie money and whatever incidental losses
may come from its failure to pass a
tarln measure and get the subject out
of the way before the regular session.
There Is nothing it can say about its
critics that will in any way relieve It
OF the responsibility it owes the people,
no matter how undeserving of popular
respect any of its critics may be-" The
Columbus Ohio State Journal charges
that the Senate has INDUCED in futile
oratory and purely sectional debate, i"
truth to say that no special session in
years has been so little productive of
constructive effort"
There is undoubted irony" suggests
the Roanoke World-News, lin the fact
that Borah, who was chiefly responsible
Tor the special session, insisting before
the election that Mr.. Hoover pledge
himself to call one for the purpose Of
enacting farm relief legislation and re-
writing the tariff, is as much RESPONSE
BILE as any other one individual for the
failure to accomplish the second of the
detectives"
An attack upon the motives in the
tariff fight is made by the Buffalo Eve
ming News. "All the time which should
have been given to a sensible revision
Of the tariff, and which would have
been ample to effect the object" asserts
the paper. was devoted to repudiating
the President by repeating the flexible
clause and by adding the debenture
rider. The debenture. in particular, was
wholly foreign to tariff bill 1t was
adopted with full knowledge that, If it
ever reached the President, he would
veto it. The Senators were not trying
TO legishte for the country, but to ma
neuver the President into a veto, of
which they expected to make some
demagogic capital"
The principal agendum of the ses-
SON. thinks the Hartford Times, "was
accomplished by the passage of the
Farm Board bill. The failure of tariff
legislation, while on some accounts de-
plorable, cannot be regarded as a major
national misfortune. In fact the tariff
bill, as plotted, mangled, distorted and
warped into a misShapen monstrosity
can be mourned by very few as it de-
sends into shadow from which it may
never in any form emerge"
The Topeka Daily Capital points out
that "one-half of the Hoover program
for the special session was accomplished,
and the most important half, in the
Federal Farm Board act. The new
board" continues that paper, promptly
got down to work and Is in harmonious
cooperation with farm organization,
developing the administration plan of
a new marketing system for farm prod
ucts. This Is more fundamental than
changes IN tariff rates and strikes di-
rectly at the main trouble in agricul-
ture."
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"Will Congress be able to enact a
tariff measure during the Winter?" asks
the Butte Daily Post. Its anybodys
guess" continues that paper. There
are no precedents for the situation. But
on general principles 1t ought to do the
Senators and Representatives good to
talk to the folks at home. In the present
business situation, perhaps the country
can do without new tariff legislation, as
well as 1t can do without anything
Many will say that income tax reduc-
ton Is more important now. And it
isn't likely that Congress will 20 into
q deadlock on that" The San Antonio
Express is convinced that the handling