Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-05

Sooner of later-Midsumme or Au-
tunn, and in the Senate finance COM
mittee or on the Senate fioor-the
country is going to see cyclonic fight
over the Hawley tariff bill. Hardly any
one on Capitol Hill can remember
revenue measure that rubbed so many
people, interests and sections the wrong
way. In the effort to satisfy everybody.
the House of Representatives has ap-
parently pleased nobody. The element
that is hotter under the collar than
any other Is agriculture. The Repub-
lican party promised the farmer higher
tariffs on produce, in order to equalize
the protective favors SO long enjoyed
by industry. Agriculture was accommo-
dated, but in the same breath the
House handed industry so many new
tariff boosts that the benefits granted
the farmer-aS he sees it-are wiped
out by the higher cost Of everything
he'll have to buy. The horny-handed
son of the soil finds himself in the po-
sition Of the Irishman who lamented
that he was Gust where he was before,
only more So"
No question is more actively can
vassed In Washington than whether
President Hoover would sign tariff
bill like the Hawley measure. Many
politicians say it's dollars to dough-
nuts that he would veto it. They
argue that he would stultify himself
II he did anything else. Hoover
recommended Limited changes" In the
tariff. The House has enacted un-
limited changes. The Senate in all
probability will indorse, or even aggra-
vate, them. Other politicians are con-
WINGED the President will not dare TO
smash the tariff bill sent MN by tne
Republican Congress landslided into
office with himself. If he should-say
these wiseacres-Hoover will run the
risk of committing political suicide Just
as Grover Cleveland did when that
Democratic Presidents tariff -for-revenue
stand led to his defeat for reelection
I'm 1898. Hoovers attitude doesn't seem
SO remote from that of Cleveland, VINO
said that unnecessary taxation Is I'M
Just taxation"
Senator Borah is girding himself for
ferocious fight against the HaWley
tariff. He will wage 1t on the floor OF
the Senate and not in Senator Shoots
finance committee, because the 1dahoan
is not a member of that body. 1t Will
be one of the lone-hand crusades for
which Borah is famed, but another OF
those which, his admirers fear. VIII get
him nowhere. Big Bill would elm
mate all industrial tariff increases per-
haps lower some of the existing rates
on manufactures, and limit all rises in
rates to farm products. Borah insists
that any other kind of tariff revision at
this juncture is out of keeping with the
Republican party's campaign commit
ments. So, before long, there will be
added to the gayety OF the Nation the
spectacle of the Idahoan, who fought
Hoover on the farm debenture, batting
for the limited" tariff changes Hoover
advocated"
Senator McMaster, Republican Pro-
gressive. of South Dakota, knows an
angel who's ready to back his hostility
to power trust propaganda with cold
and copious cash. The Angels existence
was disclosed in the course of radio
address by Senator McMaster on recent
revelations before the Federal Trade
Commission. The address has just been
inserted in the Congressional Record.
McMaster announced that he had found
a buyer for the Boston Herald and
Traveler-whose purchase by the In
ternational Paper Co. led directly to the
disclosure of power capitals invasion OF
the newspaper business. He Is man,
the Senator explained, "whoSe only OBJ
ject in life is to render real public serv-
ice, but Mr.. Graustein, president of the
International Paper Co., said its newly
acquired interests were not for SALE"
X X X
A rabbits foot for luck-a red carna-
ton for health. Apparently that's the
rule in the medical delegation in Con-
gress. Senator Royal S. Copeland and
Representative William I. Sirovich, both
of New York, and both physicians by
profession, never appear on Capitol
Hill without flaming cardinal pinks in
their respective buttonholes. CQllesgNss