Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-29

Smoot Estimates Financial
Committees Work Will
Require Six Weeks.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Hardly had the new House tariff
bill reached the Senate side of the
Capitol today before administration
leaders completed plans for its con-
S.deration by the finance committee Of
! that chamber.
The measure, approved by the House,
will be taken up by the committee June
II, and Chairman Smoot. in making
the announcement. estimated the COM
mittee would require about six weeks
to complete its work before formally
| reporting to the Senate.
The House completed the major part
of its work on the legislation late yes
terday. passing by vote of 264 TO l47
the bill prepared by the Republican
members of the ways and means COM
mittee to supplant the 7-year-old
Forney-McCumber act after adopting
more than 100 amendments with their
approval.
This measure, designed to give thou
sands of American agricultural and in
dustrial products additional protection
against foreign competition. will provide
| the basis for extensive hearings to be
conducted during the Summer by the
Senate finance committee. II the COM
| mittee conforms to the history of tariff
| legislation, it will then rewrite the bill
and report it to the Senate with many
changes.
Among those changes, Representative
| Garner of Texas, Democratic leader.
and other prominent members of his
party in Congress, expect the Senate
| committee, and subsequently the Sen
ate itself, to decide against the action
| of the House looking to the extension
of presidential authority over the ad-
ministration of the tariff and his pow
! erS to change rates.
Would Establish Board.
Garner sought that end yesterday.
! through a motion to recommit the bill
to the. ways and means committee. with
| instruction to provide for adjustment
| of the present Tariff Commission and
elimination of the flexible provisions of
| the bill and for the establishment Of a
| fact finding board responsible only to
| Congress.
His motion. which also sought to
| prevent transfer of authority to re-
view valuation methods from the
| Customs Court to the Treasury De-
! partment and to bring about adjust
| ment of rates Gin all schedules so that
| the duties shall not exceed the actual
| difference between the cost of produc-
ton in the United States and abroad"
| Wdo NOlSu uOWIl, ZO4 10 10 ma lOrlCV
| 10 less than that recorded for the BILL
In the final ballot on the House
bill, which followed the rejection of
| Gamers motion, 20 Democrats Joined
the majority and II Republicans and
l Farmer-Labor member recorded their
| opposition with the minority. The
latter included Representative Beck.
Republican of Pennsylvania, former
| Solicitor General, who led the attack
| extension IF r1raciIoofio1 IN
change import duties which he be-
| lieveS Congress should have exclusively.
Parties Dominate Debate.
| Republicans and Democrats on the
| ways and means committee dominated
| the debate just before passage. Repre-
sentative Rainey of Illinois. minority
| committeeman, while praising Chair
man Hawley for his conduct of the
public hearings. declared If the Senate
! changed the bill without improving it
God help the country" and if 1t fails
to change it at all, God help the Re
| publican party
Representative Treadway Of Massa-
chusetts. majority committeeman.
thanked Rainey for his words of COM
mendation and condemnation" and de-
clared the latter, coming from Rainey,
| is looked upon as a compliment. He
added that the bill represented pract!-
cally the unanimous voice of the Re-
publican party.
| The increase of sixty-four hundredths
of a cent to 2.40 cents in the existing
duty of 1.76 cents pound on Cuban
raw sugar was regarded as the most far
reaching change in rates made by the
| bill. Considerable opposition to the new
! duty was voiced in debate, but no OPP
| portunity was given to amend it under
/ the rifle statement iccInd hu Sfo-
phen H. Love. president Of the United
/ States Beet Sugar Association, soon
after the bill passed. declared its adop-
ton was "heartening to the domestic
| sugar industry of 20 States and our in
| sular possessions"