Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-30
|CRUNDy DEFENDS
EYANSON'S ACTS
Pennsylvania Debates Tariff
and Politics in Clashes
With lobby Probers.
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President Harding. He admitted that
there was private wire from the Con-
greSS Hotel, in Chicago, to the late Sen
ator PenroSe'S home, in Philadelphia,
during that convention, but insisted
that Senator Penrose was too Ill to dis
cuss politics at that time.
Senator Caraway, in the course OF the
questioning, asked Mr.. Grundy what the
facturerS' Association did when they
went before the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture. He wanted to know whether they
opposed q State tax on corporations.
Eyes, partly that" admitted Mr..
GruNdy, "but In general we had gone
there to encourage the development or
industry in the State"
Blaine Questions Grundy.
Senator Blaine, who was a young
lawyer back in Wisconsin at the time
Grundy first qualified as a tariff expert
before congressional committees in
1897, volunteered to give the veteran
Pennsylvania a reputation" today,
and Grundy smilingly announced that
he wasn't worried about his reputation.
Blaine was interrogating the witness
about the tariff schedules comprising
structural iron and steel In connection
with the use of these products in the
Of farm implements. He
declared that under the tariff increase
by the Senate finance commit
tee, the increased cost of farm imple-
ments would amount to $3.50 900, or
he said. despite that farm implement
manufacturers virtually control the
American market, and export nearly
100000 more goods than are i'm
ported
Grundy commented that structural
steel and iron is on the free list, when
the importer can demonstrate that 1t Is
for use in the manufacture of farm i'm
plementS. He was asked by Blaine to
furnish table showing the amount of
steel thus imported free Of duty on such
q declaration.
II appeal to you to give us that in
formation" said Blaine.
At one point in the examination
Grundy described the farm relief bill as
gift to the farmers. Blaine pointed
out that Congress authorized loan of
$500, 100000 to agriculture.
Il think nobody expects that 1t will
be gotten back" Grundy remarked.
do you think the farmer is going
around passing the hat?" Blaine asked.
Senator Caraway bobbed up and OBJ
anything to do with It,"
Grundy an Angel TO G. o. p.
Characterizing Grundy as an "angel"
of the Republican party, by virtue of
having collected 100000 in 80 counties
in Pennsylvania for the partys cam
paign last Fall, Blaine said to Grundy
he had not ANY doubt" that he had q
very great influence on the Republican
when you put the con-
tributions on the basis of investments
with the understanding that the con-
tributors might expect governmental
favors. then you are entitled to infiu-
ence."
Grundy broke in: please don't put
words in my mouth" he said.
Senator Caraway faced Grundy.
Nov don't discredit your testimony
before the ink is dry" he exclaimed.
what do you mean?" Grundy asked.
"I mean that you have testified to
what the Senator is saying
and there is no use discrediting It,"
II don't think said that" Grundy
commented.
"Well, you ought to read your test1-
mony." Caraway said.
I've read it."
"Well, read it again." the Arkansas
Senator said. You'll find it interest
ing"
Wool Question Is Raised.
Another item in the tariff bill about
which Blaine questioned the witness
was that proposing an increase on WOOL
blankets, that, he said, would result in
an added cost Of $l6,250, 900 to the con-
sumner. He asked Grundy II he could
justify the increase.
mi. "a
increase was caused by the increase In
the raw wool schedule.
Later, Senator Walsh, whose State
produces a great amount Of raw wool,
took issue with Grundy on the raw wool
schedule and pointed out that the pro-
posed increase in raw wool carried In
addition a SO per cent ad valorem tax,
Grundy previously had said that the
larger part of the increase was COM
pensatory.
Chairman Caraway, on the suggestion
mittee's special investigator to address
a telegram to a West Virginia pottery
requesting him to APP
pear before the committee. The wit
ness, a Mr.. Wylie, has been identified
as having demanded the dismissal OF
Frederick L. Kosi from the tariff COM
because Of an alleged prejudice
in favor Of pottery importers.
Three Attack Grundy.
Senators Borah, Caraway and Walsh
took Grundy to task today for his char
yesterday of their native
States as backward commemorative"
and each was prepared to discredit the
witness assertion as to its progress.
Senator Borah pointed out that while
the percentage Of illiteracy in Pennsyl-
vania is 46 per cent the percentage
in Idaho is is per cent. The expense
per capita for education in Pennsyl-
vania Is $l765, Borah said. would
1t increase your estimate of Idaho to
know that the expense per capita for
education is $17.28?" Borah asked.
Senator Caraway and Grundy went
back to the Civil War for brief ex-
change when Grundy asserted at one
point that the people Of Pennsylvania
contributed more men and more money
than many States.
Senator Walsh also attacked the
statements made about backward
commonwealth" but Grundy insisted
that he was willing to stand on his
statement.