Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-14
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Anxious to avoid all possible delay
In the consideration of the tariff bill,
the Senate debate today dispensed with
its usual Saturday holiday.
Although the administrative provi-
sions of the measure framed BY tie
Republicans of the finance committee
were the official subject of debate, gen.
eral attacks upon the bill by Democratic
members and replies from the Republic
can side of the chamber were proving
the accepted order of procedure.
Thus far two Democrats, Simmons OF
North Carolina, the minority leader Of
the finance committee, and Harrison
of Mississippi together with Brookhart
of Iowa, member Of the independent
with the Democrats in opposing the
Republican measure, nave assailed the
bill. There have been replies from
Chairman Smoot of the finance COM
mittee and several others.
Senator Watson of Indiana, the Re-
publican leader, last night made his
first public utterance on the Senate
committee bill In a radio sddress, as
serting it was safe to assume that a
measure would be passed very largely
carrying out the ideas expressed by
President Hoover.
Views Declared Changed.
Recalling that the Underwood Sim
mons tariff act placed practically all
agricultural products On the free list,
Watson declared that the very men
who foisted that policy on the country
are the ones who are now demanding
the highest possible rates for these
same agricultural products"
He argued that protests from foreign
governments were no cause for alarm.
THE bald fact is" he said, that
every time the American Congress has
enacted a protective tariff measure,
from Lincoln's day down to this time,
foreign governments have interpoSed
and have done their level best as far
as they could under the conditions that
surrounded them to prevent its enact
ment."
Brookhart late yesterday told the
Senate that the measure fails to give
the farmer the home market pledged
to him in the Republican platform of
the recent presidential campaign. He
said the measure was not Republican
bill, but one for special privileges, which
would force the farmer to Sell his prod
ucts in the competitive markets of the
world.
For Debentures System.
In his speech, interrupted frequently
by arguments between Senators Reed,
Howell, Republican, Nebraska, and
Barkley, Democrat, Kentucky, over the
necessity of the proposed 20 per cent
duty on shoes, now en- the free list,
Senator Brookhart said system of de-
bentures should be provided for in the
bill, not only for agriculture but for
some special industries.
The proposal he had IL mind, he said,
was to allot the farm debenture certif-
icates to the Federal Farm Board,
which, in turn, would transfer them to
stabilization corporations for use in
stabilizing surplus agricultural crop
prices. The money derived from the
certificates also would be set UP under
his plan as a fund from which crops
should be bought and held for good
price.
Several non-controversial committee
amendments to the administrative pro-
visions were approved :ate in the day
yesterday. Among the clauses passed
over as presenting controversial issues
were those relating to the organization
OF the Tariff Commission and the
proposed substitution of domestic for
foreign valuation in computing ad
valorem duties.