Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
Thomas Motion to Recommit
Is Defeated by Vote
of 70 to 9.
ASKED REPORT CARRYING
ONLY FARM SCHEDULES
Actual Roll Call Is Started az
Members Are Caught Mapping
During Lull.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The tariff bill, rewritten by the
Senate after six months of ccnsidera.
ton, is slated to pass that body today.
Soon after the Senate met today,
Senator Thomas Of Oklahoma, Demo-
crat, submitted motion to recommfd
the bill to the finance committee With
instructions to report the measure bach
carrying only the agriculture schedule
and the administrative features of this
bill. It was defeated 70 to 9.
The Oklahoma Senator explained is
was his purpose to have the existing
tariff rates retained on all other sched-
ules and the agricultural.
How soon the Senate will vote de-
ponds upon the number of Senators who
feel fmpelled to arise and explain why
they viii vote for or against the meas
ure.
Shorty after noon, in lull in the de.
bate, roll call on the passage of the
bill was actually begun. Before it could
proceed, however, Senators who had
been caught mapping were on their feet
demanding recognition, and the roll call
was stopped by the Vice President.
Norris Supports Motion.
After this inadvertence, Senator
Thomas submitted his motion to re-
commit. Senator Norris of Nebraska,
declaring that he would support the
Thomas motion, said that, in his opin-
ion, 1t might result in doing away with
all tariff duties except those on agri.
culture. He suggested an amendment
providing that the existing rates in the
tarth law should apply except on the
agricultural schedule.
Seven or eight Democratic Senators
are expected to vote for the passage OF
the tariff bill, and so win some of the
Republican progressives. The impress
sion Is strong, however, that enough
votes VIII be registered to pass the bill
and send 1t to conference with the
House.
The nine Senators voting for the
TnomaS motion to recommit were
BieaSe, South Carolina; Caravan. Ar.
KANSAS; McMaster, South Dakota; Nye.
North Dakota; Pine, Oklahoma; Smith,
south Carolina; Thomas, Oklahoma,
and Walsh and Wheeler. Montana.
Senator Norris OF Nebraska, who had
expressed himself as being favorable to
the Thomas motion, was unconvinced
that 1t would not have the effect Of
placing all schedules on the free list ex-
cept agriculture, and therefore voted
against it.
After the vote on the Thomas motion
had been taken Senator La Toilette of
Wisconsin opened an attack on the bill,
denouncing it in severe terms.
THE Senate" said Senator La Fol-
lette, "is about to pass and send to
conference the worst tariff bill in the
Nations history. It should be known
hereafter as Grundy's billion dollar
tariff bill. The measure is free from
any pretense Of protecting infant in
dustrieS. No one will claim that it is
based on the Republican principal of
equalizing costs of production at home
and abroad Even the pretense that
it equalizeS the benefits of industry and
agriculture under the tariff system Is
untenable because for every increase in
an agricultural rate, there have been
four increases in industrial rates.
THE Grundy tariff bill ecIipses the
tariff. of denominations Of 1922 in its
impositions upon the public, and by
comparison dwarfs the justice and in
equity OF the Payne-Aldrich act Of
1903, which wrecked the Republican
party in 1912. AS the bill stands TO-DAY
It IS the product Of a series OF deals
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