Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-01
TARIFF RULE GETS
COMM|TTEE'SO.K K.
Agrees to Send Bill to Con.
ference, but Makes No
Mention of Vote Pact.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The House rules committee today
agreed upon the rule to send the tariff
bill to conference with the Senate, but
1t made no mention Of the understand
ing reached yesterday that the House
would be given an opportunity to vote
on the sugar, lumber, cement and
shingles rate before they are finally
settled in conference.
Representative Tilson of Connect
cut, the Republican leader, however.
explained that 1t was not the practice
to place such provisions in rule and
indicated that the "gentleman's agree
ment" that the House would get
chance to vote on the rates would be
adhered to.
Under House parliamentary proceed
ure, the rule must lay over one day
before being debated. Efforts win be
made to bring 1t up and adopt 1t to-
morrow.
The House and Senate then will APP
point their conferees, and the confer
ence committee probably will get down
to work on the hundreds Of differences
in the House and Senate measures the
latter part Of this or early next week.
Speculation Over Vote.
There was some speculation today
over what the House would do when
asked to vote on sugar, lumber, cement
and shingles. Friends of the bill as it
now stands were inclined to the opinion
that the House would vote to concur
in the Senate rate Of two cents pound
! OH Cuban sugar and also the Senate
duty Of six cents q 100 pounds on &C.
ment and the free listing of shingles.
The House bill provides duty of 2.40
cents on Cuban sugar, as against l.76
cents In existing law; q rate OF cents
100 pounds on cement, and IS per
! cent on shingles. Predictions also were
made that the House would insist on
| free soft wood lumber which the Senate
| bill transfers from the free TO the duti-
able list at rate Of $3.50 thousand
board feet.
Adoption Of Procedure Assured.
The adoption of this course of proceed
ure was regarded as assured. 1t was
agreed upon by the Republican chief
tains late yesterday after nearly week
had been spent in conferences designed
to bring into harmony the conflicting
demands Of various groups within the
party.
A vote on the "rule" could not be
| taken until tomorrow, as House proceed
ure made 1t necessary that 1t lie on the
| table" for "a hours after being reported
| There was some doubt, too, that it could
be brought up tomorrow, as prevailing
| parliamentary conditions will be such
that the objection of one member OF the
! House will be sufficient to postpone
action until Thursday.
| The procedure agreed upon was q
| compromise between the desires of ad-
miniStration leaders that the bill follow
| the usual course and be sent directly tc
conference, the demand of an Eastern
| group for separate pre- conference vote
on sugar and the demand of q Middle
Western group for similar votes on
cement, lumber and shingles. The Mid
| die Westerners, a stable bloc from the
beet-sugar- producing section. opposed al
| the same time any separate vote or
sugar, preferrlng in this way to keep the
| House on record for 2.40 ctSniA Q pound
sugar duty as compared with the Sen
| ate figure Of cents.
| Cement. now OH the free list, was
made dutiable by the House at cents
a hundredweight and by the Senate at
1 6 cents
The House placed a rs per cent ad
valorem duty on shingles and the
Senate returned them to the free list
The House retained soft wood lumber
on the free list and the Senate imposed
a duty of $50 a thousand board feet
on fir, spruce, larch. pine. hemlock. anc
on railroad ties and telephone poles Of
all woods
The Republican program was sternlJ
criticized by the Democrats OF the
House, who wanted that branch of Con-
gress to vote on all the 1850 Senate
amendments before sending the bill Il
conference.
Representative Garner the Demo.
cratic leader, predicted that it woulc
be impossible to obtain final actor
before June /. His contention was tha
the bill would be expedited by voting
on the Senate amendments by SEIZED
ules, thereby assuring that many o.
the most controversial features will moi
go to conference"