Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-09
TO CUT
TARIFFS BITTER
La Toilette and Golf Clash
and Former Criticizes
President.

Struggle over efforts to reduce the
1922 rates in the tariff bill continued
in the Senate yesterday, with manifes-
tations of increasing bitterness over the
issue which has been thus brought up.
Senator Golf, Republican, of west Viz
ginia attacked the efforts of Senator
La Toilette to reduce certain rates in
the chemical schedule, and as a result
there was lively exchange of person.
alities between the two Senators.
When La Toilette scored Golf as
'reactionary' and declared that he re-
CARDS the interests of property as SUI
perior to the interests of humanity"
God charged that La Toilette was
ideas coupled with an absence of facts"
He also charged La Toilette with a
radical Socialist record"
La Toilette also took occasion to criti-
CHE President Hoover'S unemployment
program. In the course Of the discus
sion the program Of cutting the 1922
rates was objected to by Senators Golf
and Tess of Ohio as tending to promote
unemployment. This led La Toilette to
declare that it did not lie in the mouths
of regular Republicans to talk about
unemployment.
Charges Hoover Laxity.
He said the Republican party had
done nothing about unemployment and
the President, though he had called a
conference of business leaders, had done
nothing ito remedy the technological
unemployment which he himself helped
SO much to bring about.
Mr.. Hoover, as Secretary of Com
merce, he charged, had done much to
bring about mass production, and this
mad caused much chronological unem-
ployment"
No progress was made on the bill.
For about three hours discussion CEN
tered about an amendment by La Fol-
lette to cut the spirit varnish rate from
20 per cent to 20, thus reducing 1t below
existing law. No vote was reached and
the debate was largely devoted to the
general proposition of reduction of 1922
rates. which have not been disturbed
by either House or finance committee
Not only Goff but Tess and Senator
Vandenberg OF Michigan opposed the
program of the coalition to attack 1922
rates, to which objection has not been
raised by the public.
Amendment Stirs GOff.
On the other hand, La Follette's posi-
ton that such rates should be reduced
in cases where official figures show
practically no importations was backed
up by Senator Barley of Kentucky and
Senator Swanson of Virginia.
The discussion was begun by Goff,
who protested against the La Toilette
amendment on Varnishes and then as
sailed the general policy of attacking
the 1922 rates without notice to the
industries and in cases where there was
no objection raised ontside to these
rates. He asserted that the legal
doctrine Of "eStoppel" applied. He
asked what evidence had been produced
to warrant reducing the 1922 rates in
this case.
La Toilette in reply hit at the idea
| that the consumer had lost his right to
get reduction because he did not APP
pear before the finance committee. He
said this was the force of the argument
| of Goff.
That" he added, ais the only basis
on which he could argue the doctrine of
estoppel."
He held the position Of Golf was
absolutely indefensible" and that the
Senator maintained q tariff rate
granted in the 1922 law was "a vested
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