The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-11
TARIFF BILL VOTE
IS SET FOR FRIDAY
Senate Reaches Agreement to
Take Final Action on Long,
Disputed Measure

washington, June 1l.-tH)-1ne
tariff bill will be put to its ultimate
test in the senate, the long awaited
final vote. at two o'clock on Friday.
If it Is approved, and there are
many who predict a margin of M or
two votes will settle the question, it
will be brought up in the house on
Saturday and a final roll call taken
there.
Thus, the measure, unless defeated
in the senate, Is expected to reach
President Hoover some time on Mon
day.
After considerable argument, a I'M
aninlous consent agreement was
reached In the senate yesterday fix
ing the Friday voting hour. An earl
Ter time was opposed by half dozen
members who said they had engage
ments which would prevent their at
tendance today or tomorrow.
A preliminary test will come just
before the roll call in a vote on a
motion by Senator Blaine. Republican,
Wisconsin, to send the bill again to
conference. In making this motion,
he commended, the conferees had dis
regarded all scientific bases in arriv-
ing at the duty on cheese.
Republican leaders maintained their
confidence today that the bill will be
passed. Meanwhile, Senator Reed,
Republican, Pennsylvania, prepared to
deliver an address setting forth his
views On the measure and announcing
whether he will vote for or against it.
The attitude Of Senator Grundy,
also of Pennsylvania, IS unknown, and
he intimated he may vote against the
bill. Many who have been counting
prospective ballots predict that should
one or both Of the Pennsylvanians
cast a negative vote the bill will be
defeated.
Republican attacks upon Democrat
ic senators for voting to increase Ger
tain rates and then opposing the bill
on final passage were continued to-
day with a statement issued by Sena-
tor Hebert of Rhode Island through
the Republican national committee.
Chairman Brossard Of the tariff
commission denied last night allega-
lions that a recent commission report
On the pending measure had been
prepared for political purposes. This
statement said 68 per cent of the in
creaserE protection afforded by the
bill went to agriculture. His denial
was contained in a letter to Rep
resentative Knutson, Republican,
| Minnesota.
Urging defeat OF the bill Senator
LaFollette, Republican Independent,
Wisconsin. contended in the senate
today that the Hawley- Smoot meas
ure lis a complete betrayal" Of Presi-
| dent Hoover's pledge Of a limited re-
vision to give agriculture equality
with industry"
LaFollette declared It places new
burdens upon the farmer which in
crease the disparity against him, deny
him relief and leave him without
hope of sharing in any substantial
benefits of the protective system"
He charged the measure goes fal
beyond the Payne-Aldrich act Of 1906
and that "the same subterfuge te
which the authors Of that bill re-
sorted to conceal what they did il
being adopted here today to force
this fraud down the Threats OF the
American people"
Turns Political Clock Back
This BILL" said La Toilette, turn:
the clock back 40 years in the tariff
history of this country. It undoes thu
work Of a whole generation Of Pro.
gressive Republicans who commence
their struggle under Dolliver and La.
Toilette in the senate and Norris II
the house against the domination o;
the party and the government b.
Aldrich and Cannon"
He said the pending bill 'levies i'm
port taxes on a greater number O.
articles at higher rates of duty thar
any tariff bill brought into thi
chamber for approval since Alexande,
Hamilton drafted the first tariff bill
of 1899"
This bill brings the Republican
party to the crossroads at which i
stood in 1909 under the control of tn,
old guard leaders who wrote tn
Payne-Aldrich act at the ~instigatiol
Of special interests and led the part,
to disaster IA 1912" LaEonette said.