The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-03-25
lsSders Of Both Parties Believe
Controversies Should.B Be
asaNE ssSS Is; 4 4 81 4@s1s fs
Settled First
MAY BoosTfARm SCHEDULE
Biggest Arguments Will Center
About Sugar, Lumber and
Cement Proposed Walls

S181u SOAAVAVvSA9 A~A SUPERINTENDENT
written into the tariff bill by the SEN
ate may be brought to separate votes
in the house before the measure Is
sent to conference.
Such . course Of procedure, It was
learned today. Is finding favor with
the leaders Of both parties. Repre-
sentative Garner. the Democratic
chieftain. Is actively behind . move
ment to bring this about and the Re-
publican leaders < inclined to con-
cur.
The bill viii come up for action
next Monday and In the meanwhile
the bulky document-three feet long,
two feet wide and six inches thick
will, figuratively, "lie onsthe speakers
table" y
Under the present, tentative plans,
the schedules that would be voted up
on are those having to do with sugar.
lumber and cement. All three were
the subject Of spirited debate in the
senate and charges were made by
some Democrats and Independent
Republicans that . vote trading
combination' had been formed to in
crease the sugar levy and impose tar
IFS on lumber and cement which K
listing law admits to the country free
Of duty.
Favor Farm Schedule
In addition to the move for the
separate votes the Democrats OF the
house except to make . motion that
the bill be sent back to the ways and
means committee with instructions
that increases be confined to the ag-
ricultural schedule.
They do not expect, however, that
they will be successful in this, ana are
concentrating their efforts upon OBJ
tanning enough votes to carry the
separate ballots.
In announcing the tariff measure
would not be taken up until Monday,
Speaker Longworth explained the de-
lay was to enable the membership to
familiarize itself thoroughly with the
senate amendments before taking &C.
'tion to send the bill to conference.
The District Of Columbia ~appropri-
atious bill was the subject Of debate
today. Tomorrow the house viii take
up measures sponsored BY the Inter-
state Commerce committee and on
Thursday will return to the district
supply bill. with plans made for
reaching q vote by nightfall and then
adjourning for the remainder Of the
week.
WIN Adjourn Today
The senate was called into session
today to consider and possibly pass,
the 3230.o00yO00 public buildings bin,
sponsored by the administration Is q
means Of decreasing unemployment
and stabilizing business conditions.
An adjournment late In the day until
Monday was planned 50 that the leg
islators may rest after the seven
months grind Of the tariff bill.
The tariff bill was finally approved
by the senate just before night fall
yesterday. after Democrats and In
dependent Republicans had spent the
day in denouncing the MEASURE and
the influences which they asserted
lay behind many Of It's major pro-
visions.
The vote was So to 81. Forty-six
Republicans and seven Democrats
cast their ballots for passage while
twenty six Democrats and five Rs
publicans opposed the measure. Pre-
viously . motion to recommit with In
structious to confine increases to ag-
ricultural products had been defeated
20 to 8.
To Work Out Changes
In addition to tho many rate SEIZED.
ule amendments adopted BY the sen
ate, two important changes In the adj
administrative provisions must Be
worked out in conference. These arc
the amendments incorporating In the
bill the export debenture plan Of farm
relief and revokipg tho PRESIDENTS
authority to make changes In the
tariff rates under the existing flexible
provisions.
Chairman Legge Of the federal
farm board late yesterday expressed
the conviction that debenture plan
could not be made operative. It
might work for . time, he said. but
/ 'tforeign importing countries undoubt-
edly would put up insurmountable