Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-15
TARIFF, APPROVED
: BY HOUSE, RESTS
WITH PRESIDENT
Administration Leaders Con-
fident Hoover Will Sign Bill
After Study.
HOUSE VOTES 222 to 1853
AFTER FINAL DEBATE
Longworth Signs Bill After Ballot
ing-Document to Reach White
House Tomorrow.
By the Associated Press,

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Congress completed its lengthy laborS
on the Hswley-Smoot tariff bill late
yesterday when the House, with wilc
outburst Of cheering, put its flnal STAMP
Of approval on the document by vote
Of 222 to 1873, and placed upon the
shoulders of President Hoover the ques-
ton whether it shall become law.
There was no doubt in the minds Of
administration leaders in both Houses
that the President would afnx his sig
nature to the bill, probably this week
after he has studied its complex pro-
visions and obtained the counsel OF
experts and interested Federal depart
ments.
Speaker Longworth signed the on
tr,nn1ediately after the vote and IN the
presence of the entire membership, as
Ernublicans, Overwhelmingly in the ma
iority rose and applauded. Vice Presl,
iSent curtis will sign it tomorrow ano
II will 20 to the White House I'M
- At believe the President will sign it, =
commented Representative haWIey %
oregon. the chairman OF the ways sLlu
means committee, co-auInor Oh Che 4AS'
tariff legislation in eight years
Fourteen Democrats Favor 1t.
The SO majority given the conference
yenort, by the House was not SO large
sS Republican leaders had antlclpd1eu'
although they asserted 1t woulo haxe
been greater with a larger attenoance,
Fourteen Democrats, including the
Louisiana delegation, OF tne rioatna
members, Connery OF MaSsacnuseeIS'
Hi of washington, Hudspeth OF IeHas'
RADIO. Joined 206 Republicans lot the
measure. -,.s, .
Twenty Republicans, includlng
eyroain from wisconsin, Minnesota, MIS-
So,Irf. South Dakota and Oklahoma anu
IA Guardia and Mrs. Ruth Pratt OF
New York. voted with 13S Democrats
and the lone Farmer-Laborite, Kvale'
against the bill. -, -rr,.,..
House carried ss7 increases in rates
and gas decreases, more than $50 OF
the higher levels being on farm PROD
nets. Based on 1928 imports 1t Is esG-
mated to raise $500 900 900 in revenue,
an increase of $107, 00o, 900 over receipts
Of two years ago.
The final vote came one year, flve
months and seven days from the day the
measure began to take form in House
committee back in the last days OF the
Coolidge administration. Almost con-
.lnuoaIsly since that time 1t had been
before committee or on the moor Of one
of the houses.
= OutIasts Three Sessions.
the time spent on the revision broke
all records for consideration given a
eiy,ilar measure and there have been
20 before this one.
II Spanned three sessions Of Congress.
Initiated by President Hoover, who
recommended a limited revision with
special attention given agriculture, II
is certain to be an issue In the coming
elections. In fact, it already has been
made stump material in primaries.
The Republicans claim the revision is
IN accordance with the Presidents
wishes as rate changes have been made
In only about 80 per cent OF the total
named commodities in the bill.
The Democrats and Republican indie
spendents Of the Senate who at one time
during the revision wrote the rates 10
their own liking only to have them
wrecked in conference, contend the bill
In no wise fulfills the pledges Of the
party in power and goes far beyond the
limits the President had in mind when
he called the special farm relief session
April is, 1929.
More than a score of speakers al
ternated in throwing the final verba
bouquets and darts at the bill. Pre-
yiously the Democrats had hurled gag
charges at the majority chiefs for bring
ing In rule calling for a single vote
on the two conference reports. waving
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