Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-05
TESS GIVES TARIFF
VOTE OF MINORITY
Holds Ballots Were Cast to
Give Agriculture Equal Pro-
lection With Industry.

Following Representative Gamers
speech in the House, in which secrecy
was removed from the proceedings of
the Senate and House tariff conferees
further than ever, Senator Fess, Repub-
lican, OF Ohio, in statement made
public today observed that 1.-The agri-
cultural industry has taken to raising
had voted for tariff increases onfsilver..
ore. petroleum. gasoline. aluminium. pig
iron. cement, brick, timber and various
other commodities.
Reply to Senator George.
His statement was issued through the
Republican national committee in reply
to one Friday by Senator George
Democrat, Georgia, which had said that
an analysis of Democratic votes would
show that the votes for increases had
been cast in an effort to give agricuI-
tural products equal protection with in
duStrial products.
The silver increase, Tess said, had
been proposed by Senator Pittman,
Nevada Democrat. who had a very
large hand III writing the last Demo-
cratic national platform" and had
gained the support OF % Democrats.
Among them, he said, was Senator Har-
riSon of Mississippi
The petroleum and gasoline proposal.
FesS continued. had been supported by
nine Democrats, among them Senator
Caraway Of Arkansas, chairman of the
lobby investigating committee. which
spent days inquiring into the oil lob
by in the National Capital"
Let us examine into the nature OF
some OF these other agricultural prod
uctS for which Democratic Senators
either voted to increase duties or voted
against decreasing duties,' Tess said.
I'm the list are found aluminium, pig
iron, cement brick, timber, lumber,
maple and other flooring wood veneerS,
shoes. shoe leather. plate, sheet and
cylinder glass, mems and boys cloth
ing and filamentS and yarns of rayon."
Observers pointed out that it has
seldom occurred in the history of tariff
making that the proceedings in con-
ference have been aired on the floor
of the House and Senate. Representa-
tive Garner, ranking Democrat of the
House, not only did SO yesterday, but
made 1t plain he did not intend to let
the conference negotiations go in
secret.
Questions Before COnferees.
Mr.. Garner related details of what
took place when the confereeS con-
sidered caSein ca product of SKINNED
milk used in the manufacture of paper
and were temporarily deadlocked.
The flare-up over the rates on caSein
was the feature of the days proceed
ings. The conference committee held
morning and afternoon sessions and,
ON quitting for the, day, had reached
the 159th amendment in controversy
between the two houses. One hundred
and twenty-six amendments, mostly in
the chemical schedules, were disposed,
many of them requiring little more than
clerical attention. For the most part
the House conferees either receded on
rates or compromised. In a limited
number of instances the Senate con-
fereeS receded.
Mr.. Garner pointed out that the farm
organizations were keenly interested in
the caSein rate, which the House put at
az cents a pound and the Senate at
5R. He revealed that seven of the ten
conferees voted for the Senate rate,
three of the five conferees of the House
standing for the House rate. The three
were the Republican members, Repre-
Sentatives w. c. Hawley of Oregon,
Isaac Bacharach of New Jersey, and A.
T. Treadway of Massachusetts,.