Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-04

Enthusiasm is lacking as the Senate'S
final mark OF approval is placed on the
fmended tariff measure, over which leg
islatorS have been fighting for months
Opinions expressed range from condem-
nation as the worst bill of the sort ever
enacted to suggestions that after confer
ence in the committee from the two
houses it may win friends. It gets
some praise, while the several admins
trative features added are believed to
be subject to vigorous attack.
Now that 1t goes to conference for
the adjustment of differences between
House and Senate, as expressed in the
two versions of the measure" says the
Chicago Daily News, lit is likely that
there will be trimming of excrescences
that will develop a product of consider
able merit. The final verdict, one may
hope, will harmonic fairly well with the
Presidents desire for better protection
for farm products and modern readjust-
ments of schedules related to manufac-
tured products. 1t may be assumed that
the President realizes the Importance to
the administration and the country of
fair and reasonable tariff. The confer
ence committee, working under the
shadow Of possible veto, should be
especially anenable to suggestions from
the White House"
Farm product rates. finally to be
agreed upon," in the opinion of the
Wheeling Intelligencer, will doubtless
be such as to bar much of the food that
is now imported at the expense of our
producers. This will aid materially in
solving the farm problem, by lettering
the American farmers home market. If
all industry is as well cared for. in the
final draft signed by Mr.. Hoover, good
job will have been done" The Little
Rock Arkansas Democrat urges: Let us
wait until after the revised bill is passed
and sent to Mr.. Hoover for his signature
before passing final judgment. The
measure Is bad enough as it is. 1t may
be that 1t will be made even worse, or,
possibly. trihe better"
"Incomparably the worst ever enacted
by a Congress of the United States;
and, bad as it now is, it will be worse
when 1t comes from the conference
committee" is the verdict of the Louis
vile Courier journal, which feels that
the sufferers from this legalized ra-
paeity will be. first, the American con-
Sumers; second, the American farmers;
third, the American President" The
Columbus Ohio State Journal sees 1t
as written In terms of human greed
and loaded with political dynamite"
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breakdown in the so-called coalition"
with the statement that Senators could
not resist voting to hand out tariff
plums to their constituencies, and the
coalition collapsed"
= 80
The Roanoke World-News calls the
measure one that may be regarded as
the most inequitable and oppressive
tariff bill in the history of this coun-
try" though 1t concludes: 80 resilient
is American business that it can stand
almost anything. It has lived and pros
pered before under unjust tariff sched-
uleS, and 1t can do so again. What it
cannot long survive is uncertainty"
suspense as to tariff legislation is en-
phasized by the Oklahoma City Times,
the Lexington Leader, the Oakland Trib-
une and the Providence Journal The
Charleston Evening Post states that
business will be glad to have the bill
out OF the way, no matter what kind OF
bill 1t is"
"Only occasionally or accidentally"
declares the New York Times, has any
consumers So far IS the Senate Is
convened, they have been bilked and
bled, both by agricultural and industrial
rates. They have no friends" Yet the
Milwaukee Journal comedies that "Sonae-
thing is achieved" adding: "The Senate
have convicted the House Of trying TO
put over an outrage. The coalition Of
Progressive Republicans and Democrats
has forced the Old Guard into standing
up for reaction"
IAN pretense of scientific revision, of
which much was heard in the presi-
Dental campaign" asserts the Newark
Evening News, has been discarded.
The young Republicans who, for brief
moment, marched bravely to President
Hoovers support, were led peacefully