Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09
COALITION TO MAKE
DESPERATE STAND
Further Tariff ReverSals
Feared Following Defeats
During Last Week.
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away from the coalition to vote for the
sugar and cement duties. The new
combination contains considerable
number of Democrats, as well as some
Of the Republican insurgents who have
hitherto been members Of the coalition.
The more success attending the efforts
Of the combination, the stronger 1t
grows, and it appears that II it is to
be halted by the coalition, the latter
must act quickly.
Would Prefer Compromise.
What has been going or in the Senate
the last week seems to be playing into
the hands of the Democrats from a po-
littcal point Of view. Some of the Re
publican leaders do not like to think Of
going to the country this Fall In the
congressional elections to defend q tariff
bill which levieS increased duties on
sugar, building materials, foodStuffS
generally and perhaps oil. Furthermore,
the Democrats will doubtless charge in
the campaign that votes were traded"
in the Senate and that big interests
wrote the bill in the end. These Re-
publican leaders would much prefer to
have had the coalition bill go to con-
ference, and have a compromise worked
out, looking to more limited tariff
revision.
President Hoover has urged Congress
to get the tariff out of the way, so that
American business may be the better
able to stabilize itself. It has been the
hope Of many Of the Republicans that
1t would be possible to send to the
President q bill, written in conference,
more nearly conforming to the Presi-
dents recommendation for q Limited
revision" of the tariff. But with the
new Senate combination steaming
ahead. the prospects do not seem to
good for such q contamination. Even
If the bill carries increases in duty
which the President does not consider
justifable; it will be dihicult for him
to veto q measure for which agriculture
and business have waited for a year.
Should the flexible provisions be re-
tanned In the bill when It Is sent to him,
however, there would be In the Presi-
dents hands the power to reduce inor-
dinately high rates of duty by so per
cent.
The new combination has adopted q
policy of supporting rates Of duty
slightly lower than those which were
defeated on sugar, cement, oil and lurn-
Der when the bill was in committee of
the whole This policy seems to have
been wisely conceived, for it gives an
opportunity IOI 0EIldOOkS W CAlAuBC
their positions and vote for increases in
duty without doing too much violence to
their earlier arguments
Senator Thomas Of Colorado, for ex-
ample, who is fathering an amendment
to levy o duty on oil, has modified his
original proposal. defeated In the COM
mittee Of the whole, so that the rate
will be 80 cents a barrel instead Of 81.
The duty on cement now adopted is 6
cents instead of 8, which was beaten in
the committee of the whole.
The Senate was in session only a
couple Of hours yesterday. 1t had be-
fore it a proposal by Senator Golf Of
West Virginia to restore the rates on
window glass which were proclaimed by
President Hoover under the flexible pro-
vision Of the law. These rates were re-
duced to the level Of the Fordney-Mc-
Cumber law when the bill was In COM
mittee Of the whole.