Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-25
Smoot to Put Question to
ConfereeS When They
Meet Next Week.
SEPARATE HOUSE VOTE
ON BILL ISSUES URGED
Sugar, Lumber and Cement Sched-
ules Passed by Senate Would
Be Considered.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A determined effort to obtain pub
licity of the daily actions of the Senate
and House conferees on the tariff bill
beginning next week viii be made by
Representative Garner Of Texas, the
House minority leader, who will be one
Of the i've House members on the con-
ference committee.
With one or two exceptions, all tariff
bills have been considered behind
closed doors in conference, but there
have been frequent occasions when the
actions taken have been made public
as the sessions progress.
Garner said today he would endeavor
to have this practice followed on the
Hawley-Smoot measure passed, So to 81,
yesterday by the Senate.
SmOOt to Open Question.
Chairman Smoot of the finance COM
mittee, who will head the Senate Re-
publican conferees, said he would put
the question of publicity to the con-
ference when it gets down to work on
the hundreds Of differences in the
House and Senate measures next week.
Speaker Longworth said today that
there would be no effort to rush the
tariff bill through the House,
The bill formally was n1esSaged to
the House from the Senate today. It
viii lie on the Speakers table until
Monday.
I'VE desire to give the Senate q rest
and the members Of the House an OPP
portunity to study the Senate amend
ments," Longworth said. mo one yet
knows what Is to be done. Conferences
are to be held during this week to de-
termine the course"
Separate Votes on Issues.
Longworth said that before Monday
the manner in which the measure will
be considered will have been determined
by the Republican House leaders.
Several highly controversial amend
ments written into the tariff bill by the
Senate may be brought to separate votes
Ia the House before the measure a sent
to conference. The measure was passed
by the Senate late yesterday by . vote
Of So to 81.
Such a course of procedure, It was
learned today, Is finding favor with the
leaders of both parties. Representative
Garner is actively behind Q movement
to bring this about and the Republican
4Ce0SIo arc 10 II
Under the present tentative plans
the schedules that would be voted upon
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 Demo-
Gratis and independent Republicans that
q "vote-trading combination" had been
formed to increase the sugar levy and
impose tariffs on lumber and cement,
IL a. ak~ a.
try free Of duty.
Garner Hopes for Coalition.
In addition to the move for the sep
arate votes, the Democrats Of the House
expe-t to make q motion that the bill
be sent back to the ways and means
committee with instructions that in
creases be confined to the agricultural
schedule.
They do not expect, however, that
they viii be successful in this and are
concentrating their efforts upon OBJ
tanning enough votes to carry the sep
ner said he was hopeful Of organizing
a coalition Of Democrats and independ-
ent Republicans, similar to that which
for an extended period was in control
of the tariff situation In the Senate.
The Democratic leader said today
that he would do everything possible
to enable the members Of the House to
express their views on the highly dis
puted Senate amendments. He added
that he was prepared to go before the
rules committee himself to ask q special
rule under which the separate votes
would be taken.
Tomorrow the House viii take up
measures sponsored by the interstate
commerce committee and on Thursday
viii return to the District supply bill,
with plans made for reaching vote by
nightfall and then adjourning for the
remainder Of the week.
Yesterday as Republicans and DEM
ocrats cast their ballots for passage OF
the measure, while % Democrats and
5 Republicans opposed the measure.
Previously motion to recommit, with
instructions to confine increases to ag-
ricultural products, had been defeated,
10 to 8.
In addition to the many rate sched-
ule amendments adopted by the Senate,
two important changes in the admins
trative provisions must be worked out
in conference. These are the amend
ments Incorporating in the bill the ex-
port debenture plan of farm relief and
revoking the Presidents authority to
make changes in the tarih rates under
tn. existing flexible provisions.
AS written by the Senate, the power
now vestsd in the Chief Executive would
be given to Congress-, which would act
after recommendations by the Tariff
Commission and then without q gen.
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