The Washington times., 1930-03-05
;NATE TO VOTE ON LITERARY CENSORSHIP THIS WEEP
VOTE ON SUGAR
IS EXPECTED
LATE TODAY

The recently organized sugar
lumber-oil combine was making
It's last stand in the Senate today
In a drive to write higher protec-
tion into the pending tariff Eill
against the opposition OF the
habitually victorious Democi attic
1nSurgent coalition.
The combine boasted of suffic-
lent strength to increase the duty
: on Cuban sugar from Sits to
$500 per hundred pounds. If
successful, it will make a new
drive to take oil and lumber off
the free list and give them tariff
protection.
Vote Today On Sugar
These three rate. wars, a battle
over federal censorship of i'm.
ported literature and two i'm.
portant economic amendments by
Senator Norris (RO of Nebraska,
must be hurdled before admins
tration leaders can send the tariff
bill on the homestretch to enact
ment. ts
The sugar contest will be de.
cided this afternoon, the Senate
having agreed to vote at 3 O'Clock.
After that will come the literature
test, oil, lumber, the Norris
amendments, a score of minor
amendments by Senator Copeland
Cd of New York, followed per-
haps, by passage of the bill. This
goal may be reached before the
end of the week.
The outcome of the row over
federal censorship was rather un.
certain. BY a narrow margin,
the Senate two months ago elim-
mated all bars against the i'm.
portation of literature. Senator
Cutting R) of New Mexico, a
Harvard graduate, fathered the
amendment.
He charged the censorship was
left to unlettered customs clerks,
who didn't know classic from
q Smutty story.
Senator Smoot (R.) Of Utah,
will seek to restore the censorship
on the ground it was the only
method of barring riSGue French
and Spanish novels. He may
read to the Senate III executive
session some of the spicy stories
that would come into this country
If the censorship were lifted.
Limits Importers Profits
The Norris amendments would
write an ant1-monopoly law into
the tariff as we'll as a profit
limiting act against importers.
One of the amendments would
tax importers SO per cent of all
their profits in excess n6e '25 per
cent above the importation prices
Of their goods. The other would
place on the free list all articles
on which the Tariff Commission
found American manufacturers
were operating price-fixing
agreement.
Norris declared the first amend.
ment would prevent "extortion"
and robbery of American con-
sumers by importers. He told of
instances when articles costing
50 and So to land in New York
were being sold for $40 and $50.
His amendments would limit the
price of such articles to $3.50 and
$3.75. The other amendment, he
added, would restore free trade on
any article found to be the sub
ject of price-fixing agreement
by American manufacturers. This
plan, he said, would eliminate
prlce-fixing agreements on any
articles coming into competition
with imported goods.
Administration leaders mean
while were thoroughly pleased
with the legislative situation. They
hoped to pass the tariff bill this
week, but failing in that by the
middle of next week at the
latest. This would shave a few
days from their original goal of
March Is. After that the bill
goes to conference and it prob
ably will not become a law until
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