Evening star., 1932-04-02
TARIFF BILL SEEN
AS ELECTION ISSUE
Veto of Party Measure Voted
by Senate, az to 80, Is
Held Inevitable.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A place among the campaign issues
of this Summer and Fall beckoned to-
day to the Democratic tariff bill which
passed the Senate yesterday, but is
headed inevitably for a veto at the
hands of President Hoover.
Strictly party machine in its origin,
the bill already has passed the House.
The Senate passage, AZ to 80, saw the
independent Republicans fiocking to
their old coalition with the Democrats,
in a process well elaborated during the
week Of debate.
Amendments require that the bill go
back to the House for adjustment be-
fore it Is presented at the White House
Its chief provision takes away from the
Chief Executive the power to make
changes n duties ordering the Tariff
Commission to report its suggestions to
Congress instead. However, these are
to pass through the Presidents hands
and come to Congress accompanied by
the Executives recommendations.
Bill Sets Up Counsel.
AS the Senate passed 1t, the measure
also sets Gp a consumers counsel" to
represent the public before the Tariff
Commission, and it requests the Presi-
dent to call an international conference
to lower tariff barriers. 1t also carries
an amendment by Senator Norris, Re-
publican, ci Nebraska to suspend pro-
lection on products which are dis
covered to be manufactured and dis
trlbuted without competition.
The bill passed by the Senate is
known as the Harrison substitute for
the House bill. Senator Harrison
Democrat, of Mississippi, was instru-
mental in its drafting and led the bat
tie for it on the floor
1t provides that findings of the Tariff
Commission shall be forwarded to Con-
gress by the President with his recon-
mendations, but shall not become ef-
fective until legislation has been en-
acted carrying it out. Under the pres
ent law the President can make changes
in rates recommended by the Tariff
Commission within certain limitations
The House bill provided that recon-
mendations of the Tariff Commission
would be effective automatically within
go days unless Congress took action to
prevent them.
Vandenberg Amendment Fails.
An amendment offered by Senator
Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan
to substitute for the Democratic bill a
measure retaining the flexible tariff in
its present form, but providing for
changes in the free list, was rejected
43 to %.
On the final vote, six Independent
Republicans lined up with the solid
Democratic ranks to pass the bill.
The Republicans were Senators Brook
hart, Iowa; Frazier and Nye, North
Dakota; La Toilette, Wisconsin; Nor
beck, South Dakota, and Norris, Ne
braska.
During the final debate, Senator
Hatfield, Republican, of West Virginia,
charged the Democrats had used the
tariff as the basis for Nation wide
campaign of Misrepresentation" OF the
Hoover administration.
He said the campaign began IN June,
1929, with the appointment OF Jouett
Shouse as chairman of the Democratic
National Executive Committee and
Charles Nicholson as publicity director.
The plot that was conceived by this
propaganda" he said. was ably, sup
ported by the importer and the inter-
national banker"
AS chairman of the Republican Sena-
torial Campaign Committee, Hatfield
defended the Hawley- -Smoot tariff rates
and called for an increase in them to
compensate for depreciation in foreign
cCrrencies.