The Archive · 1930

U. S. Trend Towards

HIGH. TARIFFS

By a vote of 47 to 88, the Senate, to-day, rejected the Nye motion xeconsiderthe/ Cuban and worl sagar tariffs, Thi to the Democratie<Western Republic"

notion proved aiseouragine Coalition which-has been \deavouring to prevent passage by the House of high rates on sugar and other commodities, and caused many to forecast similar tariffs on Tumber and hides, and presently on Fetroleum: as well.

The Senate had entered unanimous consent to the holding of today's voteen sugar tariffs, although there was a movement for greater Gclay in order to allow an attempt. to prove undue. pressure "lobbyist" by Bober Grant, president of the Mormon Church' and interested largely in domestic beet sugar, On another vote to-day, the Senate defeated: Senator Nye's motion, to reconsider a recent vote imposing a tariff of six cents hundred pounds on cement, The general trend, therefore, is thing toward the' conservative:

tariff point of view, despite frantic objections by both the Democrats and the Farm Stat¢ Republicans, The latter opposd their Eastern colleagues on the ground that a high tariff means more money out of the farmer's pocket for the commodities which ure necessary to him, more than off-setting any possible tariff' benefits he may receive on the goods he himself produces, That, 1, With a new coalition now in con trol of the Senate, Leaders to-day predicted farther' delays in the passage of the much-debated and longzdelnyed tavif? bill which has already stretched itself over many weary months of special and re~ cular session is it will finally go throug, a matter of days ago, before the recent victorious assaults by the high-tavifl Zorees, final "passage seemed only a matter of short time.

'The defeat of the Democrats and 'Western Farm State Republicans may result in almost complete re-sion of the' bill, it is forecast. Such a revision will be featured vy, a raising of duties on many item Many adherents of the tariff bill in the form that it first reached tho@liy Senate credit the petroleum tari advocates with causing the new situation, Certainly the arrival of the independent petroleum produc~ ers' delegation, and its determined clared a few quietly importing to the detriment of the domestic industry, seemed to cause an instant change in the secondary turning-point was the victory of the Utah beet sugar men, clinched by yesterday's fusal to review the decision for a higher Cuban and world rate.

Farm state Senators ate bitter over the present situation, declar-Jing that whereas the Hoover Administration went into. office on platform of legis! farmer, the pre the Western and Middle Western farmer is to be robbed by a tariff designed to protect the Eastern me dustrialists—United Pres

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