AMERICAN TARIFF BILL.
PRESIDENT IMPATIENT WITH DELAYS. WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. President Hoover gathered half a dozen Senate and House leaders around him at breakfast table at the AVhite House and impressed them with the necessity for breaking the legislative jam caused b” the delay in passing the Tariff Bill. This failure, the President pointed pit, was causing apprehension among the country’s business chiefs, particularly lest the Democratic and recalcitrant Republican coalition should lower some of the existing commodity rates. It is understood that Senator Watson informed the President that the Tariff Bill, to which 80 amendments had been moved, could not be passed before March 10. In the meantime, Mr Byrne, in a speech in the House of Representatives, laid the responsibility for unemployment and industrial depression at the doorstep of President Hoover and the .Republican Party. Mr Bvrns is chairman of the Democratic Concressional Committeej and nis action is taken to indicate the Democratic strategy in this year’s Congressional election. .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 73, 21 February 1930, Page 7
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161AMERICAN TARIFF BILL. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 73, 21 February 1930, Page 7
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