AMERICAN TARIFF BILL
A, SENATOR CENSURED,
EMPLOYMENT OF AN AGENT.
(United Press Association.)
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.), WASHINGTON, November 4. By 54 votes to 22 the Senate officiallv censured Senator Hiram Bingham (Connecticut, Republican) for secretly employing an agent of the Connecticut Manufacturers’ Association to assist him in connection with the pending Tariff Bill. The blow was softened, however, when an amendment was also a ’opted stating that the employment of the agent was not the result of corrupt motives on the part of the Senator The resolution does not call for Senator Bingham’s resignation, and is oulv an expression of the sense of the Senate"
Senator Bingham declared that he has np intention of resigning.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20867, 6 November 1929, Page 9
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115AMERICAN TARIFF BILL Otago Daily Times, Issue 20867, 6 November 1929, Page 9
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