AMERICA’S TARIFF PROPOSALS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18498, 20 February 1930, Page 6

AMERICA’S TARIFF PROPOSALS.

CAUSE LEGISLATIVE JAMB. SOME STRAIGHT TALK. (United Press Association —By .Electric Tel egraph—Copyright.) (Received February 19, 7.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, February 18. President Hoover gathered half a dozen of the Senate and House leaders around him at White House breakfast table, and put squarely up to them the necessity for breaking the legislative jamb, caused by the delay in passing the Tariff Bill. This failure, he pointed out, was causing apprehension among the country’s business chiefs, particularly lest the Democratic apd recalcitrant Republican coalition should lower some existing commodity rates. It is understood that Senator Watson informed the President that the Tariff Bill, to which eighty amendments had been moved, could not pass before March 10. In. the meantime, Representative Byrns, in a speech in the House, laid the responsibility for unemployment and industrial depression at the doorstep of President Hoover and the Republican Party. “Mr Byrns is chairman of the Democratic Congressional Committee, and his action is taken to indicate the Democratic strategy at this year’s Congressional election.