Evening Star Newspaper, July 15, 1929, Page 15

0.7 NOTDRUNS TOLOWERTARFES Democratic Sharpshooting Rather Pleases Leaders in Senate. BY MARK SULLIVAN. The energy and intelligence of the Democratic national committee, in its campaign aginst the tariff is a major topic of discussion in Washington and in dispatches going out from here, Nothing like it has even been done be- fore. The initiative for it seems to have come from Chairmar. Raskoo. When the Senate began considering the tariff Mr. Raskob set up here as his deputy & Democratic ex-Congressman and ex- official in the Wilson administration, Jouett Shouse of Kansas. Mr. Shouse, in turn, set up an organization which includes an assistant exceptionally able in writing things of a sort the news- 1s like to print. m this combination has come some of the best andti-tariff sharpshooting that Washington has seen in a long time. The latest installment admits that the Senate Republicans have de- cided to write a bill lower than the Hawley one, but declares there is a “joker.” The Democratic committee n{ls the lower bill is going to be achieved by lowering duties on com- modities as to which the tariff doesn't matter anyhow. “In order,” they say, “to bring the average rates down we may look for drastic reductions of the duties on Kongo nose rings. Eskimo snowshoes, Chinese rickshaws and other articles of equally wide use.” G. O. P. Leaders Concerned. That is obviously a burlesque. Yet, like all burlesques, there is just enough truth behind it to jar the Republicans a little. The fact is, Republican leaders in Congress are more than a trifle con- cerned about the brilliance and acidity of the tariff comments which the Democratic committee is getting into newspapers of all shades of politics. ‘The truth behind this Democratic cari- cature is illustrated by the tariff on au- tomobiles. That duty in the existing law is 25 per cent. Twenty-five per cent is retained in the House version of the new bill. Now the Senate Repub- licans propose to reduce the rate to 10 per cent. The heads of the automobile industry say that 10 per cent is all they want. Actually, they don't want any tariff except a nominal one for tech- nical reasons. As elicited in the Senate hearings, the total number of foreign automobiles brought to America last year was just over 500, compared to a domestic production of upward of 4,000,000. The automobile industry does need a nominal tariff. It needs it only for the technical purpose of qualifying to set up countervailing duties in case any foreign country should attempt discriminatory duties against the United States. It is a fact that the Republican Sen- ators are combing the whole tariff care- Tully o see on what commodities the tariff can be reduced and what com- modities can be put on the free list. It is a fact that this process, added to other earnest efforts made by the Sen- ate Republicans, will lower the new bill as a whole below the bill as the House wrote it. The fact that the House rate on automobiles can be reduced more than half without the faintest menace to the automobile industry is proof that the House bill could not have been written with an eye to the lowest prac- ticable rates. Reductions and Commodities. No one need take too seriously the Democratic jeer about reductions being made where Teductions don't count. The Senate bill will almost, certainly make reductions below the rates in the House bill on some of the most important commodities, especially sugar. The Sen- ate Republicans will “stand off” some of the most insistent manufacturers who demand extremely high rates. The present mood of the Senate Re- publicans is to refrain carefully from high rates and literally to write a bill markedly lower than the House bill. This mood does not spring from any unconquerable virtue within the souls of the Senate Republicans. It was in- spired by the widespread criticism of the House bill, together with some other pressures. Those Republicans who sin- cerely want a moderate bill are rather pleased with the Democratic sharp- shooting. It helps keep the Senate Re- publicans as a whole firm in the new faith. If all public criticism of the House bill should cease suddenly and rmanently it would be quite possible for the major part of the Senate Re- Complete Your Vacation U. S. Army Chaplain Goes to New York Weekly to Preach With approval of the War De- partment, Army Chaplain John K. Bodel, attached to of the chief of chaplains, War Department, commutes to New York City every week in order to conduct Sunday services at St. Cornelius Chapel, at the Army post on Governors Island. He started these weekly trips two weeks ago and will continue them until he takes permanent station at Governors Island, next month, publicans to go back on their former spirit of the higher the better. Incidentally, it would be most mislead- ing if the more innocent part of the pub- lic should assume that all Democrats, in the Senate and elsewhere, are sincerely working for lower rates. It is true all Democrats are talking that way, or else saying nothing. The hard fact, how- ever, is that some Democrats are work- ing 'with quiet energy for high rates. At this moment, the chances for a lower bill depend largely on whether the Sen- ate Democrats sincerely stand for a lower bill and refrain from attympting quiet trades for higher duties. If all the Democratic Senators could be surely counted on, all the way through, in that event it would be quite safe to be confl- d‘e’}fl. the Senate bill would be reason- able. VIRGINIA JEWELERS MEETING AT DANVILLE | Association Convenes at Sessions to| Last Through Tuesday—Op- posed to Duty on Gems. Special Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va., July 15.—The twen- ty-first annual meeting of the Virginia Retail Jewelers’ Association convened this morning for sessions which will run through Tuesday afternoon. Ap- proximately 80 jewelers were on hand for the opening session, de ~d to organization and the preser 1 of reports. The annual banquet will : held tonight. Richmond and Lynchburg are reported to be working to secure the next convention. Condemnation of the import duty on diamonds and other uncut gems is expected to be volced in resolutions tomorrow. DISAPPEARAN.CE STORY SAVES HEAVY FINE Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., July 15—The claimed sudden disappearance of one of their number saved three brothers, Enoch. Oscar and Michael Warbles, of Baltimore, from being prosecuted here late yestérday on charges of operating an automobile while intoxicated. In- stead they were fined $10.25 for being drunk and disorderly. Claiming they were en Sparrows Point. M. to visic relatives near Harrisonburg, Va., their machine ran into a telephone pole east of town. They claimed the driver of the car ran away immediately after the accident, and police were unable to disprove their story. Two other companions were dis- missed for lack of evidence. Toute from Send It to the Vogue Cleaners Atlantic 0023 Wher‘e better cleaning is promised you and service is at its best. It costs no more for “Vogue cleaning” and you are sure to be most elated with the results., %rd & WA OWNS Wardrobe . S » THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, SPANISH DICTATOR BANS FLIGHTS FROM COUNTRY De Rivera Calls Halt to Proposed Activities of Nation's Famous OFFER FOR WATER PLANT IS REJEGTED Cumberland Turns Down Bid of $2,094,900 of Joseph McLane, Washington. Special Dispateh to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., July 15.—The mayor and city council today rejected the offer of Joseph McLane of Wash- ington, D. C., of $2,094,900 for the city water Jflmt and property. Rejection of the offer, the amount of which is the same as outstanding bond issues on the irmperty. ‘was made because of the form n which it was submitted, but it is un- derstood that the city is not interested in disposing of the plant to a private corporation. ~The offer was made through a letter to Isaac Hirsch, for- mer councilman. Lake Gordon the source of the water supply is located in Bedford County, Pa. Mayor Thomas W. Koon, said that the argument used by Mr. McLane in favor of the sale of the property was, in his cpinion, the greatest argument against it. Mr. McLane pointed out that no increase in rates without pub- lic service commission consent was possible under private ownership, where as the city could raise the ra anytim e. Mayor Koon said that under ownership the property would lowed to earn a fair return or 6 cent, whereas under city ownership carrying of interest charges and & retirement fund were all that the rates sought to achieve. Mr. McLane's letter said that the system was fairly tight, but that Lake Gordon needed dredging. At present the water plant has interest charges and put aside $340,- 540.52 into the sinking fund for retire- ment of the principal bonds. HELD IN CONTEMPT. Lockwood Is Ordered to Pay Up! Alimony or Go to Jail, Schee Merritt Lockwood, a real estate agent, residing at the Racquet Club, today was adjudged in contempt of court by Justice Jennings Bailey for failure to obey an order of the court directing him to pay hjs wife, Jane Cochran Lockwood, ailmony of $125 per month and counsel fees of $75. 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MADRID, July 15.—The government de Rivera would 1| flights outside Spain, either ic or European, aviators for eight or come. ‘This decision will prevent the pro- JULY “15, 1929.° posed air tour of Europe by Capt. Jim- enez and Capt. Iglesias, who recentl, completed a similar flight in Sout! America after crossing the South At- lantic Ocean, as well as another trans- atlantic attempt planned by Maj. Ra mon Franco, who was recently rescued on a previous transatlantic attempt near the Azores. Aviators. i — Society Plays Ping-Pong. NEWPORT, R. I July 15 (#).—Fing pong has taken society by storm. The favorite after-dinner spoit of other.cays is played on every exclusive veranda. And Mrs. Muviel Vanderbilt Church has converted part of her stables into a ping-pong court. today that Premier Primo approve no airplane transatlan. by Spanish military nine months to ¥ B 9 1 STRIKE TERMS APPROVED. 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