Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1929, Page 20

TARIF COALTON MEET B TES Fate of Rates and Bill as Whole Hinges on Delibera- tions in Senate This Week. BY MARK SULLIVAN. ‘The tariff bill begins this week in a changed phase more concrete and more pregnant than that which has gone before. The heart of it is the crystalliza- tion of the Senate into two clearly aligned groups. One is the 45 who voted or were paired for the regular Repub- lcan position in the vital roll call on the flexibility provision last week. The other is the 50 Democrats and pro- gressives who voted or were paired against the Republicans on the same roll call. Every future question about the tariff bill in the Senate as a question whether the 45 on the regular Republican side can attract to themselves 3 out of the 50 Democrats and Progressives. This statement applies to the fundamental question whether any tariff bill at all will be enacted this sesston. Practically every current comment goes on the assumption that the Re- publicans can get their needed 3. The Rpublicans are confident it can be done. Some Democrats concede it can be done. Possible on Some Phases. On some phases of the bill it will be done. The first conflict this week will be over a motion by Democratic Senator ‘Thomas of Oklahoma that the revision be confined solely to agriculture, omit- ting all industrial schedules. On this proposal, the Democratic-Progressive 50 will break, and the Republicans will win. Several Democrats hesitate to foreclose in advance the chance of an industry in a Democratic State to share in the tariff revision. After the vote on this proposal the Senate will proceed to the business of debating rates on specific commodities. In this process the outstanding contro- versies will be about the rates on ce- ment, brick, pig iron, lumber, shingles, footwear and sugar, together with some other commodities which have not been 80 conspicuously brought into public controversy. As to all these commodities, the Re- publicans propose to give increased rates, or, as in the case of brick and cement, to give rates to commodities now on the free list. As to each commodity, it is a case of the regular Republicans getting three recruits from the Democratic-Progres- sive 50. As to any one commodity, it is always possible for one or more Dem- ocrats to go over to the Republicans without encountering criticism from thelr associates: Dill an Example. For example, no one serlously ques- tions the party loyalty of Senator Clar- ence Dill of Washington. Nearly every one would concede that Senator Dill should have a party furlough, in order to let him vote with the Republicans for a tariff on shingles, which is vital to Senator Dill's State. Through the occasional advantage of accessions like. this, the Republicans may be able to win on any or all of the commodities that are acutely in dispute. The real test will'come, however, in the final vote on the passage of the bill as a whole. As to that, the spirit of the Democrats and their Progressive associates is quite different. In the tension that has come since the dra- matic line-up last week, no Democrat who goes over to the Republicans to passage will be forgiven by his party associates. Nevertheless, to pass the bill, the Republicans must get three re- cruits from their opponents. Under the circumstances that have come about, that is going to be difficult. The process through which such re- cruits have been secured in past tariff fights is called trading. To repeat Sen- ator Dill's name in a wholly suppositi- tious case, the process of trading assumes that either in words or by their atti- tude the Republicans should address the Senator as follows: “We will give you your tariff on shingles provided, but only provided, that you will vote for the bill as a whole.” That some such process of trading must be relied on by the Republicans goes without say- ing. It is inherent in the nature of the situation. “Trades” Widely Talked. The difficulty for the Republicans that has arisen in the present revision is that there has been too much talk about the trading. At least two New York newspapers have given printed lists of the Democrats who were sup- posed to be susceptible to seduction. Incidentally, all the Democrats named were { juthern ones, and did not in- clude Diil of Washington, who is men- tioned in this dispatch for a purely hypothetical purpose of illustration. Trading is a political process that does not demand sunlight for its thriv- ing. On the contrary, too much sun- light is deleterious, and too much sun- light is exactly what has arisen. The Democratic_party organization is in a state in which it describes itself as aroused. It has issued a jeremiad of in- dignation in which it pictures the situ- ation thus: “Seventeen Democratic Senators from the South have been mentioned as pos- sibly susceptible to the bargaining in- fluences that would be exerted * * * In other words, those Senators who en- tered into an agreement to eliminate the flexible provision are to be considered as prospectively willing to soften their opposition if only they might procure duties on specific products for their re- spective States.” ‘With so many searchlights of indig- vote for the bill as a whole on final | to THE_EVENING STAR, nation fiashing about, tradirig 18 gofng. to be attended by difficulties. e If what has been sald poliits towatd failure of the Republicans to pass their tariff bill, there is one other possibility inherent in the circumstances. In the fights about specific commodities that begin this week the Democratic-Pro- gressive coalition may win consistently. They may win through solidarity of their own numbers or they may win through willing defauit by the Repub- It is well known that several regular Republicans are unsympathetic to the rates on brick, cement, pigiron, sugar and the other commodities in dispute. The Republicans may thyow overboard a lot of rates to get safe to port with the bill as a whole. If the Democratic-Progressive coall- tion should win these fights on rates the bill might become, embarrassingly them, what they describe as a good bill. If the bill in its final form is what they have told their constituents would be good—in that event they might pre- fer not to be obliged to explain that they voted against a good tariff bill on final passage. e GOVERNING HELD EASY. 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