Deadlocks in Tariff Legislation

Archive Report

Twenty-six days remained on October 31 before the end of the special session of the Seventy-first Congress, summoned fay President Hoover to consider “legislation to effect further agricultural relief and legislation for limited changes of the tariff.” Congressional action upon the recommendations submitted by the President in his message of April 16 had been completed when Congress recessed for the summer on June 19, with the exception of tariff legislation which-embodied in the Hawley-Smoot bill -is still pending before the Senate. The assertion that “this bill is dead” was made by Senator Reed, F., Pa;, a member of the Finance Committee of the Senate, in an address at Philadelphia oh October 26, an opinion which he reiterated on October 28 on the floor of ...

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