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20 TARIFF COALITION MEETS BIG TEST 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 lican 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 session. 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 so 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 Os 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 1 \A/ HEN ' ree we *k* ago, the new so rich and regal that the average auto- jill! ||^| f— 1 I- 1111 l YY Cadillacs, La Salles and Fleet- mobile body appears disturbingly in- I I I woods were introduced, the Cadillac adequate by comparison. Luxurious new I H Ebmp w % lev I I Motor Car Company promised—in these special fittings and appointments are I * m m | ■ ■ mmm |[||[| new creations —the greatest chassis everywhere evident in tßese new Cad- 1 I % / ff% 111 Ibm I I value, the greatest body value, and the lilacs and La Sallest I I I\/ZA I I II 11 volu. 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I HI Mechanical Four-Wheel Brakes —have ... , r r lllll been raised to new heights of efficiency, * ... Consider the delivered price as well as the I ease of operation and protection. : list price when- comparing automobile values. ■ Cadillac-La Salle delivered prices include only > I I The new Fisher and Fleetwood bodies are reasonable charge* for delivery and financing. ■ 9 1 The Washington-Cadillac Co. I I 1136-40 Conn. Ave. Decatur 3900 The new La Salles are priced from $2285 to , - . 5 - - ‘ < s279s;the new Cadillacs from $3195 to $3795; | jj|B ~ \ 'l; the new Fleetwood* from $3995 to $7500. All I I 9! B! ocrats to go over to the Republicans without encountering criticism from their associates. Dill an Example. For example, no one seriously 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 vote for the bill as a whole on final 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 mthern ones, and did not in clude Dill 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 l’ * •- . -• ■. • -*» ;; • . -V ,y ■■ THU EVEKTITO STAR, TTOSHTITOTON~, P. C'., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1929. nation flashing about, trading is going to be attended by difficulties. If what has been said points toward 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 default by the Repub licans. It is well known that several regular Republicans are unsympathetic to the rates on brick, cement, plgiron, sugar and the other commodities in dispute. The Republicans may throw overboard a lot of rates to get safe to port with the bill as a whole. If the Democratic-Progressive coali tion should win these fights on rates the bill might become, embarrassingly to 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. GOVERNING HELD EASY. 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Shur-Off Ends Corns in 3 Minutes —Advertisement. LIQUOR GANG IS BEATEN tN BATTLE WITH AGENTS By the Associated Press. DANVILLE, Ky., October B.—A gang of colored liquor runners, alleged to have been engaged in handling whisky In a big way in the wealthy “bluegraw” section, engaged in a gur. battle with three enforcement officers on a highway 15 miles from here early yesterday. One of the colored men was killed, two were wounded and a fourth, identified by the officers as the leader of the gang, escaped. The officers, led by E. B. Henson, a Federal agent, had parked a small automobile across the highway to block the load of liquor they had been told would be carried to Danville. The car of the colored men crashed into the officers' machine. Henson said the colored men then opened fire on the blockading car. Corr)ii)gSooi)f ONE OF WASHINGTON’S GREAT STORES Three Convicts Slain in Mexico. By Cable to The Star. 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