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HIGHER TARIFFS FOR U.S.A.
AMERICAN HEN TO BE PROTECTED.
SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1929.
AIRMAN GIVES FIRE ALARM.
SEVERAL REMBRANDTS
BURNED.
Washington, Feb. 5.
New York, Fob. 5. During his campaign Mr. An airman, flying above the Hoover announced that if elected Hudson River,carly this morning, President he would without delay saw smoke pouring out from the cail an extra dession of Congress roof of one of the large mansions for a revision" of the tariff, osin Riverside Drive, New York. farmers bitterly complained they did not receive sufficient protec- tion.
He immediately swooped down low over the houses in the neighbourhood, the roar engine causing the realdents to rush from their houses.
of his
The Ways and Menna Com mittee of the House of Ropresen- tatives, which has the framing of The alarm was quickly given, tariff legislation, went to work in but the fire brigade had difficulty advance of convening Congress to in reaching the house, as the road hold hearings on the new dutica, was covered with ice and, in ad- which was practically an invita-dition, all the hydrants near by tion to every high tariff man-to were found to be useless because whom the high duties are never of the lack of pressure. high enough-to como to Washington and elamour for still higher schedulcs,
Farmers as well as manufac turers have not been modeat in their demands. Raisers of live stock, dairy, and ment products have asked that the tariff on their goods be doubled so as to keep out Importations from Canada and South America, which would in- the cost of living in Стелве America,
As the result, the house, which belonged to Mr. Otto Marx, the well-known art collector and financier was destroyed, along with his valuable collection of pictures, including several paint- Ings by Rembrandt. Many pro cious tapestries and books were also ruined, the damage, being estimated at £20,000.
The only picture saved was a portrait of Mre. Marx as a little girl, which was carried out of the house by Mr. Marx's 15-year-old daughter, who knew it was her father's favourite possession.
Keep out Everything. The American hen is in danger from the Argentine turkey and poultry and eggs from China. Farmers want the duty en corn increased from 15 to 30 cents a MAGISTRATE EXPLAINS bushel; Flordia growers of fruit|REASON FOR DISMISSAL OF and vegetables ask that the exist ing tariff he raised from, 200 to 500 per cent,; artists ask for a duty high enough to shut out European paintings and sculp ture; and a Fordia man told the Committee that the duty on all articles should be high enough "to keep out everything that can be produced in this country,"
Representatives from the cotton
| States, heretofore always in favour
CASE BROUGHT BY POLICEWOMAN.
last week. Do you know why I dismissed it?
Mr. Mead, sitting at Bow-street recently after convicting a woman on a charge of soliciting on the evidence of two policeweinen, TC- called the principal witness, and said, "I dismissed a case of this of lower duties, are now advocat-kind which you brought before me ing higher schedules owing to the extension of manufacture in the South, and a few days ago Senator The Policewoman-Yea, because Bansdell, of Louisiana, told the you considered there was not suf Committee that a substantial inficient evidence of annoyance, crease of duties on jute inported Did I explain to you why one from British India was imperative instance of annoyance was not suf- if serious disaster was to be avert- fielent?--Yes, you said that ovi- ed to the cotton producing States, dence of the annoyance to persons
Senator Smoot, of Utah, Chair.must be in the plural,
man of the Finance Committee, Did you take what I said 'rather! which Committee exercises the as a compliment to the police, same functions The Scratens the namely, that when a particular Ways and Means Committee doescans was weak it, tended to show in the House, is now in Miami, that there was no oxaggeration in having been called there by Mr. the evidence?—Yes. Hoover to advise with him regard- Mr. Mead-I have received a inst tariff legislation. Mr. communication which conveya to Smoot in an extreme high pro- me that what I said has created an tectionist, and Mr. Hoover has entirely false impression. The always been in favour of high person who communicated with me | duties and Keeping European seemed to think I had cast a
goods from coming in competition persions on the policewomen. with articles of domestic pro-am anxious that that impression
duction.
should be removed.
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