AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1930, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS

U.S. TARIFF BILL

[United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

(Received this dav at 8 a.m.)

WASHINGTON, March 22

The Senate to-night completed action on rates of the new Tariff Bill, known as Hawley Smoot Measure, which has been pending since last September. The rates fixed represent the highest in history for farm products, and high duties for sugar, cement, wool and many necessities of life.-

The Senate adjourned to-night after acting on individual amendments and disposing of all the schedules, with the prospect that the Bill will be passed finally late on Monday or Tuesday, after insurgent republicans and democrats have delivered denunciatory speeches. The Measure will then go to a Conference with the House of Representatives.

The Tariff Bill constitutes a general revision of more than half the tariff structure and departs greatly from the original programme announced by Mr Hoover, who favoured increased farm rates, but only a limited revision of industrial rates.

Republican lenders, however, believe that- the President will sign the Measure as it emerges from the Conference. A MUSSOLINI MESSAGE, (Received this dav at 9.40 a.m.) ROME. March 23.

In a message to Blackshirts throughout l'talv, commemorating the eleventh anniversary of. the march on Rome, Mussolini says:—Let everybody know we still possess the same spirit and same will as in 1919.

TEST POSTPONED. VANCOUVER, March 23. Bad beach conditions at Daytona may postpone Don’s test till Tuesday or Wednesday.