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Description: Oddie Amendment To Tariff Indefensible; 56 Cases Parrot Fever Are Listed; Senator King Denies Charge
Date: January 23 1930Newspaper published in: Huntsville, AL
Source: Library
Page/Column: Page 12
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ODDIE AMENDMENT TO TARIFF INDEFENSIBLE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (AP) – Describing as “indefensible” the Oddie amendment to the tariff bill to levy a duty of six cents a pound on green and ten cents a pound on dried hides. Senator Walsh, democrat, Massachusetts, said in the senate today that the proposal would reach into the pockets of American consumers more than any other one item in the tariff structure.
Resuming debate on the necessity of a hide, leather, and shoe tariff, with indications pointing to a vote before nightfall, Walsh said the six and ten cent specific rates would be equivalent to 40 per cent ad valorem as against 10 per cent ad valorem as against 10 per cent in the bill and its enactment would destroy the leather and shoe industries of the United States.
56 CASES PARROT FEVER ARE LISTED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (AP) – Public health officials at noon today counted a total of 56 cases of parrot fever or psittacosis in 10 states and 8 deaths.
Dr. Robert Armstrong, in charge of a nationwide study of the outbreak, said some results had been obtained in efforts to isolate germs of the disease in the hygienic laboratory.
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SENATOR KING DENIES CHARGE
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Never Accepted and Contributions For his Senate Race He Declares
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (AP) – Senator King, democrat, Utah, denied today that he had accepted any contributions from H. A. Metz, New York Dye importer, either in 1922 or 1928.
Questioned by newspapermen after testimony had been heard by the Senate lobby committee that Metz had contributed $1,000 to King’s campaign funds in 1922 and in 1928, had sent him a check for the same amount, Senator King denied emphatically that he accepted any money from the importers.
He said, however, that Metz had sent him a $1,000 check in 1928 which was never used because “I didn’t want to receive money from my friends and be under obligations to anyone.” He produced a part of the check which bore Metz’s signature as evidence that it had been destroyed.
Questioned about testimony by Samuel Russell, his former secretary, before the lobby committee that Metz had contributed $1,000 in 1922 King said:
“I never heard of it.”
The senator added that Metz passed through Utah in 1928 and asked if he could contribute any money to the general democratic campaign. King said he told Metz he could not receive any money.
Later, he said, he received a $1,000 check from Metz which was destroyed unintentionally. He tore off the signature to show in case anyone doubted that the check had been destroyed.
King also denied Russell’s testimony on the “dye trust” which the senator delivered in the senate.