Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-07-31 | Page 3 | Secret System of Writing Tariff Bills Scored

Secret SV Sy System St e rh 6 or t W ri t-t t tins A r. r M g A J i 11 s' s S cOr eg 1 I t t o z Bares Action i O Vf Party Duty uty Board fc J w Z fi IT 1 Mn l. l rn In u Letters f to Voters L 7 Citizens Entitled to Know JJ T Rel Results of f Toll ToU Vote S ator Claims It if t ii X J Diy PAUL R. R M MALLON LLON Unit d U. U Staff Stiff C Correspondent WAS I July ly rhe il-rhe 31 The 31 The se secret sc ac- cret ert erd p party system of writing tariff bills bUls was was' brought Into dispute to today today to- to day wh cf i Senator James s R R. Couzo Couze Couz- Couz o e s p n Michigan l went Into Irit iha h hex c tIve m meetings of of ne Republican Re Re- publican lun members of the fi finance ft- ft nance committee n now nV V Working on onUte the Ute house tariff bill bIU and Informed th them m he had publicly told his con con- hat tl committee had hM done hi In executive session e eson In Jn letters to voters In hi Michigan oue u stated the R Republicans had put ut on the U e fr free frei list eliminated elim Um- d' d the h house houet se duties upon upon nil all loss logs except hardwood maple and birch and retained th 25 per cent house hoUze duty on automobiles eliminating elfin elim Ina nl only onty the countervailing du duties ties THREATENS TO TELL The The report of Couzens defiance of tho secrecy plans pian of ot his can an colleagues was no n news wB to them for tor according to Information given ghen the United Pr Press ss by A dis I- I interested party Co Couzens t told id them 1 last st Monday he hc would tell teU the te pep eo peo people eole le who elected eJected him the and they were doing with the house rates rate In which Michigan is vitally interested The statement nt by Couz Couzens eng ens ns' ns was wa all made to the committee aft after r another member h had d' d called I official attention to a I. I United pre Press Pres dispatch revealing what the coni com coz- committee had been doln doing on on the chemical chem chemical ical Icat s schedule It was decided then nothing could of th the be bedone done about publication has raised facts but Co Couzens zens' zens step tep the thern Issue again Other members de declined de- de comment on the possibility ity that at punitive steps might be betaken betaken tal taken en by them against th the Michigan Michigan Michi Michi- gan an sen senator tor He Is chairman of ot the Import important nt Interstate commerce cor committee and could bo ba deprived of tha by byth th tho Republicans 1 If th they y chose to go that far tar O OPPONENT OF S' S SECRECY and Tile former Detroit mayor maor jartner of Henry Ford ord has long b ben been an opponent of senate secrecy se se- erecT creel in any form At the close of the last session of congress when th the tb senate was vas adopting a sweep sweep- sweeping In ing modification of or its Hs executive sessions rul rules rule's s Couzens publicly de de- fled the senate to enforce enforce any of Its Its- secrecy rules against him He raid maid he be w was s responsible ii only nr to thc people of Michigan for his facts nc s. s and I contended the Seriate at had yi tio no right to gag sag him In any wa which way would prevent him from telling his his' people bow o he voted and what he ho said Never ever In n recent sen trl has a a. 8 senator pator declined op openly to toa a abide by the secrecy c restrictions of ot i party caucuses although many sentor senAtors senators sen sen- tor have refused sed to t attend them h present meetings n or of the Republican Re Re Republican publican members of o the finance committee are not hot h however ve J exactly exact exact- Jy ly like a a. party caucus caucus because itis it it- is is known that whatever cr the tho senators senators senators sena sena- tors agree upon will stand as the action of ot the committee so 0 in a D. l e their actions are re semiofficial