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...second day of questioning, committeemen tried to pin him down to the details of his Plan. He conceded that a transactions tax to raise pensions funds would involve the licensing of every farmer, collection of a tax on every sale from a dozen eggs to a bale of cotton. Had he ever pointed that out to his rural followers...
...little more than a year ago the cotton market took a terrific one-day tumble. Prices dropped nearly $10 per bale in a few hours. Among the many to whom the "March 11th" break caused deep anguish was South Carolina's Senator Ellison DuRant Smith, self-appointed chamberlain to King Cotton. Forthwith, "Cotton Ed" Smith started an investigation which did not make the front page until a year later...
...bench with a majesty which even Bishop Freeman had to admire. First came a series of decisions on cases previously argued. Only one that interested the spectators was a case challenging the right of the Government to jail a man for "obstructing interstate commerce" in that he stole a bale of cotton from a Government bonded warehouse. The Court gave no answer in the matter of law but it did agree unanimously that the man's conviction should be set aside because he had not been properly indicted. Decisions completed. Chief Justice Hughes ordered the clerk to give...
...amount of our exports to a peacetime average. This meets every moral requirement, of course, but will do little to keep America out of war. If the war spreads to Europe and blockades are established, there is as much risk in shipping a barrel of oil or a bale of cotton as there would be in a whole shipload of the commodities. This country wants a program of strict and workable neutrality in which all exports whatsoever to a country at war shall be forbidden, and it is the duty of Congress to put this through in a manner different...
...Aren't you contending that the Government could make it a Federal crime to steal a bale of cotton off a farmer's wagon, because the cotton will eventually go into interstate commerce?" demanded Justice McReynolds...