Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House the President summoned High Tariff Lieutenant-General Watson and Generalissimo Smoot. He asked first one, then the other about prospects of Tariff Bill early passage in the Senate. Mournfully Senator Watson predicted that the special tariff session of the Senate would end without passing any Tariff Bill. Less pessimistic. Senator Smoot conceded a "chance" of a final Senate vote on the tariff next month...
...Debated the tariff bill...
...Adopted a Cutting Amendment to eliminate from the tariff bill the ban on "obscene" books...
Most of the Administration Republicans and several Southern Democrat Senators opposed the amendment, which finally passed only by a 38 to 36 vote. Furthermore, Utah's Reed Smoot (opposed) announced that the amendment would be voted upon again when the tariff bill is reported out by the Committee of the Whole. If the amendment stands, Customs officials can still bar "indecent pictures and transparencies," contraceptives, and books or other printed matter advocating forcible resistance to U. S. law or threatening the persons of U. S. citizens...
...solution of this problem of unrestricted censorship is seen in the amendment which was just passed in the Senate a few days ago. In order that censorship may be completely stopped, this bill must again go through the Senate, to be attached to the present Tariff bill: then it goes into a conference of three members each from the Senate and House. Finally, the bill must be passed by the House of Representatives. If Senator Cutting can get the proper support, the bill should go through without any trouble, as it has an excellent start gained from its victory...