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Protests against rate-upping began to pour in upon President Hoover and the I. C. C. The U. S. Fisheries Association, the League for Independent Political Action, the Northwest Retail Coal Dealers Association, the Wyoming Stock Dealers Association and Senators Caraway, Brookhart, Shipstead were among the first protestants. The National League of Commission Merchants said that the roads last year got $268,000.000 for hauling 973.605 carloads of fresh fruit and vegetables that sold for $489.000.000, warned that 15% rate increase would raise fruit and vegetable prices...
...ready to state their findings. Since this phase of the inquiry will touch the public pocket nerve, it is the phase for which professional foes of the "Power Trust" on Capitol Hill have most eagerly waited. Eminent in this group is Iowa's loud, intransigent Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart. Like Senators Norris, Nye, Howell, La Follette et al., he is ready to seize upon the Commission's disclosures and therefrom argue for stricter Federal regulation of interstate power. As the Commission's hearings started Phase II last week in a schoolroom atmosphere of charts and maps...
Smith Wildman Brookhart, chunky, unbrushed, of Iowa, who loudly supported Herbert Hoover in 1928 only to denounce him just as loudly in 1929. Originator of many a tricky farm relief proposal, he affects unpolished manners, shuns a dress suit, shoots a marksman's rifle, suffers a nervous twitching of the face. Recently he has abandoned the pretense of an appalling ignorance...
...profound regret that the confidence I hoped the country would have in the new Commission should be so early and so rudely disturbed." At once an insurgent Senate movement was on foot to reconsider the confirmation of the three Power Commissioners when Congress reassembles next week.* Senators Borah, Norris, Brookhart, Dill and Wheeler, promising support to Senator Walsh, clamored to have the question reopened. A report spread that Chairman Smith and his two Commissioners, to avert a Senate explosion which might blow them out of their new jobs, were considering rehiring Messrs. Russell & King. Commissioner McNinch, not yet in office...
...regulation of water power. Its dissatisfaction with the present policy was chiefly responsible for recent legislation reorganizing and jacking up the Federal Power Commission. All power witnesses before it are suspected at the outset and the inquisitorial questions of such Senators as Nebraska's Howell, Iowa's Brookhart, Washington's Dill, Montana's Wheeler, New York's Wagner and Kentucky's Barkley seem designed to elicit testimony to discredit the present system of utility regulation. Despite the fact that service with a power company might well constitute good training for a power regulator, no such connection ever seems too small...