Word: smoot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Congress in a turmoil over a new outburst of its perennial tariff war, the latest news from the front is the petition, originated by Professor Taussig, and signed by over a thousand of the foremost economists protesting against the Hawley-Smoot Bill. Like most such protests, this petition will probably be pigeonholed while the Senator from Massachusetts, with an eye to a future election, pleads for a raise of the tariff on textiles or the Senator from Idaho thinks that his constituents would profit by further government protection of the wool market...
...conference within the week. The House conferees would be: Oregon's Willis Chatman Hawley, Massachusetts' Allen Towner Treadway, New Jersey's Isaac Bacharach (all regular Republicans) and John Nance Garner of Texas, Mississippi's James William Collier (Democrats). The Senate conferees: Utah's Smoot, Indiana's Watson, California's Shortridge (regular Republicans) and North Carolina's Simmons. Mississippi's Harrison (Democrats). The conference voting will normally be 6-to-4 for high rates. The conferees will become the final tariff writers. In dispute between the House and Senate...
...Senator Smoot began the debate with a thoroughgoing outburst of indignation. Cried...
...obscenity, order its destruction. The book importer would have all the privileges of appeal to the highest court. Senator Cutting declared himself satisfied with this liberalizing compromise, predicted that Customs agents would not be so reckless in seizing books if their opinions had to go before a court. Senator Smoot, happy that censorship had been restored, felt that the country had been saved...
After six and one-half nightmarish months, the Senate last week wound up its consideration of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill. It passed the Bill 53 to 31. The measure now goes to conference between the House and Senate for adjustment of differences before President Hoover can decide whether to sign...