Word: smoot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...majority maintains an unofficial group known as the Committee on Committees. This committee stalled in a deadlock when four of its members (Reed, Moses, Bingham, Deneen) voted for Senator Goff for the Finance Committee while four others (Capper, Nye, Oddie, McNary) voted for Senator La Follette. Declared Senator Reed Smoot : "I haven't said I'd resign as Chairman [of the Finance Committee] if Senator La Follette is named but I feel I should if the Committee falls into hostile hands...
...Senator Smoot well knew, however, that if the committee fight went to the Senate floor, the Regular Republicans would lose against the same coalition of Progressives and Democrats which had already routed them on the tariff. So next day in the name of party peace he changed his mind, cast the deciding vote in the Committee on Committees which put Senator La Follette on his own committee...
...tariff battle then wheeled squarely into Schedule Five-the sugar sector, which was passed over earlier because of its especially controversial nature. The four-cornered sugar lineup: domestic beet producers, led by Utah's Senator Smoot, for a 2.75? per Ib. import rate (Cuban: 2.20?); domestic cane producers, led by Louisiana's Senators Ransdell and Broussard, for the House rate of 3? per Ib. (Cuban: 2.40?); unorganized consumers, led by Mississippi's Senator Harrison, for the existing rate of 2.20? per Ib. (Cuban: 1.76?); scattered farm Senators, led by Idaho's Senator Borah...
Combat began when Democrat Ransdell leaped to the Republican breastworks with a mighty harangue on the "absolute necessity" of sugar protection (for Louisiana). Senator Vandenberg followed this up with a devastating gas attack of statistics to show Michigan's need for a higher sugar duty. Senator Smoot, his heart beating fast for the beet-growers of Utah, delivered an impassioned attack upon the National City Bank of New York. Likewise he smote the "American pop industry" and U. S. chocolate manufacturers with large Cuban sugar properties...
Birthday. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah; at Washington. Age: 68. Said he: "I am drawing dividends on the life I have lived since boyhood. I've never, never drank liquor in my life. I've never smoked. I've always eaten good, plain food and loved work. I never was lazy and never saw a time when I didn't have plenty to do. I've wronged nobody...