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...more prominent were Albert D. Lasker, former Chairman of the Shipping Board and its special representative for the trip, Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, William Vincent Astor, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth (daughter of the late Theodore Roosevelt), Representative Martin B. Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, and in the second cabin John W. Slack, postal machinery manufacturer of Silver Creek, N. Y., who recently made unprecedented "fake" bid of $1,000,000, 000 for the entire Government fleet...
Said Secretary of Labor Davis: "Forty-two years ago I came to America in the steerage below the waterline. . . . This is the land of opportunity. Now I am travelling in the suite once reserved for an emperor (the ex-Kaiser)." Said Senator Smoot: "This is the first time I have not been seasick on an ocean voyage...
...Cedar City and the party took a 130-mile automobile ride through Zion National Park. The roads were bad; the alkali dust and the heat were terrific, and the party on the whole was miserable. The trip was a " press agent" stunt for the park, engineered by Senator Smoot and the Union Pacific Railroad (according to Mr. Kent). According to Mr. Kent, also, Senator Smoot's complacent smile "was well calculated to raise the blood pressure...
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon suggested several weeks ago that taxes be reduced. His reasons were that the income tax and the tariff are producing much greater revenue than was expected. Now Senator Smoot says: "No!" Consider the Senator's probable reasons: He considers the bonus likely to pass. This will call for much additional revenue. If any tax tinkering is undertaken, the LaFollette group will use every means to amend the bill by adding excess profits taxes, and larger income surtaxes. This result Senator Smoot and the regular Republicans are anxious to avoid. To meet the bonus...
...sales tax to pay the bonus, it revives in whispers from time to time. Senator Smoot, like President Harding, was once for a sales tax to meet the bonus. His present remarks do not indicate that he will advocate it again, but he is evidently in search of new sources of revenue...