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...carried 17 men as weekend guests. Mrs. Hoover, slowly recovering from her seriously sprained back, was still unable to accompany him. Hard rain again interrupted the President's fishing. Four Senators abruptly hastened back to Washington to carry a mysterious message from President Hoover to Utah's Senator Reed Smoot on the final Tariff compromise...
...last moment Senator Smoot, in charge of the bill, received a sudden mysterious message from President Hoover on the Rapidan...
Whirlwinds of condemnation of the whole Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill continued to blow through the public press. President Hoover was implored to use his veto power. Potent businessmen were quoted at length on the economic evils that would follow in the law's wake. Editorial writers blazed away at it in long double-leaded leaders. The basic economic argument was as follows...
...Charley Smoot, Negro jockey, up on Rooney: the Westbury steeplechase at Belmont Park, L. I., taking the right rein in his teeth when the collarbone he had fractured the day before broke completely as he struggled to right his mount after a hard landing over the water jump in front of the stands...
...Southern States . . . prestige and recognition." What moved Representative Garner, as a Texan, as Minority leader of the House and as a member of the House Ways & Means Committee, to advocate this major change was the apparent victory of the industrial Northeast over the South & West in the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill. If the Lone Star State were changed into a constellation of five, Mr. Garner foresaw eight additional Democratic Senators from the four new States - enough to over whelm Grundy-Republican-Tariffism. And incidently, under the Garner plan, what is now Texas would cast 28 electoral votes for President instead...