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Scores of spectators crowded into the Senate galleries last week all prepared to be shocked and-scandalized by a public reading of obscene literature. On the floor Senators braced themselves for a stirring day. Stacked on the desk of Utah's tall, leathery-faced Reed Smoot were such volumes as David Herbert Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover,* George Moore's Story Teller's Holiday, Frank Harris's My Life and Loves, Honore de Balzac's Droll Tales, the Kama Sutra, Robert Burns's, unexpurgated Poems, Joseph Moncure March...
Aflame with zeal, Senator Smoot was about to ask the Senate to reverse itself on Customs censorship of obscene books...
...months of debate on the tariff, Senators spoke 4,219,000 words, which cost $131,900 to print in the Congressional Record. Democrats spoke for 221 hours, Republicans 158 hours, Insurgents 148 hours. Such were the statistics given the Senate last week by that master statistician, Chairman Reed Smoot of the Finance Committee, nominal pilot of the tariff bill...
...January the Senate voted 4840-38 not to raise the duty on sugar as proposed by the Finance Committee. Last week when Senator Smoot offered an individual amendment to increase the world sugar rate from 2.20¢ per Ib. to 2.50¢ (Cuban: 1.76¢ to 2¢), the Senate reversed its position and adopted 47-10-39 the Smoot Amendment. Reason: legislative trading. Washington's Senators Jones and Dill, for instance, reversed themselves to get a lumber duty. Oklahoma's Senators Pine and Thomas did likewise to get an oil duty. Arizona's Ashurst and Hayden switched for a long...
Ernest Winder Smoot, youngest son of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, was proud that his Irish setter. "Delaware Kate," had been judged the best dog in the Buffalo Kennel Club show...