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Looking very pained at such language in the Senate, Senator Reed Smoot who himself has been making a study of obscene foreign literature to support customs censorship (TIME, Jan. 6), arose and began: "Oh, Mr. President?...
...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...
Exclaimed Senator Smoot: "The Senate will be so shocked by these books that it will all but unanimously strike the Cutting amendment from the bill...
...newsmen, Senator Smoot showed some of the more unprintable things he had discovered and assured them that he already had the support of several colleagues, including Indiana's Watson, the G. O. P. floorleader, who had perused several of the books with shocked attention...