Word: smooting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Public opinion. Senator Reed Smoot, high-tariff chairman for the Senate Finance Committee admitted: "I have found very little demand for changes in the tariff. . . . Many of the heavy duties proposed by the House can be reduced without injury to industry...
...books for fiscal 1928, talk of income tax reduction waxed in Washington last week. President Hoover commented cautiously: "We are giving careful study to the possibility. . . . We all hope that the situation may work out. . . ." Secretary of the Treasury Mellon: "There may be reasons against it." Chairman Smoot of the Senate Finance Committee: "Nothing doing!" Tennessee's Senator McKellar: "Such a surplus would not have been possible but for the amendment introduced by me" (publicity for tax refunds...
...Senator Smoot was obviously upset at the abuse to which tariff revision had been subjected. To the complaint that Industry was benefiting over Husbandry, he retorted: "The House Ways & Means Committee and, so far, the Finance Committee, by gestures, have given farmers and producers by far the best of it. . . . The Democrats are so anxious to make political capital out of the situation that they are imagining all sorts of rates and unjust schedules...
Sugar. Senator Smoot accepted a sliding scale tariff for this most controversial item in the bill. Because his State, Utah, is a great producer of beet sugar; because the Mormon church, his church, is vitally interested in beet sugar, the sugar schedule was to have been Senator Smoot's well-protected pet. That he favored a sliding scale which he admitted would produce rates lower than those proposed in the House bill (3? per lb.), made even his Democratic opponents gasp in astonishment. They accepted his plan as another indication of the receding high-tariff tide. When pressed...
Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, sugar-beet state, spoke as follows on the senate floor one day last week: "Ten years ago ... no manufacturer of tobacco products dared to offer nicotine as a substitute for wholesome foods,"* and demanded from the Senate a law to put tobacco and its products under Food & Drug Act regulations. If such a law passes, cigaret packages would be forced to show how much nicotine, or other drugs they contain and would not dare to exaggerate harmlessness claims. Also would Senator Reed force food manufacturers to tell in their advertisements what they now must tell...