Word: smooting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obscure conference committee" that would write the Tariff Bill stirred Senator Harrison to ridicule. Explaining that Utah's Senator Reed Smoot would head that conference as chairman of the Finance Committee, Senator Harrison cried: "Is he obscure? Why, children have lisped the name of Reed Smoot, have read it a million times. . . . Senator Reed of Pennsylvania? He is not obscure. . . He made his reputation by defending Mellon. . . . And that other Republican conferee, the senior Senator from Indiana [Watson, leader of the Republican majority in the Senate]-he is not obscure. He has been in public life or trying...
Thus did the Tariff Bill come last week to the Senate. The House had passed it the day before. Clerks stamped the precious copy, entered its presence and pedigree in great journals, shuttled it away to the Senate Finance Committee where Chairman Reed Smoot and other Republican members prepared to lay rough and critical hands upon...
Like all other bills, H. R. 2667 begins: "Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. . . ." That is about all that the Senate was expected to leave unchanged of the House's tariff handiwork. Senator Smoot prepared to begin hearings on the Senate rewrite on about June 11 behind closed committee doors. A month or more will be spent in this preliminary revision. After that, when the Senate gets the bill, the House will have to swallow its pride of authorship and the real Tariff Fight will...
...House late Sunday afternoon after a misadventurous outing. Ten minutes later, tired though he was, he began to receive potent U. S. officials whom he had summoned. Came Secretary of State Stimson, Assistant Secretary Castle, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Under Secretary Mills (laden with papers), Senators Borah, Watson, Smoot, Congressmen Tilson and Garner...
Last week the Senate adopted a resolution by Senator Walsh (Massachusetts) calling upon the Tariff Commission to submit to it a copy of this sugar report. Utah's Senator Smoot, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, great and good friend of the domestic beet sugar industry, declared that "nobody except the President has a right to see" this report, which may be a major influence in the forthcoming sugar tariff battle...