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...Callers at the White House included Senator Smoot (Chairman of the Finance Committee) to discuss proposals for tax reduction in the next session of Congress; Representative Madden (Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee) for the same purpose; Senator Watson and Senator Wadsworth to discuss Senate organization and the advisability of disciplining Senator LaFollette...
...Lewis was President Coolidge's reply-in part. His decision on the tariff itself is still in abeyance. The politics of the situation is curious. The high sugar-tariff group consists principally of the beet-sugar farmers of the West; their advocate par excellence is Senator Smoot, of Utah. Their argument is that we must have a high sugar tariff; if not, the sugar importers from Cuba will cut prices, drive the beet sugar industry out of existence, and then hold up the U. S. consumer at will. As may be expected, the regular Republicans, with their high-tariff...
Here one finds Senator Smoot and his regular cohorts taking the side of the sugar farmers; and Senator La-Follette aligned, in regard to one issue at least, against a group of farmers and on the same side as the great financial interests which he attacks...
...World War Foreign Debt Commission is composed of: Chairman: Andrew W. Mellon; Charles E. Hughes; Herbert Hoover; Reed Smoot, Senator from Utah; Theodore E. Burton, Representative from Ohio; Charles R. Crisp, Representative from Ga.: Richard Olney, ex-Representative from Mass.; Edward N. Hurley, ex-Chairman of the Shipping Board; Secretary: Eliot Wadsworth, Asst. Secretary of the Treasury...
...Following the Republican Convention at Cleveland, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge went on their weekend cruise aboard the Mayflower with Mr. and Mrs Frank W. Mondell, Secretary Weeks and Senator Smoot as guests...