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...years the responsible job of seeing tax bills through, the Senate rested on the patient, sloping shoulders of prosy Reed Smoot, who stood on the floor swinging columns of statistics, ponderously trying to hit the gadflies of the opposition, one of whom, with the most biting sting of all, was Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. Last week Senator Smoot was in far off Utah serving as a pillar of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.* And Pat Harrison, no longer cast as a gadfly, had to play the heavy, as Chairman of the Finance Committee...
...only active opponent to the passage of the McDuffie Bill in the House. He declared that an amendment of the Constitution was required to relinquish colonial possession and that the United States had a moral duty to continue her occupation. Moral duties and constitutionalities have little weight with Senator Smoot's sugar lobby, however, and considering the obvious desirability of increasing local and Cuban sugar production, the nobility of Bacon's sentiment was better quashed than quaffed. In an era of economic nationalism, the charitable support of colonial possessions, however Christian, must be swept away. Philippine motes are ocularly harmless...
Quickly called to testify was Ernest Smoot, youngest of six children, who served his Mormon father as secretary, his father's committee as clerk. A fair-haired, quiet man of 32, Son Ernest sat most of the time with his hand to his mouth. There were embarrassing documents in the record. One was a telegram he had sent to Mr. Hanshue: "Still have hopes General will approve your high bid. ... If he renders decision giving you contract under low bid, accept first checks under protest and file claim for the difference. This seems . . . foolish but it is a precedent...
...Ernest Smoot was not the only son of a famed father to draw money for services to air transport companies. Others whom Mr. Hanshue mentioned were Lehr Fess, son of Ohio's Senator Simeon Fess, who represented National Air Transport at an air operators' conference; William Hudson Philp, son of onetime Fourth Assistant Postmaster General John Philp who did the same; Julius Kahn, son of Representative Florence P. Kahn of California who represented Western Air Express in Washington...
These family details stirred a storm of denials. Onetime Senator Smoot of Salt Lake City asserted he had "no connection whatever" with Western Air, knew nothing of his son's connection. Lawyer Lehr Fess. in Toledo, declared that his firm was counsel for National Air Transport in Ohio, had merely done "the usual routine work...