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Because Congress does not meet until Dec. 7 and debt suspension must be voted by Dec. 15, the next international pay day, President Hoover was pressed to relax his opposition to a special session. Utah's Senator Reed Smoot estimated it would take six weeks to legislate on this matter. Mississippi's Democratic Senator Pat Harrison, so actively in favor of the Hoover plan that he called for a political armistice during its consideration, told the President the House would be tied up for weeks selecting a Speaker, advised him to call Congress into special session in late...
Republicans, however, were not quite so scrupulous about keeping the Hoover plan out of politics. Exclaimed Senator Smoot: "A splendid thing for the good of the party-and for the good of the country!" Declared James Francis Burke, G. 0. P. counsel: "From now on the fortunes of the Republican party are certain to im-prove...
Last week President Hoover started the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act on its second year with a cautious bit of rate-flexing. On recommendation of the Tariff Commission, he upped the duty on dried eggs (from China), hemp cordage (from Italy) and bicycle bells (from Germany). He lowered the duty on bentwood furniture (from Czechoslovakia), olive oil in pack- ages (from Italy) religious and commercial organs (from Canada). He agreed with the Commission that no flexing was needed for the rates on pig iron, cheese, hides and skins, olive oil in bulk or cast bells, chimes and carillons...
Late last week the White House stirred with sudden, mysterious activity. President Hoover had not been back 30 minutes from his Mid-West trip (see p. ioj before Secretary of State Stimson hurried in to see him. Soon a presidential message to Utah's Senator Reed Smoot in Salt Lake City started the Finance Committee Chairman at top speed to Washington. Connecticut's Representative Tilson, House floor leader, was asked to the White House for the night. Pennsylvania's Senator Reed was asked to report for breakfast next morning. Virginia's Senator Glass hustled up from...
...Reprisals?" On the tariff side of Hon. Mr. Bennett's budget speech-and to hear U. S. squawks last week one might have thought there was no other side-the Canadian Premier made courteous pretense that he was not offering "reprisals" to the U. S. Hawley-Smoot Tariff upping (TIME, June 2, 1930). Mr. Bennett said that Canada's depressed "infant industries" and her unemployed workers were uppermost in his mind. By protecting industries he would make jobs. Indeed, two days after his speech Premier Bennett proudly explained just exactly why he raised the tariff on wire netting...