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Surrender. Exhausted by his long losing fight, Generalissimo Reed Smoot wearily hoisted the truce flag and in a thin voice announced his terms of surrender. Admitting that he and his Old Guardsmen were beaten, he said: "The Senate should take a recess. . . . Let the coalition agree upon amendments. . . . Let the vote be taken in the Senate upon the amendments without a word of discussion and let us pass a bill." What he proposed, in effect, was that the Democrats and Progressive Republicans should reframe the tariff bill in committee during recess, with the certainty that their majority could then pass...
...such terms were acceptable to Democratic Field Marshal Simmons and Freebooting General Borah. They smiled contemptuously as they rejected the Smoot peace offer. They would continue to fight in the open where already their arms had brought such success...
...underneath the curtain was a rack of beautiful silver hip flasks and the word went round they were filled with Scotch or something and 'help yourself.' A considerable number of the gentlemen there did help themselves. . . . Senator Smoot was present . . . and was as much disgusted with that booze party as I was. I do not want to put any intimation that he took one of those flasks or used liquor because he did not. . . . Senator Gooding [of Idaho, since deceased] did not take one of those hip flasks and neither did I. As to whether the other boys did, they...
Bingham friends?old Guardsmen Smoot and Edge? tried to head off the inevitable with substitute resolutions, oblique and apologetic, which "disapproved" of such a transaction without specifically criticizing Senator Bingham. But the Senate, in stern self-righteous mood, rejected them...
...brief hold-up occurred over hexamethylenetetramine (derivative of formaldehyde and ammonia used in medicine and vulcanized rubber) when Generalissimo Smoot could not pronounce it. Ink rates fell suddenly with a great black splash over the regulars. Epsom salts collapsed feebly under the jabbing attack of the Coalition...