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...White House the President summoned High Tariff Lieutenant-General Watson and Generalissimo Smoot. He asked first one, then the other about prospects of Tariff Bill early passage in the Senate. Mournfully Senator Watson predicted that the special tariff session of the Senate would end without passing any Tariff Bill. Less pessimistic. Senator Smoot conceded a "chance" of a final Senate vote on the tariff next month...
...Senate continued its struggle with the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. Minute seemed the possibility that it would even begin to debate schedules before the closing of the special session. Yet Senators, unmindful or unworried, last week made little tariff progress, went instead down two attractive bypaths. One bypath was the issue of Philippine Independence (see p. 17). Another was the issue of censor ship, by U. S. Customs officials, of allegedly obscene books imported to U. S. shores...
...Smoot: I cannot call to mind the occasion...
...duty to tell all he sees; the Dry whose social sensibility keeps him silent. Senator Brookhart was variously hailed throughout the land as one who (although two years late) had done a civic service, or as one who had accepted hospitality and then flouted its rules. Senator Smoot, similarly, was viewed either as a dry-voting hypocrite who had kept mum, or as a gentleman who had not gone out of his way to impose his public character on a private party he "cannot call to mind...
...Smoot attitude seemed to many an observer to coincide remarkably with President Hoover's. Only the President's bitterest critics credit him with having been simple-minded or stubborn enough not to realize that Washington, with wet Maryland adjacent and the broad Potomac handy, is one of the easiest places in the U. S. to buy liquor. And only the fanatically Dry have failed to appreciate the sense of the Hoover policy on Prohibition, sharply announced soon after Inauguration (TIME, March 11). The gist of that policy was: "No more crusades...