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...abolition of the tax on admissions, trucks and automobiles came in a stormy session with both Senator Smoot, Chairman of the Finance Committee, and Senator Simmons, ranking Democrat, maintaining that the taxes should not be stricken out, that their loss would create a deficit next year...
Vexed, Senator Smoot cried out: "Go ahead and ruin the bill!" Subsequently the group which had been defeated in seeking to prevent reduction in surtaxes, retain estate taxes, retain tax-publicity, etc., broke loose and, with support of not a few regulars, added $100,000,000* to the tax cut in one wild afternoon. Towards evening Mr. Reed of Pennsylvania suggested adjournment: "We should stop now after this excessive storm." And so they waited until the next day when passions had cooled...
...Senator Smoot, in charge of the bill, was anxious to get it passed speedily. He managed to have the Senate start work at 11:00 a. m. instead of at noon, but that did not hasten matters appreciably. He then said that if action did not rapidly speed up he would bring about 12-hour sessions, from 11 a. m. to 11 p. m., with no recess for supper...
...Before Congress reassembled, the President was busy seeing members of that body. Senator Borah was with him one night for dinner. Senator Smoot dropped in with friends. Others came to see, to urge or to inquire...
...Senator Smoot, Mormon Elder, in his office at Washington, picked up a glass in one hand and a bottle of mineral water in the other. The bottle slipped. He caught it with the hand holding the glass. Glass and bottle fractured. Three of his fingers required surgery. John W. Langley, Representative from Kentucky, Chairman of the Public Buildings Committee, convicted for conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act and sentenced to two years in Atlanta, is to be relieved of his post as Chairman...