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...SENATOR SMOOT (Rep.): "Chock full of common sense...
...President announced he would give a series of breakfast parties at the White House, and held the first one. Came Republican Senators Curtis, Borah, Moses, Norris, Wadsworth, Hale, Jones, Sterling, Warren, Spencer, McLean, Watson, Smoot, Cummins. Over their flapjacks, the company talked of Legislation...
...very likely, be a controversy over the unfunded debts. Three large debtors? France (four billion dollars ), Italy (two billion dollars) and Belgium (450 million dollars) have not yet made an agreement for repayment. The life of the World War Foreign Debt Commission (members include Secretaries Mellon, Hughes, Hoover, Senator Smoot, Representatives Burton and Crisp, one-time Representative Richard Olney) must be extended if it is to continue its efforts for refunding. Alternative and, perhaps, more drastic methods of collection are likely to be proposed...
...dispossessing those gentlemen of their Republican committee posts, it of course could not be done without the action of the caucus. Certain of the regular Republicans in both houses have insisted that the insurgents should no longer be classed as Republicans in Committee assignments. In the Senate, Messrs. Smoot, Ernst, Reed (of Pennsylvania) are known to take this attitude. In the House, Representative. Treadway of Massachusetts is one of the leaders of the same movement. It is proposed to give the insurgents committee places in accordance with their strength as a minority. Mr. Treadway explained...
Quoth staunch Republican Senator Smoot, with a side glance at colleague La Follette...