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Delegates. As early as last week, Kansas City newsgatherers began reporting arrivals. William Morgan Butler, national chairman of the G. 0. P., arrived and also Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, chairman of the Platform Committee. To ensure themselves privacy, these gentlemen selected several rooms apiece in various parts of the town and familiarized themselves with unobtrusive entrances and exits. Senator Smoot wanted no interruptions from avid proponents of special doctrine, especially farmer doctrine, while he is phrasing the eternal principles for which the G. O. P. will say it stands this year...
...House let the Senators fight it out, this session, and a long fight it was. California's Johnson introduced the bill in the early Spring. Utah's Smoot aided Arizona's Ashurst and Hayden, first indirectly, then directly, in delaying the debate. Maryland's Bruce and Tydings and Tennessee's McKellar helped the Arizonans too. But it was the orotund Ashurst and the dogged Hayden who, with desks stacked high with time-consuming documents, talked and talked and talked the bill to a standstill last week...
...Candidate Lowden's hopes for a G. O. P. Campaign plank favoring the equalization-fee type of farm relief were further submerged last week by the announcement that Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, anti-McNary-Haugen man, is to be chairman of the Platform Committee at Kansas City...
...looming cost of Flood Control, however, was only one source of worry to President Coolidge last week. The end of the Congressional session was approaching,* and with it the last-moment votes for all manner of Federal outlay. Senator Smoot was going slowly with the Revenue Act and its $200,000,000 or so reduction of taxes. Some said his motive was to delay the Senate's vote on the Boulder Dam bill. But in the light of an announcement by Representative Snell of New York, trusted Administration man, it looked as though President Coolidge's ever-quick...
...McNary Bill passed the Senate 53 votes to 23. Only seven Senators from west of the Mississippi voted or paired against it-Borah, Phipps, Shortridge, Warren, Smoot, Walsh, King. Of the Senate's eight Presidential possibilities, the Messrs, Borah, Goff and Walsh were the only ones who stood against what Honest John Farmer is said to want...