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...Revised the tariff...
With the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act safely on the statute books, its Senate coauthor, Reed Smoot, chairman of the Finance Committee, last week departed from Washington for a rest and a bit of golf" at Provo, Utah, his home. Before going Senator Smoot arose in the Senate Chamber to announce...
Courteously arose Senator Harrison, sharp opponent of Senator Smoot on tariff matters, but his warm friend otherwise, and boomed to the Chamber: "I know that no other Senator is entitled to rest more than he. The Senator can have my pair any time I am on the other side of the question...
...session was given over to a discussion of World Peace. Rotarian William Franke, delegate from Switzerland, almost broke it up by flaying the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill. When Herr Franke sat down, other Rotarians arose, took sides, turned the meeting into a political squabble...
...Japan, cotton mills were curtailing production. Recently, Great Britain passed a discriminatory tariff law in India giving preference to cotton piece goods manufactured in India or by Great Britain. Severely affected were Japanese mills which used to export large quantities of cheap piece goods to India...