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...Continued the Tariff Debate...
...customary criticism of politics. He has been roundly flayed as well as praised for appointing one commission after another to investigate controversial questions. He has been flayed because his stand on Prohibition was too Dry or too Wet, because he would not deal strongly enough with Congress on tariff rates, because he dealt too strongly with Congress on farm legislation. Avoiding public speeches, living be hind a mask of impersonality, he has revealed little or nothing of himself and his reactions to his high office...
Senator Smoot well knew, however, that if the committee fight went to the Senate floor, the Regular Republicans would lose against the same coalition of Progressives and Democrats which had already routed them on the tariff. So next day in the name of party peace he changed his mind, cast the deciding vote in the Committee on Committees which put Senator La Follette on his own committee...
Refreshed by a month-long armistice, Senate warriors last week climbed doggedly back into their trenches to finish the Tariff War. They swung into action with a skirmish on wool. The coalition of Democrats and Progressive Republicans wilted badly under the pressure of sectional interests. The wool rates went up, but not before Joseph R. Grundy, longtime tariff lobbyist, now Senator from Pennsylvania, had startled his comrades-in-arms with a display of tariff chivalry. A wool yarn manufacturer himself, he announced on the vote (35-to-29) which increased the duty on this commodity: "I am interested...
Immediate result of publication of the Flandin Tariff Bill: Prime Minister Andre Tardieu of France was pressingly invited to a strictly private dinner by the new U. S. Ambassador, onetime Senator Walter Evans Edge, who, though he believes in a high U. S. Tariff, must convince M. Tardieu that a high French tariff would be injudicious...