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...Dawes. As Senator Edge was not immediately to take up his hard-won diplomatic assignment, the White House delayed official announcement of his appointment. The surface explanation: As a Republican member of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Edge was needed through the special session to "help" President Hoover on tariff revision.* The real political reason: If Mr. Edge resigned from the Senate before Oct. 5. New Jersey voters under the law would pick his successor at a general election on Nov. 5. This would mean a cat-&-dog fight among New Jersey Republicans, who are split. The split might...
...Senator Edge is classified as a tariff super-protectionist. Super-protectionists revising tariff rates skyward have so far not been ''helpful" to President Hoover whose_ desire, so far as known, is for ''limited" revision...
Sorely tried last week was many a Republican member of the Senate Finance Committee now secretly drafting the Tariff Bill. Each had been placed under strictest party orders to keep his mouth shut, to babble none of the Committee's confidential doings to newsmen clustered inquisitively at the closed door. Silence was such an ordeal that some Senators ducked and dodged away by back passages, while others took the press blockade...
While only unauthenticated guesses covered the committee's activities as it raced against time to have a bill ready for the Senate to gnaw on by Aug. 19, outside-tariff developments were...
...Smarting under the lambasting given his pet legislation. Chairman Reed Smoot came to the Tariff Bill's defense: "I want to put the American people on guard against a deliberate campaign of misrepresentation. . . . Criticism is inspired by propagandists of selfish groups. . . . We are joined in the intention to write the best tariff bill ever enacted...