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...There is always a joke about the tariff. . . . The measure is put through the House only to be torn to shreds in the Senate and finally turned into a bill that will muster votes by an obscure conference committee...
...obscure conference committee" that would write the Tariff Bill stirred Senator Harrison to ridicule. Explaining that Utah's Senator Reed Smoot would head that conference as chairman of the Finance Committee, Senator Harrison cried: "Is he obscure? Why, children have lisped the name of Reed Smoot, have read it a million times. . . . Senator Reed of Pennsylvania? He is not obscure. . . He made his reputation by defending Mellon. . . . And that other Republican conferee, the senior Senator from Indiana [Watson, leader of the Republican majority in the Senate]-he is not obscure. He has been in public life or trying...
...provided that every Representative must vote, that members present but not voting could be counted for a quorum, that no dilatory or filibustering motion be entertained by the Speaker. Attacked as a "Tsar," he used his rules to rush through the House the McKinley (1890) and the Dingley (1897) tariff bills...
Thus did the Tariff Bill come last week to the Senate. The House had passed it the day before. Clerks stamped the precious copy, entered its presence and pedigree in great journals, shuttled it away to the Senate Finance Committee where Chairman Reed Smoot and other Republican members prepared to lay rough and critical hands upon...
Like all other bills, H. R. 2667 begins: "Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. . . ." That is about all that the Senate was expected to leave unchanged of the House's tariff handiwork. Senator Smoot prepared to begin hearings on the Senate rewrite on about June 11 behind closed committee doors. A month or more will be spent in this preliminary revision. After that, when the Senate gets the bill, the House will have to swallow its pride of authorship and the real Tariff Fight will...