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...there is a singing in the Smoot heart when a new tariff bill approaches. Here he finds his earthly happiness in absorbed Service to U. S. business...
...voices more potently the demands for super-protection for U. S. industries and manufactures than Joseph R. Grundy, Bristol, Pa., worsted maker, cash collector extraordinary for the G. O. P. (TIME, Feb. 18). In Miami re- cently Senator Smoot was asked about tariff revision. Replied he: "I don't know. I haven't seen...
...Senator agrees with Mr. Grundy that Prosperity can flourish and blossom only in the garden of Protection behind a high tariff wall. To cultivate that garden, to keep its wall in good repair Utah's senator is prepared to give his all. With dutiful zeal he pleads for high duties on sugar and wool. With the political zeal of a stalwart Republican he demands protection for?
Beyond the U. S. coast line lie three bodies of water: 1) from the shore to the 3-mile limit indisputably under U. S. jurisdiction; 2) from the 3-mile to the 12-mile limit, claimed by the U. S. for "search and seizure" under the 1922 Tariff Act and roughly coextensive with the "one hour's sailing" distance granted under the U. S. ship liquor treaty with Great Britain; 3) the high seas beyond...
...miles off shore) when picked up and pursued by the cutter Walcott. Captain John Thomas Randall of the I'm Alone insisted he was in Body-of-Water Three (14 to 15 miles off shore) when spoken. The Treasury justified its pursuit as "hot and continuous" under the Tariff Act. Great Britain held that such pursuit could only begin within territorial waters (Body-of-Water One), and could not reasonably extend beyond Body-of- Water...