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...There would be no serious question about Representative Rainey's selection had it not been for the Harding landslide in 1920. He entered the House in 1903, was assigned to the Ways & Means Committee, started to climb the ladder of seniority. By 1914 only Alabama's Underwood (tariff-maker) and North Carolina's Kitchin were ahead of him on the Democratic list. A year later Underwood had transferred to the Senate. Just as he was about to step out on top Representative Rainey lost his House seat to a Republican, shattered his seniority record...
...dipped into the pork barrel for public buildings, joined log-rolling expeditions for local waterway developments. He denounced Theodore Roosevelt for the Panama "grab," flayed him as a "mob leader." Loud and tactless, he was set down and snubbed as a radical ranter by conservative Republicans and Democrats alike. Tariff Fire- In 1908 Representative Rainey struck fire from the Republican tariff. A traditional low-tariff Democrat, he charged that U. S. manufacturers, protected by the tariff, were selling watches cheaper abroad than in the U. S. To prove his point he produced from his large person, like a magician...
...President in sympathy with lowering the tariff [because] in the future our tariffs must be lowered and regulated as a result of international agreement. . . . We are practically stopped from negotiating any reciprocity treaties because we are bound, hand & foot, by the so-called 'most favored nation' treaties. France makes fine gloves. We need them. She needs our wheat. We could make a reciprocity treaty with France admitting her gloves free or at a low tariff in return for free admission for wheat. But we have an unconditional 'most favored nation' treaty with Czechoslovakia which also makes...
...designed to give Premier Stauning power to bargain with Great Britain when a Danish delegation goes to London this month "to save Denmark's butter, egg and bacon trade." These and other Danish farm products must be saved from too drastic application of the Ottawa Conference tariff accords or Denmark will find herself cut off from her best customer...
...Such action probably violates the U. S.-Danish most favored nation treaty, but Washington has made only cautious, informal protests. Reason: a squabble now would merely embitter U. S. Danish relations, would make it harder for President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt to make a success of his policy of tariff bargaining with foreign nations...