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...Adopted a resolution for the tariff commission to investigate oil imports...
...Tariff Commission Chairman?Henry Prather Fletcher...
...Passed a bill to broaden the Treasury's tariff embargo power against goods or raw materials produced by convict, forced or indentured labor; sent it to the Senate...
...with a rush of enthusiasm. He stifled a Mexican revolution with an arms embargo. He moved to conserve oil on the public domain. He banished the hypocritical "Official Spokesman" from the White House. He summoned a special session of Congress to deal with farm relief and tariff revision. He exhorted the People to war against Crime. He began to appoint expert commissions to solve tough old problems. Everybody was heartily with him, as they are with most Presidents, during this "honeymoon" period of his Administration...
Political ineptitude in Herbert Hoover was one thing the country had been loudly warned about?but in the summer of Prosperity neither leaders nor masses gave a fig for statecraft. The tariff fight first made this deficiency glaringly plain. The President had called for "limited revision" but had miscalculated the greedy demands upon his own party from industrialists for top-notch rates. Their pressure soon put Congress clean...