Word: harrison
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International. The collection of complaints had been piling up at the State Department for several weeks. When Mississippi's Democratic Senator Pat Harrison first asked how many had been received, he received the answer: "About a dozen." He pressed for more definite information. First an erroneous figure of 38 protesting nations was given out. Then Chairman Reed Smoot of the Finance Committee was jockeyed into the necessity of revealing the true list. Some were complaints made by foreign governments as governments; others, merely the transmission of private commercial protests through governmental channels...
...list were Canada and the A-B-C powers of South America. Canada, protested informally, in an oral statement by Minister Vincent Massey hinting at a high Canadian wheat tariff in retaliation for the proposed U. S. duties on lumber and shingles. Having had the list published, Senator Harrison next engaged Senator Smoot in an altercation on what the protests signified. Senator Smoot at first belittled them, called them "unimportant . . . similar in substance to former protests." Senator Harrison called them the result of a U. S. "imperialistic policy in trade and commerce as baneful in its effect as an imperialistic...
...interested parties. . . . Take England. The West Riding Chamber of Commerce protests against the duty on wool. What a pity the increase of three cents a pound on scoured wool should be imposed on the riding breeches used by members of the West Riding Chamber of Commerce! No wonder Senator Harrison weeps over the situation...
...Senator Harrison: "Senator Smoot's inconsistencies ... a sham and a pretense. ... As a matter of fact . . . Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Norway, Greece, Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, Persia, Uruguay, Mexico and Honduras protested as governments. . . . Those protests are general and significant in character...
Teased Mississippi's Democratic Senator Harrison: "I'm surprised that you should deceive your wife...