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...complaint there was at the committee hearing on Senator Smoot's plan. Beet sugar growers did not think it would give them adequate protection. Farm representatives called it a "risky experiment." Senator Smoot's co-author of the Tariff Bill, Congressman Willis Chatman Hawley of Oregon, complained the plan should not "be even considered." Mississippi's Democratic Senator Pat Harrison commented sarcastically on the "fretful condition of this newborn sugar baby." "Certainly," said he, "the sleepless nights Senator Smoot must have spent with this crying curiosity . . . entitle him to a rest...
...against the size of the Army (118,750 men, 12,000 officers) but against its overhead was the President's complaint leveled. Army officers were ready with explanations: the U. S. soldier is better paid, better fed, better housed, better equipped than the soldier of any other nation. Surplus war supplies are running low, necessitating fresh purchases. Continuing programs for aviation and housing add to Army cost...
Senator Smoot was obviously upset at the abuse to which tariff revision had been subjected. To the complaint that Industry was benefiting over Husbandry, he retorted: "The House Ways & Means Committee and, so far, the Finance Committee, by gestures, have given farmers and producers by far the best of it. . . . The Democrats are so anxious to make political capital out of the situation that they are imagining all sorts of rates and unjust schedules...
Editor Says Workingman's Complaint Led to Change in Size...
...Agent Jonah Cox, killer of Archibald Eugster after a rum chase last fortnight (TIME, June 24). He had warned Agent Cox to "go easy with the gun" on previous occasions, had filed a report censuring his reckless misuse of firearms. When Eugster was shot, Agent Jacques remarked that his complaint against Cox had been borne out, whereupon he was reprimanded by his superior for discussing the case. Last week he quit the U. S. service with this explanation...