The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-15

1ak1u 6lcIC was COllSAuCIdDl how far the platform should high tariff policy of the rel
 Apparently some of the COP master minds were inclined to think that Cordell Hulls policy of lowering trade barriers was catcla- ing on with Q lot of people.
 Actually it is a little early yet to see how Hull's treaties are work ing out. Too many of them have been in effect only Q few months.
 But the two longest in effect-- with Belgium and Cuba - have been definitely beneficial to that part of the United States which does not raise sugar.
 Belgium increased her Amer Ican business by n per cent during the first ten months of the treaty, most Of the increase being fn commodities on which there had been tarifE reductions. Her increase of importation from other countries was only 4l per cent.
 Cuba increased her American purchases 58 per cent during the first year of the treaty; ileafi- while tho United States increased its Cuban purchases, mostly sugar, by 22i per cent.
 During the four months the Canadian treaty has been tefec. tive both countries have increased their purchases from the other by about l6 per cent.
 SmOOt-ETawley
 Speaking of tariffs, wonder what's become of the authors of the Shoot -Izawley tariff?
 Six years ago they were among the most powerful members of congress. Senator Shoot Of Utah virtually dictated the taxes of the senate. He had more appointees in the federal government than any other single senator.
 Representative Hawley of Ore- gon dictated the affairs of the house ways and means committee, wrote the tariff bill almost as he wanted 1t.
 Today they are scarcely heard of in Washington.
 Reed SmOOt
 Shoot, now in his 74th year, is in Salt Lake City, devoting his time to the affairs of the Mor- mon church, of which he is an apostle and second in line Of lead- ership.
 Two banks of which Shoot was president and director collapsed and have not re-opened. Friends say Shoot lost most of his mor- ey in these crashes. , Politically SmOot is dead. He made . speech i'm 1895 attacking war debt-defaulting nations; also the New Deal for putting robbers and criminals on the relief r01Is."
 But his political enemies shot back with the charge that Shoots own bank had paid of only the total of 910.08 during the four- month period prior to his speech, and that some of the ruined de- positors were among "the criH1- inaIs on relief"
 SHOOT HIMSELF GETS A STIPEND FROM THE CHURCH SAID TO BE $500 MONTHLY. Congressman Hawley
 An Oregon newspaperrna1 last year found Willis o. Hawley, Co- author of the famous 1030 tariff act, sitting peacefully in his back yard in Salem.
 He was not studying the rates on flaxseed, casein or canned mushrooms, but was reading about the flora and fauna of Oregon. He has become some thing of an amateur naturalist.
 Hawley is active in Oregon fraternal circles, looks after his farm, and is writing Q book. Poli- tics and tariffc seem to be the last subjects he is interested in. Judge Holmes
 The late Oliver Wendell Holmes retired justice of the Supreme Court, was ninety years old when congress cut his pension. Informed of the cut, he remarked with Q twinkle in his eye:
 "I have always been z prudent man, 90 this pay cut will not hurt me, but am distressed that I cannot continue to lay aside as much as usual for my old agc."
 Radio Elmer
 Senator Elmer Thomas, Okla homa democrat, takes Q radio wherever he goes. He owns five sets, three at home, one in his auto, one in the office. Tho sen- ator attended" the COP con- vention vio his office radio.
 Handwriting on Wall
 Some of the congressman who opposed the holding corporation bill have been seen going around with slightly blanched faces as q result of George Huddleston's de- feat in Alabama.
 George had been in congress for twenty years and everyone considered him . fixture for life. But last session he waged 6 secret light inside the interstate corn- merce committee against the holding corporation bill, and this leaked out to his constituents.
 One oe those looking wan and worried is Congressman Sam PettenglII of Indiana, another 
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