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Show MORE ' BOY-WHIPPING. Y Senator Gore of Oklahoma appears disinclined to give Apostle Smoot any rest in the Smoot self-sufficiency, ig-norauce, ig-norauce, and arrogance. Mr. Gore has conic to the conclusion, it appears", that "Smoot has demonstrated on more than one occasion flint, he knows less about more things than any other man" in the Senate. This, of course, wns the opinion of Mr. Gore,, and must go for what it is worth. ' But Senator Dolliver brought forward for-ward a 'matter of the very highest public pub-lic importance when .he spoke of the way that jSinoor, in tho 'Finance Committee, Com-mittee, had treated the representative of the manufacturers of carded wool, when they applied for a hearing. Senator Sen-ator Dolliver, it appears, brought out this phase of Smoot 's discourtesy and arbitrariness by stating on Wednesday what tho carded wool men told him about Smoot s discourteous treatment of them when they applied for a hearing hear-ing before the committee. At that time. Smoot arose and denounced the statement state-ment of the carded wool men as false. On Thursday, Mr. Dolliver helped the carded-wool men to support their previous pre-vious statement, and had the clerk of tho Senato read from his desk a letter let-ter received from Mr. Brown, manufacturer manu-facturer of carded wool, of German-town. German-town. Pennsylvania, who headed the delegation of carded wool men. Mr. Brown stated that "Smoot tried to cast obstacles in our pathway and prevent us from getting a fair hearing." TJie letter said that. Smoot acted so arbitrarily arbi-trarily in the committee that one of the members rebuked .him by telling him to keep quiet and give other members mem-bers a chance to be heard. Brown further fur-ther slated that Smoot remarked " Why don't you do as T intend to do, put in worsted machinery? " And it appears that many explanations of disgust were heard thereupon from the Senators. No wonder the Senators were disgusted dis-gusted in this showing of trickery and discourtesy. They are faking the true measure of Smoot down there, and presently he will appear in his true diminutive di-minutive size to all who have relations rela-tions with him. Smoot 's discourteous connection with (he report, of the German Ger-man Government's official statistics on wages is also fresh in the public mind, a discourtesy so gross that it has been generally denounced throughout the country, a fair sample of such denunciation de-nunciation being the following from the Wall Street .Journal: . The Fnity-d States Senate is still muddling mud-dling and dickering over tho tariff, and. wlill injury sp unnueNtlonably being In-lirted In-lirted upon our import busliieHH, the pub-le pub-le a I Hindi- generally ha.t become, one of Impatient contempt. Tho spectacle Is humiliating hu-miliating enough, and has been made inure so by an art of gratuitous insolence to a friendly forolgn power acting toward us in entire courtesy and good faith. In this the leader of the Senate was focond-ed focond-ed by that, clean-handed and pure-souled patriot, the senior .Senator from New York, but fortunately better International means of communication have taught our foreign neighbors that International courtesy cour-tesy conies second to Senatorial expediency. expedi-ency. The progreps with tariff revision ban been very slow, and the time misspent in that way has not disclosed any slneero attempt to deal with the matter along lines of real national advantage. |