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"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939)

Senator Smith Debates Senator Paine

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Senate President: The Chair recognizes -- Senator Smith!

Mr. Smith: Give thanks y'all, sir. Well, I guess the Gentlemen were in a pretty tall bustle to get me out of here. The style the prove is piled upward confronting me, I can't say I blame them much. And I'one thousand quite willing to get, sir, when they vote it that fashion. But before that happens, I've got a few things I want to say to this Body. I tried to say them in one case before, and I got stopped colder than a mackerel. Well, I'd like to get them said this time, sir. And as a matter of fact, I'k not going to leave this Body until I do get them said.

Senator Paine: Mr. President will the Senator yield?

Senate President: Will the Senator yield?

Mr. Smith: No, sir, I'm afraid not! No, sir. I yielded the flooring once before, if yous can remember, and I was practically never heard of again. No, sir. And we might as well all get together on this yielding business correct off the bat, now. I had some pretty good coaching last night, and I find that if I yield only for a question or a point of order or a personal privilege that I tin hold this flooring nearly until doomsday. In other words, I've got a piece to speak and accident hot or cold, I'm going to speak it.

Senator Paine: Will the Senator yield?

Senate President: Will Senator Smith yield?

Mr. Smith: Yield how, sir?

Senator Paine: Will he yield for a question?

Mr. Smith: For a question, alright.

Senator Paine: I wish to ask my junior colleague -- this slice he intends to speak: Does information technology business organization Section 40 of that bill, the dam at Willow Creek?

Mr. Smith: It does, sir.

Senator Paine: Every aspect of this matter, the Gentleman's set on on that Section -- everything -- was dealt with in Committee hearings.

Mr. Smith: Mr. President.

Senator Paine: I wish to ask my distinguished colleague: Has he one flake of testify to add now to the defence force he did not give and could not give at that same hearing?

Mr. Smith: I have no defense against forged papers!

Senator Paine: The committee ruled otherwise! The Gentleman stands guilty every bit charged. And I believe I speak for every Member when I say that no one cares to hear what a man of his condemned character has to say well-nigh whatsoever section of any legislation before this House.

Senate President: Order. Social club, gentlemen.

Mr. Smith: Mr. President, I stand guilty as framed! Because Department xl is graft! And I was prepare to say and then. I was set to tell you that a certain man in my state, a Mr. James Taylor, wanted to put through this dam for his ain profit -- a man who controls a political machine, and controls everything else worth controlling in my country. Yes, and a man even powerful enough to command Congressmen, and I saw iii of them in his room the twenty-four hours I went upward to run into him.

Senator Paine: Volition the Senator yield?!

Mr. Smith: No, sir! I will non yield! And this same man, Mr. James Taylor, came downward here and offered me a seat in this Senate for the next 20 years if I voted for a dam that he knew and I knew was a fraud. But if I dared to open my rima oris against that dam, he promised to interruption me in two. Alright, I got up here and I started to open up my mouth and the long and powerful arm of Mr. James Taylor reached into this sacred chamber and grabbed me by the scruff of the neck --

Senator Paine: Mr. President, a point of guild.

Mr. Smith: Mr. President!

Senate President: Senator Paine (will state it).

Senator Paine: Information technology was I who rose from this chamber to accuse him. He's saying that I was carrying out criminal orders on falsified evidence.

Mr. Smith: No, Mr. President.

Senator Paine: He has imputed to me bear unworthy of Senator, and I demand that he be fabricated to yield the floor.

Mr. Smith: Mr. President, I did not say that Senator Paine was one of the Congressmen in that room.

Senator Paine: I was in that room!

Senate President: Order, gentlemen.

Senator Paine: I accuse this man, by his tone, by his careful denials, he is deliberately trying to plant damaging impressions of my behave. I'll tell you why nosotros were in that room. Because Mr. Taylor, a respected citizen of our state, had brought with him the testify confronting this man. And nosotros were urging him to resign. Why? To avoid bringing disgrace upon a make clean and honorable state. Just he refused!

Mr. Smith: Mr. President, have I --

Senator Paine: There's only one answer to a man similar him: the truth -- which I rose and gave to this Body. Mr. President, he is trying to blackmail this Senate every bit he tried to blackmail me. To prevent his expulsion he would probably even effort to concord up this deficiency nib, vital to the whole country, which must exist passed immediately -- today.

Mr. Smith: Have I the floor?!

Senator Paine: Gentlemen, I have lost all patience with this brazen character. I apologize to this Body for his date. I regret I ever knew him. I'm sick and tired of this contemptible young man, and I decline to stay here and listen to him whatsoever longer. I hope every Member of this Torso feels as I do.

Senate Members: [to Smith] Yield the flooring! Yield the floor! Yield the floor....

Senate President: Gentlemen, gentlemen please address the Chair!

First Senate Member: Mr. President, what does the Admirer [Smith] want with this Torso?

Mr. Smith: I'll tell you what I desire, sir. I desire a chance to talk to people who will believe me --the people of my state, they know me. And they know Mr. Taylor, and when they hear my story they'll rise up and they'll kick Mr. Taylor'due south auto to kingdom come up. Now, I want ane week to go back there and bring you proof that I'k right. And in the meantime, I want this Senate'due south hope that I will not be expelled and that the deficiency bill volition not be passed.

First Senate Fellow member: Will the Senator yield?

Mr. Smith: For a question.

Get-go Senate Member: Has the Gentleman the effrontery to stand there bedevilled and in disgrace and try to force postponement of the deficiency bill?

Mr. Smith: For one calendar week.

Second Senate Fellow member: Mr. President, I appeal to the Senator. Is he fully aware that this bill has been months in both Houses, delayed and delayed? Why millions will be without food and shelter. Public works will be at a standstill.

Third Senate Fellow member: Are we going to keep relief from the country?

Mr. Smith: The people of my state need permanent relief from crooked men riding their backs.

Second Senate Fellow member : Mr. President, if the Senate yields to this sort of blackmail at this time from this human being, it'll become a laughingstock.

Commencement Senate Fellow member: It is an insult to this Body to have to heed; an insult to our colleague, Senator Paine. I, for one, will follow the Senator'southward case and decline to remain in this chamber as long every bit that human being holds the floor!

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