Show I SMOOT RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY SENA SENATE TE I I Purpose Is t to Eliminate All Government Vl Waste and andr Work r ork D Duplication R Herald Berald S Special Washington D. D C. C May 1 The I.-The The Senate Senate Seriate Sen Seri ate without opposition today ad adopted the resolution of or Senator Reed Smoot t ib fe c-fe create tc a a. j Joint committee to for the for the there re re reorganization reorganization re- re org organization lon of ot the tho administrative the branch of ot the government The r resolution Is intended ed to bring about an exhaustive Inquiry by bv a Joint committee of or Con Congress ress into the the waste I o overlapping nr and duplications In the tho government r service and offices ortIce and and also alsoto I to effect legislation to overhaul the thc government machinery A joint committee of ot Senate and House composing six members rs v will in investigate wll HI The House following the thc Senate soon Oon pass the resolution In re regard ard to a head for the thc committee commit commit- t tee Senator Smoot has the almost unanimous support of or Republicans and Deu Democrats for Cor the chairmanship he- he cause caus b of t his years e rs of OC stud study of or government government govern govern- m ment nl appropriations and gov government offices It Is pointed out cut uL uLIn In a a. brief brIer sta statement on the floor of nt thIS Senate S Senator Underwood Dento- Dento leader approved th the Sm ot reso reso- lution Pre Preceding this t nt t made a a. statement to he hc Senate nate a as to the thc reasons for tor tho the investigation de declaring do- do elating claring the o branch of or orho th ho government Jo had not net uner undergone c a fundamental overhauling Since nce the time Alexander Hamilton devised de the tho government gov sov- emment organization the re result being that all manner of duplications and excrescences ex ex- had grown n up The senator called emphatically Cornew for Cor new and less Jess wasteful administrative methods in the Interest of ot greater s-reater ef efficiency et- et and economy Senator Kenyon who Nho is on the appropriations committee commit commit- tee with Senator Smoot and who does docs not always agree with him on legislation legisla legisla- tion commended 1 1 the tho Smoot Snoot measure j I It Is one one- of the tho bl biggest cst things s of ot this session he said It ma may re quire two years cars of ot hard work out it will bo be extremely valuable Since Sinco he heIn heis heis is In Indeed eed hl-hl hl highly qualified to head hearl the iho committee I hope that Senator Smoot will do so |