Show Po Political Adv Republican Candidate for the United States hi es Senate Senat 2 4 1 j f 1 H S A Reed Smoot REED SMOOT born at Salt Lake City qty Utah January 10 1862 Educated Educated Educated Edu Edu- in elementary schools of Provo also at Brigham Young university and the University of Utah Following graduation from Brigham Young university university uni Senator Smoot entered the mercantile and other business enter enter- On April 5 1900 was called by the Church of Jesus Jesua Christ of Lat Lat- ter-day ter Saints to the Quorum of th the Twelve Apostles was elected to United States senate to succeed Joseph L. L Rawlins and took his seat on March 6 5 1903 was re-elected re by unanimous Republican vote of Utah state legislature legislature legislature legis legis- lature for second term of six years beginning March 4 1909 re-elected re for third term by direct vote of people people peo peo- pie beginning March 4 1915 reelected re elect ed for fourth term beginning March 4 1921 Although his seat in the United States States- senate was contested for several several several sev sev- eral years and his right thereto subjected subjected sub sub- to a long senatorial investigation tion Senator Smoot at once be became ame a l leading ading member r of that strong cotenie coterie coterie co co- co- co terie tenie of Republican statesmen which included Aldrich Allison Beveridge Depew Dolliver Fairbanks Frye Hale Hawley Lodge McCumber Gallinger Gallinger Gallinger Gal- Gal linger Nelson Penrose Platt of Conn Quay Spooner Teller and Warren War War- ren mn Senator Smoot soon oon became chairman chairman chairman chair chair- man of the committee on Standards Weights and Measures He was also put on the following important committees committees com corn Clai Claims s Civil Service Patents Patents Patents Pat Pat- Pensions Railroads and Indian Depredations In 1906 he was made madea a 1 member of the important committee on Public Lands His Hii i industry and c tan a activity was always apparent and andas as early eaily as 1905 and 1906 he was instrumental in extending the time for homestead settlers in Utah and took a leading part in other public affairs especially with respect to matters matters matters mat mat- touching lands in Utah and other Vest Western rn states During the congress 1909 less than six years after becoming a member of the senate senate- Utah's distinguished distinguished distinguished dis dis- dis- dis senator was assigned to the powerful committee on Finance It was during this year that the Payne- Payne Aldrich tariff bill was uppermost in inthe inthe inthe the minds of senators and represents represents- tives Senator Smoot debated the issues raised so ably and with such sucha a complete fund Lund of ot information that he amazed even eyen hi his veteran colleagues I His knowledge of economics was so thorough that he won the admiration of friend and foe alike These debates debates debates de de- de- de bates brought Senator Smoot definitely definitely to the front rank of the senate In the succeeding sessions of congress congress congress con con- gress the Utah senator has repeatedly made valuable contributions to the statesmanship of the country especially especially by way of speeches on the proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed Court of Commerce the Postal Savings banks the Canadian R Reciprocity I ity bill the creation of an independent tariff board And An I when in 1910 the qu sHon of the prices of foreign products products prod prod- nets was congress he was the first to proclaim that The real value of any any article is its exchange value a doctrine which has ever been one of the cardinal ardinal principles of the Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican party Utah's senior senator has consistently consistently consistently consist consist- championed t the h e Republican doctrine of protection When the Underwood Underwood Underwood Un Un- derwood tariff bill came before the senate in 1913 Senator Smoot came caine again to the fore as the tl natural tl spokesman of the Republican minority minority minority minor minor- ity and succeeded in exposing the fallacies fallacies fal fal- Ial- Ial of that measure After the United States declared war against Germany Senator Smoot steadfastly supported the administration tion of President V Woodrow Wilson H He assisted in passing the war revenue measure of 1917 and other legislation legislation legisla legisla- tion designed to win the war Following the war the Utah senator voted for the Covenant of the League of Nations with the Lodge reservations reservations reservations reserva reserva- but voted against it when those reservations were defeated in the senate lIe He has been largely largel responsible ble for the creation of the Budget I bureau and the passage of revenue revenue and appropriation measures ably lowering prices and living costs coste When the Republicans were restore t to power in all branches of govern government government government ment with the election of Harding Senator Smoot became chair chairman chairman man of the Joint Congressional committee com corn on printing and also of th joint committee on Reorganization 0 o othe the Administrative Branches of th Federal Feder l Government and because o 0 ohis ohis his comprehensive knowledge of al matters relating to the revenues ani am the tariff the burden of framing ani am passing and defending the firs emergency tariff bill after the wa fell largely upon his shoulders an ani when President Wilson V vetoed the bil he sponsored the second tariff bill which became a law soo after President Hardings Harding's inauguration tion During the debate on the suga schedules of the 1922 tariff bill bilI Sena Senator Senator Senator tor Smoot spoke for two hours an anc although continually interrupted b members of the opposition none wa able to cope with him and his ormid formidable formidable able array of facts and figures Hi courage of conviction has never bees bee questioned and his speeches in de defence defence defence fence of Republican principles hay hav always been fearlessly logical and en lightening In December 1923 Senator became chairman of the senate committee on Finance the firs time that a man from the Rock I Mountain West was ever so honored His first great work as chairman othis o o. this important committee was to se secure secure secure cure the passage of the 1924 tax re reduction reduction reduction bill During the past fou years as a member of Coolidge's International Debt Fund Funding Funding Funding ing commission he has guided through the senate the highl important measure funding the enor enormous enormous enormous obligations due and owing t b this country by Americas America's s war tim allies Senator Smoot has constantly bee beer called upon to give his attention t tc national and international affairs buhas bu but has never lost sight of the needs am requirements of Utah and her people Among his notable accomplishment in behalf of Utah a few of the most mos important showing his diligence relative relative relative rel rel- to matters either of general o ox OI special interest to this state are the thi following The Strawberry Valley Irrigation project which still furnishes most o oi 01 the water to Utah county The Federal Reserve bank in Salt Sal I Lal Lake e City almost completed at a cost cosi of The munitions buildings south oJ of Ogden at a cost of The Forest Service headquarters Ogden The great Echo reclamation project just starting in Utah which cost the United States government to begin and will still require to complete Numerous appropriations for federal fed eral oral buildings for post offices throughout through through- out the state of Utah The law Jaw creating Zion National park paik Laws for the conservation of Utah and other Western forest lands The Smoot Dry Farm arm law The law making Bryce canyon ta a national park The oil leasing law Jaw of February 5 1920 v 0 The law to grant addit additional onal pensions to Civil and Spanish-American Spanish war veterans Laws pensioning veterans of Indian wars Besides these those actual accomplishments accomplish accomplish- ments Senator Smoot has also introduced introduced intro intro- bills to establish a military aviation aviation avia avia- tion academy in Utah to provide forthe forthe for forthe the acquirement of rural homes in the I public land states to stabilize the livestock industry for the leasing lensing of I irrigable Indian lands t t. t establish a game game sanctuary in n tho thu Wasatch forest to quiet t title tle to the school lands as aswell aswell well as a great number of bills for fox forthe forthe the purchase of sites and erection of public buildings in the various cities of the state many of which are now now- receiving the eam earnest consideration of congress |