Show Smoot Will Head Dead Finance Committee 4 L ic J 3 v lV 14 n 4 u Reed Smoot Republican of Utah will be the next chairman of the senate senate sen- sen ate committee on finance This cornea comes about through the defeat of Senator Porter J J. J McCumber of North Dakota for the thc Republican nOD nomination for senator Senator Smoot no v In his twentieth year in the thes the's senate s Date und under r the rule of seniority will succeed on March 4 n next nest t as chairman of the com committee corn com whose d deliberations and and decisions deci dec directly concern ever every man and n and d woman in lit America S Senator Smoot was was born In 1802 1862 at Salt Lake ake City and got his edu atlon a- a in his native state II He is a banker and woolen m manufacturer lie He lives JI at Provo Ct City His fath father r was a Kentuckian and his m mother ther of Norwegian Norwegian Norwegian gian stock He Is an apostle postle of the Mormon l church When hen he was elected elected elected elect elect- ed In 1003 the fight to unseat him lasted lusted three years e rs Senator Smoot Is la OI IU LULL group ui ua me tue I pany referred to lo as and more often as us the Old Guard Senator Smoot Is a regular r gu watchdog of the treasury He is also admitted to be one of the working hardest-working men who has ever sat In the senate a man who begins his days day's labor almost with the sun and who ends It as as a rule long tong after most other senators have called It a du days day's s work He Is a master of statistics to whom the study of ot financial history Is is a pleasure i a senator to whom vacations when congress is in session are unknown |