Show I I OTHER POINTS OF VIEW I IA A USEFUL SENATOR SEl We know our heroes In p public life Ute but we dont don't always know our- our They are often orten too plodding plodding- to witch the world with noble headlines Wa Washington dispatches dispatches dis dis- patches for example havo very little to say about ono one of ot tho the most moat useful members of ot tho the Senate Reed Smoot of ot Utah Ho lIo Is no zio orator ho bo seldom makes long speeches but he has An un unusual grasp o of the public business to which ho devotes himself with an assiduity that most men keep I for tor their private affairs Day day after Senator Smoot sits there thero to watch harm harm- harm I looking less bills and to Insist upon taking taking- out o of thorn thom In Insidious In- In little appropriations artfully concealed in some corner It Is an nn ungrateful task to be bo a a. watchdog of ot the tho treasury treasur especially in these days das when tho the spending of ot billions makes it seem worth while to savo save thousands but Senator Smoot to it with admirable persistence And ho has won thereby tho the marked respect of ot his fellow sen cV even n though ho often blocks their pet measures Another Another An An- other thing which Senator consistently and resolutely resolute resolute- ly opposes Is the indiscriminate printing of or public docu docu- ments Ho He inexorably demands that the they be first tea passed upon by tho the committee oh printing All this Is humdrum work worle but some one ought to do it in tho the public interest We c may add that tho the public ought to bo Le grateful to the man who does docs do It New Ne New York Evening Post |