Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-27 | Page 2 | Smoot does Well in Rearrangement of Big Committees

SMOOT DOES WELL IN REARRANGEMENT OF BIG COMMITTEES Special to Tho Tribune. WASHINGTON. May 16. The fig-lit of senate Progressives acrainut Senators Peruse i:nd Warren ha vine,' failed, Senator Sena-tor SrrooL becomes chairman of the public pub-lic lands committee, the position he hold in the Uifct RepuhHco n r onreR.s, and, In addition to the committee a f.slLrn merits be had last congress, is assigned to membership mem-bership 011 the committee on territories. The now itopubllcan ride barring1 senators sena-tors from membership on more than two biy commlLtcea seems to have been stretched f n the cn se of Sena lor Smoot for, aside from holding the chairmanship or the public la.nds committee, a very im-porlanl im-porlanl petition, he 'retafns menibership on both the comnittc-o mi finance, handling" han-dling" all revenue lepriM? lion, and on the committee on appropr:l lions, which directs di-rects moat of the appropriations m;ule by congress, rankinq- next to eniilor Wa-i-ren on the appropriations committee. Senator ymool vill Inve a considerable voice In the work of that committee. The minor committee phic s nlemed to- Senator Sen-ator Smoot are print Ins, pensions, expenditures ex-penditures in the In lei-icr tlepy rt ment of civil service a nd audit, and control of cont I mrent fxpnsb, Senator Warren of Wyoming', who finally landed the civil t ma nhl n of the appropn;i tions com mi ttee, was lilt by the iii'W i u le a:i.d vf fircfd to rellnqutKh I Membership on 1 he rule commitlue rtud on tiie committee on aerrli-uliure; he :ilso r-,,'llnr4u!shes the chairmanship of the committee com-mittee on enprctved billb-, vlilch place ho held In the last onr,rtVf-u. In addition to his hie: cha h-nm u.'.'iiip, Sena i or W'ari't-n a. member of the toMmvim: commit re,-.. (Ouithnm'I mi pne in, rolnntn 2.) mm mm m 1 CONTEST (Continued jvom Page Two.) Miliinrv ofiiiirs, iml-li'-- huiUMiis and kiouikIh, fof?.:t rr-s' ration. clisjA.Al of u-t--.--s prtj.. liMiiun r!-pr:dat:oi.y, raii-Wh'lH raii-Wh'lH nr:'l i :;pTO;;..jJ bills. i n;mocT';t v.i; i 1 1 r 1 1 i 1. 1 '' ': p ssijn mc u Is !:.(. v3 nut t Irou iiii'.d':. and S'.-n.; tor Kii;' is ::Li!l in tf.f: L: rk ua to tin- cu;n-untix'o cu;n-untix'o fjlaucii til at will be assigned aim.