Show I SENATOR SENATOR SMOOTS SMOOT'S APPOINTMENT Wo We sincerely regret that the Tribune Isn't pleased with the appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment of ot Senator Smoot to be chair chair- man or of the senate committee on one e patents It really has not been tho the purpose of or the senator to so shape his public worle as ts to please the Tribune and y yet t it il w would be 10 moro more agreeable if f that paper could find something to sa say of or hi him And we must correct tho the Tribune in its Its th that t tho the committee on patents is unimportant The United States grants haIr half half-as as aR many patents as as all the rest of tho the world combined Every law Jaw touching patents their patents their life the manner of their granting the rights that arise under them all an the copyright business and its application to the work of authors all tho the trademark trademark trade trade- mark business with its vast commercial commer commer- cial interests this Interests this is included in the work of tho the committee on patents E Even en the tito Tribune should know its statement that the patent business T is done in the bureau of patents and not in the senate is untrue As well wel ell might one ono say the financial business of ot the nation is done in the tr treasury asur i department and not In the tho committee on ways and me means ns or or that the pension pen sion slon business Is done in the time pension department and not In n the halls of off f congress It is not easy to understand why the Tribune wishes to so 50 constantly f discredit the senators from it own p state They Ther are pretty good men doing do 10 1 ing excellent work orl creditably representing j the state of or Utah and getting 0 many advantages nd for the state h by hy the way Why sneer at them Vh Why tl try r. r ic t to b belittle them Why seek leek to put shame shamo on our own state by br telling untrue things of or tho the officers the people of or the state stale according to the forms of ot law have havo elected to represent them There is no answer unless answer unless It be le that this matter Q of f position on committee com corn Is 18 a v one to lo the ci j Tribunes Tribune's owners Maybo l thoy still suffer a little the chagrin to which they ther aro are entitled as they the read of or Senator Sena tor Smoots Smoot's rise riso In the tho esteem of oC his fellow senators and Senator Sutherland's Sutherlands Sutherlands Sutherland's Suther lan lands land's s 's growing influence with the men of oC national prominence For they the can enn hard hardly I forget that Tom Kearns when ho he W was 9 a senator of the United States Stales rp I ed nothing hotter than fifth place on th committee on alcoholic liquors a liquors a ilace which he ho publicly offered to trade for the tho chairmanship of oC the tho joint committee o on entertainment entertain entertain- ment of visitors from the islands of or ofAla Ala Alaska sica Recalling that lint we can understand why Tom caused lii his paper to protest that lint tho the present senators from Utah have bavo not done clone very cr well in getting place on committees s. s Otherwise his attitude Is Is l able I I |