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Show REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS SUPPORT . SENATOR SMOOT Washington, D. C, May 26. Sen-ator Sen-ator Reed Smoot of Utah will beyond all question head the Joint congressional congres-sional commission empowered to surrey sur-rey and prepare a definite plan tut the reorganization of the exbcutlvo branches of Ihe government.' t The resolution 'providing' for th',-reorganisation th',-reorganisation was' Introduced and passed by the 'Senate' aid Is now i i . j , pending In the house, senator Smoot . . , is the father of the plan. , The resolution's Inte'nVled to bring about 'an exhaustive!" inquiry ' by a joint committee 'of congress Into tl waste, overlapping and1' dupllcatloi In the government service and offices of-fices and also to effect legislation to overhaul the government machinery. machin-ery. A Joint committee of senate a .Id house composing six memers will investigate. in-vestigate. Senator Smoot has the almost un-, anlmous support of Republicans an.i Democrats for tho chairmanship, 'be-' cause of his years of study of gov-ernment gov-ernment appropriations and government govern-ment offices It is volnted out. -In a brief statement on the floor i Vj; of the senate Senator Underwood. Democratic leader, approved tin Smoot resolution. Preceding this Senator Smoot made a statement I") the senate as to the reasons for tha t Investigation, declaring the "administrative "admin-istrative branch of the government had not undergone a fundamental overhauling since the time Alexander Alexan-der Hamilton devised the government govern-ment organization," the result be-lug be-lug that all manner of duplications 4 and excresences had grown up. The senator called emphatically for now and less wasteful admlnU 'trattvo methods 'In the interest or greater efficiency and economy. Senator Sen-ator Kenyon who is'on the appropriations appropria-tions committee with Senator Smot and who does not always agree witl, him on legislation,- commended tte ( Smoot measure highly. "It U one of tho biggest thing i of the session," he satd. "It mT require re-quire two years of hard work bi't it will be extremely valuable- Slnc-j fee Is Indeed highly qualified to bnd the committee, I hope that Senator " . Smoot will do so." , , f |