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Show Qji He Attempts to Bury I Half of the IL S. I I Senate fj Washington, Jan. 23. Senator Reed $ Smoot of Utah has qualified as tho ff undertaker of the senate. He has U n burled, figuratively, within the last I few days probably half of the dignt- J? I fled members of the upper houso of X fc congress and his popularity with his erf colleagues has met with a blighting vor frost. y It camo about through the senator n effort to obtain from secretaries of ! 5f state biographical Information of the 3$ I various senators who have represent- 'rj : ed tho commonwealths. Tho Inquiry ' j embraces those who arc serving a3 mi i well as those who have doparted. 'i , One of the questions is. "Where is ,i f tho senator Interred?" 45 I This ralBcd the storm. An indig- yil j nation mooting was averted only by Tfi i Senator Smoot pcrspirlngly explaln- l :' ing to the affronted senators that 3t Ji ;' was all due to the mistake of a clerk St i, in sending out tho printed list of ' i questions. en "Tbero was nothing political in it," j, he protested. "No discourtesy was intended in-tended "Vou must think we are 'dead ' ones," sniffed those whose feelings E I had been hurt Walt until the tariff 1J !j fight starts and those of us who are 2 ; v given a chance to show how much vita vi-ta y tallty we have loft will do It, And. to ; ' we'll do It with a vengeance." tj ' Senators Bacon, McCumber and a n ; ; number of others are among those 2 J who already have heard from their 'e j , states. The fun poked at them be-i; be-i; : cause of the inquiry did not serve to sweeten their tempers and the re-! re-! ception In store for Senator Smoot on his arrival at the capitol promises to bo porfer id. ' |