| Show SENATOR REED SMOOT during the period between leons of congress it is a fawnie pastime of wahington WaA ington newspapermen to discuss the merits ments or demen cements de ments ts of different members of the senate or houze hou and these corre correspondents are not easily fooled by those thoe who are cent by the tates and territory to congress the near cannot fool washington writers into believing that he is a demosthenes a ro solon lora a Talley talleyrand rana or an aristotle An the scriben t unerringly pick out the real and valuable men in congress the other day half a dozen or more of crt tons keenest correspondents were having lunch together ahen hen the question came up as to who mho was the harder bardet working member in the united states senate enate and it was the unanimous opinion of the assembled writers that reed smoot of utah occupied that position smoot is looked upon not ordy only bv the president and members of the cabinet but ao a alo o by his a associates soc in congress congre q as being one om of the big men among the nations law makers today there probably is no man in the halls of congress that has a more intimate arid and exten extensive save kno knowledge uledge of governmental affairs than has the senior senator from utah and there is act no man who works snork harder for his country and for his state than dos smoot the positions ions he occupies on committees are mot coq important ones and utah is signally honored in having one of its ena gators tors occupying such high positions it is true 1 e that his colleague senator king is abw a very hard worker but king being of the minority and not of as ev tenne an experience as smoot cannot wield the same influence king ho however vever Is a valuable man for utah to hane hae in the senate ohp connant conA ant attention of smoot to governmental affairs 2 is in a veri er large aneas measure re responsible pon ible for the reduction of ta taeg eg throughout the nation and it i is an open secret in washington that the president Sec secretary T mellon and reed smoot ire are often in conNul consultation tation as to the best plan of handling the finances finance of our government not onevis eriv is smoot an authority on questions of finance but ho he also alo ls is ever ener watchful atch ful of uncle sams purse pure strings and many of the me measures aures that he has sponsored have hae resulted in the saving caving to the go government i of ml millions ons of dollars dollard in other words he has put into practical sensible ble bu buind inc s id ideas i in I 1 n government a thing that airs ago was nas unheard ard of utah is indeed to ba LP congratulated congratulate I 1 upon having uch such a h high t ape p of statesman as reed smoot as one on e of her senators in the national halls of congress agre s |
