Respite

With the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act safely on the statute books, its Senate coauthor, Reed Smoot, chairman of the Finance Committee, last week departed from Washington for a rest and a bit of golf" at Provo, Utah, his home. Before going Senator Smoot arose in the Senate Chamber to announce:

"I have made arrangements to leave Washington this afternoon. In so doing I desire to leave my vote with the Senator from Indiana (Republican Leader Wat son) and authorize him to pair me upon legislation as he knows I would vote.

"I have never before had a pair, is the very first time. I do it now because I feel I ought to have a change. . . . I have been absent from the Chamber, Mr. President, only for nine days during my service of nearly 28 years. I feel a little exhausted now--more so than when . stood on the floor of the Senate for ten hours a day, week in and week out. . . ."

Courteously arose Senator Harrison, sharp opponent of Senator Smoot on tariff matters, but his warm friend otherwise, and boomed to the Chamber: "I know that no other Senator is entitled to rest more than he. The Senator can have my pair any time I am on the other side of the question."

After Senator Smoot had left town, his friends heard reports that he, a. widower of a year, a great-grandfather, No. 3 man in the Mormon Church, was to be married again in Salt Lake City, spend his honeymoon in Honolulu. Questioned in Chicago about the report Senator Smoot declared:

I'll marry no woman I haven't asked to marry me and I haven't asked any woman to marry me. I'm weary of having this question put to me. I'll not say I'm going to Utah to marry and I'll not .say I'm not going to Utah to marry. When I get ready to marry I'll be only too glad to tell the world about it."

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