New Britain herald., 1929-08-16
WATCHDOG SHOOT
 GETS MOST ABUSE
Utah Senator Works Hard and Faithfully, Seldom Smiles

Washington, Aug. 16-The mem Der of congress who gets more abuse this year than all the other mem- bers together is the Hon. Reet Shoot, senator from Utah.
 And yet Smoot is the one mem. Der who worked most earnestly and has perspired most freely during the long hot summer He probably is also the man who will be most satls- fled with the results of his labors. That's always the way with Shoot.
 One hears that his name is being used to frighten babies in some of the score or more nations which have protested our tariff plans. A Havana newspaper the other day, frothing at the mouth over Shoots insistence on higher sugar duties, told it's readers that because he had been deprived of 20 of his wives the Utah statesman had become SC sour that all the sugar in the world could not sweeten him.
 This entirely false assertion, based on the fact that Shoot is a high ecclesiastic in the Mormon church. demonstrates the extent of his popularity in some quarters abroad There are some quarters at home where Shoot is liked just about as well.
 Blamed for Tariff Ills
 He has been bearing the brunt of the attack on the tariff bill, but lie is used to that. This is his great hour. As chairman of the senate finance committee, he is one of the most important men ir Washington and whenever it's a case of tariff or tax reduction MT Shoot is the most important ot all. Take a look at him:
 He is 67 years old now. He is tall and lanky, almost always sober of countenance and invariably con. servative in dress. His demeanol might be that of a venerable prin. cipal in a country schoolhouse. H. isn't pompous, but he is always pom tiicial. It isn't true that he never smiles. They say he becomes posi- lively beatific as he goes out in hi yard of a morning to feed the birds But ordinarily the rare Shoot smile is half-smile. He smiles a little but always as if he were fully aware that the next moment may provide something to frowA about.
 The Cuban newspaper was wron& ;, in b. ic i,,1 ably sour. He was, it is true rather sour when he read of thi particular attack. But the fact i that Brother Shoot is too firml. convinced of the whole wide world safety in the hands of the republi can party to permit him to be actu ally sour except in democratic ad ministrations. And of course ther' aren't many of those.
 Brother Shoot might be said t have an abiding faith in the right ness of things as they are, eXcep for such changes as have been mad in his lifetime-and even tha doesn't go for tariff increases.
 A Model Republican
 He is a model for all regular re publicans. He voted for the seat ing of Lorimer and Newberry an for all the other things that mos regular republicans have voted fc while holding their noses. Hut does not appear that Brother Smoc ever held his nose. Long ago h was taken to the bosom of tn ruling senators, such as Penros' Aldrich and Platt, for they saw i him an asset of great value.
 For Shoot though he gets fus tered and sputtters in debate, is Il best statistician and the best eCont mist in the upper house, Lon years Of patient toll and study haN qualified him for his post. He's glutton for detail and the grind'r work that most other men are gla to escape. Efficiency and econon have been his Watchwords-f waged a long but hopeless tigl against the congressional practit of cluttering Up the COngresaion; Record with great wads of bunk fC home consumption. He is q sort ( watchdog of the treasury. He COT ceived and nourished the bureau