The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-16
GOSSIP ABOUT
THE SM0OT CASE
Rumor That the Utah Senator May
Demand Vote.
BURROWS SAYS NOTHING
NO ACTION UNTIL AFTER THE
HOLIDAYS.
lSneciaI 10 The Heraldl

GhI ASHINGTON. Dec. 15.-IOday' 5
w Washington Times prints a story
on the SmOot case. in which it
is stated: Friends of Senator Bur
rows. chairman of the committee that
mas SO long and successfully sat on the
Smoot lid, say that the senator is get
ting ready 10 take up the case again
soon after the holiday recess, and that
he has great hopes of getting the
Utah senator thrown out. So far as
known Chairman Burrows is the only
Republican on the committee who ia
vOrs this course. but it is reported that
Senator DOlliVer is to become a MEM
Der.
Nice Man, but Must Go.
The Iowa mans attitude, according
10 reports, is that Senator Smoot is
mighty nice man and the victim of
painful circumstances, but that the
views of the great body of American
womanhood must not be ignored and
that SmOot win have to go. Chairman
Burrows believes that the new testi-
mony nc is going TO have taken win
greatly strengthen the case against
SmOot. It is understood that this will
relate largely 10 the great conference
of the Mormon church last summer
when. according to reports. the digni-
taTies Of the OrgE liZatiOn practically
determined 10 stand pat on their OBJ
jectionable doctrines, in defiance to the
government and Of the prejUdices of
the people who dislike pOlygamy. It
is true that SmoOt did not attend the
conference, but the opposition to him
takes the view that he is nevertheless
the political representative Of this in
surgent hierarchy and as such should
be made an example Of.
smoot Wants Action.
There is another story, full of more
sensational possibilities, to the eff
feet that Senator Smoot is confident
that If a vote can be forced in the
senate he viii win, and is disposed to
force the issue He feels, it is said, as
many other people do, that the senate
committee is stretching out the inves-
tigation with a view to preventing
any report on il till the end of his
term. While this would leave him
comfortable In his seat. il would leave
nm without the VindicatiOn he would
like. Therefore, reports says. he may
one of these days rise in his place and
ask that the committee be required TO
make report within some reasonable
time. II would be a spectacular aud,
perhaps. from Shoots point of view,
a rather dangerous proceeding.
No Statement From Burrows
Careful questioning OF Chairman
Burrows fails to elecit any definite
statement from him as what his COM
mittee viii DO IN the Smoot case be-
yond the fact that il will not be taken
up until after the holidays. Mr.. Bur
rows says that much additional testi-
mony is available. but he viii not say
positively that the case will be re-
opened for the purpose of placing this
testimony before the committee.
Senator SmOOt, in response 20 in
quiries as 10 the status of his case,
says he has not conYersed with Chair
man Burrows or other senators in ref
erence 10 il since his return TO Wash
ingtOn at this session of congress. and
that he does not know what course of
procedure viii be followed by the COM
mittee In it's further action upon it.
He does not expect TO resign or to call
on the senate for a vote.