Evening star., 1912-11-15
SEES STRIFE AHEAD
Democratic Promises Mean
Revolution, Says Smoot.
EXPECTS ALTERED PLANS
Party Will Not Be as Radical as
Pledges, He Believes.
SENATOR NOW OPTIMISTIC
Believes That Republicans Will Get
Together Again, as They AL
ways Have in Past.

''The democrats can't carry out the
promises they have made in the cam
paign, without bringing about an indus
trial revolution"
That is the view of Senator Reed Smoot
of Utah. one of the big republican lead
ers in the upper branch of Congress, as
he contemplates at least two years of
democratic control of Congress. Mr..
Smoot arrived in Washington yesterday
and was soon at work in his office in the
Senate Office building. He has received
several callers and is making plans for
the coming session of Congress.
with the responsibility upon them" Mr..
Smoot continued, in discussing democratic
legislation, Il do not believe the demo-
Gratis are going to be as radical as their
promises have been. But as surely as
they do, they will bring about an in
dustrial revolution.
THE country is a protection country.
Even the last election, which resulted in
a victory for Mr.. Wilson, showed that.
He and the democratic tariff principles re-
ceived only a minority vote, even less
vote than Mr.. Bryan received four years
ago.
Expects Extra Session.
cApCSt dh CAlid ScSSiOi oA SohS Cos
next spring and summer for the revision
of the tariff. 1 do not see how the demo-
Gratis can adopt any other course.
1.-The attitude and actions of the re-
publcans in the Senate will, 1 think. be
practically the same as they have been
during the last two sessions, when the
democrats have had a majority in the
House. They will continue to fight for
protective tariff and other republican
principles
Senator Smoot is optimistic regarding
the future of the republican party; and
his discussion of that matter indicates
that he draws much of his optimism from
the results of the recent election.
THE republican party will certainly
live; there is no doubt about that. Re-
publicans will get together, as they have
gotten together in the past.
THE returns from the election show, I
think conclusively, that with either Taft
or Roosevelt as the republican nominee
and no third party the republicans would
only a minority of the votes. And look
at the thousands of republican votes he
received. just to make his election over
Roosevelt sure. / have received hundreds
Of letters in which republicans said they
would vote for Wilson for that reason
Expects Party Reunion.
And you think the factions of the
republican party will get together?" SEN
ator Smoot was asked
"Oh, yes" he replied
Each side making some compromises?'
There may be some compromises
Senator Smoot does not expect any big
legislation to be put. through Congress
at the coming session, except the ap-
preparation bills. OF course, he says
there will be passed many bills of local
interest and private bills and there may
be some general legislation about which
the big parties do not disagree.
The senator is going to push the bill
for the leasing of coal lands in Alaska
The Senate committee on public lands, of
which he is chairman, has approved of
the measure and reported it to the Sen
ate with recommendation that it be
passed. The House committee on public
lands is understood to be favorably dis
posed toward the legislation. The bill
aims to open up the coal resources of the
great territory purchased from Russia
and. in view of the attitude of the two
committees, Mr.. Smoot expects the legis-
lation to be put on the statute books at
the coming session.
For Printing Reforms.
The printing revision bill aimed to save
several hundred thousand dollars each
year in the cost of Uncle Sans printing,
is another measure which Senator Smoot
hopes to see passed during the coming
session. The measure has been approved
by the Senate and is pending in the
House. Mr.. Smoot believes there is gem
eral approval of the legislation in both
houses of Congress, but there has been
some hesitancy about taking it up in the
House because of the radical changes it
proposes in the printing laws.
AS member of the Senate committee
on civil service who has approved the
Cummins bill for civil service retire.
ment Mr.. Smoot is interested in that leg
islatlon. In view of the fact that the plat
form committee of the democratic national
convention turned down the plank for
civil service retirement law, he fears there
is little chance to get such law through
both houses of Congress- especially the
democratic House, in the coming short