Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-11-12 | Page 23 | Smoot is Back in Washington

SN WASHINGTON Radicalism in West and Anti-Prohibition m East Blamed Bj BAR1 ,r. ( 13IPBELL i nternal I' n il u- Sen Ice WASHINGTON. No-.. 1 i Those senators most closely associated with the administration admitted today they were extremely dubious as to whether the ship subsidy or any other part of the administration's legislative program could be carried out during the final months ot the sixty-seventh ; congress. rr S.-nator Reed .Sii-oot of I tan, one, of th. Republlcanlea$ers closely affiliated af-filiated with the administration, who returned here today, riwnkly conceded conced-ed that If thl inmrirf.nr i-rnim InlnnH I with the Democrats in employing dilatory dil-atory tactics in order to compel the , convening of the new congress in the spring that the administration legislative legis-lative program was likely to smash. To radicalism" In the west and to i "ami-prohlbltlon" In the sast, Smoot attributed most of tho Democratic and ; Republican upsets Tuesday, lie predicted pre-dicted that In the next congress there would be two formidable "blocs" with .which both big purtles would have to deal more than ever before the farm "bloc" and the "wet bloc." ; "DlsLsatusfactlon and unrest amo:i the farmers 'of the mlddlewest, the northwest and even the far west, on , one hand, and the growing resentment 'particularly In the east, to prohibition, prohib-ition, undoubtedly were responsible j for the election results," said Smoot.1 "Prohibition IS a big question which both parties will have to meet not only in the new congress, but In the next presidential election. 1 "It is a question which neither will be able to dodge."