The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-02-28
SMooT HOLDS SEAT
Senate Refuses to Dust Nor
mon Member from Utah.
WOMEN PACK GALLERIES
Forty-Two Senators Voted in Shoots
Favor and TWenty-Eight Against
Him-Conaratulations Were
in Order.

When the vote on the question Of
Reed Smoot holding his seat was
taken in the senate Wednesday, re-
sulting in permission for him to re-
tain his credentials as senator from
Utah, by a vote of 43 to 2S, the gall
leries were packed with the largest
assemblage that has filed them this
session.
The overwhelming preponderance
of visitors were women. In the audi
ence were representatives OF a num-
ber of prominent women's organla-
tions, which have been active in cir.
culating and having presented petit
tions of remonstrance against Smoot.
These women secured many thou
sands of signatures to their petitions,
which were sent to the senate in elab.
orately bound volumes.
Senators Bacon and Clay Of Geor-
gia, Tillman and Latimer OF South
Carolina, and the democrats. gener-
ally, voted for expulsion. The repub-
lcan defenders Of Smoot sought to
correct the statements that he had
practiced polygamy, and several ad-
dresses by Senators Beveridge, Knox
and others have been made in his
support. Senator Bacon declared his
reason for voting against Smoot was
that, while probably not a polygamist
himself, he was an apostle and meca-
Der of the governing body OF the
Mormon church, and as such counten-
anced polygamy, and favored a union
of church and state.
As 4 o'clock arrived, when, by
agreement, the voting was to begin,
Senator Hopkins offered his amend
mept to the committee resolution, and
it was adopted; under the amend
mcnt a two-thirds vote would have
been necessary to carry the resolu-
ton, which declared that Mr.. smoot
is QOC 6QllslGu " ulS SCoI.
Then came the vote on the commit
tee resolutions as amended, which
was as follows:
"Resolved, two-thirds of the sena'
tors present concurring therein, that
Reed Smoot is not entitled to seat
as A senator of the United States
from the state of Utah
Although it was foregone conclu'
sion that the resolution would fall,
and thus end the long fight against
the Utah senator, the roll call contain
ed some surprises. Of the forty-tWo
votes in favor of Senator Smoot, three
were cast by democrats. They were
Messrs blackburn, Clark OF Montana
and I,aniel. Senator Teller was pair
ell ia favor of Smeot. Of the twenty
eight votes against Mr.. Smoot niae
were republicans.
At the conclusion of the voting
!, there was a rush of republican sena-
tors to the cloak room to congratulate
MIR. Smoot.
A large number of members of the
house followed, and there the senior
Utah senator was patted upon the
back. and his hands we're shaken In
hearty fashion. On the floor OF the
senate and in the galleries 1t was
many minutes before order could be
restored.
In the debate Mr.. Dubois took direct
issue with Senator Knox's recent
statement: "Polygamy in Utah has
ended"
give out of the twelve apostles
have gone into it since the mani
festo," asserted Mr.. Dubois. THE
president Of the church performed
the ceremony between an apostle ana
his fourth wife, he added.
Senator Smoot is the son OF a
.polygamist. His father had four wives.
When he reached the age of man.
hood he married polygamist child,
his wife being the daughter Of a
fourth wife Of her father. I would
not say this if it hurt the feelings
Of the senator. 1t does not, No one
il. Utah will blame him for it. Many
will honor him.
Concluding. Mr.. Dubois declared
there were not ten senator's who
would vote for Mr.. Smoot If they
had read the testimony.
"But 1 know that strong influences
are at work here. The president OF
the United States is the open friend
of the senator from Utah. You all
know it. The country knows it. He
wants him seated. You have got the
Mormon vote. You have every one
of them, my friends, on the republi'
can side. But it has cost you the
moral support of the Christian wo-
men and men of the United States. 4"