The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-21
REED SMOOT WILL
STAY IN THE SENATE
CONTINUED FROM PAGE l.,

for Reed Smoot if they had read the tes-
timony.
But I know 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 coun-
try knows it. He wants him seated. You
have got the Mormon vote. You have
every one of them. my friends. on the re-
publican side. But 1t has cost you the
moral support of the Christian women
and men of the United States
Senator Beveridge followed with a plea
for Mr.. Shoots retention. He believed
the greatest wrong that could be done
any man was the ruin of his reputation
when his life had been stainless. and this
was what was being done in the case of
the senator from Utah.
Beveridge Speaks.
Mr.. Beveridge devoted much of his
speech to illustrating the general preva-
lent opinion that Senator Smoot was
polygamist. He had talked to more than
800 men and women to their belief in
the matter and had found an almost uni
versal opinion that Mr.. Smoot was
polygamist.
Since the speech of Senator Burrows
few days ago Senator Beveridge said
a newspaper clipping from a middle
HOl Ill W CSttIA paper COIlt To his no
tice 1t stated that Senator Burrows had
shown that Mr.. Smoot had i've wives and
forty-seyen children, three of whom were
born during the present year. Another
illustration was clipped literally from a
Washington bulletin board The day fol-
lowing Senator KnoX's recent speech.
which reads, Senator knox defends
Polygamist Smoot." All of this misinfor-
nation, he said. was in the face of alb
SOlufa 1in6iennfad faStipnOnV that Mr.
Smoot never had but one wife.
Mr.. Beverage disposed of what he re-
garded the charge of treason against Mr..
Smoot in that he had taken church
oath against his country by giving the
record of Mormons in the recent war.
They had fought and died for their coun-
try.
Senator Carmack offered a sub-resolu-
ton providing that Reed Smoot, Sen
ator from Utah. be expelled from the
Senate" 1t would, he said, require a two
thirds vote of the Senate to adopt his
substitute. Previous to the recent speech
of Senator Knox, Mr.. Carmack said 1t
had been his intention to vote for the
committee resolution. Mr.. Knox had dem
onstrated that the committee resolution
was ar attempt to do by majority vote
what should be done under the constitu-
ton only by a two-thirds vote.
Hansborouqh Supports Resolution.
Senator Hansbrough of North Dakota
supported the resolution depriving Mr..
Smoot of his seat in a brief speech, fin
which he denounced Mormonism with
vigor. He said:
I shall cast my vote In favor of the
resolution now pending. Were to fail to
do otherwise / would feel that l had
condoned every offense ever committed
against good morals and the written laws
of th, country by the Mormon church.
Not the least among the long list of these
offenses was the sending to this high
legislative tribunal of one of the active
APOSTLES of the Mormon organization.
Ahese words are not uttered in hos
tility to. or out of any lack of respect
to Reed Smoot. In sending it's apostle
here the Mormon managers, always ag
gressive in advancing the political in
teres.s of their leaders, furnished us with
another sample of brazen effrontery in
further defying the public sentiment OF
the country relative to the obnoxious
institution for which they are responsible.
Mormonism comes here for seeking bill
of clear health in the form of an en-
dorsement of all it's fragrant misdeeds. The
defeat of this resolution would be tanta-
mount to putting the seal of official ap-
prevail upon a conspiracy, conceived,
believe in reasonable antagonism to our
republican institutions.
"In dealing with the dangerous doc
trines of an institution established upon
the principle that it is superior to the
governmental system under which we
live, we can afford to rise above con-
ventional constitutional obstruction. The
higher laws should be invoked-the I'M
written law embraced in the inherent