The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-21
REED SHOOT RETAINS
 HIS SEAT IN SENATE
FOUR FEARS CONTEST AGAINST MORMON LEADER ENDS ry
 HIS VICTORY,

Actual Vote Yesterday Afternoon 51 to
 37 in His FavOr-GalIeries Filled
 During Debate-Representati of q
 Number of Prominent WOmen's Or
 ganizatiOns Present-Rush to Con-
 gratulate Shoot When Result is
 Known.
 Washington, Feb. 20-Four years contest against Reed Shoot being per m.itted to retain his seat as a senator of the United States from Utah was ended to-day by 42 of his colleagues voting to sustain him as against 26 for the resolution to unseat him. Added to this there were eighteen senators paired making the actual standing on the res olution 51 votes against it and 37 for it. Senator Shoot himself did not vote and Senator Wetmore was absent and not paired
 The Smoot resolution was called up soon after the senate convened. Every seat in the galleries was filled and dur ing the actual voting the standing room on the floor of the senate was crowded by members of the house and employees of the senate. Seldom has there been a proceeding affecting the standing of senator that has attracted such mark ed attention. In the audience were rep resentatives of number of prominent women's organizations which have been active in circulating and having pre- sented petitions of remonstrance against Shoot. These women secured many thousands of signatures to their petitions which were sent to the senate in elaborately bound volumes, There have been numerous speeches made for and against Senator Shoot since the resolution to unseat him was reported from the committee on priv ileges and elections just prior to ad journment of congress last year. To- day Senators Dubois, Hansbrough, Newlands, Bacon, Burroughs, the latter chairman of the committee, spoke against MT. Shoot, while Senators Beveridge, Deliver and Foraker spoke in his support.
 Throughout the entire speech making Senator Shoot listened attentively but when the voting began he retired to the republican cloak room and there awaited the result.s As 4 o'clock arriv- ed, when by agreement the voting was to begin Senator Hopkins offered his amendment to the committee on reso- lutions and 1t was adopted. Under this amendment a two-thirds vote would have been necessary to carry the reso- lution, which declared that MT. Shoot is not entitled to his seat. Senator Car mack then offered as a substitute for the amended committee resolution a simple reason declared that Senator Smoot should be expelled" The effect of this would be to displace the com arittee resolution if adopted and it was defeated. Then came the vote on the committee resolution as amended, which was as follows:
 Resolved; Two-thirds of the senators present concurring therein, that Reed Shoot is not entitled to a seat as senator of the United States from the state of Utah"
 Although it was a foregone conclu- sion that. the resolution would fail and thus end the long fight against the Utah senator, the roll call contained some surprises Of the forty-two votes in favor of MT. Shoot, three were cast by democrats. They were Messrs, Blackburn, Clark of Montana and Dan iel.
 Senator Teller was paired in favor of Mir. Smoot. Of the twenty -eight votes against MT. Shoot, nine were reDubli- cans. They were Messrs. Bureaus, Clap, Dupont, Hale, Hansbrough, Hem enway, Kittredge, La Toilette, and Smith.
 At the conclusion of the voting there was g rush of republican senators to the cloak room to congratulate MT. Shoot. A large number of members of the house followed and there the senior Utah senator was patted on the back and his hands were shaken in hearty fashion by the men who expressed their admiration of his bearing in the long and trying ordeal through which he has passed. On the floor of the senate and in the galleries it was many minutes before order ecould be restored.