The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-21
REED SMOOT WILL
STAY IN THE SENATE
Four Years Contest to ExpeI
Him Is Settled
THE VOTE STANDS AZ TO Is
Senator Hansborough and Others Speak
Against smoot, While Foraker and
Beverldee Support Him.
Women's Clubs.
THE VOTE STANDS AZ TO 25

! Washington, February O.-Four years
| contest against Reed Smoot being per-
mitted to retain his seat as a senator OF
the United States from Utah was ended
| today by forty-two of his colleagues vot-
| ing to sustain him as against twenty
| eight for the resolution to unseat him.
| Added to this there were eighteen sena-
tors paired, making the actual standing
on the resolution 81 votes against it and
| 81 for it.
Senator Smoot 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 gallery was filled and during
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 af-
feeting the standing of a senator that
has attracted such marked attention. In
the audience we're representatives of a
number of prominent womens organiza-
tions which have been active in circu-
lating and having presented petitions of
remonstrance against Mr.. Smoot.
These women secured many thousands
of signatures to their petitions, which
they sent to the Senate in elaborately
bound volumes. There have been numer-
Gus speeches for and against Senator
Smoot since the resolution to unseat him
was reported from the committee on
privileges and elections. just prior to the
adjournment of Congress last year.
Today Senators Dubois, Hansbrough
Newlands. Bacon and Burrows, the latter
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Throughout the anthe speec making
Senator Smoot listened attentiyely, but
when the voting began he retired to the
republican cloak room and there awaited
the result. AS o'clock arrived, when
by agreement, the voting was to begin
Senator Hopkins offered his amendment
to the committee resolution and it was
adopted.
Under the amendment two-thirds vote
would have been necessary to carry the
resolution which declared that Mr. Smoot
is not entitled to his seat. Senator Car
mack then offered a substitute for the
amended committee resolution, a. simple
resolution declaring that Senator Smoot
should be- expelled" The effect of this
would be to displace the committee reso-
'pAN'~NN1'
Then came the vote on the committee
resolution, as amended, which was as
follows:
Resolved, two-thirds of the Senator'S
present concurring therein, that Reed
Smoot is not entitled to seat as
senator of the United States from the
state of Utah"
Although it was foregone conclusion
that the resolution would fail and thus
end the long fight against the Utah
senator the roll call contained some sur
prises. OF the forty-two votes In faVor
of Smoot three were cast by democrats
They were Messrs. Blackburn. Clark or
Montana and Daniel Senator Teller was
paired in favor of Smoot. OF the twenty
eight votes against Mr.. Smoot nine were
republicans. At the conclusion or the Vot-
ing there was a rush of republican SEN
ators to the cloak room to congratulate
Mr. Smoot A large number of members
of the House followed and there the
senior Utah senator was patted upon
the back and his hands were shaken
in hearty fashion.
on the floor of the Senate and IN the
galleries it was many minutes pelore Or
der could be restored.
Debate opens.
In anticipation of the cluosing DEBATE
and the final vote on the resolution oe-
H..
titled to his seat as senator from Y utah'
fxed for o'clock today, the galleries
were well filed at the beginning OF the
session at II o'clock. The resolution was
Immediately laid before the senate, but
before the discussion began there was a
short skirmish to secure DIVISION OF
ti,ne among those desiring to speak
I;fteen minutes were occupied in dis
| c,,saing the question of procedure, when
ali further efforts in that direction We're
abandoned and Senator DUBOIS TOOK lne
floor in opposition to Mr.. Sinoot' ne
charged that senators supporting tne
Utah senator had taken advantage OF an
| tactics of special pleading. Wheh ne ue
clared with emphasis that Senator tfop-
/ kins had nut the Mormon church above
| all other Christian ORGANIZATIONS MI
Hopkins sought to interrupt.
- viii, not WELD" declared Mr.. Dubois
with some heat. ''You would not permit
me to interrupt you.
| s.But the senator is making an absolute
| MISREPRESENTATION" shouted Mr.. HOPKINS
| while the vice president was enoeaVoIiis
| to restore order.
| Continuing Mr.. Dubois said the oniy
| fair speech that had been made TOT MT
| Smoot had been by the junior senator
| from Utah. Mr.. Sutherland. HE wouio
not have dared utter on this MOOT Wna'
| other senators uttered" he added, pe-
| cause he knows better the actual condi-
| tions in Utah
Mr.. Dubois took direct issue with Sen
ator Knox's recent statement-"Polygam my
| in Utah has ended.
Dubois Takes Issue.
| sFiye out of the twelve apostles have
gone into II since the manifesto" assert
ed Mr.. Dubois. "The president of ths
!, church performed the ceremony betweg1
an apostle and his fourth wife, ne adyt
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