The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-02-05
GLASS is DENIED
SENATE SEAT BY
VOTE Of 81 TO 81.
Result Sustains Commit
tee on Privileges and
Elections.
NARROW MARGIN
CAUSES SURPRISE
Alabama Editor, Appointed by
Governor O'Neal to Fill Va
cancy, Loses Fight After
Spirited Debate Involving
Interpretation of Consti-
tutional Amendment.

washington, February 4.-By Il ma
lority OF one vote, 80 to 81. Frank p.
Glass, of Alabama. editor of the Birm-
ingham' News, late to-day lost his
hght for seat In tho United States
Senate. The vote sustained the recom :
mcndation Of the Committee on Priv
ileges and Elections. which held that
MT. GLASS was not entitled TO be seated
because his appointment by Governor
ONeal to succeed the late Senator
Joseph f. Johnston was made after the
seventeenth constitutional amendment.
directing election of Senator BY the
people, had been proclaimed In full
effect.
Spirited, and at times. bitter debate
marked the close OF the case, the sec
ond which the Senate has settled in
volins Interpretation OF the consti-
tutional amendment. Senator Blair
Lee, OF Maryland. who was seated a
few days ago. on recommendation OF
the Elections Committee made his maid
en- speech In favor of Glass, and later
cast his vote for him
Remarkable Progress.
from the majority members of the COM
mittee headed by Senator Kern, the
champions OF The Alabaman, proceed
Inf from a forlorn hope, made remark
able progress In gaining votes, and the
narrow margin by which they lost the
ernor O'Neals appointee had been gain
ing strength steadily in the last few
days had been apparent, but that he
would come so close TO success had not
been contemplated by the opposition un-
til the last hours of the controversy.
Then u was that Senator Walsh, of
Montana, who wrote the majority re-
port, in q closing plea. appealed TO his
colleagues to cast aside personal es-
TEEN and friendship and to consider
the case from q legal standpoint only,
to realize that they We're making his
tory and that a precedent might be
established upon which to base action
in future emergencies.
III spite OF the committees report,
only eight Democrats voted to deny
Mr.. Glass his seat. They were:
Senators Kern. Hitchcock. Johnson,
Lane, Pomercne. Shiveley, Thompson
and Walsh.
Four Republicans Bradley. Fall. Per-
kirs and Stephenson voted with the
minority.
CInpp Changes Result.
Senator Clapp. of Minnesota. who
had signed the minority report favor
ing Mr.. Glass, eventually proved the
undoing of the Alabama appointee
Senator Clapp previously had an
nounced that he would vote to seat
speech, he declared that he had become
convinced that his original interprcta-
ton of the case had been erroneous
Some bitterness entered into the de-
bate, Senator Bristol arousing support
ers of Mr.. Glass when he declared that
IT would be an outrage on the people
TO receive the Alabaman. Senator Bris-
tow further asserted:
III the vote had been taken before
te ri IVA
Glass would have been two to one. 1t
will be interesting to watch how GER
tain Senator'S vote to-day"
This remark angered Senator Mark
Smith. of Arizona, who assailed the
Kansas Senator for Continually" as
serting his suspicion of his colleagues
and questioning their motives when
they did not agree with him.
The vote was taken on substitute
resolution offered by Senator Robinson
of Arkansas, providing that Mr. Glass
be seated After the result had been
announced and the roll call had begun
on the original resolution OF the ma
tority to deny Mr.. Glass a seat. Senator
LaFollette. who had been i'll at his
home. reached the Senate chamber
His appearance first gave the Glass
supporters some hope, but when his
name was called he voted for the ma
Jorlty report
Vote In Case.
senators voting to seat Mr.. Glass
We're: Ashurst, Bankhead, Bradley.
Chamberlain. Chiffon. Fall. Fletcher,
James. Lee, Martin, MARITIME, Myers
Newiands. Owen, Perkins. Pittman.
Ransdell, Robinson. hatroth, Shep-
pard. Shields. Simmons, Smith (Ari-
Zona), Smith tGeorgia), Smith MARY
land), Smith (South Carolina), Stephen
son, Swanson, Tillman, Vardaman, Will
liams-31.
Nays: Borah, Brady. Bristow. Bur
ton. Cole. Cummins. Dillingham;. Gron-
ma. Hitchcock. Johnson, Jones. Kenyon.
Kern Lane. Lippitt. Lodge. McCumber,
Mclean, Nelson, Norris, Page. Poin-
dexter, Pomerene. Sherman. Shively,
Smoot. Sutherland, Thompson. Town
send, Walsh, Weeks. Works-32
The maiden speech OF Senator Blair
Lee, of Maryland, who was seated last
week, by virtue of an election In that
State, came rs a climax to the long de-
bate. Senator Lee emphasized his tim
idity in differing on n question of con-
stitutional law with the Committee on
Privileges and Elections, 10 which he
owed his own seat on the floor. The
great Difference the Senate had always
shown and Justly shown, he said. to
the right of the States to equal rep
resentation on the floor of the Senate
induced him to express his own opinion
in favor OF Mr.. Glass.
He emphasized the point that so anX-
ious had the Senate been TO preserve
this equal representation thht 1t had
stretched the words of the old Constitu-
tion providing that Senator, appoint
ed by a Governor, should hold until
the next meeting of the Legislature so
as to give the appointed Senator the
right to hold until the next Legislature
elected Senator or adjourned.
He called attention to the fact that
Alabama had not ratified tho seven