The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-05
SENATE SUSTAINS
COMMITTEE REPORT
BY NARROW MARGIN:
GLASS is NOT SEATED
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Arkansas, providing Mr. Glass be
seated After the result had been an
nounced and the roll call had begun on
original resolution of the majority to
deny Mr.. Glass seat, Senator LaFol-
lette, who had been i'll at his home,
reached the Senate chamber. His ap-
pearanee gave the Glass supporters
some hope, but when his name was
called he voted for the majority re-
port.
Senators voting to seat Mr.. Glass
We're: Ashhurst, Bankhead. Bradley,
Chamberlain, Chiffon, Fall Fletcher,
James, Lee, Martin. MARITIME, Myers,
Newlands. owen, Perkins. Pittman,
Ransdell, Robinson, Sahfroth, Sheppard,
Shields, Simmons, Smith, (Ariz) Smith
| (Georgia), Smith Maryland), Smith
tSouth Carolina) Stephenson, Swanson
Tillman Nardaman, Wiliams-31
Nays: Borah, Brady, Bristow, Burton
Colt, Cummins. Dillingham;, Gronna,
Hitchcock, Johnson, Jones. Kenyon,
Kern, Lane, Lippitt. Lodge, McCumber.
Mclean, Nelson, Norris, Page, Poindex-
ter, Pomerene, sherman, Shively, Smoot,
sutherland. Thompson Townsend,
Walsh, Weeks, Works.
The maiden speech of Senator Blair
Lee of Maryland. who last week was
seated by virtue of an election in that
state, came is a climax to the long
debate Senator Lee emphasized his
timidity in differing on question of
constitutional law with the committee
on privileges and election to which ne
owed his own seat on the floor.
Lee Supports Glass
The great Difference the Senate had
always shown. and justly shown, he
said, to the right of the states to equal
representation on the floor of the Sem
ate induced him to express his own
opinion in favor of Mr. Glass. He en-
phaszed the point that so anxious had
the Senate been to preserve this equal
representation that 1T had stretched the
words of the old constitution providing
that senator appointed by a governor
shold hold until the next meeting of
the legislature, so as to give the ap-
pointed senator the right to hold until
the next legislature elected a senator
or adjourned.
He called attention to the fact that
Alabama had not ratified the seven
teenth amendment, and to the desire of
the state to save 100000, or some
large sum, which would be spent by
special election for senator.
Senator Lee had been preceded i'm
mediately by Senator Walsh. who closed
the debate on behalf of those opposed
to seating Mr.. Glass. He declared that
senators who voted to seat Mr. Lee
could not vote consistently to seat Mr..
Glass, and urged that the people of the
state of Alabama were entitled to go
to the polls to determine who should
represent them in the Senate.
Senator Bankhead of Alabama, who
led the fight for Mr. Glass, closed the
debate for the minority in an eloquent
plea to the Senate to act upon common
sense, and not to deprive a state of a
senator
Mr.. Glass, who sat on the floor
throughout the day, was surrounded by
senators after the result had been an
nounced, those who had voted against
him joining with his supporters in ex
pressing their regret. AT no time was
any personal objection suggested. the
opposition maintaining the governor of
Alabama should have called a special
senatorial election to fill the vacancy
existing. and that the seventeenth
amendment precluded his right to make
the appointment