Show w 1 u Sf SENATOR TOR SMOOTS M T RIGHT T TO St SEATS T Senate Committee Has lias lot Decided cd ed Whether it Will be It ry r to Inquire Into HEARING BEGINS REClUS SATURDAY No o Whatever Will k he Given to Absurd Talk folk About the thc Labor Unions Correspondence Special Correspondence u Washington 1 n C tt sen nto committee on privileges and elec lions hUll hits not yet ct decided whether or not fiat It will bO necessary to 10 Inquire Into the tho t o right of or Mr Mt teed Heed Smoot to retain rennin ho sent to which ho him h was WM elected cledell For lor 1 or inal charges Mr bur Smoot were flied filed Copies CopieR ot of those were w ro presented to him hint unit till II ho he was van requested to tl send Belll u n formal reply This was wall a u alow low days duys before tile tie holiday recess H and bur Mr Smoot decided to tho ram rens of ot the senate before sending Bending In his answer The rho next nest meeting of ot tho the denote lI committee on 1111 privileges and ami elections will he be held hell I on Saturday Jan Jun 9 U It Is III expected tint Mr AIr Smoots ls answer will bo ho placed pieced before tho the committee com committee ut nt that lIml time Tho h committee e will first decide whether or not the tho answer to the tho charges Is III to 10 settle the tho ques question tion of or the eligibility of or the tho sitting JIlting senator without further net netlon Ion It Il must nUo Ilso decide us its to Its own Jurisdiction In the tho premises the Tho consensus of or opinion among senators who will VIII ox ex n tr s s themselves ten hm ra at nil mil I Is in that the th committee will decide to 10 give the tho pro Mr Smoot an at opportunity to 10 prove promo their charge that tho Iho senator Is 18 n 1 g which ho bo do dc Hies and Unit lint ho hI has subscribed to tu a 1 traitorous oath which statement h he hUll has likewise denied In toto tole ar arthe err the only questions at of Issue h tie Senator Smoot admits that ho 1 Is b n II member of ut the tho Mormon Church The rho committee o admits that tho the question of or tho the roll Ions loos belief holler of ot a II senator sailor has hall whatever to do with the Ihn case Within time thi past tow row days telegrams from froni appeared In Intent eastern newspapers that certain labor unions taken up 1111 the tho tight fight against n Mr 11 Smoot because of or till tho al iii alleged I Ile le d antagonism of or if the tho Mormon Church to those tho o unions The Tho commit committo ten tee will VIII give no Ito more consideration to this phase of lr tho the subject than would ho be given to 10 11 a 1 protest team from Carrie Nation against tim of a n senator ho bo causo ho smokes Senator hll I 11 of or tho thC t which IH is to pass upon tho the question of or eligibility says there mo are I only two tin counts to 10 tho the Indictment which can on possibly have any consideration consider nt the tho hand of or the Iho They arc lire that ho lie has hall contracted n II plural marriage and that the tho oath Mth to 10 the bite Church Is 11 In III violation of r the tho oath to tr which he subscribed its ilK n II senator Tho rho b h If Ir the committee p to 10 hear hell I the ruse case formally wit wll probably pro probably ably consumo many mUll weeks and Iho tho filial outcome will scarcely be bo touched reached i i before the Iho middle of t February liven If tho the committee Bookies In III favor of or depriving tho the senator of or his hili pent It will III require n a tote voto of or of or the tho innate to 10 ratify tho Iho report There Is III one mine difference tho the use rune of or lined fined nil and that of or ham II The senator s has bus sheet beun be on swam In and IN IS today taday I lilt II Just as US much a n I iVf senator ns as Sir r Hour Mr Jr burrows or tny one of 01 U III who rho ho must I puss amiss upon Ids bin tithe to the tho sent ho he Mr r was Willi never noor morn titan than n II Ho Ito was not permitted to l the oath which would timid hav hll sealed him Ida U It requires n 1 voto Coto of two of either cither honna to 10 expel n It sitting monitor member but hut n tt 1 majority inn can puss pass upon the tho right of ot a 1 member elect of or cither either house to 10 tike tako the soot to which ho he may have been elected |