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Show , C:!:::s; Proposes - That Jcmcr Senator end CLTrovsDetateSncot -: Case, but Sutherland Scests Poraker for Snoot Forces. vn.' (Special to The Telegram.) X7 '?.TnyOTOU, D. C, . June 3 . Cl ?eot case will be disposed of ' da ag this session of Congress, and It ys more' than probable that next Veek will see the end of the affair. Senator Smoot declares he will not fielay matters, and that he wants to close the case, win or lose. He says . will win. but the odds are ten to one that he will be sent back to Utah. It has been understood here, and . Senator Sutherland has so stated, that Sutherland would make the . . big cpeech for Smoot on the floor of the Senate. - . Now it seems that Senator Dubois heard of . this statement. So the latter lat-ter went to Sutherland yesterday and proposed that the Smoot. and anti-Smoot anti-Smoot forces - should agree . on two speeches, Sutherland td iakethe Argument Ar-gument 'for Smoot and Burrows to " speak for the other side. v , . Sutherland promptly proceeded to take to the tall timber. He hedged on his former pan to speak for his brother Senator, and said that he could not think of taking the responsibility respon-sibility of making the sole argument for Smoot. He suggested that the Smoot forces might agree on the one- j speech plan if Senator Foraker would make the Smoot speech. - There the negotiations ended. . ' . i Sutherland says, however, that he will make a speech if there is a free-for-all debate of the case on the floor of the Senate. - The case of Senator Smoot was briefly before the Senate today, but Ho action was 'taken. Senator Bur-vows Bur-vows stated that the committee report recommending the exclusion of Senator Sena-tor Smoot would not be in shape for j.e entation until the middle of next wef( Jk, but he had been requested to J that consideration of the report " be W for June 11. , SENATOR BEVERLDGE DESIRED THAT THE CASE BE NOT ONLY " CONSIDERED BUT DISPOSED OF, BEGINNING ON THAT ATE. Senator Teller objected to setting a date in advance of the receipt of the reoport. He said the case had been under un-der consideration in committee for two years, and the Senate could not "afford to proceed with -unreasonable celerity in the case. Senator Hale called for the regular ' order, and tfrf ended the Smoot matter, mat-ter, for the day. |