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Show mil IS-REACHED DN f MIJS GtSE mm long delay Spirited Debate Engaged in by Dubois and Hopkins Opens the Last Day's fighting; Hansbrough Strongly Scores Apostle in a Forcible Speech. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.---The Senate has decided that Senator Smoot is entitled to his seat by defeating the Burrows amendment. The vote was 28 to 42. Senator Carmack offered as a substitute for the resolution reso-lution of the committee a resolution providing that Senator Sena-tor Smoot shall be expelled from the Senate. If adopted it would have displaced the committee resolution. It was defeated by a vote of 27 yeas, 43 nays. Senator Smoot absented himself from the Senate during dur-ing the voting. p Senator Smoot, at the conclusion of the voting, was Vven a reception in the Republican cloakroom. oFllowing is the vote in detail on the Burrows amendment, amend-ment, regarding Senator Smoot not being entitled to his seat; Yeas Bacon, Berry, Burrows, Carmack, Clapp, Clark (Arkansas), Clay, Culberson, Dubois, Dupont, Frazier, Hale, Hansbrough, Hemenway, Kittredge, LaFollette, Lat-timer, Lat-timer, McCreary, McLaren,' Money, Newlands, Overman, Pettus, Rayner, Simmons, Smith, Stone, Tillman 28. Nays Aldrich, Alice, Ankeny, Beveridge, Blackburn, Brandegee, x Buckley, Burkett, Burnham, Clark (Montana), (Mon-tana), Clark (Wyoming), Crane, Curtis, Daniel, Depew, Dick, Dillingham, Dolliver, Flint, Foraker, Frye, Fulton, Gallinger, Gamble, Heyburn, Hopkins Kean, Knox, Lodge, Long,"lrcCumb"er, Millarct, Mulkey, Nelson, Nixon, Penrose, Perkins, Piles, Spooner, Sutherland, Warner, Wan-en 42. ' WASHINGTON, FEB. 20. IN ANTICIPATION AN-TICIPATION or the closing: DEBATE DE-BATE AND FINAL VOTE ON THE BESOLUTION DECLARING EEED SMOOT TO BE NOT ENTITLED TO HIS SEAT AS A SENATOR FEOM UTAH, FIXED FOB 4 O'CLOCK TODAY. TO-DAY. THE GALLERIES WERE - WELL FILLED. .. THE PROCEEDINGS OPENED WITH A SHORT SKIRMISH TO SECURE A DIVISION OF TIME AMONG THOSE DESIRING TO SPEAK FOR AND AGAINST THE JtfeLTJTION. ' "llEN SENATOR HOPKINS SUG-OlJxED SUG-OlJxED A DIVISION OF TIME THERE WERE MANY NEGATIVE OBSERVATIONS AMONG SENATORS. SENA-TORS. "That Is a procedure of the House, where they have no parliamentary law, and I object," asserted Senator Money. f Fifteen minutes were occupied In dis- cussing the Question of procedure. Then further efforts In that direction were abandoned and Senator Dubois took the - floor la opposition to Mr. Smoot. He charged that Senators supporting the Utah Senator had taken advantage of ail the tactics of special pleading. When bo declared that Senator Hopkins had put the Mormon church above all other Christian organizations, Mr. Hopkins Hop-kins sought to interrupt. ! I WILL NOT YIELD," DECLARED DE-CLARED MR. DUBOIS, WITH SOME HEAT; "YOU WOULD NOT PERMIT ME TO INTERRUPT YOU." "But the Senator Is making an absolute abso-lute misrepresentation," shouted Mr. Hopkins; ! Mr. Dubois said the only fair speech that had been made for Mr. Smoot had been by the junior Senator from Utah, Mr. Sutherland. "He would not have dared utter on this floor what other Senators uttered,'.' be added, "because he knows better the actual conditions in Utah." 1 Mr. Dubois took direct issue with Senator KnoxJ statement "potygamy in Utah has ended." "Five out of the twelve apostles ! i have gone into it since the manifesto," said Mr. Dubois. "The president of the church performed the ceremony between be-tween an apostle and his fourth wife." wife." Turning his attention to Senator Smoot, Mr. Dubois remarked: "Senator Smoot is the son of a polygamist. His father had four wives. When he reached the age of manhood he married the daughter of a fourth wife of her father. I would not say this if it hurt the feelings of the Senator. Sen-ator. It does not. No one in Utah will blame him for it. Many will honor him." Concluding, Mr. Dubois declared there were not ten Senators who would vote for Reed Smoot if they had read the testimony. "But I know that strong influences are at work here. The President of the United States it an open friend of the Serator from Utah. You all know it. He wants him seated. You have got the Mormon votev You have every one of them, my friends, upon the Republican Republi-can side. But it has cost you the moral support of the Christian women and men of the United States." Senator Beveridge followed with a plea for Mr. Smoot's retention. He believed be-lieved the greatest wrong that could be done any m air-was the ruin of his reputation rep-utation when his life had been stainless. The millions of petition signers against Mr. Smoot, he said, expressed the sentiments of a misinformed public. pub-lic. The Senate should no more regard the petitions than would any other court regard petitions to influence its verdict. Mr. Beveridge had talked to more than 300 men and women and had found an almost universal opinion that Mr. Smoot was a polygamist. As an illustration, illus-tration, Mr. Beveridge presented half a dozen clipping books which he said were full of the statements of Mr. Smoot's polygamy. Since the speech of Senator Burrows a few days ago, he said, a newspaper clipping from a middle northwestern paper had come to his notice. It stated that Mr. Burrows had shown that Mr. Smoot had five wives and forty-seven children, three of whom were born during the present year. Another illustration was clipped literally from a Washington newspaper news-paper bulletin board the day following Senator Knox's recent speech, which read: "Senator Knox defends polygamist Smoot. " All of this misinformation, he said,, was in the face of absolute and undisputed undis-puted testimony that Mr. Smoot never had but one wife. Beveridge Finishes Speech. Senator Beveridge referred to the recent speech of Senator Burrows, saying: say-ing: "The Senator from Michigan quoted from an address of Mr. Smoot before a Mormon congregation in Salt Lako City, made in 190o, since he has been a Senator. This was to show the Senate Sen-ate that Reed Smoot is now the upholder up-holder of crime and the advocate of all the practices of 'his church in the past. 1 et, of this quotation, set out as a single passage, its five sentences are selected from five different portions por-tions of the address, varying from 600 to 1600 words apart, isolated from their context and rearranged. " "Worse than that, two of them were altered. Worse than that, the address was not on the subject of polygamy at all, or on any other violation of the law, but upon the expenditures of the church funds, which the church authorities au-thorities had been charged with spending spend-ing corruptlv. Vet. this alleged quotation quota-tion is used to blacken the Senator, and so effectively that the Senator from Arkausas based most of his Bpeech upon it." ' Mr. Beveridge disposed of what he regarded as the charge of treason against Mr. Smoot, in that he had taken a church oath against his country, coun-try, by giving the record of Mormons in the recent war. They had fought and died for their country. Senator Carmack offered a substitute resolution, providing "that Reed Smoot, Senator from Utah, be expelled from the Senate." It would, he said, require a two-thirds vote of the Senate to adopt the substitute. Previous to the recent speech of Senator Knox, Mr. Carmack said, it had been his intention to vote for the committee resolution. Mr. Knox had demonstrated that the committee resolution was an attempt to do by a majority vote what should be done under the Constitution only by a two-thirds vote. 8enator Foraker, who followed Mr. Hansbrough, said: "No case whatever has been made that will justify us in either dec'aring vacant the seat, or expelling the Senator Sen-ator from Utah. Reed Smoot has proven a better character than any other Senator Sena-tor here has a light to claim. He is so good a man that i" almost donl: liiti. (Continued on page 8.) ; SHOOT CASE. "sill - ' (Continued from pagV 1.) ; He does not dr:rk, smoke, cl;r or swear, and he is not a polygftmist. " The applause of the galleries at this was checked by the Vice-President. SAVING OF SOULS ONLY INCIDENTAL III MORMON CHURCH "WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.--Senator Hansbrough of. North Dakota, supported support-ed the resolution depriving' Smoot of his seat. In a brief speech he denounced Mormonism wjth vigor. He said: , '1 shall east my vote in favor of the resolution now pending. Were I to do otherwise I would feel that I had . condoned every offense ever committed against good morals and the written laws of the country , by the Mormon church. Not the. least among the long list of those offenses was the sending to this high tribunal one of the active apostles of the - Mormon organization. These words are not uttered in hostility to, or out of any lack of respect to Reed Smoot. They are spoken to give expression ex-pression to the views I hold in regard to the Mormonism based upon the public pub-lic record it has made for itself. "In sending its apostle here the Mormon Mor-mon managers, always aggressive in advancing ad-vancing the political interests of their leaders, furnished us with another earn- ?le of brazen effrontery in further de-ying de-ying the publie sentiment of the country coun-try relative to the obnoxious institution for which they are responsible. Having Hav-ing intrenched itself in political power in many States and Territories, Mormonism Mor-monism comes here seeking a clean bill of health in the form -or an indorse-: ment of all its flagrant misdeeds. The defeat of this resolution would be tantamount tan-tamount to putting the seal of official approval upon a conspiracy eonceivedj as I believe, in treasonable antagonism to 'our republican institutions. , Mormons Not Welcomed. "There is not a city or village' or trol, it moves rapidly forward until it acquires commercial supremacy. "At all times the saving of souls Is but an 'incidental part of its strange business. "And yet, at no time and in no way, not even through its perfected system of colonization, has it been enabled to hide itself from the public gaze. The law-abiding people of the land have not been deceived. From Nauvoo to the endowment en-dowment house at Salt Lake City, from the place of plural marriages to the tithe-paying colony, from the colony to the ballot box and the ballot box to the United States, an indulgent house has looked steadily on its prayerful hopefulness hope-fulness that time will surely come when the strange and devious course of Mormonism, Mor-monism, ever defiant of popular opinion, opin-ion, stimulated with the lust of possession pos-session and power, would receive a check. That time has come, and no more fitting place could be chosen than in this chamber of impartial judgment for the rendering of the long-delayed verdict." hamlet in any section or the ' United States where Mormonism is not in con trol of local affairs, that does not wel-j come to its eircle of institutions orj moral advancement the coming of a new church society or organization represen tative of any or all of the existing creeds of religious faith save that of the Mormon church. A proposal to establish es-tablish a society of this creed in my own State, where Mormonism has not yet reached its head, would evoke a storm of protest. So it would, I confidently confi-dently believe, in any other section of the country where the institution is not in political control. It would be time enough for this law-giving body to embrace em-brace in its membership the apostolic representative of Mormonism, when that organization, duly renovated and reformed, re-formed, no longer a menace to civilization, civili-zation, is worthy of admission in full fellowship with other organizations against whose history, tenets and practices prac-tices the moral sentiment of the land is not in revolt. "After the most serious consideration of the question I have been unable to reach any other conclusion than that in this very peculiar and exceptional case my action must be controlled by a law more profoundly fundamental than the liberal texts which have furnished fur-nished the eloquent arguments of Sea-ators Sea-ators with whom I am obliged to disagree. dis-agree. A New "Unwritten Law." "In dealing with the dangerous doctrine doc-trine of an institution established upon the principle that is superior to the Governmental system, under which we live, we can afford to arise above conventional con-ventional constitutional construction. The higher law should be invoked-f-the unwritten law embraced in the inherent in-herent duty of every citizen of the Re- Fublic to defend the written instrument rom the assaults of those who would destroy it. i I "With the history of the Morrajn church before us,' it is discreditable to the universal accepted creeds of religions re-ligions faith to say that Mormonism found its inspiration in religious convictions; con-victions; that its sponsors were moved wholly by a desire to serve God, and thus to contribute to the salvation rf mankind. It is impossible for me to associate Mormonism with other sectarian sec-tarian organizations. I am in full accord ac-cord with the constitutional provision that every one should worship God in his own way, but I have no sympathy with an organization whose oathbound members array themselves in 'the livery liv-ery of heaven' in order that they may gain control of temporal affairs, social and commercial. "In this respect the Mormon church is notoriously unique. Its scheme of salvation is based wholly upon its success suc-cess in dominating the political fortunes for-tunes in which it conducts its operations. opera-tions. Without this advantage it would be a failure. Once in political con- |