| Show I Voice Vo of ration Approves Vote Voie ATTACK WAS INVALID ArID Christian Guardian Toronto The rho ease case has b been hben cn a notable one and In Interest Interest in- in terest In It It for tor mall many reasons 1 has lias not b been en allowed to die down The the he claim for expulsion ln o of course courso was that as a believer Jn In polygamy the tile Mormon senator senator senator sen sen- ator was unfitted to legislate for fOl his hl country countr willIe while the tho plea counter was that not being n a polygamist himself the tile ground of attack was Invalid In RESPECT Fr FINAL JUDG JUDGMENT IE Christian New ew York This Tills case Involved so many man nice distinctions dis distinctions dis- dis that those who could only contemplate It Il from rain a n distant point of i view viCi- w. w and with meager second hand knowledge ge of Its merits are constrained constrain constrain- ed clio to respect the lInal Ju Judgment of J those thol whose official position and duties gave them tho ho vantage e ground of or a anear near view neat view Jew and full tull knowledge through careful examination and thorough In inest In- In est iga t lion Ion NO MAJORITY AGAINST AGAI-OST HIM Pathfinder Washington D. D C. C As wo ivo have Ilave said Lii hl from front the start would bethe be bethe bethe the case tho the senate has refused ed to toI expel Senator Smoot No one who I knew the situation ever had hall any idea that he would woul bo be booted voted out The rhe constitution con- con says s plainly that It requires a two-thirds two vote rote of or the lie senate to expel expel ex ex- pel a member and every everyone one knew there was no ho such majority against Smoot S CHARGE WAS YAS U UNTRUE TRUE Des Mottles la In Capital Government Govern Govern- meat ment should be superior to e CI every othel oth- oth em el obligation This sentiment nt was clearl clearly brought out in the discussion of the case of oC Senator Smoot It was char charged ed that lie he claimed that hl lii allegiance alle ahie- gianco to the lIH Mormon church chinch was mum su- ll- ll to his allegiance to the govern govern- O ment This statement was denied h by the he senator He stated that his first t allegiance was to the United Slates States On that statement he lie was permitted to retain his scat seat TRIUMPH OF REASON Lancaster Pa Examiner Today con congress ress adjourns for the short session ses sea sion ston as It Is called culled It has had a n few excited incidents but nothing sen a a- It has pa passed sell immense Immen e appropriation appropriation bills hills certain good measures the tho hI C President e Il t recommended and seated Senator Smoot a a. marvelous mar triumph of or reason and law over 1 sentiment sentiment sen sen- and ancl hysterics In which our great I Knox nox pla played ed the Uw part of ot u n lawyer la senator and patriot Upon the tile whole congress adjourns with a good name anti and Republican supremacy in national notional affairs seems more secure than ever eier NASTY ISSUE REMOVED Toronto Can Cati News Tho ground on which his expulsion was demanded was u-as that he lie was a a. believer belle in the I doctrine of polygamy un anI anti and as such was unable to give gl assent to one omie of oC th the vital laws Jaws of or the tile nation for which ho lIe sought to legislate moot Smoot mill antI his advocates ad of cour course e. e Insisted that lint he ho did not practice polygamy and that therefore the thel ground upon which he was attacked was wholly invalid In and unconstitutional So the senate has at I decided anti and a nast nasty t bi in lid removed od from au poil- poil ics S SNOT NOT OT 4 A POLYGAMIST Richmond Va Religious Herald Mr Smoots Smoot's ca case c bad been investigated ed cd at nt great reat l length before beron the commit commit- tee On Tuesday Senator made madea a long SIH speech of defense e in the course 1 of or which he declared his opposition to polygamy amy and his long life obedience obedi obedi- ence to the laws of oC the tIme United States He lie explained the thea leading a ing doctrines of oC as averting that no polygamous polygamous amous relation a assumed since simico 1890 is with the tilO permission lon sanction or Ot approval approval ap nfl- al 1110 of the he church I have CI taken an any at oath or obligation religious or ot otherwise othel which conflicts In i n the tIle slightest degree with m my duty a as s a senator or 01 as a citizen Senator Smoot ia js is of oC course not himself a apol pol polygamist COULD COULDN'T T JUSTIFY EXPULSION Wilmington Del Star Could it have ha been proven that Smoot was ivas guilty guIlt of polygamous practices he ho would probably and anti rightly have 1 been expelled but the senators who ishio are as much opposed to polygamy as asare asare asare are those who sought Smoots Smoot's expulsion expulsion sion sian could not Ilot justly base a a. vote ote against him on this ground for the they clearly saw that to make the mere fact that he lie was a n Mormon an excuse excuse ex ex- cuse for turning him him out of the tile senate senate sen sen- ate would be opening tho the door to a possible like action at some same future Utile time against a a. senator of any other religious persuasion This would of course be establishing a dangerous precedent the evil of or which would bo he far greater than any tn harm that Smoots Smoot's continued presence In tho senate could accomplish UPHELD BY THE TIlE SE SENATE Presbyterian After ter nearl nearly four Cour years oars of or a agitation in the tho countr country and wrangling in Ill committee and In tho the senate the right of or Reed Heed Smoot tho ho Mormon apostle to lepre- lepre represent sent tho the state of Utah as a senator was upheld by the tho senate b by a vote of near nearly two to one There were three three- votes before the case caso won wan settled The rile final one came on the tho Burrow Burrows Bur Bur- rows row resolution reported from tho the privileges es and elections committee providing for Cor or the exclusion of Smoot On this the tile theote vote ote was 28 S ay ayes ayos s to 4 42 12 nays pairs however howe making tIle the actual t standing Lan of the tho senate on tho the question 51 1 to 37 Pennsylvania sena sena- senators tors Knox and ami oh on OV every l' l phase of the tIle question voted In favor of or Smoot I INOT NOT A POL POLYGAMIST Times Dallas Texas A polygamist should be punished likewise likewise like like- J wl wise e a n bl bigamist but Smoot of or Utah Is 1 not a polygamist ann and never ne has been When hen tho thu representatives of or the Democratic party part strike down a man mail manon on Oil account of oC creed they y deliberately 1 r repudiate tile tho teachings of Jeff Jefferson tho greatest Dt Democrat tho continent of or I North America Amerla has ever l known I Southern Democrats demand the right I of or local self government and yet ot the they I vote to t deny con that J at inalienable right to I h me tao people or oi Utah Utan Idaho and anel wyom- wyom omIng om lug hug If Jr Smoot obo obeys s 's the h laws lairs of or his country wh why should the Democrats of at Texas say to the electors of or Utah Tho Tile theological marks hall of your senators are t obnoxious to o U us KIcK the fellows out and elect men of oC other religious denominations Tho The constitution constitutIon of the United States guarantees freedom reed om of oC conscience freedom of or worship and nd freedom of or thou thought ht Jet Jet- ferson orson drafted that lint constitution am and and some of his hla called so-called followers spit upon It to today ay and anti yet ct the they call them them- Democrats I II I WOMEN OIE WERE ERE MAD New et York Times A few strong men a few Ce reasonable men men In the senate ar the tile country's defenders against this lila perilous tide of J Ignorance nn and recklessness Whenever r reason aR asserts Itself In the senate a u terrible howl goes up tip from flom the tIle outside mob stirred up b by demagogic appeal The women In the lie senate gallery guller the lie other da tiny day were mad alati enough to bite hUe because the constitution had not miot been trodden under foot at their behest Little lJ by little we may expect the knowledge e and anil the convictions con that guide sena sena- tonal action on to take hold iOli upon th the public mind There will vilL one of those hose da days clays s 's be a return to reason There will wili be ho less Jess Insistence upon rushing to enactment enactment en en- every eyer crude idea ideo of oc the re- re constructors of ot the lie federal etem-al system and less leAA Impatience with those conserva a tive tivo statesmen who take the time an and the pains to measure e new lIew ideas b by the standard of the tile past NO XO CHARGE CHAnGE SUSTAINED ED Truth Seeker New Now York city B By about a n three fifths majority the tile United States senate enate ote voted on ott February ary try 20 to to retain In his scat seat Senator Reed Heed Smoot of or Utah whose expulsion hart hall been bech demanded In petitions circulated cir cir- h by Protestant clant ministers anti and In iii a a. resolution adopted b by the tho committee committee com coin on Oil privileges and elections No o char charge e was su sustained against Smoot except that he Is an apostle of the lie Mormon church ChUlch Signers to the petition for his exclusion were misled Into the belief that he lie not only encouraged en encouraged en- en coull e but practiced polygamy huto but hut so o far Cat as us practicing Jt it Is concerned he hc was wa acquitted and If h he hg has 1185 taught or 01 encouraged the CURt custom om th tho he fact i inot is not considered a sufficient cause for 01 denying to Utah the right of or representation representation I In tIle the senate lJ ii by the tho man her Ic legislature I lature chose choso for fOl that hint office To ro all religious religions look 1001 alike Public servants ants are arc to tn ii he be cho on Nl ii as Washington choo chose hl his es If It the they are arc good workmen they may ma be he Jews or 01 Christians Chris Chrls- s of any sect or oi the they thley may be lie Atheists B By fly their vote retaining Senator Smoot his colleagues have vindicated ted religious equality and incidentally perhaps tho the right of or a a. senator to his lila own views s on other questions CLEAN BILL OF OP HEALTH Leslie's Weekly He lIe Senator Smoot Is not a i polygamist has hm never ne hail hut but one wife and has been noted from from earl early manhood for fOl his opposition to plural marriages anti and probably did didas didas as S much as an any other member of or the tue Mormon chUl church h to bring bring- about tile the pi prohibition of oC futher plural mar mar- It must be he admitted that this is a a. pretty prett clean bill of ot h health to issue to a n public man anti and there are few if any uny of or Mr 11 Smoot's Smoots pres present nt colleagues In the senate who could command a better oneAs one As to the tile charge that Mr Smoot Is hound bound b by the lie oaths of the Mormon lormon church to make his allegiance lo fo o that hInt body paramount to his allegiance to the United States no reputable testimony testimony mony was offered In iii Its support lIeI lIe He I himself cl declared on the witness stand that hat neither the church nor anybody any any- body representing the church or purporting pur pur- porting to represent cent it has tak en Cil n In all any way nay to dictate or 01 direct mo mc mon mon n in n the performance of m my duties as a senator I would not ilot submit for Cor a moment to an any dictation of oe that kind Tc Ire lIe also oath that Hint In th endowment ni house ls of or OIa r anywhere here e else ho 10 had hall tal taken cn vows 8 of or hostility to the tile States In the lie absence absence- o of any proof to the tho contrary the these e statements state- state rients ments must be accepted as true true- As the case cafe stood therefore the tile seemed to rc resolve it itself to to In this Should Mr h Smoot be expelled from flom the senate not lInt because lC of or any personal but hut because h ho he I is a 11 Mormon in III religious faith and a representative representative rep rep- r of or that thal church ch In ill a l tor- tor Lain sense In the upper hou house at Washington In other words wOlds is ho lie to tobe tobe tobe be regarded as s an ai embodiment nt of or the whole Mormon with whatever what ever obnoxious doctrines it holds and practices anti and punished as such The senate e evidently nUy did not take this tills view w of or tho case for IJ by a vote of oC forty forty- two t to twenty eight el ht It defeated tin the ii resolution providing IIlo for the expulsion of or Mr Mi Smoot FAILED TO MAKE 1 A CASE CASEN New N iv York Weekly cel I Tribune In e clearing leam-ing the title of ol Reed need Smoot thC lie s senate enate reached In our out opinion a I. I sound S and anti equitable conclusion Tin Tin- opponents of the Utah senator failed d t to o make a C case e a against him The question would have ben been a 1 s simple one to to settle sellie for Cor or oi against t the tho s senator had it been dealt dalt with In iii u a straightforward var s manner The senate h has as the lie undoubted right Light to rid itself of an objectionable member It can e eject a t senator on an any grounds rounds s seem eem to Itself sufficient It Its power 1 t to o expel is I plenary I and an action to expel Mr 11 Smoot on purely pc personal r onal charges would have been open to no t technical or 01 constitutional objection I ion I hit But to expel requires a n two thirds i vote OtO Mr oli Smoots Smoot's opponents did not i wish to take this tilis direct and antI open course couise so tile OW they laid laii down the tile prin principle ciple not that his character conduct and as associations made him an undesirable unde undo legislator tor but that an au connection such as he sustained with wilh t the he Mormon lormon church in iii itself invalidated dat ed his lila election b by the thc legislature of or Utah Such an attempt to read a new now ex exclusion x cx- elusion clause Into the tile federal constitution constitution was ts unsound and arni unwise The Tho Utah legislature was cle clearly denny II within Its Us constitutional rights when It elected eJected Mr lt Smoot As 8 we said hl at tile tho outset the agitation agitation agitation tion against Mr It Smoot was Avas based largely on his connection with tin tIle Mormon 1 church and that churchs church's connection with the tile illegal al practice of or plural marriage man Tho senator from Utah Is a monogamist and amid ho solemn solemnly sol sol- sol sol- declares that he lie is using all his influence to sustain th the bc church's churchs new ne policy of oC monogamy lie He reports that lint polygamy Is disappearing dl among h hl is co and that the thc chu church's churchs former Connel form or a antagonism to tin th federal government Is disappearing with it it We Ve shall not hot be bo suspected of holding a n brief for or nn yet t twe we can tee see ee the tho force of Mr 11 Smoots Smoot's suggestion that reform within th the tue church chuich Is II the Purest method of combating com corn bating plural marriage e and amid can ran also see the injustice of tl trying to 10 the onus of the churchs church's pa pat altison sins altis sinson sinson on one ono who seems to b bo be doing his Ills best to lo bring it Into line with law Jaw anti and enlightened en en- lightened modern sentiment a |
