Show 4 f 4 ft t. t VI VICTORY TORY FOR SENATOR SMOOT His Title to Seat in United States Senate Confirmed by Action of Committee on Privileges I 1 m And Elections El 1 5 1 t 5 S 'S S t NI Motion ti n to Exclude Senator Senator- Smoot Voted Down in Committee 7 to Motion 5 5 Mot on to Expel Lost by Vote V te of 6 to 6 6 Senators For Foraker Foraker aker akert Dillingham Beveridge Beveridg Hopkins and Knox Voted in Favor of Senator Smoot Smoot- on all Propositions I Senator Dolliver r Voted V for Expulsion on 1 t J I L v vV V Senator Foraker to Make ake Separate Report Contending That Action of Committee Confirms S Senator Title to His e Senator Seat Smoot Pleased With Result t J J K 1 I. I In the senate committee on p privileges and elections yesterday a v vote te to exclude de Senator Re Reed d Smoot from his f seat eat in the senate was defeated A motion to expel was also lost I The Dubois resolution finally adopted by the committee was a compromise declaring de de- de- de daring claring Senator Smoot not entitled to his seat and referring the whole matter to the he s senate nate without recommendation dalion as to the course of action to be betaken taken Se Senator ator Foraker r Wit it report contending that I r tiO gh th r x were s' s f I s 4 v r-v L 11 i L jg i L i his his' nis fm is is confirmed 4 and and t cannot I again gai b U Vr k J assailed j p. p r. r tl j- j Republican Special l Service u toll June 1 s As As stated staled more th tItan than n Ile once In lit these dispatches time the Ie key kiy to 10 the lie situation In Iii the time senate senate committee on cs and 1181 elections on oil the lie case caso of Senator tOl S Smoot as was held IJ by liV SCUll Senator tor Jol Dolliver l cr Ho lIe used H It today cilia l h by for the lie compromise resolution wh eh enables th time the committee c to 0 1 liace c the decision lon III In the time hn hands o 01 of the tIme entire senate te This I resolution res u recites t that limit hn t I Seed Smoot is not hot en entitled tit to tu a il sent cut t In iii I the I me senate ti a as senator hir front from t the lie state tale of or Utah AX AN OPINION This n as Senator saId Ihl today oday vas nit un expression iou of of or opinion h by the time members members- of the tIme committee This i evolution Il was as adopted h by a w vote te of se seven en cn to e fie after resolutions resolutions- pro Iro fOlt for fOl t exclusion and expulsion lUll had been on both being defeated This ThU method of ln the time case e Into Inlo tIme the senate Is distinctly a n victory for fOI Senator Smoot placing the lit matter squarely before the lit senate for fell ule ote I SMOOT S PLEASED Senator Smoot not make nil any comment on on elm the lie action of thu lie tho committee tonight ht SI statIng stat stat- lt- lt In ing that lint he Ime heas as ns ed with Ith It Senator Sutherland expressed d the time opinion to Time The Republican 1 correspondent that a aoto oto AOto ho bo reached before adjournment for fOI time the summer recess f. f nUll that there as no ito doubt that lint Senator Smoot retain his scat ont DUBOIS WANTS ANTS I DELAY Elu Time The friends of Senator Smoot appear to be he anxious for COI a otc oil Senator Dubois Is anxious tous to lia c UI C Ihu Ic resolution was nl reported left on the tIme calendar to 0 be hc upon next t December Time The full Cull report on the tue rC resolution I Is being prepared by lV lr Senator Burrous and amI it Ill be lie tiled med and printed next week By Dy Publishers Publishers' Press Washington June Juno 1 l.-Dy l. By a n vote of ot seven to 10 five o the senate committee on privileges and elections elections elec elec- today decided In favor o othe of or the resolution Introduced by Senator Son Sea ator alai Dubois I stating that Senator Heed Smoot Is not ot entitled to his seat seul as a l senator from rout Utah Those voting In favor of the resolution were Senators Burrows Dolliver Pettus Overman Overman- nunc Bailey Dubois and Frazier o voting against tho the resolution tion tiomi were ore Senators For Foraker J er Dil lingham Knox Beveridge and Hopkins Senator vote was not cast to I Senate T The T c effect o of this resolution Is to 10 turn the tho entire matter over to tho senate for tor or decision no rec m- m hl being made by the committee aa rut to how the lie caso case shall ahall be bl disposed of The Time constitutional con can questions of exclusion and expulsion were debuted debated at length In tho committee but res recommending both oth courses of action were voted ote down se separately Hc Time The resolution on the time subject of or exclusion was Introduced b by Semi Sen- riLey ForaUer Foraker a as us a test of oC tin 1111 quest ques- ques t 4 L t I 0 mm whether v h eth o r Sen Senator a tor S Smoot oh 00 t should be ousted from his sealy seat seal by y a majority majority ote vote voto of the senate or whether b by two thirds vote of or ortho tho senate h ho Ime shall shull be 10 expelled from his ils seat seal lh The resolution declared de do- dared e that It I Is the sense of the committee that Senator Smoots Smoot's r cat ut shall shull be declared vacant If It carried this would be equivalent to n a recommendation that he ho bo ho excluded by a majority vote ote It was as lost by a It vote oto of 7 to 5 Ci 5 the votes being Senators Senator Burrows Dolliver Pettus Petus Dubois and Frazier and the negative votes otes being S Senators Foraker Dillingham Dil- Dil lingham Hopkins Beveridge De Knox Dalle Bailey Dailey au and Overman O Baileys Bailey's Resolution Senator Bailey then thou offered a resolution declaring the sense sello of or orthe the committee to be that Senator Smoot should ho bo expelled from flom his seat which would woul be bc a recommendation recommendation that the l senate take tako the tho course requiring a two thirds vote voto of the 8 senate nate to unseat him The Tho result was wa u Il tic tIe vote vole Senators Durrow PottUM Dubols Dubois Bailey Dalley O erman and In itt the ho at- at lit maUve and Senators Foraker Beveridge Dillingham li an and Knox x In tho the nc nega u- u live tive The rue debate luring during tho time deliberation delibera tion was Wll-l In Indulged ii in hi b by nearly nearl O CI every senator That devoted to the constitutional question of ex expulsion cx- cx or exclusion was the tho most h heated ute Mutt lal t He lie Tuo T Senators Bui Bailey ley and Overman who argued In 18 favor of or tit the lie reso- reso f p 4 4 i lution declaring that tho ho Utah Ulah senator s Is not entitled to his seat were sere of the opinion that after nHoI the tho oath has been beon to 10 a n senator the only possible procedure tire ure against him him Is to expel him from rom his seat sent and that there could be no question as to this procedure tire ure requiring a two thirds vote ote of the senate The senators voting In favor a 0 t. t of the method requiring only a n majority majority ma ma- of oC the senate to unseat argued argued argued ar ar- ar- ar gued that the tho offense If nil any aimy has been committed existed at nt the time the oath of was taken and und that th the protests are not In relation to any offense or origin since tho the oath was sas laxen The rime members of oC the committee expressed themselves es as favoring avon rig riga a vote vole In the tha senate at the tha present present present pres pres- ent session of congress congre s. s Senator Foraker Foraker's View ew After the adjournment of or tho the full committee tho the five fhe ans sans who constituted con the lie minority voting voting- against the proposition that Senator Reed Smoot d df Utah was not lIot entitled to his seat viz vb Senators Semi Sen Foraker Dillingham Bov- Bov cridge Hopkins and Knox held a u meeting by themselves s. s It Is un understood that It was decided de- de c- c elded that Senator should make a separate report t. t This point out that Inasmuch a as us the tho motion to exclude Smoot wa was voted down clown by hy a vote vole of 7 j to C 5 i and that the tho motion to expel him bun vas voted down clown h by 13 a 1 vote o of C G to 6 the action of or tho lie committee con con- j senate senate- firms hl his title to his hiM seat In tho the o. o t. t K 4 l s 1 v |