Show S Wo We think tho ho opponents 0 of Senator Smoot have lost thick their case It ma may maybe maybe be the senate will take up tho the mator matter mat mat- I ter or open re-open the discussion and even en c after debate r refer fer the matter again to the committee A legislative bod body mo may do pretty much as Il It likes es But Dut we C do the t riot not ot b believe l anY anything o of that lint kind Ind will 1 happen AVe We rc believe bellee tho the ease case is practically ended and that thal those hos who have protested against the tire seating sent seat In Ing of oC Senator Smoot are arc wholly holly de do- fated It 11 will be ho remembered that the tho resI ics ics- I cn recommending Senator Senator SI Si Smoot oot bo liC l' l excluded was defeated in commit commit- t tee It will bo ho remembered that tJ the tho o motion to expel was as lost lost- mater matr matter mat mat- I ter er r was then referred to to the rho senate at ar Jl largo with tho the Informal informal report that lint Senator Smoot Is not nat entitled to hl his scat That t Is tho the committee report and and In that form tho c so will come lr e before beC ro the senate S But before that report can be acted OJ rJ re g tI m prep r q by Sona Senator l' l Foraker will bo presented nl d to tho e ef effect eff ef- ef f feet ct that the ca case e against Senator Smoot moot had hind h boon on lost b by the tire defeat of or both Joth the motions In committee It seems to us the case ease will turn on the I parliamentary point rather on omi th tire tho express cx ex press merits of th the controversy That Thatis I Is the subject to h bo considered ered will not be the tire in Irritating Hating one ne as to whether r Senator Smoot is an enemy to hi 1 country and ineligible to a l place hIthe in iii inthe the tire senate but whether the protesters did not fall fail when their thell two motions motions- to exclude an and to expel were expel were 5 ed cd We Ve o the senate tennte will take lake the view that lint the tire failure of or those motions m means s that lint the tho case is dismissed that tho the I prosecution ro is ended el and that hero is nothing further for Cor the lie senate sen- sen senate son sen ate to do And that seems to bo be reasonable view of the matter After more than two years rears of vigorous work b by able men muon tho the committee defeated both motions thc thre the only ones looking to toa toa toa a de definite ll te action A And n we c can n not believe the tho senate will re-open re the tho case 5 If Tf the tire committee after two years and nail every oVery facility can ean not miot decide that lint lie Iho man should be ho expelled or 05 ex ex elu eluded ed It Is hardly likely that tIre Hie son sen- ato ate In lii open session Is going to decide e without evidence l lence If Ie this committee e before which the time fight of or the tire protesters protest ers 19 was vas made could not decide to to in- in his title it is not nol likely the score four senators who have beer been busy us about many things will consent to disturb the tIre sitting senator 5 It certainly will ho bo better for Cor t th tire country and for 01 every interest con- con corned c near neat anti and remote to close the Ire therose rose case without tIre the heated feeling that thata a n debate would engender Possibly some effort will be made to strife but it should not succeed By y losing hosing both hoth the lie motion to exclude am and Iho ho motion mol to expel the expel the only methods b by which a senators senator's membership could be bo terminated the the e protesters have havo lost nun and the case we will be dismissed |