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Show SHOOT Takes Seat In U. S. Senats. I i i ! I Washington, D. C , March 5. j Hon. Reed Smoot is now a full j I 'fledged United States Senator! i from the State of Utah. He was . j sworn in this morning, being es- j 1 corted to the president's desk I upon the arm of Senator Kearns, j ;, who afterward congratulated! ; him. No objection was raised to j Mr. Smoot taking the oath of I office, but his case will probably be investigated by the Sen te j Committee ou Privileges and 1 Elections. Upon the convening of the ! Senate at noon Senator Hoar j stated that he had been cequest-j. cequest-j. ed by Senator Burrows, chair-i chair-i man of the Committee on Privi- j I leges and Elections, to make a j ! statement in his absmce that it ! was his understanding of the Constitution of the United States i that where a Senator-elect pre- sented his credentials, which up-i up-i on their face were legal, it was proper for him to take the oath ! of office, and if any objection , , was raised to his holding the of-' - tice it should be refeired to the I 't- Committee on Privileges and' Uv- Elections ' for. consideration and' p determination. That, if any other i ' course werepursued, it might be j the cause of serious embarrass-1 ment, for the reason that the j I senate, being a continuous body, j , changing one-third of its mem-j 1 y bersbip. every two years, and ! without any real foundation j ' charges might be made against I I all incoming Senators, and in j j this way one-third of the Sena-I Sena-I tors be refused admission into ' i the Senate. I It is understood that this statement state-ment was made with reference to the seating of Mr. Smoot. although al-though his name was not mentioned men-tioned specifically. His was the only case in which there was any question as to administering the ; oath. It was well understood in the Senate that this would be the proceeding, though among the uninformed there was an indefinite in-definite expectation that something some-thing might happen in relation to the reception of Mr. Smoot. Whether it was from the novelty !; of seeing an apostle of the Mor-j Mor-j mon church or in any manner an i approval of his election, the galleries joined in hearty ap-plause ap-plause as Mr. Smoot was con-1 con-1 ducted to the president pro tem in order that the oath might be administered to him. This concluded con-cluded the proceedings in the Smoot case. Later in the session a motion prevailed to refer all protests I now in the Senate against the j seating of Senators to the Cora-I, Cora-I, mittee on Privileges and Elec-tions, Elec-tions, which is interpreted to mean that the further considera-1 tion of the Smoot case will be deferred until the next regular , session of the Senate, yet there is a bare possibility that an in-1 vestigation may be begun later by the committee. However, it would be an easy matter for the Senate to open up the whole contest during the present sess- j ion if it could be done to ad van- tage. i t. |