Show I- I r SENATE LIKELY UKEl Y Ym To m BAR SMITH ILLINOISAN MAY BE HELD AT ATTHE ATTHE ATTHE THE DOOR OR SEATED AND THEN EXPEL EXPELLED ED C Cases Case Sel of Vare Yare and nd Gould Goud May Give Rise e to Much Classic Discussion Make Their Stand I Washington Tho Tho cases of oC Smith Vare and Gould each Involving a different dif dU ferent variation of or the tho senates senate's power to refuse admission or to after atter contain complexities that from time to timo for probably more than a year to come will give rise toman to man many weeks of constitutional discus lion sion There Thore are cleavages between those who want all three In There are cleavages abes between those who want one inc of or these ont out and the others In because of or distinctions among the various circumstances of the tho separate sepa sopa rate cases casos But the most technical dea cleavages of ot all run among those who most ardently want all aU three out but differ as to the time and method of ot keeping them out and differ especially espe daIly as to the grounds that shall be assigned for keeping them out At itt one extreme of ot the senate i is David A. A Reed of ot Pennsylvania The I principles ho lays down would permit permit per per- mit all three of or the tho troublesome ones onos onesto to take their seats and keep them I Reed of or Pennsylvania reads roads the clause of ot the constitution which says the senate shall shull be the judge of or the elections returns and qualifications of ofIs ofis ofis is own members That word qualifications according to Reed of Pennsylvania Pens Penn sylvania anla means only the qualifications of ot age residence and citizenship which the constitution elsewhere de de- de scribes To Reed of Pennsylvania the tho inquisitorial right of ot the senate is limited to asking the senators-elect senators it the they are aro 30 lO yearn years old if they are residents res res- Ments of the state from which they are chosen and anti it if the they have been citizens citizens cit eft- cit cit- of ot the United States State for at least nine years |