| Show utah man is strongly opposed by burrows washington dec 20 special in la the case of senator smoot of utah has somewhat abated but there promises to be a revival 0 it in the seriate directly after the holiday when the matter will again be taken up there were several vacancies on the committee on privileges and elections which 1 handling the cas when the present session ot the senate begab which resulted in a lively contest between the pro smoot and antl smoot members for assignment to that committee senator burrows of abich igana the chairman of the Is a pronounced antl smoot man and be has succeeded in having one of the vacancies by gen dolliver ot iowa who 1 also understood to be in favor of the expulsion of the senator whether or not abo case jwia be reopened after the beet ot january for abe introduction of new not yet been definitely decided in case there are hearings it Is abot likely that the committee will make it report to the senate on the case before the middle ot february but it Is to haar jio more testimony ane plan ls to have the case reported to the senate and taken ui for consideration in shortly atten tho beginning 0 the newy car heretofore the opinion baa generally prevailed among conservative and well informed men that senator smoot would be permitted to retain bis seat bl since abe beginning of the present session they have not been so con fl dent and taa situation begins to look a btttle more doubtful for the utah abl on it is now almost certain the report ot the committee alu be against sen smoot and while of course thai is not final ll 11 will have great weight in determining the final issue as to whether or not the utah senator Is to retain his seat it he Is expelled the victory for the tant will be due very largely to sen burrows he Is a very forceful log acal and convincing speaker and haa taken a determined stand against sen smoot it was sen dubrowa Duc rowa speech which kept the lata sen quay out of the tante when after the pennsylvania legislature had tailed to elect a senator quay was appointed by abe governor many senators vere wavering until ahoy the argument of the michigan senator and were won I 1 over to the opposition by bia ro marics in these matters sen burrows avoids partisan grounds for he li an ardent ae Is ben smoot and as was sen quay another strong argument will bo made against by sen dubols lot idaho who la the leader among the democrats against the mormon dubois Is also an eloquent speaker i sen smoot has at ret abi report that he intended to resign to avold ousted from the senate he de clares emphatically that he wall not resign but that it expelled axom abe senate he hlll to hia people tt ronger than ever southern representation the fact that speaker cannon has placed abo to reduce southern representation in congress under the ban the proportion has been revived by a measure which a new member mr of new york has introduced it contemplates 1 cutting down the number ot members i I 1 from 13 southern states whore the right ot the la abridged in j lippl tor instance where the negro population is large his bill provides or ft reduction from eight members to tarco in texas whore the population Is much smaller in i the cut Is from 16 to 13 other state alro affected heretofore rep crumpacker of whom la eadd that bis name Is used to in tho south baa been tho recognized leader in the movement to curtail southern depre nta Uon he has been actively ae gated however by rep olmstead of pennsylvania ex alter of ohio la also one who began the agitation years ago these three how ever hav e not been active in the mat ter at thi session for they hava been understand by speaker cannon that abla Is tobe a business session and that members will not be given an opportunity to aldo their favorite hobbles speaker cannon baa been opposed to the plan of cutting down southern representation and ier may safely ba aalde that so long aa he 1 n the speaker ahalt no such attempt will bo successful he ie nativo of the bouth himself hims lf bar ing been born in north carolina and like abraham la a friend of that section although he does not emidoro its policies so all the lulf ho are trying 0 o make themselves big by reducing southern representation might as well fold up their tents and await soma other opportunity port unity alo make themselves famous it will not come in this way as long as cannon wields the gavel the old agitators of this question understood the situation but occasionally a new member like mr bennett bob up only to find that there as a bia stick in the hand of the speaker which it ts not well to have como in contact with ones head |
