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Show SENATE LIKELY FO BJjB SMITH ILLINOISAN MAY BE HELD AT THE DOOR OR SEATED AND THEN EXPELLED Case of Vare and Gould May Givo Rle to Much Classic Discussion; Pensytvanlans Make Their Stand Washington The cases of Smith, Vare and Gould, each involving a different dif-ferent variation of the senate's power to refuse admission or to expel after admission, contain complexities that from time to time for probably more than a year to come will give rise to many weeks of constitutional discussion. discus-sion. Thoie are cleavages between those who want all three In. There are " cleavages between those who waul one of these out and the others in because of distinctions among the varlouB circumstances of the separate sepa-rate cases. Hut the most technical cleavages of all run among those whu most ardently want all three out but differ as to the time and method of keeping them out and differ especially espe-cially as to the grounds that shall be assigned for keeping them out. At one extreme of the senate is I)avld A. Reed of Pennsylvania. The principles he lays down would permit per-mit all three of the troublesome ones to take their seats and keep them. Reed of Pennsylvania reads tfi,e clause of the constitution which says the senate "shall be the Judge of the elections, returns and Qualifications of Is own members." That word "qualifications," "quali-fications," according to Reed of Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, means only the qualifications of age, residence and citizenship, which the constitution elsewhere describes. de-scribes. To Reed of Pennsylvania the inquisitorial right of the senate is limited to asking the senators-elect if they are 30 years old, if they are residents res-idents of the state from which they are chosen and if they have been citizens cit-izens of the United States for at least nine years. |