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Senators-Suspect. There were two men, two charges, two issues. Senators-elect William Scott Vare, portly Pennsylvanian, and Frank Leslie Smith, slim Illinoisian, were charged 1) with using too much money to get nominated, and 2) with using money improperly (in Mr. Vare's case) and accepting money improperly (in Mr. Smith's). The charges stood substantiated by the Senate's own investigating (the famed James Reed) committee. The issues which towered were 1) what right had the Senate to judge a state's representative ? 2) what procedure should the Senate follow...
While Mr. Vare sat truculent and Mr. Smith looked strained, Senator Norris of Nebraska recited their histories with icy precision.* Then Senator Borah affirmed the Senate power to judge them. Senator Borah argued, however, that before judgement was passed, the Senate must recognize the culprits' credentials from their states; must seat them, hear them and then cast them...
...vindictive Senator Reed of Missouri, retorted that the credentials had already been voided by the Senate's investigation last winter; that the culprits had "had their day in court" with the Senate's investigators. If they had not, that was the fault of rich Mr. Vare's colleague, the other Senator Reed, who "hamstrung" the investigating committee by a filibuster...
Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, haggard but sharp, defended Mr. Vare as best he could politically, as he had to. He got little help from thicklensed Senator Deneen, the stuffy and ineffectual Smith colleague...
Insurgent Republicans voted with Democrats and both cases were compromised. By votes of 53 to 28 and 56 to 30, the Messrs. Smith and Vare were refused their seats and referred back to the investigating committee. The committee was instructed to report as soon as possible on Mr. Smith and within 60 days "if practicable" on Mr. Vare. Both men were promised a hearing on the Senate floor before their ultimate ejection, which seemed certain...