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Show MORMON QUESTION AGAIN IN THE SENATE ; WASHINGTON. Feb, lO.-In the Senate yesterday Mr. Carmack spoke on the Rawlins resolution calling upon the. Secretary Sec-retary of War for reports of certain courts-martial He charged that murders in the Philippines by American soldiers had' become so common that they would not bear investigation, and that this an-' an-' swer was entirely satisfactory to our "noble., generous and humane Secretary of War." He also criticised the President fof "never having heard of the Capt. Brownell case, after having announced his intention of probing crimes in the Philippines. Mr. Kean spoke on the Statehood bill for a short time, when he yielded to various va-rious Senators, who indulged in debate over the question of the Interference of . the Mormon church In oolitic. Mr. Rawlins, answering front references of Mr. Kean to the Mormons, said that glad to aid in electing Mormons to lm-in lm-in Salt Lake City the non-Mormons are portant political office because of their desire to give to the municipality' good government. "Certain elements in the church," he said, "by reason of long habit, were disposed dis-posed to yield to the dictates of prominent promi-nent individuals In the church. It is not to be denied that their influence is very considerable," said he, "but there was still a large element among the Mormons who resent the idea of such interference." interfer-ence." Mr. Kean said the people of the United States are opposed to polygamy and mean in every way to tamp it out. Answering Mr. Nelson, Mr. Kean said that the Mormons who fled from Idaho to Mexico undoubtedly would return to the United States and mix in the politics of Arizona and attempt to usurp the public pub-lic authority of that State should it be admitted. , Mr. Hale Interrupted to remark that every time this phase of the subject Is reached it presents some new informa tion and before anything further Is done he thought somebody snould submit amendments In order to have- an expression expres-sion of the feeling of the Senate on this subject and bring it determinedly before the Senate for Its action. Mr. Kean said he would offer an-amendment of this kind. i In the course of Mr. Kean's remarks Mr. Patterson Interrupted to read from a speech made by the President at Las Vegaa, N. M., upon the occasion of the rough riders' reunion. In which he . is said, to have favored the admission of New MexicQ as a 8tate and would go to Washington end work for such a bill. Mr. Kean declared that this did not put him on record as avoring the omnibus bill. Mr. Patterson thought "the President, being then a distinguished Republican leader, having enthusiastically pledged himself in favor of New Mexico's admission, admis-sion, opposition to the omnibus bill should vanish. Mr. Elklns also spoke at length in defense de-fense of the claims of New Mexico to Statehood. |