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Show PROTESTS AGIST SENATOR SWIQOT RAVE AJMEO AT WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 20. The protest made by C. G. Patterson of Salt Lake City against the continuance of Reed Smoot as a senator from Utah, reached members of the senate today by registered mail, with "return receipt domanded." If any of the senntors receiving the protest present it in the somite it will bu referred to the committee on privileges and elections, of which Senator Kern of Indiana is chairman. No democratic member of the committee, as now constituted, was a member of the committee when Senator Smoot's admission to the senate was contested and the matter passed upon by the committee and senate in 1903. Of the republican members of the committee. Senators Dillingham Dil-lingham and Clnpp were on the committee which passed upon Smoot's admission. Other republican members of the present committee are Senntors Sutherland, Kenyon, Sherman and Fall. Senator Smoot is quoted as saying ho did not know Patterson and supposed he was someone looking for publicity. Patterson Undoubtedly After Notoriety. C. G. Patterson has mailed to President Wilson a copy of the protest against the right of Smoot to hold his seat in the United States senate, together with n personal letter to the president. In his letter Patterson declares that he does not expect the president to interfere in the internal affairs of the senate, but he desires that the chief executive of the nation shnll be "correctly informed concerning conditions In Utah." Patterson is clerk to Judge T. D. Lewis of the district court at Salt Lake City. The protest was based on the ground that Senator Smoot is in Washington us the special representative of the financial finan-cial interests of the Mormon church as against the general interest inter-est and welfare of the state of Utah. |