Show REPUBLICANS DECIDE TO I HOLD A CAUCUS TONIGHT T Plan PIan is Agreed Upon at a Meeting Held in the Interests of Apostle Reed Smoot t 4 I Forty Four Legislators Fall FaD Into Line and It Is Possible Many Ma rl I Others May ay Follow Today t i t tIN I IN I THE presence of ot Apostle Reed Smoot senatorial candidate Jn In the home or ot O i 1 Smoots aw Mrs Chloe Coe A Eldredge 26 16 East First South street at a gathering called by the th Smoot men presided over o r by Senator Se S ator C B Loose Snoots moots right bower out of o the Republican members or the Utah t tah legislature agreed last night nigh nl ht to sign a call ean for tor a caucus on the sen sea Wiship question In accordance with Smoots desire i 1 Promptly nine more members were reached by telephone or otherwise and I Informed of or the action taken All agreed teed a to attend the caucus which isito fato l to be held beld In the city and county building tonight A majority of oC the entire legisla I tare tore is two and it was said two Democratic votes were available if U I i The Identity of ot these Democratic senators is kept secret It I was wu stated after the close of the thc meeting that it was expected to get ot I I If will Mill f lill more to agree to attend the caucus and inc it j Was wag s predicted that the number might reach as liS high as A count Of t noses however shows that i I forty four Is with little doubt the maximum unless there ther should be a radical n I changing chancing of oC mind on the part of ot a largo large number of o legislators rs There was wa a startling change of front on the part jart of oC several yesterday afternoon however and there might ml t h be more ore tumbling Into the bandwagon Two senators and Pix representatives ef are counted upon still sun by the anti Smoot mt people as aa being steadfast the end Three more representatives were counted upon yesterday afternoon a as standing out indefinitely Inde against a caucus but they wore were brought into line lne late in the afternoon The call rail for th the caucus was drafted and arid signed by those present and nad the additional signatures will be obtained today The gathering will be no more mor nor 2101 ks IfFS than a ratification meeting to be followed next week by b another on the Sleet floor of the t th legislature The T e details of or the e will be arranged by b the Smoot managers mana during dual g the day da and will be he carried out with precision tonight Great mystery was preserved pre erv d d eli all n day about the gathering The Th word was I pawed around during the day dRy that the meeting was to be held Sh h was wae the warning sept aroun J if anybody body not a member of ot the legislature atur was Hen approaching Dont say cay ay a word After everybody who was to attend had been notified several of or the mem members bers were w re asked direct questions about the gathering Some denied Some fome evaded Some tried tiled to look Innocent and say nothing while some somene ne were honest and told the truth The gathering was called for Cor 30 At the appointed hour hourS or soon 4 thereafter it was found that members of or the house and seven members of the senate were present At noon the Smoot men were counting on onI I only thirtyfour votes tOl They figured In the house and six in the thee e nate ent Some of the men they know knew would vote for Smoot in the legislature I were vere not there The attendance therefore showed a gain in favor of the caucus J proposition According to a man who attended the meeting there were seven out of or twelve Republican senators present as follows McKay Williams Loose Gard Garth Gardner I ncr ner Larsen Lareen of or Sanpete Johnson and Lewis The absentees among the sen senators senOI senI I eor OI according COrding to this same ame authority were Allison Lawrence Sherman Lar Larsen Larn LarI I sen n of oC Box Wider RIder and Lo LoveI Love e I Among absentees according to this authority were J 3 J Stewart 1 r I w Cahoon Caboon and Charles Brink of Salt Lake county Mrs c E Coulter of I Weber W ber William E White of or Plute Pluto and E P Evans of Summit county Among I those who attended were A H and A L of Salt Lake and Dr DrA DrA 1 A S Condon Cendon of at Weber county who had previous to yesterday been classed as 1 W H Barrett of Beaver B er county was also present pr sent He is out for Smoot All these are Besides ldes the members of or the legislature Apostle Smoot and Chairman James JamesR JamesB R B Anderson of ot the Republican state committee were present The purpose or orthe orth orthe the th conference It was announced was sas WU to talk over the possibility of or getting together on a caucus to name a candidate for senator The dilatory tactics of f the senators were vere mentioned and the hope was expressed that an agree agreement mint ment could be reached by which h a caucus could be held promptly Senator Lo Loe e was wa elected chairman of or the meeting A count of or o noses was made which resulted r as stated Th Tb The n puW failed to a caucus cau cautis ua committee to toJ toJ confer the house hOUte caucus 8 u CU s committee co m tn e it was proposed pro po sed to issue iSS ue a call ca signed e d ly by v those present for a OY t the city cIt lt and County Bounty building J This wee was agreed a to without serious opposition and the call can was as drawn dr n nf and ana eiga f by b those present The Th absentees ab e tees wherever possible were Jl Tia e ano r views obtained After this t tV conte l lj j V H t c |