Show SMOOT CASE IS ONLY SLEEPING I Protestants Have Furnished List of 01 Other Witnesses I GUESS AS TO THE COMMITTEE TRIAL WILL DRAG ALONG UN UNTIL UNTIL TIL 1 to Th The t A I March Marh r rIn rV W V V In the Smoot hf will give he this city and t the hI z brief respite from th the most ost diM able ao and unsavory land l et t out b fo fore the public since the trial of thirty y years a ag But t th 1 Smoot case atte Is by no means ended PH protestants against elmitt permitting Ing him 1 retain his seat have furnished the co I on privileges vilee and lon v j ih iha t 1 a Ion long Ii list t of additIonal whose y testimony will ill be b gi given tn to t pr that plural marriages have huf been n Tr pr formed by of f he church linK t the hp i of Idt I It J Joseph t ph F FSmith Smith that the church h has rd t law In this hi particular III audition o these witnesses If tb the will 1 tr 1 to nol the att n f A I IJohn John Henry Smith owl sad other wh whIt were It 1 r 11 sg It I but who hn ha ye H failed k d rI for 11 I i rc 55 on onto to pot ut in an Will Drag Along The committee pot not only will take tak th t testimony timon of 1 all of these tresses i ivery very ery likely will send a composed or of part of it is t to Utah to gather up tili more mon 1 denee dene of the wrongdoings I the Mop In mona mons Utah is to I more ad 1 tI ng of a certain t kind th II ever ha been accorded any other sta state te for th the controversy over Smoot and the Mur MM mona moan seems certain tf i be until after r the election of n next rail fall Neither either party wants to lin line up apin the Mormons Mormon or for them th the pre presidential e election and nf Utah and its affairs are arp to Ie he hung 11 In the air for y ventilation for lh the p r of this year ear and part or of the next The most mOlt surprising feature or of t to who tally ha halt lt listened to the tf testimony has hall been n the and apparent truthfulness of f the witnesses Itne t No o detail iI If f i r affairs has been kept h tk bark 0 ny th the me bern bess of the Mormon end nd th has MII been n no ito hesItation un on their part pati 1 answering the probing questions of 1 th h hawy lawyer for or the protestants or of nt bess belS of the committee The whole try has been startled at th o of affairs revealed bY these 4 an r but at t th the m time it has haSl 1111 that the country would r receive elve as great a shock if the 1 were ert ree reversed and the were put on Ute the stand slid to disclose th their 11 private hives all as freely and as fuU fully as the It R have bave done and It is II by th Mormons nl wh h have bae been pr present t at the tho trial that At Attorney Attorney torney E B on one of f the pro protestants who ho appeared as I a witH and who has been asi assisting ring in the eor or duct of the ea ca against Smoot 1 was very ery fall fair In hi his statements and genY ally Uy truthful in hi his t testimony timon Mr I l Smoots Smoote friends are very Judge Jude Ogden en Hiles for his hip Etaf mp that be knew of a Mormon who h ha rt 1 contracted a plural marriage sine Since t 11 manifesto and then declined to gie his na name because became the ma a was one ff iU his friends With the close of the hearings beatings for fot a two weeks recess there is 18 much epe among those tho e who listened d to tn th the testimony t thus t far produced as to ill us effect upon the committee The char tha character r acter of the questions propounded t the b by the various nals Oft on the committee forms the prin principal cipal basis for determining the views of these members The m members wh who have been active In Questioning t the h witnesses are re Chairman Bur ow rl Senators Dubois Overman BaJ Ic Hoar Ho r McComas Foraker Beveridge DIllingham and Hopkins From the trend of the Questions they ha have f asked it I Is inferred that Foraker Beveridge amI an are against II unseating Smoot It seems equally certain that Dubois Dubols Burrows Overman n nand and Hopkins would vote to him Roar Boar and Bailey Doubtful Hoar and Bailey have asked search ath ling lug questions and they have bae not at attempted attempted tempted to conceal their apparent dis diC disapprobation approbAtion 4 it Mormonism m but beth h hare are stickIer for tor adherence to the spirit phit and letter ot of the constitution and it itIs itis Is believed that both are of the opinion that constitutionally and legally Is entitled to his seat and aDd will vote to t a retain him him Senator alln al Is a devoted adherent to the c b and anel he be Is rega regarded as likely to stand with Hoar and Bailey on the lion Senators Depew and Clarke ha have 9 tion during the h hear asked us ne que questions lags Ings Dd and have been present at but fEW cia classed d or of the meetings and they are as doubtful All of these speculations speculation m may be upset In the final result it if th contest becomes political and the ease cae Is made mad a party question or If public demand for smoots expulsion becomes so 80 ur urgent nt that the action of the menu berut of th the committee Ommittee will be Influenced lere by t It rather than by their view yiew of the evidence |