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Show GREAT MEETING IN WASHINGTON To Protest Against Apostle Snoot. Noted Methodist Bishop Presided Pre-sided and C. flrtostyn Owen Spoke. Chairman Spry and Members of Mormon Mor-mon Colony Attended Meoting and Afterwards Had Conference. By A. F. Philips. Special to Tho Tribune. WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 11. At a Treat mass meeting. at the First Congregational Congre-gational church this afternoon to protest against tho flection of Apostle Smoot to tho Senate Bishop Earl Cranston presided. pre-sided. Pastors of other denominations were present and participated In tho services. serv-ices. Short addresses were made by a number of promlnont men and women. Charles Mostyn Owen of Salt Lako also spoke. He declared every pledge and promise mado by Utah to tho Scnato committee prior to statohood had been broken and that polygamy poly-gamy Is practiced moro open Jy today than for twenty years pnst. Me showed that nix apostles had tataen now wives slnco tho manifesto of 1SS0; that numerous others followed tho examplo of their ecclesiastical ec-clesiastical superiors, ono having taken a plural wife within sixty days. Some Remarkable Promises. Ho quoted from a book published by direction di-rection of the hierarchy for tho especial edification of the President and Congress, -which book has boon sustained in confess onco and which declares that "this republic repub-lic can novor become an asylum to all nations na-tions until her domestic Institutions aro founded upon liberal laws, until tho republic re-public will protect polygamy as equally sacred as monogamy; as a Bible institution, institu-tion, as a right that should bo as sacredly guaranteed not only to the polygamous omlgrant who may land upon our shores, but to all tho Inhabitants of our country who may desire to embrace this Bible Institution. In-stitution. If Utah be admitted as a Stato Bhe will, most undoubtedly,' see that tho rights of the domestic institution aro not trampled upon by religious bigotry; that no Illiberal laws aro enacted to prevent Immigration from polygamic nations. May the tlmo speedily roll on when Utah shall, become a State. ' Has Fulfilled Declaration. In conclusion Mr. Owen snld: "Utah has becomo a Stale. She has virtually fulfilled ful-filled this declaration. Written laws aro not and cannot be enforced, and polygamy poly-gamy Is rampant today within not only her own borders, but also tho States of Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado, Oregon, Nevada Ne-vada TorrltorieB of Arizona and Now Mexico. In Old Mexico In Mormon settlements settle-ments around Jaurez. Diaz, Casas Gan-dcs. Gan-dcs. Dublan and others, polygamy seems to bo the only proper form of marital relation re-lation To the north the same condition prevails. In Alberta. Canada, which has ) becomo the favored hiding place of fugitive fugi-tive apostles and their plural wives, whence, beyond tho Internal boundary, they now re6t supremo In tholr lascivious practices and Immune even from tho process pro-cess of the seargeant-at-arms of tho United States Senate." Mra. Maria Weed also delivered a stirring stir-ring address on tho menace of modern Mormonlsm. Scattered throughout tho large audlcnco was the Mormon colony here, numbering about twenty. Including Chairman Spry of tho Republican Stato commltteo, and H. E Booth. Aftor tho meoting tho colony, col-ony, with Chairman Spry and Mr. Booth, assembled on the corner of Tenth and G streets nnd had a long discussion. Two witnesses. John Nicholson, recorder record-er of the Salt Lake Temple, and Gcorgo Reynolds, tho churoh secretary, arrived this afternoon over the Pennsylvania. Carl Badger, private secretary to Senator Smoot, met them at tho station nnd took them in charge. The Smoot hearing begins be-gins tomorrow. Franklin- S. Richards was accompanied on tho trip here by Chief Engineer Newell of the reclamation service, and various Irrigation projocts in which Utah Is Interested Inter-ested wero discussed at length Mr. Newell New-ell Informed Mr. Richards that the dredging dredg-ing and deepening of Utah lako would rcduco tho evaporation by ono-half and Increase tho subtorranoan flow so that It would bo double tho available supply. H also slatod that tho Government haw planned a largo reservoir on tho Webor river, the site now definitely settled, which would hold 300.COO cubic feet nnd bo of Inestimable valuo to the Salt Lako valley. Whilo attending the Smoot Inquiry Mr. Richards will keep In touch with the reclamation re-clamation service regarding plans for Utah. Congressman Howell spent yesterday and today In New York, where his Hon Joseph Is attending the Columbia University. Uni-versity. Bonator Kearns has received numerous' letters from tho Mutual Aid Improvement Society In Utah praying him to urge the striking out from tho bill providing statohood stato-hood for Oklahoma tho clause which Is against woman suffrage. The Senator has filed tho lottors with the commlttoo having hav-ing tho mat tor In charge. |