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Show WILL PRESENT PETITION Nearly Million Women Have Signed Auti-Smoct Document. PHILADELPHIA, Nov :.",.-A meeting of tho executive committee of the National Na-tional League of Women's Organizations, formed to ira ago to oppose the continuance con-tinuance In Hie United Stales Senate of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, was hefQ bare today. Women from all sections of the l ouuti v . re j.n-etil. It was nil- bounced that a petition will be presented to the Senate asking for the exclusion of Mr. Smoot on the ground that ' he is a mcmlx-r of a hierarchy whose president and a majority of the members practice and teach polygamy." Never Raised Voice. The memorial will state that "Mr. Smoot has never raised his voice against theso doctrines, und the Mormon hierarchy hie-rarchy lias broken its covenants which it gave to the United States when statehood state-hood was granted " The petition has been signed by nearlv B million women and will be presented by a Senator from each slate. Letter From Salt Lake. A lotter was read at today's meeting from the Woman'' I Association dub of Salt Lake City, thanking th.- league and the National Congress of Mothers for their unti-Morinon campaign |