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Show ELDERS IKE A SCEIEJNMEE1C Young Mormons Ask to Make Address in Philadelphia Church. FAILED TO SPEAK WHEN OPPORTUNITY WAS GIVEN Insist in Face Smitl's Confession Confes-sion No Law Is broken In Utah. Ppeclal to Tho Tribune. PHILADELPHIA, Pa , Oct. 18. At the North Broad-street Presbyterian church tonight a hiric ineMtlnff was held, under the auspices of the international League of Women Organizations, at which former S nator Prank J Cannon made an ad-drees. ad-drees. Th.- church was filled by an audience- of prominent ladles and g-ntlemen of Phlla.lelj.hla, who listened attentively to the addresa of Camion on the Utah question. Adopt a Memorial. The meeting adopted by what the chairman chair-man announced to be 1 unanimous vote a memorial against Snmot, demanding his exclusion from the Senate on the grounds that the Mormon hlerarchv han broken its saored covenant with the T'nlted Stat.-s and gone hack to pr.lvR-nmy. pr.lvR-nmy. that It defies State and National luwa. that It Is disloyal, ami (hat Its apostle should b removed from the Senate Sen-ate and huvo no further voice in making mak-ing laws for this Nation Elders Want to Speak. At the close of the meeting several young Mormon elders cam., forward and asked jiermhvslon to speak. Dr Watson, who presided, Informed the young ncii that Inasmuch hk the hour was late, h- did not think it advisable to prolong the meeting. Tho Mormons w.-r. treated very courteously hy Dr Watson, hut one of them hecam. particularly boisterous, be.-nilng determined to have argument wllh or without the consent of the church trustees, until one of the hitter moved that the debato be suspended Were Given Opportunity. As usual Mr. Cannon BSked any one who questioned any statement mad bj him to mnko objection during his address and that be Would b.- very glad to muke reply or elucidation. There wen Interruptions, In-terruptions, however and when the . tin 11 missionaries made their belated request re-quest b was deemed to be an indiscreet aiid impudent att mpl to secure an audience au-dience gathered i". the efforts of other p. opie. ne young lady who accompanied the missionaries behaved almost hysterically hysteric-ally and in a very undignified inanni 1 Cannon was very considerate und oourte COM and, as ueual, mum thun hold hit uwn So finmliiil were thi Muiniuna that even In the fucu of the testimony of Joeeph K Smith (hut he kuh IUIiik in d.'llun. e nl lln. la!- of God and uuui the denied thai th.n- mi m, law broken in L'tuii Their behavior wa shockingly dl'jrustlnfr. |