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Show H Tt hns not so far appeared (hat the H "forthcoming Legislature regrets its in- H ability to elect Smoot over again. B Doubtless most of the Legislators will H be Instructed that a little thing like the Constitution is nothing between priests Hi And unruly members of the lcgisla- H tivo House must now be awnro that the Hj Speaker will come at them red-headed. H! Doubtless Senator Smoot. thought it would be an infraction of Senatorial B- courtesj" for him to resent Senator llop- B kius's abuse of the Mormon religion. fl , President Smith cares little how K m;mj- hard names the friends of Smoot H' in the Senate may call him, so long as they let him keep his embassador there. Hj Friends of a third term for President. Roosevelt admit that he said he would Mn not have it, but insist that every moral Hr man ought to allow himself to be forced., . H According to Senator Hopkins, Reed Smoot used to slide off his mother's lap and toddle out of meeting, before he was a year old. whenever any polyga-mist polyga-mist was preaching. On the whole, the business men of Salt Lake arc of opinion that it is bet- H, ter to get the railroads before the church concludes to ruu them 'b' means Hj of an obedient commission. Another reason why the prophets may be expected to favor the Policc.com- Hj mission is that to create it would be to violate the State Constitution, which H instrument is a mere tyranny anywaj. Mr. Critchlow may discover that when his lightning express railway com-. com-. mission seems to be running all right, H it can be wrecked by u change of sig-H'' sig-H'' na's dispatched from the Beehive House. Senator Hopkins of Illinois can cheer-full-, cliaiupiou the cause of a director of Z. C. M. I.; particularly as some of his constituents have profitable rein-Hons rein-Hons with the aposile in his mercantile lruss.y Jinimic can doubtless point to an interesting collection ' of ' annual passes ns proof that he understands all the necessary parts of 'railway Vegula-tion, Vegula-tion, thus proving his fitness. for a, place on a commission. And it was quite as sincere a compli-mcnt compli-mcnt as anyone ever uttered when Christensen 's Juvenile band visited the palace of Mr. Ncwhousc. for one of ' them to remark to another: "Say, Chimmic. ain 't dis n swell hump?" R- Representative Thompson of Millard i will realize .that Smoot'? reach is as HM tone s liia memory; for the apostle ro- ftfllls conversation in which Thompson defied him, nnd he extends his arm of vengeance from .Washington to Salt H; When Senator Hopkins says that all j polygamous marriages since the mani- fe5jo have taken place in Canada, he demonstrates that the hierarchy Cau HB take the National lawmakers into their confidonco as far as it may be profit- HH able to do so. When a Gentile Legislaturv Idaho ;elocts a Mormon for Speaker and a H Mormon Legislature in L"tah elects a Hj Gentile for Speaker, the hierarchy nat- urally feel thnt They can en.ioy fhe results re-sults without, appearing to have any interest in-terest in the fight. |