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Show :IS HNISHEP: Epvrc rlh Leaguers. Hold Bij Meetings on the Last Day. DENVER, Colo., July 10. The. seventh sev-enth international convention of the - Kpworth league has closed with meetings meet-ings in the downtown churches and auditoriums, at which was read the report re-port of the committee of resolutions, previously adopted by the board of control, con-trol, the governing body of the league. The report refers to the Smoot case as follows: "Inasmuch 'as Reed Smoot, Senator of the United States from the State of Utah, Is subservient to authority that Is antagonistic to the purity and integrity integ-rity of the American home and sub-erslv sub-erslv of the laws of the land, by rea- ' non of his official relation to the Mor- inon hierarchy, we earnestly and solemnly sol-emnly protest against his admission to " a peat in the supreme legislative body of the Nation, and we urge upon Con- gress the need of passing laws making it an impossibility for representatives of such a . treason-working system to obtain seats in the legislative body of ' the United States. ; "And we urge the Congress" of the United States to submit to the" people a Constitutional amendment prohibiting prohibit-ing polygamy or plural marriages. within with-in ths territory of the United States." The report favors, a uniform divorce law; heartily cdmmends the work of the National Bureau of Reform, the Lord's-day alliance of - Canada, and similar, organizations;, pledges, incessant inces-sant "warfare against all forms of intemperance in-temperance ani, expresses gratification at the progress of the work of the Anti-Saloon -league '. of ' the ; United States and Canada; declares uncompromising uncom-promising opposition to the sale of intoxicants. in-toxicants. In -the army canteen, end Indorses In-dorses the Hepburn-Dolliver bill for the prevention -of Interstate transportation transpor-tation of Intoxicants in violation of prohibitory pro-hibitory laws. ' . r 4 ' The resolutions express sympathy for Bishop Joyce of St. Paul, whose Illness prevented fc Is attendance at the convention. con-vention. ' Durlnj the day divine services were held In nearly all the churches of Denver, Den-ver, the eermons being preached by the visiting Methodist ministers. |