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Show SMOOT CASE TROUBLESOME TO REPUBLICAN LEADERS Testimony, Expected to Be Perfunctory, Develops State of Affairs Shocking to Country. tually saying, "To be sure we violate the law of the land, and It Is none of your business." The venerable Senator Hoar has been greatly wrought up over the revelations, revela-tions, and some of the other Republican members of that committee, who were Inclined two weeks ago to view the situation sit-uation lightly, are wondering what had best be done. It will not be a surprise If the committee falls to reach a decision deci-sion before Congress adjourns. It has been suggested that a subcommittee be sent to Utah to continue the inquiry after af-ter the session of Congress ends, but no formal action with that end In view has yet been taken. - Personally, Smoot has made a most favorable Impression on the members of the Senate, but it looks now as If in the end his personality will not enable him to hold his seat.. INDIANAPOLIS, March 16. A "Washington special to the News says; The Reed Smoot case has developed Into a much more troublesome affair than the . Republicans in the United States Senate supposed they had on hand. It is pretty well understood here that before the Committee on Privileges and Elections got Into the hearings the Republican Re-publican members of that committee, as well as the majority members of the Senate generally, had not thought seriously seri-ously of refusing Smoot a seat. The hearings were arranged for In order or-der that the petitioners against the seating of the Senator might be satisfied. satis-fied. The Republican members of the committee seemed to have an idea that the testimony would be perfunctory, and that It would be an easy matter to seat the Mormon without Inviting much criticism from the general public But the testimony brought out by the attorneys for the petitioners has been so startling that the Republican members of the committee have altered their views. They have come to an appreciav tion of the fact that the country- has been shocked by the testimony of the Mormon leaders, and worst of all, the head of the church assumed a defiant attitude before the committee by vlr- |