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Show " w .. - . : . .'...-.,..'.... ' Scntcri Hoar, for Ccm- 1 miUcc; States That a , Man With Credentials . May Take Oatb; Protest Y;T7tll I(3W Be Jested: . V7ASTIUSQTQTSr March 5. JTo ob- . Jctlotr wi mads when " Mr. ySmoot's nams'was called. He received nmi pplauss from the galleries. Three . newly-elected Senator Clarke of Ar- fcansag, Ankeny . and Stone , were worn. 1a. ' " " . .,. - As soon as the Senate was called to order, 'Ilr. Hoar obtained unanimous consent to make a statement for Mr. . .Xurro'wv,' chairman of the Committee on Privileges and Elections. . XXr. Hoar's statement was supposed to hare reference to Mr. Smoot, but he' did not mention him. It was to , the effect that any man having cre- ' dentials could be sworn In. The protest against the seating of Smoot is in the hands of the committee commit-tee for further action. SENATE CONVENES IX EXTRA SESSION; SENATORS SWORN IN t WASHINGTON, March 5. The United Uni-ted States Senate met at noon today in special session called by the President. It was an interesting event, as such sessions ses-sions do pot usually occur except when a President of the United States is in-'""cied in-'""cied into office. At the beginning of -, yics new Congress and today was the Hret session of the Senate of the Fifty-eighth Fifty-eighth Congress .the oath was admin-isteret admin-isteret -twnty-svvcf .the, thirty ' ' wi.o'l,... cu.l-ior six year 4. OX- ) -.ese' seventeen were 're-elected as. W follw-s; ' . . . .. . - r i - Allison, Iowa; Clay, Georgia; Dillingham, Dilling-ham, -Vermont; Fairbanks, Indiana; Foraker.' Ohio; . McEnery, . Louisiana; Mallory, Florida (serving on appointment appoint-ment until the Legislature meets); Penrose, Pen-rose, Pennsylvania; Perkins,' California; Pettus, Alabama; Piatt. Connecticut; Piatt,. New York; Spooaer, Wisconsin; Teller, Colorado; GalUnger, New Hampt shirt; Hanabrough, . North Dakota; Kittredge. South Dakota. ' The oath was administered to ten new Senators, although one, Mr. Gorman, had previously served eighteen years in the Senate. The new Senators are: Fulton. Ful-ton. Oregon; Gorman, Maryland; Hey-burn,'Idaho; Hey-burn,'Idaho; Hopkins, Illinois;, Latimer', South Carolina; . Long, Kansas; Mccreary, Mc-creary, Kentucky: Newlands, Nevada; Overman, North Carolina; Smoot. Utah. Stone, Missouri; Ankeny, Washington; Washing-ton; and Clarke, Arkansas, were not peeent to be sworn in. - TJe Senate being a continuous body, its officers hold until their successors are chosen, ' so promptly at noon the body was called to order by President pro tern Frye. The scene was a brilliant one. and not unlike the opening of every session of Congress. The galleries were filled at an early hour, and in the family fam-ily and reserved galleries were friends and relatives of the new Senators. The desks of the new Senators could be distinguished dis-tinguished by the wealth of flowers which had been provided. The lavish-ness lavish-ness of the admirers was shown by the fact that desks and even chairs in some Instances were completely buried under huge floral pieces and beautiful bou- JtS. V-The president's message was dellv-to dellv-to the Senate by Mr. Barnes. It wafe not read. Mr. Hoar announced that be intended to move an executive session. . , Mr. Tillman announced "that he wanted to speak and he went on with his remarks about Mr. Cannon's speech in the House. He read nearly all the speech.- After reading Mr. Cannon's speech he denounced it as "indefensible, indecent and an outrage." The dignity of the Senate and his own individual honesty were Involved. After the invocation Mr. Bennett, the secretary of the Senate, read the proclamation proc-lamation of the President convening the extra, session. Mr. Hoar, speaking for Mr. Burrows, chairman of the:. Committee on Privileges Privi-leges and Elections, referred to the constitutional con-stitutional procedure-of administering oaths to the new-Senators, and said that if there were any other procedure the result would , be .a third of the Senate might be kept out of their seats for an indefinite time -on the presenting of objections ob-jections without responsibility and never established before in the Senate by any prolonged inquiry. The result might be, he said, that a change in the ' political., power of this Government, which the- people .desire to accomplish, might i be Indefinitely postponed. Mr. - Hoar stated that questions of qualification qualifica-tion should be. postponed and acted up-. up-. on by the Senate afterward. The names of the newly-elected Senators Sen-ators were called alphabetically, and each .was escorted to the desk by bis colleague. -As some of tbe names were called there was applause in the galleries. gal-leries. : That given Mr. Gorman was especially noticeable. Messrs. Spodner and "Allison received generous applause as they were escorted to the desk. , Mr. Smoot of Utah subscribed to the oath with an empbatlo "I do." No ob-' ob-' Jection was made to his taking the ath. . . There were -severrty-four Senators present. , Messrs- Hoar. and Cockrell were appointed a committee to wait upon up-on the President and Inform him that -. - . Continued on Page S.) - ,' ' '' ' Apostle Smoot. (Continued from Page 1.) . the Senate was ready to proceed to business. r VARIED INFLUENCES BROUGHT TO BEAR ' IN SM00TS BEHALF WASHINGTON, March 5. Commercial Commer-cial interests are playing a large part in the fight for Senator-elect Smoot, and the . Eastern houses- which deal with ZIons' Co-operative Mercantile Institutions Institu-tions haye been appealed to to bring pressure on certain Senators in his behalf.- These Influences ramify through a surprisingly " extended range. The Mormon' trade is enormous, and what with railroad, banking, .beet sugar and other financial connections, the apostle becomes a power to be reckoned with. The presence of Judge Bartch of Utah In the East in the interest of the Senator-elect adds another phase to the case. The Judge is supposed to be looking af- ter the legal end of the controversy. It Is said he has been exceedingly friendly with the Mormon church for years, and It is hardly a secret here among resident resi-dent Utahns that he aspires to be a United. States Senator himself when the time become, opportune. The Judge stands high at the bar. is popular and is an expert at counting noses.. Whether his present efforts in behalf of his friend Smoot will help or harm, depends it is said here by those versed in Utah politics upon, the outcome out-come of the apostle's case. records that would convict these criminals. crim-inals. These records are kept secret from the public. "I notice that Mr. Eccles of Utah, supposedly to assist Smoot, is here riving riv-ing out Interviews. He is himself known as a polygamist in Utah. He has a wife in Utah and a wife in Oregon, where he has a large business." TREATIES URGED BY THE PRESIDENT IN HIS MESSAGE WASHINGTON, March 5. President Roosevelt today sent the following message to the Senate: "To the Senate: I have called the Senate in extraordinary session to consider con-sider the treaties concerning which it proved impossible to take action during dur-ing the Congress Just ended. I ask your special attention to the treaty with the Republic of Colombia securing to the United States a right to build the isthmian isth-mian canal and to the treaty with the Republic of Cuba for securing a meas- ure of commercial reciprocity between the two countries. "The great and far-reaching importance import-ance of these two treaties to the welfare wel-fare of the United States and the urgent ur-gent need for their adoption requires me to impose upon you the Inconvenience of meeting at this time. "THEODORE ROOSEVELT. "White House, March 6, 1903." THE REV. WISHARD ' PUSHING THE CASE .AGAINST APOSTLE WASHINGTON. March 6. The Evening Even-ing Star of yesterday says: "The Rev. Dr.. Wishard of Salt Lake v City, superintendent ' of the Presbyterian Presbyte-rian Home missions. Synod of Utah, is in the city, having come to register a protest against the seating of Senator-elect Senator-elect Reed Smoot. Dr. Wishard has spent many years in the cause of Christianity Chris-tianity and he is determined that the Utah apostle shall not be admitted to membership in the United States Senate Sen-ate without that body having full knowledge of the conditions that exist in the case. "I am here to go before the Committee Commit-tee on Privileges of the Senate and tell the true state of things In Utah." Dr. Wishard said to an Evening Star reporter re-porter this afternoon. "Especially am I anxious that the committee be Informed In-formed and enlightened In reference to the fight that has marked the Mormon church from its Inception to the present hour. I want the committee to know that the Mormon church claims rule ,over the State and has exercised that ' rule continuously. v "As to Mr. Smoot, we object to him, , not because he is a Mormon. We have had Mormon representatives In Congress Con-gress to whom no objection was made. But we -object to him because he be-" longs to a hierarchy that claims control con-trol over the State and exercises that Control. .Their inspired teachers hava ; put them on record as having a superior supe-rior government to that of the United States and have never modified that assertion. "Mr. Smoofs oath as an apostle of the Mormon church makes him a protector of criminals. It Is notorious that men are Jiving In- polygamous relations in Utah. It is exceedingly difficult to secure se-cure proof that convicts. Mr. Smoot' s official position gives him knowledge of I the facts and he is a guardian of the |