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Show Ministers Or :n Fight by Sending a Preliminary Notice to Chairman Burroughs of Privileges and Elections Committee Commit-tee of the Senate. Association 'Declares the : Utah Senator-Elect Will Realize That a Contest Is on Hand When He Presents His Credentials, Creden-tials, at the Capitol. The Salt Lake Ministerial association associa-tion last night telegraphed to Washington Wash-ington a preliminary protest against the seating of Senator-elect Reed Smoot in the United States Senate. The protest was sent to Senator Burroughs of Michigan, chairman of the Committee on Privileges and Elections. -" , The fight has been launched in earnest by the association, which de- clares it purposes 'to carry it through to the last ditch, j " . An Official Statement. . The Ministerial association made the following statement to The Telegram today: , , v "Notice of the protest against the acceptance ac-ceptance of the credentials In possession of Senator-elect Smoot has been telegraphed tele-graphed to the proper persons in Washington. Wash-ington. The Ministerial association did not, like Speaker Hull of the House, feel to declare Smoot elected until the counsels coun-sels of the first presidency and the twelve apostles of the Mormon church had been fully carried out by-the vote of the joint assembly, so the association did not care to send the official protest in full until the apostle.was actually a Senator-elect. : . Work Under Way." '. 1 -'"The-work Bt th6 VV'aLShlnglo'n end oT the line is already under way. "The contents of the protest will not be given out until further advices art received from Washington. ' "The people of Utah, and the legislators, legisla-tors, already know the contents of the protests the association has made to the voters. The protest In Washington has been made public as far as It is necessary to make it to the voters, the legislators and the authorities of the Mormon church here. Now Appeal to the Senate.' "We will now make our appeal to the United States Senate and to the people of the United States. What that appeal ap-peal will be is a matter of later report. "The matter is now, in a measure, out of the hands of the Ministerial association. associa-tion. The association can now furnish the facts, and It Is up to the apostolic Senator-elect to meet the facts that the association will present. The Senator-elect Senator-elect will have occasion soon enough to meet the protest." Eight Will Be Pushed. "There will be nothing -now to stop the protest, and it will go through with a rush." Information coming to the association from outside the State of Utah, indicates indi-cates that the people of the United States understand that this protest must lead to a much more thorough-going Investigation of Utah conditions than was given in the Roberts case. "The investigation in this case will go to the center of the matter of church dictation, and of polygamous living In violation of', the laws of the State, the United States, and the sentiment of the civilized world in regard to polygamous living, and the whole matter will be uncovered." un-covered." In Burroughs' Hands. - The Ministerial association's repre-tatlve repre-tatlve was asked in whose hands the j , (Continued on Page 6.) Smoot Protest. (Continued from page L) protest had been placed at Washington. He declined to state who had charge of the case and said that if the Information Informa-tion were obtained, it would have to be obtained from Washington. The .Telegram's Washington correspondent corre-spondent wires that, the protest was sent to Senator Burroughs. v |