Show n R SMOOT WILL Sf BE NOTIFIED Charges Filed and lie He Is To In Writing if CONSIDERED INSUFFICIENT Committee Has lias Reached No be b Senate as to Us Its Course In Such an Event pUBLIC HEARINGS MAY MY BE HELD Mc Are All Interested Will Have lIac An to Present What hat Evidence The They have to the Now News P n C Dec smoot Is l to 10 bo o form formally oily that havo been tiled agaInst him charges and he IS I expected to reply In to the Iho charges by the tha time the committee next Saturday No o been td ed Cs as to the tho course courso to bo 10 adopted ii the event that Senator Smoots Is l con Insufficient by the corn com committee Saturdays meeting wilt will willbe be the last before the recess It Is Impossible that hearing on the tho barges can ho be 61 given en before the tho rens reas ot of Congress In It if bearings earing ar ac decided upon As tar far ns as the members oC at the tho committee will express It appears that pub lie will bo be held and that nil alt Interested Iii have havo nn an opportunity to present any evidence which they may think they posses In su ot of otI I the e charges which the tho senator denies In toto PEN Pensions Granted n fl Firman S 3 Harrison S 3 Stephen fladger 10 Dram Bran Oeo Oco W v Smith 6 POLICY TO DE D Doe Dee committee on mH met today to outline n a policy to o 1101 b lUr In Investigating the tho tiled against Senator Heed Smoot L Per Permitted to retain his seat Heat and antl decided before taking further tep 1 n the tho matt t Senator Smoot bl be given opportunity to mal make e reply to the tho harte Senator chairman ef 1 tie the committee was instructed to o no tuly Jy Mr I Smoot ot of the decIsion or of the corn com and to request that whatever reply lie he may desIre to inie o hull I In writing In to the tho petItions filed with the tho earn com for tor the tho ut of Mr Smoot too tO protests forn of Were and nd briefly cOl by y the tho committee Thes Protests Mr Ir with being beiM n a They also charge charKe that tim tho Mormon Church ot of which is hI hIb isSn Sn b Apostle its own Lw s to 10 to of at the tho state ind they r contend that lie he church stilt tar lor Neither Senator nor hIs ii opponents lit it the tho and for tor that reas ot of the committee taking any It h In any ow the sentiment ot of PETITIONS flow Bow Signor Signers Are Doing Secured by MInisters in the tho Southern States Den I 1 fllch president of oC the tho South Southern era ern States Slates mission who vio arrived from Cram Atlan in aa last niGht throws some light Upon tho manner In which signa hao been secured for tor the Presented to the tho senate senale ask asking In for tho ot of Senator need I 1 do not believe he do elaTed that there are uro ten POT per cent of the signers Whose were vero not d under tinder lIn generally the south In some districts have made mallo a sUbject tOl foi their Sun day sermons hen theY t tell 11 their con can that Apostle Heed Smoot Is the hUsband ot at tour four or tire vives anti amI other such they hn have vo their c up tim tho flin or of the tho petitions place ilace Litter Cider Rich reports that tho work worl Is In the tho south Bouth nn and the tho only I he has to contend with is III that these there are not I enough Elders labor ln Ing In that At Present he be titers thero Is no trouble rl anti and PO peo generally ore lire beginning to tinder about the tho Mormons from a source Ito that the tue ot Information In thiS thin city is 18 he doing hu has nn an amount of at good and ft como come In contact with ot of PeOple In the who of Ic the bureau here and speak their c with ith the of at ono one or two Cases a es of at sickness tim tho health ot of the tho m El Eld Elin tOOd era d In the tho lie he reports its 1111 beIng o to return Ir h time tn a spend Christmas V e having como come homo nt at this time to Attend tho t marrIage of at his son Ii 1 mm ot of whIch eVent CUrs next |