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Show OBJECTS TO SENATOR DUBOIS' , STRICTURES ON MORMONS. . II , The report of the committee on privileges and elections In the Smoot case will be mailo to tho senate about April IB. Tho cnso has now been dragging for threo . years. In. fact, final arrangements by fcoilnsel were made In January, 1905, but for some reason the chairman of the committee, Senator Burrows, desired de-sired to extend into another Congress and. his way prevailed. No oho in Washington who has followed tho caso believes that Senator Smoot will bo Unseated. ; But three members of the committee commit-tee attended the closing hearings last week, Senator Burrows, Senator Dubois Du-bois and Senator Frazler of Tennessee. Tennes-see. Tho latter attended one morning session and did not appear afterwards. It is doubtful if any objection would over have been made to tho seating of Smoot If tho .statement had not been circulated at the tlmo of his election that ho was a polygamlst. n This- Idea gained widespread currency and probably Is still belioved by many of the women's organizations of tho country who have filed petitions bearing thousands of signatures pro-jf" pro-jf" testing against the retention of tho Utah Senator. It was believed by j these organizations that this case was & a parallel for that of Brlgham Rob-4 Rob-4 erts, who was elected to Congress from Utah, but was not allowed to t .take his seat because It was alleged that he was d polygamlst. No well-Informed person In Utah .i has over believed that Smoot was a ': polygamlst; nor was it charged thero. The charge that ho was a polygamlst emanated from. Utah,, however, and It , was systematically worked up from that end. Some of .the best women ', in the country have been used as instruments in-struments to advance'- .the political fortunes of former Senator Thomas Kearns of Utah by keeping alive the agitation of the Smoot case. |