Show REPORT ON SMOOT SOOT ABOUT APRIL 15 I Committee to Complete Work I S Soon After Three Years Years' c i Consideration t S J 5 LONG SESSION CONGRESS 5 5 I I Xo Now Appear Likely Adjournment Will Ill Not Commie Come Until 1 June ii 1 Democrats Searching S f z i of- of Special 1 1 Washington April Arnn 1 The I.-The The report of cr I. I he the committee committe on privileges lIpes anti and eloc- eloc lions Ions in tIme the Smoot case ca e will bo he made madeo to o the Senate about April IB Hi The 1 asu e has haR now nov been heen dragging for Cor three I years ears al In Iii fact tact final arguments by i coun l were made In January 1905 j but nit for tor sOI some seine e reason the chairman of or t the tho ho committee Senator Burows tlc de- sin u Ired to extend into lIto another con congress his hl No here and way wa prevailed pre o one who vho ha followed the Uw ca case case- e believes s S that hat Senator Smoot will be Lie unseated I But three members of or the commIttee commit commit- tee ec attended the lie closing hearings last t 1 ok Senator Burrows B Senator Dubois Dubois Du- Du i bois bob and antI Senator Frazier of or eo t-O. The rue l latter aU attended tl one morning 1 FIon F Ion and did not appear appeal afterwards F It Is IR doubtful If Ir any objection lon wo would d ever have ha h ave been b een made to the till taUnt seating I of ot Smoot if ir the statement hud hind nor i circulated at th the time of his hlf election that hint he waa wat a polygamist This Idea a gained widespread rad currency cun and probably Is stilt still believed by hy many I S of the women's organizations of the die country who wit have flied filed d petitions b atIn at In lug ng thousands of ot signatures protest protest- tIng t- t big Ing ng against t the lie retention of tho the Utah I Senator It was waa believed by thu e pr at that list this case caso was wa t at apar parallel par par- tot for or that of ot Brigham Roberts Hobert S who vho was elected lo to congress c from Utah but was WOK not allowed to take his ils seat s al because It Jt was ras Alleged ll 4 he was waa polygamist a.-polygamist S jt V S No o well informed d person Utah 10 h lias ever pr 1 believed 11 e 1 that Smoot was i R u u. polygamist j i or l nor mior was was it It charged It-charged there Time The charge that he hI Vi was wat a S emanated from Utah however and ami It was waK systematically y t worked up from flom that hint end Some of o the tue th best women w men In lii the country have been used as In In- In ml- ml strument to ad the political ni fortunes of or former Senator Thorna of or Utah by i b keeping alive the thu thoa a agitation ion of or the thi Smoot case cose May ll Ia Continue Continue- Cf Through rIhl h Tune Ji 4 v The prospect for tor an nn adjournment of Pr tOl the tho summer recess biraS by bi br raS Uil raSt 91 t ii 5 t t h he latest was good wo vo voit J lf ogo agn rr rT S. S-S. it iu h ij AN t J nr l fr Hi- Hi l hi Jw uini r. r these two twit dates the Democratic leader leaden lead lead- er N of the lie house houIe John Sharp Williams fixes time the time line for taking tho the recess s The Time disposition shown by the time sonata senate to debate debute at nt length th the timO railroad bill Is responsible for tor or the tho change of or till the date datt of or probable adjournment The Hepburn bill Jos passed missed t the the- house Just ns its It was reported from the th committee com coin CS I slid and the lie debate on It besides limited was confined to what being as It was hoped to lo b by I It and was offered offend to amend no Hi opportunity It Or dr to point out ou Its Js deficiencies l I As pu passed by b the lie house It was re reported reported r- r re- re the lie senate committee on 01 ported from li amend amend- amendment Interstate commerce ment No Xo amt amendments were permit permit- led ed In time the committee On the time liner if of f the time senate sEnate the he bill bi hu has bet bet been n ex- ex with the minuteness which wih onI the lie senate Henat can examine a ph piece Cl Clot Dozens of ot legislation ot if f proposed and anti In have ha been offered voted It seems scents hue lue time will be old upon lUt wi court lear ilear now that a satisfactory COUt clea lew l' amendment will be added to wi he Hepburn bill and one Ing rig i th the giving giving bi of oC free Clee lee transportation but employ b railroads to iy here will trill also ulo be added amund- amund menta which wi will wi strengthen the bill 1 1 long along the lie line Hue of or controlling private weak admittedly Is bill the lie car ars as a bi Amendments aJon long Jong that line and cars care will bo lug ig lg sleeping tIded added Altogether the house will wil not IU It offspring when whon it is r re- re armied to that body boY and anti it I is safe to toay tolar bill 1111 with the tho th ay that lint the Hepburn bi lar enate amendments will be bt a measure rom roni which results can be b obtained original forum form Its indefinite as s against Is Senate leaders 18 now express theta theta- will trill be at adee u a thes that thal adjournment wi u originally ex- ex later dee iter date than was peeled Time The The hou house e lend leaders rs are not so RO as the they would ordinarily bo bor 10 on account S SC for r an aim early eaily adjournment being a congressional cam cam- oC f C this I beng aign summer Mummer as even ven the the Demo Demo- Dt m- m rats LOtS do 10 not riOt expect to make gains gaitis in lit II OUSt seats this mill fall Searching for ril hI Issues Ii S Serious con consideration I i iS being given ion b y V th the Democratic congressional con Ic com com- boro bo- bo ulee nUte to lo the proposition of or going ro iO tho time country on elm the time hour eight law b by the American Federation of f t Labor and th the Injunction anti hiI lull hill the of or orthis ofus statement of The he recent re this ils us organization om en that lint the time time ha had nie mt lou for or them to participate In the election of ot enatO senators amI nd nil representatives has 1105 up upie the ie it Democratic leaders leml's and amI It is expected ex- ex eced that a debate will bo be on Oil the noor of tho the house on this thiN subject for the thC purpose of or obtaining Beeches which will wi be he used In tho the this summer The Tho eight eight- homo our oui law which h Is desired has for several years been opposed by b manu manu- eats of oC the hue country countr who supply goods Dotis to the itt government gO Under Its Is revisions o if it J enacted It would r ret ret- 14 quirE that nil ail al supplies hou bought ht by tho tue government be bc produced in Iii factories s nop 1015 etc operated on a n basis baHi of ot gut Ight hours per pel day ta or night forty hours ours a week and amid the products of uC nonunIon non- non unIon or open shops hops could not n t bu be b. b sold to the government go This would apply to paper paler l' l furniture und anti In iii fac to al- al lost tos-l everything which tho lie government go nOt u ses ef In Iii its Is business The anti antl on bill bi which Is pending b before ore the on tin Judiciary and amid which would have Been een reported had hud it not hot he cen een n for tom the he recent agitation with Iff inference ference rence to It I was drawn up 1 by Com Com- Gnu feud Jar lie id upon the time HU suggestion or f r President Hoo Roosevelt and amid Is IN known mown s I Che he ime Gilbert lt bill bil It I is i. i considered ed to toe toC t bc e C a 0 conservative measure and limits the ie me power now nour exercised h by courts coutis of or Injunctions at random without ny Ii h hearing at all cli al It to the time parties ports sought to 1 be enjoined and ILe provides for Cor a no- no Continued O on elm 1 Page e Three c. c I 5 i 2 REPORT ON SMOOT ABOUT APRIL 15 Continued from Page c One Ice to these parties partes This huh bill bi I im is not acceptable to the labor and all they desire the enactment of or the tho Little bill bi which prohibits the Issuing of or an arm injunction in 11 labor disputes The Tho omnibus public building bill which has haM been In process of oC formulation formula formula- tion lon ion during the time present session has hag been held up Lii lp U by tIme the house leaden j until un un- un- un IncludIng IncludIng Including til tl certain desired le legislation ing th the statehood bill I Is out of the 0 way tray It 1 Is even n hinted that this measure omens meas ure me providing and public buildings buildings build build- bull bull- ings for Cot fol twenty or thirty tate Stales will wi not hot b be hi acted on until the time closing cosing session session ses ses- sion of tho time ninth congress congre which convenes In December and that it will wU then be le talked to death In Jim tH the the- way I that Senator Carter CariN of Montana talked to tu death time the river ea 11 and harbor hambor harbor appropriation bill II of uC the sixth Fifty conI con con- giants gress res There will wl be bl a general gel river I and harbor bill bil reported at lH the next ht t lon lol which be begins lm next December |