Show I I SETTLES SMOOT CASE GASE Senate in Defeating Dubois' Dubois Amendment to Statehood Bill Decides in Utahn's Favor That conclusively ely determines tho ho case o of Senator Smoot in III his favor favol amid and u ll settles f this whole fight sal said a awell awell well Avell known citizen who is familiar with wilh Washington ton affairs to an nn InterMountain InterMountain Inter- Inter Mountain Republican representative yesterday In referring to the tho motion of or tho the United States Stales senate In rejecting reject eject rejecting ing the tho Dubois Dubols amendment to the joint statehood bill The speaker declined to lo be ho Into a public discussion o of the tho subject subject sub suh- hence The Republican withholds withholds with with- holds his name but hut his statement of or the situation is so accurate and amid comprehensive comprehensive com com- and will be bo so readily understood as describing the actual condition now existing that AVO wo give Jt it to our readers renders Here Is the he matter as ns It stands said he ho heIThe The IThe Issue in tit the Smoot case always has boon been and has boon been thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- understood It by the senate to be he Is a Mormon ell eligible to exorcise exercise the full ull rights of tiC citizenship In this hits na- na lon lion For three throe years cars there has been heen beena heena a determined and expensive e effort to secure a negative reply from the senate serrate sen ate of or the United States Slates The questions question has lias been heen thoroughly threshed over In tit Inthe the Smoot Snout ca case and anti every tHY senator Is Isnow isnow now v Informed thele n which not have ha lJ been en the caso case If It the Snout Smoot In investigation never novel ha had been boon hC hold held tl What Dubois Anu tl d At t. Dubois amendment was Avas to lo disfranchise disfranchise dis dis- franchise the tho Mormon 1 people to lo d declare declare de de- clare them In Ineligible to citizenship That was Avas the aim and nn effort of or him him- self and his supporters on the Iho committee committee com com- on privileges and anel elections Whether hether In the amendment or Ol In the the lie I Is the tho sane same Now comes the senate action on the he amendment This action declares U by an overwhelming o vote that members mem mem- bers hers o of the tho Mormon church are all not nol tobe to lo lobo bo he disfranchised That t declaration decides the whole Issue in the Smoot case cage and anti says that thai Mr h Smoot Smout will remain In it tho rho United Stales senate Senator Dubois l J Recognizes co This t Fact Inet Senator mator Dubois Dubols recognizes this fact ther or 01 not mint ho he will trill ad admit It In just that forma form and that thal Is why he lie heId salt said Id his political car career r Is al at an end Ills defeat Is not due duo to lo time the Mormon lInon church but It Is due dime d e to the great rat majority maju ma ma- ju fl o of the United hulled States Stales senate senale will not net debase e this country limb Into iulo the religious Intolerance which Dubois and anti hi his friends have promulgated Having ln settled tho the main question b by br th the notion action on the statehood bill hili the deferring of mho Iho Smoot case casc now means means' that hint It Is practically clo closed ell up liP Tile The I is Issue ue raised never Cl was AVOS ts a contention conten conten- lion tion on Oil Senator Smoots Smoot's part that he heIJ hebo IJ bo be admitted by h a a. declaration that he heIs heIs Is entitled to his seat seal Such a declara declara- declaration foil tion was waR made officially when he ho AVOS ryas sty r n r In iii II three I ilir It ret and ami n n. hn half 1 t years ealS ago aero l. l The lt Issue il remised i l t was ryas s sO the Iho O contention i n of or certain pm tants that ho he Is la In it Ineligible ineligible In- In eligible to tu his seat seal and should be ejected railed to lo halo Mako ao a Ca Case w. Tho The determination of tho the Republican ll- ll can enn steering committee not to lo lal take up tho the easy case at ut this time LImo Is a determination Ion tion by the tho sonata the tho Republicans being a large lanc majority that majority that the pro pre against Mr Smoot have o failed utterly to make out lut ut a case and that thai S Senator t vv will 11 remain where he lie heIB lieis IB is lo to the end of or hit his term torm I Thus every person lIn familiar with senate affairs will understand that the rejection of or the Iho Dubois amendment settles the caso case of If Senator Smoot Inthe In In- the Iho lathers laller's favor avor and antI the senate haIng having hav hav- ing ting deliberately and pasted passed on the tho point at the Issue the eligibility of a Mormon to hold It It Is IB not likely to thresh It over again but puts put the We case cap from the committee committee com com- on the tho shelf as ns being effectually effectually ef er- ef- ef and finally disposed of or |