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Show Ask For Redress. H Senator O union callca at tho Stato Bl department in company with William H Churchill, ex-United Stated Consul- H General to Samoa. The object of tho H visit waa to call tho emphatic attention H of tho Government to an outrage com- jH mitted mora than a year ago by Somoans iH upon a Mormon meeting houso in tho jH islands. Natives raided the place, defiled H tho pulpit and committed outrageous H uct in the premises. H Consul Churchill reported the matter , H to tho Stato department and at once ro H queBted the prcBOUCO of an American H man-of-war to compel reparation. No attention whatever was paid to his com- immicutlon by tho last administration tH and immediately upon his arrival in H Washington ho called upon Senator H Cannon and together to-day they laid H the caso before Judge Day, Assistant Secretary of, Stato. H Judge Day assured thorn that tho H matter would at once bo taken up and H said tiiat he was unable to understand why no attention had been paid to it by tho last Administration, Tribune. |