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Show The protest filed against Sena-tor Sena-tor Reed Smoot contains no . proven charge. It alleges th t . ... , Mr, Smoot is. a member of an '' organization "which "winks" at polygamy, and also tnat , he as an apostle is under obligations to follow the counsel' : of . the church authorities over him. This is the entire substance of the charges contained in the protest. Ordinarily the protest pro-test would have little weight with ' the senate, but it has always seemed so easy to get up a hue and cry against Mormons and Mormonism that it is difficult to foresee the result of the movement move-ment against the senator's admission ad-mission to Congress. Itistobe Loped the senate will pay no more attention to the document than its weight demands. |