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Show SMOOT DEFENDS SENflTT ACTION Utah Senator Upholds Refusal of Colleagues to Ratify Pact II-.EHI. Oct. 16. Before an audience which packed the Iehl tabernacle last night. Senator Reed Smoot defended the United States senate In Us refusaal to ratify the league of nations -o ant -More than looo persona were able I "" i o pacl Into (in tabemacli whH many others were turned away through Inrk of space. Mrs. .1 E. Cotter, president of the Women's Republican club opened ihr meeting and Introduced W Knight. k ' n. ho presided and introduced Scnatori f Smoot f In drfrnso of the senate's exercise i of control over American international I relationship. Senator Smoot cited 'he! nrooosal of President Wilson that the I I tilted States accept n mandnte oer rmenla. He read an official document Showing that a commission which had been appointed to make un investigation investiga-tion of conditions there reported thai It would require the services of .'.0,000 American soldiers to guard the interests inter-ests which the United States would have been pledged to protect in case the mandate had been accepted. The senatoi reviewed briefly the elr-i elr-i uiristancea surrounding tho bringing of the league of nations covenant to the United States bj President Wilson. Ill told how the president had brought it back nnd then kept its text secret, then demanding when it w;is given to the sennti" that it be ratified without the dotting of an "1" or the crossing of a "U" He read article ten and told what it meant, to mothers of men in I the United States. declaring that! under Its provisions the league of li'a-HS li'a-HS Hons would clearly be authorised to demand the sending overseas of United States soldiers to fi;rht In.! wars that concerned the United States little, if at all OO |