Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-01-28
CLOSE VIEW OF sMooT CASE.

in which the Smoot investigation is
being conducted is very much disil- |
lusioned when he sees for himself the
case as it Is actually proceeding. The
belief Of most people in Utah Is that
1t Is an ultra dignified, grave and pom
derous tribunal They picture in their
minds a body of august and dignifed
senators, sitting in bank as judges,
weighed down and subdued by the re-
sponsibility placed upon them of de-
Gliding whether Smoot is a person
worthy to ocucpy seat with them in
the senate of the United States, and
whether If he were allowed to sit
with them the effect would or would
not be most deleterious to the NOR
ais, private and public of the country
at large and calculated to be subver
tive of the government. 1t is of
course, very essential that only the
pure and good and spotless should be
permitted to comminble with such
Immediately pure, high-minded, hon
orable and white togaed semi angels
as Senators w. A. Clark, Thomas
Kearns, Fred T. Dubois and others.
From the information" which has
been conveyed to the readers of the
Salt Lake dailies the readers are war
ranted in the conclusion that the
grave and dignified inquisitors are
seated on a raised dias or throne in
lofty spacious and gorgeously fur
nished chamber capable of accommo-
dating at least 800 or 1000 people and
that there is a throng of interested
spectators, male and female, every
day and all the days that the tribunal
is in session. This is the ideal but
the reality is another thing.
The tribunal sits in a small room
across the corridor from the visitors
entrance to the senate chamber. At
pinch sixty people might be crowded
into 1t. The senators who are hear
ing the case sit at one end of the
room and occupying seats with them
are two very ordinary appearing la
dies, ordinary both from intellectual
and physical standpoints, who, accord
ing to their own statements, are rep
resenting the women of America and
using their efforts to prevent Senator
Smoot from retaining his seat. At a
long table extending lengthwise down
the room from the seats OF the Crl-
bunal sit Attorney Tayler, Charles
Mostyn owen and other aiders and
sympathizers with the prosecution. AT
the other side of the same table At
torneys Van Colt and Worthington,
Senator Smoot and his friends occupy
places. A corner of the room imme-
diately to the left on entering the wit
nesses are crowded together, sitting
on cane-seated chairs. On the right
Immediately behind Tayler and Owen
are about eight or ten women of the
ultra countrified New England puri
tanical type, with hair well oiled. part
ed in the middle and brushed down
fiat on each side of the parting. A
knot at the back supports little black
bonnet. Their cheek bones are high
and prominet their noses also promi
nent and rather sunburnt or weather
beaten, and their mouths pursed III
and the lips kept firmly closed, while
their hands, in most cases, are clothed
In black kid gloves about half an incl
too long in the fingers. Three or foul
men occupy seats among this galaxy
of beauty(D, looking as if they hat
been brought to town by Samanth;
Jane or Sarah Ann to give aid anC
comfort to their spouses who are bat