The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-20
Senator Daniel Will Vote WITH
tho Friends Of Utah
Mormon.
LEE AND MOORE NOT TO RUN
MIR. Hidden, Secretary to the Late
Mr.. Rixcy. VIII Probably
Enter the Race.
AZ WALTER EDWARD HARRIS.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., February ~
nv. SENATE viii vote Tomorrow on the
question whether Reed Smoot shall re-
tain his seat IN the Senate The question:
has been pending for four years, iot Mr..
Snoot took his seat In tho senate from
lytnh on the ith Of March, 1903 When
hc came To Washington to enter on his
duties he found that protests innumcrn-l
hlc had been filed against allowing him
TO take tie oath Of Office, and they have
continued to come In by the hundreds
and thousunds at every session OF Con-
greas.
There is not a member of the Senate,
gave Mr.. smoot himself. probably, VINO
has not received numbers OF these pcti-
tions from church organizations and
women's clubs, praying that the Nor
mon he denied his seat.
The petitions will come to nnught INC
vote tomorrow will develop that a de-
cided majority OF the Senate favors al
lowing him to retain the seat TO which
Senator Danic! will probably vote TO re-
tain Mr.. Smont III the membership OF the
Senate Democrats are slow TO vote to
exclude a Senator chosen by the Legs :
lature of a sovereign State.
Searching Investigation.
The senate Committee on privileges
and Elections made very thorough In
Eestigailon OF the charges against Mr..
Smoot 1t was never charged that he
was n polygamist, but that MS an Apos-
tie or member Of the ruling body of the
Church of Latter-Day Saints, he took
nh oath Of office which he regarded as
he took TO uphold the Constitution OF
the United States on the day he entered
the Senate.
The majority Of the committee though,
the charge established by the. investiga-
ton. and reported In favor of exclud4ps
him The Investigation established beyT
been living IN polygamy FOR many years
and that poIygamy did not cease wher
Congress enacted the Tucker Edmunds
net OF 1850.
facts Developed showing that polygam!
was still prncticed in Utah. 1t wa!
charged. in the summer of 1904. a few
months prior to the election OF I'rcstden
Roosevelt. that the Republican Nationa
Committee Ind entered into n bargain
with tho Mormons Of Utah, under tn,
IN return for which Mr. stnoot was to s;
uli ,,.y 70 retain his seat IN the Senate.
cast for Mr.. Roosevelt Mr. Smoot',
title TO his scat VIII be confirmed b,
the Republican majority of the scnat,
President Roosevelt wrote a lette
TO Senator Knox last week, congratu
lating him upon the very able argu
nent he made In behalf OF the Mormon
Moore in Washington.
Hon. r. Walton Moore, OF F'arfa,
was here to-day, working inathc Su
preme Court Library. engaged in pre-
pairing the defense OF the Strothe
brothers, whose trial viii begin at Cul
pepper on Thursday. Mr.. Moore said II
did not think more would be done thi
week than secure Il Jury. which wouI
probably be obtained from anotlie
county.
Mir. Moore is steadfast in refusing t
become n candidate for the Democrat
nomination to Congress from TIL
Eighth District to succeed to the sea
vacated by the death of Mr.. RiXey. II
said to-day he had given the subjec
very fun and careful consideration, an
that his determination not to ente
the race was irrevocable. He said II
had received assurances of friendshi