Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1903 — PRESENTS ATTACK ON SMOOT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PRESENTS ATTACK ON SMOOT.

Borrows Brings Polygamy Charge Before the Senate. Senator Burrows, chairman of the Senate committee on privileges and elections, Thursday presented to the Senate

a protest signed by Rev. J. L. Leilich, in the case of Senatorelect Reed Smoot of Utah, urging that iMr. Smoot shall not |be permitted to take Shis seat In the Senjate. I Mr. Leilich Is in Fcharge of Mothodist missions in. Utah, and resides in Salt Lake City. Ho is In Washington as the representative of the Ministers’

Association of Salt Lake. His statement is sworn to. Mr. Leilich doclarca that Smoot is a polygamist, and now a plural wife.

in Wnnhln«ton. Six of the nine memWn of the cabinet are lawyers. . They are Hay, Root, Shaw, Moody, Knox and Cortelyou. . . The State Department has been advised t,liat the. Jaw in Culm prescribing consular fees will go into effect March 15. War Department gives notice that it is prepared tn supply States with “riot cartridges” designed to repel rioters with tiie least possible loss of life to “innocent spectator.”, . - « J .. - * The House committee on printing hay favorably reported the Senath resolution providing for the cotnpilntion under the direction of the Attorney General of nil State laws relating to trusts and to the orgaidsatiou and regulation of corporationsx»" , 7 ' . . Liw prescribing death for don or attempted assassination of t’reriden(, members of cabinet and foreign 'ambassador* has finally been agreed to by (kmirrettk; teaching of Oueh crimmr subjoeb tofins or twenty yw< J mon men t; immigration of anat-chists ohibltod.

REED SMOOT.