Item Detail
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30147
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3
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English
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The Case of Senator Smoot and the Mormon Church
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The North American Review
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184
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606
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Cedar Falls, IA
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University of Northern Iowa
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46-58
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In January, 1903, a petition bearing the signatures of nine teen citizens of Utah was laid before the Senate, praying that Reed Smoot, a Senator-elect from that State, " be not permitted to qualify by taking the oath of office or to sit as a member of the United States Senate, for reasons affecting the honor and dignity of the United States and their Senators in Congress." The prayer of the petitioners was not granted; and, upon the presentation of his certificate of election, he was duly sworn in, and he has since been engaged in the discharge of his duties as a Senator of the United States. Immediately after the seating of Senator Smoot petitions praying for his expulsion began to pour in from every quarter of the country; petitions containing not less than one million signatures have been laid before the Senate, and there is hardly a woman's club or similar organization in the country that has not joined in the prayer. [From the text]