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Committee on Privileges and Elections 1904 Utah

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Committee on Privileges and Elections 1904 Utah
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Proceedings Before the Committee on Privileges and Elections of the United States Senate In the Matter of The Protests against the right of Hon. Reed Smoot a Senator from the State of Utah to hold his seat. Reed Smoot was elected to the Senate in 1903 (Senators were not elected by popular vote at that time) and his seat in the Senate was immediately challenged by anti-Mormon interests. This volume of testimony represents the opening rounds of the hearing which continued until the issued was resolved in 1907 with a vote giving Smoot his seat by the margin of a single vote. Principle issues were poligamy and Smoot's powerful position in the Mormon Church. These hearings produced the 1904 2nd Manifesto in which Joseph F. Smith strengthened the Church position ending poligamy as a sanctioned practice.