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Show I DELEGATE CANNON'S CASE, i I Following is Mrs. Sarah M. Pratt'a J teitimony before the house committee on elections, in regard to tho allegod polygamic relations of Delegate Can-, nan. Wo extract it from the com-mitteo's com-mitteo's report, as published in the National Jt-pt,bli(,n, of the 22d instant : Sarah M. Pratt sworn: Q. State your name and place of residence. A. My name is Sarah M. X'ratt; Salt Lake city my rcsidencu. Q. How long have you rosided in Ulali territory ? A. Twentv-one . . li.Hij . j-v. x YUU I'J'-UIHj years; all but three ol thn time in Salt i i Lako city. i T y. Aro you the wile of Orson , Pratt ( A. 1 mn. Aro you acquainted with George li. Cannon and his family ? A. i am. I Q. How many reputed wives has he' A. Ho has throo reputed wives and ono wife. Q. What is his wife's name? A. Elizabeth Huaiauil, before he married mar-ried her. I Q. Wure you acquainted with her I before he married her? A. I knew hor; not particularly acquainted with her. I knew her family. Q. Is she now Jiving A, I never I hc -rd of her death. I presume sho is .iving. Q. What are tl, names ofhiare- ! puted wives? A. Tho hist ono that ' he took niter his wife was Sarah Jane ' Jenny; the next was Eliza, I think; the other name I do nut remember; tho third one wa Martha Terry, I 1 think. Q. Has George Q. Cannon evor introduced in-troduced any of his pretended wives to you an his wives ? A. Yes. Q. Who were they? A. Martha and tho ono called Eliza. Q. Has Martha any children ? A. bho baa a pair of twins, or did have the last I knew of her, and presume . she still has them. I don't know. Q. Has Eliza any children? A. ohe has one. G)w fi n.mnnr. m uuc. ueorne . uannon told mo himself that Eliza had one. I '. met him a few days after it wns born, j and he told me that she had. Q. At the time. George (J. Cannon J fold you that Eliza had a child did - he acknowledge that he was the' f father? A. 1 don't know that he did. Cj. Have you ever seen tieorgo Q. Cannon in the presence of his children child-ren ? A. O I yes; frequently. Q. Did he treat them as a father, and did he call them his children? A. He did. Q. Were those children so treated tho children of his pretended wives ? A. After showing me these boys, he, as a man would who felt proud of hia children, told me one belonged to barah Jano and the others to his first ; wife. . Q. Was there any distinction made in the treatment of those children? , A. I couldn't see that there was. i Q. Does the family of Geo. Q. Can- , non all reside in one house? A. I believe they do, since the large house was budt. Mrs. Cannon told me 1 when it was building that it was in- i tended for them all. t Q. Did you ever hear Mrs. Cannon apeak of the other wives or their t standing in the family ? A. I have, e Q. Was Mrs. Cannon BOmewhat g oflended at the assumption of these a pretended wives ? A. Yes, she was, tl as all firdt wives are. q Q. Is Eliza reported to be diasatis- p fied with her marriage relations ? A. a! nnu nci iiidiijugt; reunions .' Jx, I have heard so. but don't know anything any-thing about that. I want to tell you I a little more about Mrs. Cannon. Mrs. Cannon told me that George Q. took Martha contrary to her wishes, (this was soon after he took her,) and she said the most of bio time had been spent with her, to the great distress dis-tress or annoyance of her and the rest of the family and the other women, I mean. Sarah JaneT told me the same thine at annthpr tim Q. Is it a general,, accepted, common com-mon report throughout the community commun-ity and neighborhood that George Q. Cannon is living in polygamy? A. It is generally so understood. I have never heard it disputed in fifteen years. I havo often heard him Bpeak of his wives, and never heard him deny it. Cross-examination: Q. Did you say you were the wife of Orson Pratt? A. I am the wife of Orson Pratt, sir. I am not living with him now. I was formerly a member of the Mormon church, and don't know that I have been cut off. I have not been a believer be-liever in the Mormon doctrines for thirty years, and am now considered an apostate, I believe. Q. Did you ever see Geo. Q.Cannon married to any one? No. Q. Do you know that be has mure wives than one, except by general re-nutation? re-nutation? A. No, I do not; except by the information I have given, and what I have heard him say, as I have related. Q. Do you know, except by general repute, that these children spoken of by you as belonging to Martha, Eliza aud Sarah Jano aro the children of George Q. Cannon? A. I only know so far as the information I have given will convey the idea. Mrs. Smith's affidavit saya: Deponent Depon-ent further says that she has been acquainted ac-quainted with George Q. Cannon and his family for at least eight years; that his firBt wife is named Elizabeth Hoagland Cannon; his second wife, Sarah Jane Jenny Cannon; his third wile, Eliza Cannon; his fourth wife, Martha Telle Cannon; also, that sha has been a frequent visitor at George Q. Cannon's house, and that sho has heard the said George Cannon, in his house, as well as at the tabernacle, in Salt Lako city, also at the funeral of Mrs. Ordine Kimball, in tho 19th ward school house, in said Salt Lake city, Utah, acknowledgo that the said Elizabeth Hoagland, fciarah Jane Jenny, Jen-ny, Eliza and Martha Telle Cannon were his wives; also, that Mrs. What-more, What-more, a school teacher, is sealed in , marriage to the said George Q. Cannon, Can-non, and has heard the said plural wives speak of said Cannon as their husband, and especially the second wife. The committee, after presenting this evidence, recites the act of lSt2 prohibiting polygamy, and tho following follow-ing act which passed the house at its late Bcssion, June 10, 1874. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United Slates of America in congress assembled: No person hereafter shall be a delegate in the house ol representatives from any of the territories of the United States who shall not have attained the age of twenty-fivo years, and been seven years a citizen of the Unitrd States, and who shall not. whpn nWted .an inhabitant of the territory in which he Bhall be chosen; and no such person who ia guilty either of bigamy or of polygamy shall be eligible eligi-ble to a seat as such delegate. It then proceeds: Notwithstanding this fact the said delegate was a can-didate can-didate at the recent election, and was actually elected for the same territory terri-tory iu the forty-fourth cougregs. Your committee think the evidence, evi-dence, unchallenged as it is by the tha delegate, that, at the date of his election, to wit: on the 6th day f August, 1872, and prior thereto, the Maid delegate was, and still is, openly living and cohabiting with four women wo-men as his wives, under the pretended sanction of a system of polygamy, which system he notoriously indorses |