Show I A SUES ARE IN OPEN REBELLION I Cowley Taylor and Teasdale Are Said to Have Defied Pres Fres President ident Smith j jRE ARE RE OUT OF HARMONY f i THEY OBEY ORDER TO GO TO WASHINGTON ING ON ONt t t t r 6 r T t t T T T tr 4 4 Apostles Matthias F Cowley f 4 John W TV Taylor and George Teas Teasdale 4 4 dale are in open rebellion against 4 4 the authority of President Joseph JosephI JosephF 4 F I Smith head of the Mormon church according to reliable in information information formation which leaked out yes 4 4 f 4 It Is stated that some months 4 4 ago President Smith wrote them 4 directing them to submit them 4 4 selves to the of the 4 United States senate and testify 4 f In the Smoot case and that all 4 f three flatly refused They dared 4 4 it is said defy the president of the 4 4 church rather than be forced to 4 f admit that they had taken plural 4 4 wives since the manifesto 4 4 Since then it is claimed Pres i ident 4 4 dent Smith has bas treated them as 4 4 virtual outlaws from the church 4 4 They are regarded regal ded by their fellow 4 4 apostles as being out of harmo 4 4 4 ny with their quorum The last 4 4 apostle who was adjudged as 4 4 being out of harmony was Mo 4 ses SOS Thatcher and he was sum 4 4 manly madly deposed 4 4 4 This strengthens the belief that 4 4 the three apostles will be deposed 4 4 4 today and that four new nev apostles 4 4 instead of one will be sustained at atthe 4 4 the present conference 4 4 9 f t t t t t 9 t t t t t t With every member m of the church consumed by curiosity as to t what Pres President ident id nt Joseph F Smith will do with the three apostles accused of having taken plural wives since the manifesto the session of the Mormon conference yes yesterday yesterday was remarkable chiefly for f r what wh t did not happen The entire day was spent in doctrinal dissertations ns and ad addresses addresses addresses dresses by officials of the church coup coupled coupled coupled led with accounts of experiences in the mission field by several presidents of missions The semiannual proceeding of sus sustaining taming the general authorities of the church will come today and a record breaking ng attendance is expected It is then that President Smith will win make public he lie intends to do in the cases of George Georg Teasdale John W Taylor and Matthias F Cowley The general expectation among the Saints is i that they will be dropped from the quorum Hand of Smoot Is Traced A prominent political friend of Sena Senator Senator Senator tor Reed Smoot Is authority for the th statement that the has ham i been insistent for months that at this thu conference Cowley Taylor and Teas Teasdale Teasdale Teasdale dale should be deposed Little doubt seems see ns to exist in the mind of anybody that Apostle Smoot wishes the three thre apostles ousted because be he believes that it will help his case before the th United States senate The body tody bod r of the congregation was wason wason on tenterhooks all aU day yesterday Every time President Smith pulled a L paper from his pocket or made any an another r other possibly significant movement there was an anticipatory rustle all aU allover 1 over oyer the big tabernacle tab and a sus suspense suspense suspense pense until is was ascertained that the th alarm was vas a false one and that the th sustaining was again to be delayed The close of the session esson came and there was nothing doing so the th audience filed out to wait walt the coming comIns of another day Today is the last day of the conference At the Morning Session The morning session yesterday r opened with the hymn How Firm Fim a t Foundation C F Middleton a coun counsellor counsellor in the Weber stake presidency r offered prayer and then the hymn All AU Hail the Glorious Day was sung George Reynolds a t member of the th council of seventies was the first firs speaker sneaker As a member of the quorum I which has direct charge of missionary he said he rejoiced in the fact that never before In his experience had he known such a willingness on the part of members of the church to go on missions as exists today During the time present month he said r ijes es will leave for various parts parts arts of the earth earthA A discouraging thing Elder Eldor Rey Reynolds Reynolds Reynolds said was the fact that many of the missionaries do not keep the Word of Wisdom which is the rev revelation r revelation v elation enjoining abstinence from to tobacco tobacco tobacco bacco liquor and other things He lIe emphasized the necessity for observance observance observance ance of the uw Word ord of Wisdom Wisdon Elder Reynolds Re paid a tribute to the th church schools and said that as a result of their efforts missionaries are better b equipped now than fh n ever before to preach the gospel s r iJ rJ sJ J W also a member of the council of seventies said that on all aU missions one man of f experience should accompany those of less experience experience experience In this way he asserted bet better better better ter results would be secured In a gen general general general eral dissertation on the church Elder McMurrin declared that the Mormon church was so founded on truth that people of other denominations who vho try to proselyte among the Mormons al always always always ways meet with failure in their ef ct efforts forts Clawson Glawson on Commercialism t I After John Smith presiding patri patriarch patriarch patriarch arch of the church and a brother of President Smith had made a brief address Apostle Rudger Clawson Claason Cla on took the floor and spoke until the noon re recess re recess recess cess The burden of Apostle Clawson talk was a defense of the right of the church chuch to give counsel not alone in spiritual things but in temporal things timings The general authorities the Continued Co CC tin ed on Page 2 c APOSTLES ARE IN OPEN REBELLION Continued Con from page pagel 1 dents of stakes st kes and the ward bishops he said were always practical cal men menAn And An nd it was their duty to counsel the Saints temporally and the t e duty of the Saints to heed such c j to the end that the people might prosper Mr Clawson said it was difficult to find the dividing line flue between temp ral and spiritual things md and that he h doubted if there is a dividing line Apostle counselled the Saints Saint particularly to keep out of debt and to do business on cash basis He cited the Z C M I and the sugar industry as two institutions which had been built up as a result of the churchs exercise of ot its right to coun counsel counsel sel eel its members in tempora things and quoted statistics to show the suc sue success success cess of these two institutions Elder Eider Jesse N Smith pronounced a benediction after the choIr had sung Ve Thank Thee 0 O God for far a Prophet Missionaries Do the Talking At the afternoon session the talking was all done by y presidents of ot missions The music at this session was wan furnish furnished ed by the children of the Pioneer stake singing nGIng sin si siH ing classes Prank Frank C Parkinson of Hyrum H stake offered Drayer Nephi N Pratt president of the north northwestern northwestern western estern w states mission was the first speaker sp eaker That missionary field in includes includes udes el Oregon Washington northern Idaho Id IdIn aho Montana and British Columbia In Inde the past three years rears ears Elder Pratt declared de the gospel had been preach preached tl hi to two and a half million souls At first fir st he said the people had shown sh wn great gr eat indifference and at times the el elders elders ders de rs felt that they hall hal warned them then enough en ough and were vere inclined ed to shaKe the dust du st of the northwest from their t feet Of late however he declared there had been be en a considerable revival with the result re sult that the church numbers now between be bese tween and members in that section se Elder Pratt charged d ministers of other ot otC her denominations in Vancouver B C with attempting to hamper the work w ork of the elders but said that In other ot her portions of ot the tle northwest the theople people pe ople were friendly as was tIe tle press Joseph E Robinson president of the California alifornia C mission told of the tha work in Info his field fi ld and found especial cause causer for fo r congratulation in the fact fat that the tho California alifornia C Mormons are conscientious tit titer He said there was a gen general genal eral er al feeling of friendliness on oit the part of the public toward the Mormons and an anth d related several instances showing this th is feeling one wherein Governor G George C Pardee Par ee of ot Califor California California nia ni niH nith a spoke highly of Apostle John JohnHenry Henry H enry Smith Ho referred to the fact that th at some of the early settlers of ot San Bg Bernardino B will soon visit Utah as tho the guests g of Senator William A Clark Build Meeting House In Nauvoo German Gernan E F Ellsworth president of the th tha e Central states mission told how howa a Mormon Marmon Sunday school had been es established established ta tase in Nauvoo Ills whence Jo To Joseph seph se ph the prophet was vas taken to the seC Carthage C jail where he was wa assassinated n The people of ot Nauvoo he said were w ere anxious to welcom welcome the Mor mans m aria back ba One Ous prominent pr min nt man In ill n the t e town to wn told him he ie said ad that the com coun comy try tr y around had been ever ver e since the tiLe Mormons were driven out o ut S of the th h said had rented r a naIl hall for a year for the Mor Mormon Mormon Moron mon m on Sunday s school This halt hall stands stand en e n the site ojE o the residence r which President resident P John J Taylor occupied cc pied before the th e exodus to the Rocky mountains A year ago Mr Ellsworth EUsworth said two Mormon M ormon elders had been expelled from Zion Z ion City by order of John Alexander AI ander Dowie D owie Now however labors of the elders e among the look fa favorable favorable a v and many conversions are expected e After the children had sung One pue Hundred undred h Years J G Duffin president president dent d ent of the central states st es mission told of o om f his labors He reported how a Mor Mormon Moron mon m on elder was recently whipped at night ight n by an Arkansas mob and of the promises p made by Governor Jefferson Davis avis D of Arkansas and the judge of the district where the outrage occurred that hat t efforts would be ira e to ferret out o ut and prosecute thOe th e responsible r for forit forit fort it i t Mr Duffin urged that German el elders elders elers ders d ers be sent out to labor among people of o f their nationality Rich Tells of Troubles Ben E Rich president of or the south southern southern ern e m states mission and believed by some ome s to be slated for apostolic honors was wa the last speaker of tho the day His field fi fio eld he said contains OOOO members of ot o fio f the church and embraces embrace the states of o f Ohio O Io Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida Ala Alabama Alabama bama b bt ama Mississippi ippI Tennessee and Ken ICon Kentucky tucky t Mr Rich said that during the i years he has had charge of this field 1400 1 elders have worked under him Mr Rich related a story of trouble which the church is having h xing on Har Harkers hers kers island in itt one of the North Caro Care Carolina lina l sounds sound The elders built a fine meeting house on the Island I ii e said and the tIle enemy burned It down Then they tried holding meetings In houses and the owners o ers of the tim houses were warned by anonymous letters that if it they continued to open their doors to the Mormons their houses would go the way of o the tte meeting house hom e Then they tried open air meetings with tile the result that the mob now threatens to burn the houses of those who attend the meetings me Roast t for the Governor I wrote to the governor gov of North Carolina asia and demanded from him the protection which the United States guarantees its citizens declared Mr Rich The governor replied that the people of North Carolina like our religion but that he would see If something be done I replied and told him that the people of my section like his religion but that we believed in freedom of conscience I r told him further than 1400 of the people of North Carolina do like our religion and belong to our church Mr Rich protested over a disposition of th t high priests to keep members of the quorum quor m of ot seventies away aay a ay from the mission fields on the plea that they are needed at home The place for the seventies he declared was on mis si sl ons and the high priests were sup supposed supposed posed p to labor at home He Exhorts Obedience Mr Rich concluded with an earnest exhortation e to the Saints Sainta to obey and refrain re frain ain from ising the authorities aut oi of the church God himself ha h said honored h his prophets on the earth ear h Let Liet us take the beam out of 0 our own wn o eye e before we try to remove the theote note mote m ote from your neighbors eye You remember member re Brigham Youngs old mot motto to tc toto t to mind your our own business When you y ou feel feal like criticising the authorities oi of the church first take a look at your year yourself y ur self s elf in the mirror The exercises closed by the singing of o f America by the and the congregation c Secret Priesthood Meeting The general priesthood meeting of tl the th e church was held in secret at cat the t bernacle ta last night at 7 1 The Theates gates g ates of the tabernacle grounds were ci cl dosed closed at Anybody who arrived after fter a that hour was unable to enter the tl th e meeting There was a religion class held in the ta ti tabernacle bernacle after atter the regular session of tl the he t conference adjourned and a meet meeting meeting ing ln g of primary workers at the same hour h hin our in hi the assembly hall hail Last even evening evening ii ing in g there was a reunion of workers In Inthe inthe f the he t Norwegian mission field It was held h eld in the Fourteenth F ward meeting b h house ouse Two Sessions Today r Two sessions of the conference will willby by bu b held today one at 10 clook in tIle the tl morning orning m and one at 2 in the a Only President Smith knows k at which one of these sessions t the he authorities will be sustained |