Show POLYGAMY REVEALED BY GOD TO MORMON PROPHET 4 To Reject Be Equivalent to Rejecting g the 4 1 Deity President Smith Acknowledged Such Belief the Senate Senat Committee Yesterdays 4 March In the Uon before the th sen senate senate ate committee on and of thc th against Sen Senator Senator ator Smoot ot of Utah was wa unabated to today ay although most of the time devoted to the Introduction of dOcuments subscribed to a the law ot of ott t 9 the Mormon church In connection President Joseph F Smith 4 who was again on the stand testified ed that jf f the of plural mar marriages marriages should be attacked It would be defended by the h Intense was exhibited by President Smith against IndivIduals who he said had spIed on the domestic and matrimonial rela relation tion of the church officers ot of the Mormon church and for Cor that roa on he had favored the passage of the Evans bill to prevent prosecutions for polygamous cohabitation unless complaInts were b by hus 4 band or wife against the other This bU bill was j but by bythe 4 4 the governor ot of Utah w f 4 4 I A March W V V In the Smoot cue calc were not marked by the Intense rf feeling of Je yesterday President Smith wag Wa easier and adroit In hl his an answers and he made better by his ex cx lv of Mormon church affairs than heretofore lIe He also Improved the opportunity when qu questioned concern passages in the Boog ot of Covenants to preach a SErmon on the Jarmon dormon doctrine which will have wide widespread spread distribution In the printed docu V which aro issued reporting the J SI bearing Senators Asked Questions hearing showed but little lIttIe fur furthEr thEr lIght upon the subject of polygamy as s practiced the examination relating exclusively to Its introduction as a rell religious lou doctrine of the Mormon church and whether the Mormon lormon church by the manifesto of 1890 1290 really sought to discontinue its teaching and Senators Hoar Burrows Dubois nd nd Beveridge relieved Attorney Tay Jer le enU entirely b or of the part of If in and propounded most of the President Smith was called u upon on to answer The trend of the ques questioning by these the e senators revealed pret prettY tY tr clearly that Foraker and Beveridge are favorably toward Senator that Burrows and Dubois are clearly and that Senator Boar l is deeply Interested In bringing to the surface sU an of the peculiar fea features turfS tures of Mormonism Senator Bane Bailey jollied in questioning and re remArked remarked mArked significantly nUy when the case of U H Roberts Robrt wee was mentioned I to t him Prominent Spectators A large ot Senators not nott VII t the el committee and roam or of tile tUe att attended among them Patter Dryden Kean and Bacon Landl Landis who took an 0 part In the Roberts case cage and Chaplain in Edward Everett Evrett Hale were The bearing was enlivened by a controversy between Senators roar and Forker Foraker who renewed their rent scrap crap on the floor of the senate and each informed the other In pull parlia terms that he wu not speak the truth Smoot an Incident It Is 18 r regarded as significant that hing bas baa been adduced in the trial a yet to connect Smoot with the case e in fn the most moat Indirect way and Vw tact fact Is I apparent that the church b 1 the principal defendant and Smoot R an n incident The prosecution still Insist it has bas nadE out its case caS From what has proven b by the testimony of nt Smith the prosecution contends that presiding officers or of the church nr are criminals In the eyes eSl or of the law be because cause or of their continuous plural co cohabitation habitation and thAt Mr Smoot has not them but has bas continued to as himself with them a as one of them and the prosecution expects to IW that should bould Mr 11 Smoot be Or ed that members ot of the Mormon church elI uld huld not be admitted to public or of fi Claims of the Defense On n the other hand band the defense con contends tends that every officer member or of th has faithfully observed the thela la law V prohibiting plural marriages and that none such sueh have been entered Into si I f the o of that la law Plural vve Who were marrIed prIor to that law they admit are being suPPOrted rather than thon abandoned It l Is also eon con A tended that polygamy Is no longer er or taught and that despite ti 11 doctrines ot of the church ever every mem r act acte or of his hili own tree free Will and ac or r the tho decisions or of the va linus councils as he pleases please And It Is that oIl Mr Smoots votes or nc ac In the senate are subject to die dle I f ion of ed his fellow apostles or that the f In business and poll 18 MORE IOBE REVELATIONS S pith Enlightens Senate Committee March Joeph seph F Smith of the Mormon church r a as called aUed to th the stand b by Senator IT Tar ar at the opening or of pro before the senate committee on and elections in the in o of protests against t Senator Smoot ot of Utah Hoar Information on the subject ot of oft tb t rights ot of women In the chuch lJ a I I 1 whether bethel they hold any priestly H Mr lr Smith said women are rt r as equals mils ot of the men in aU all JT of oC voting but that In holding authority women are not r a rd u on the same plane H He ex that the women have hae a char charI charIt t bh association kno known n as the Wo Vo Worris Relief nellet Society In which they 11 Authority t ta perform certain pro pre f duties This Is con 11 eri to the relieving of distress but butare n are not ordained high priests or elders V Polygamy a Command of God Mr lr Taylor Tayler naked asked about M 1 F Cow ly by one ot of the apostles and ana Cowleys 1 Iks on doctrine and In answer to by Senator Dubols Mr Ir nith said Id Mr Ir Cowley was elected as 0 n apt tI in 1891 Ile from the tho thet 1 t c ser seret t Nes of June 23 1893 regard l h g a speech by Mr Smith at the tho We fr stake reunion Mr lr Tayler asked 11 r Smith It he was reported S L saying that the doctrine of plural p was R a revelation by God to toJ J I Ih jr and to reject that uld Ui ho bf to a rejection ot o onI nI t Mr Smith he hew w 1 s d and when a list 7 1 It of names of those I St Senator Smoot was read rr Smith said Haid the tho list was vas correct He declAre that h he would not have had the art article ide If he had been consulted I Pressed for a reason he sal said that he was under Injunction not to teach the rightfulness ot of polygamy and that he had hod refrained from so 8 doing in pub I c c Senator Senat r Roars Boars Comment Senator called attention to the fact that the speech was teaching polygamy In private to the tho Important and Influential gathering at the ro re reunion union Mr 11 Smith said his statement waS merely to set right a 8 mat matter ter of history in regard to the president who Inaugurated inaugurated the s system stem of plural marriages Some persons held that Brigham Young YounS was the first he said und and I knew it was Joseph Smith and I brought forward m my aunt W V Smith who hn had l received the en endowment endowment from Joseph Smith at Nau Nauvoo Nauvoo She was the last lut living and I took that occa occasion lon to refute a false statement It was a I matter ot of history and not ot of teaching Mr Smith said he had avoided teach teachIng Ing polygamy but that the manifesto had not in al ay manner changed his hh convictions on the question of oC plural marrIages Sharp Colloquy Senator Hoar asked him he avoided practicing what he had hod held I to be a divine command and the wIt wItness witness ness answered it was because of the themore themore more recent manifesto stopping the practice Senator Hoar persisted that to the witness s own state the practice had not been beens s and Senator Foraker inter Interposed posed abruptly that the witness had that fitt d dhe he could see no 0 con n questioning along that ie Senator Hoar terru and said Senator Sentor statement suggested that he had asked o one e ques question lion tion fifty times and had received fifty answers He objected ta ne Inference and when Senator Foraker arose to answer he too stood up The two to senators faced each other in what whal threatened to be a serious clash Sen Senator ator Foraker said the senator from rom Massachusetts could sa say what he pleased or 01 course but I have hare not said he asked fifty questions Beveridge Butts In InI I accept the from the sea sen senator ator from responded Mr Ir Hoar but the aggressive manner In which It was said failed to relieve the tion After Atter more he heated ted words Sen Senator Senator ator Beveridge who occupied a peel tion directly between the two re requested requested quested permission to ask a question He said he wanted to address Mr Smoot and Immediately substituted the name Smith In the laugh that was Vas provoked both senators sat down and the hearing continued Senator Beveridge desired to know whether the church considered that the laws were being obeyed when polygamous cohabitation had continued since the manifesto of ISOO and Chairman Burrows made the question more per personal serial He said You rou have said today that you were obeying the laws In not teaching pol polygamy gamy since the manifesto was promulgated Do you think you ou were obe obeying the la law In having hainS eleven children from different mothers since that time Practice and Preaching I obey the law so tar far as teaching g i Is concerned I have not aCid id that I ho have obeyed the law in my practice As I have salt before I preferred to take my chances with the l law w rath rather r than to abandon my plural families POlygamy b baa not bet been n taught in the church b by any or of the The rhe church has obeyed the laws Jaws even jf it I 1 have not said Mr Smith References had been ma mede e man many times to the die revelation commanding ing plural marriages marriage and Senator Foraker said that a though although the ground mA may have been before he would like to have It go on tIle the record in answer to this question When hen where and how bow was the Injunction In favor faor ot of polygamy received b by the church What I want to know Is 1 whether the practice is arbitrary or 01 merel merely permissive Matter of History Mr Smith explained that the tion was as made to Joseph Smith jr at Nauvoo In lS 3 but was not proclaimed on account ot of the disturb anee against Smith The doctrine he said had taught by Joseph Smith to Brigham Youn and his associates and preserved by Young It was taken to the Salt Lake valley alley In 1847 and a in III 1852 85 was by Young and cc ae copied as Does that an answer your question asked Mr Smith It answers as to when and where but not how said Senator Foraker I want to tf know Is whether the members or of the tho church were compelled to practice the polygamous m marriage and It if that Is true why it lt is only that I 2 or 4 per cent ent of the Mormons have practiced what has been een declared to be command Consent of Wife Mr Ir Smith called for tor a copy t f the Book of DoctrIne an and Covenants und and read a part ot of the tho revelation which he said had been accepted in the nature or Of lon to take plural wives and was WIlS not mandatory upon the members ot or the church Other passages from the area revelation were read the portions which prescribe the manner or of taking more than one wife ff It was set forth that If one wanted to espouse a second virgin lie be could do so by obtainIng the consent of the first firm that lf It the consent or of the first was w la he was at liberty to proceed on Page PaJe 2 POI REVEAlED BY TO A MO ORMON PROPHET Continued from Crom Page 1 without It It is set forth also where the first refuses consent to share her hu husband band with another noth r w v fua would be destroyed d Senator ked asked the thc meaning of the wor word 1 destroyed In that sense Mr Smith answered that she would be destroyed by the Lord but that he was WaR not Informed just how the Lord would go about It I Then It does not mean that the hue band could de destroy tro h her r Senator Pet tue asked No 10 never I INot Not Really Necessary I 1 take It then that th the question of getting a viCes consent to marry again might just as wen well he eliminated en said ld Senator Beveridge Just as well answered the witness Senator Overman asked Mr Smith it if lie he knew whether r anyone any one of the sIx polygamist apostles had disobeyed the law In regard to polygamous tion since the manifesto of 1890 I do not kno know answered Ur tr Smith 1 only know that they were In the La same atme status or of polygamy at the time of the manifesto as I was Vas myself I 1 do donot o not pry Into their family affairs I am happy happ to y that I am not a spotter I I or an Informer I 1 um am not a paId sPY spy Yet you might without being a paid SP spy persisted Senator Overman i know nothing about it As I 1 have said before I un ant not a spotter or In former answered the witness The words spotter and informer were ere hissed rather than spoken Feathers Neither Keither am I a paid pard spotter or in former retorted Senator Overman Yet I know that In my town people heye children I think you might an anser answer ser that question without uSing the words spotter and Informer In that manner I beg bag the senators pardon the wit witness It ness nesa responded Senator tor Dubois Dubols asked ques lions directed to determine the Correct now flees ot of the statements that not more than 3 i or 4 per cent ot of the were polygamists and said he believed bo be could show that a gre greater ter per cent of theta them had been convIcted ot of the I charge He asked Mr Smith how many of his predecessors had been I m monogamists and Mr Smith said he j believed that all of thorn them hail had plural wives Lyman Also a 0 Polygamist And I believe you aid your sor to the throne has more than one wife wICe said Senator Dubois Dubols I wish to correct the senator ye re spon ed the witness There Is no sue suc C to 10 the throne Senator DuboIs Dubols ld he be would with withdraw withdraw draw tile the offensive term that he mere merely ly I wanted to ascertain that th tho J nor sor has hIlS been determined upon anti that hit he Jp I now a polYGamist T Te e w n that this was as the ase 1 Q fron the new n Boal saId IaU It is Ia that t there therea re a Is J that a Shop biShop shall be sob and have one I l t one wife Mr Smith Int inter r Well we dont construe it that way In church said sald Senator Hoar amid laughter What I wanted to get gett t r at is this Now I know several bIshops I a In our church who are bachelors Do 1 it a divine command that the tho b bishops hops shall have one wife or more mori What I 1 want to know Is how you construe that command Should Have Experience 1 I 1 belIeve the practice of was general among amonS the Jews JeV at the time the scriptures were written said aId Mr Smith I believe that It was com cam commanded mended that a bishop should be a mar married ned ried man man because his duties made it ft that he should be an experienced experienced man Hero Here the chairman had to rap laud ly h to restore order in the committee room Senator McComas took the witness I I In hand to bring out whether as the head of the church Mr Smith had ever rebuked tie the apostles ot of the church for or teaching polygamy since the manifesto of 1890 and Mr Smith de declared dared No m member ot of the church has ever taught polygamy since that time How Hov about Apostle Grant U Mr Smith asserted that the incident over which the papers I have made such a 3 hubbub had been beena a declaration merely that Apostle Grant had two wives That declaration the wItness said had been made by Grant GrantIn In a prIvate speech and he had not taught the practice of the system What would you do if the principle ot of plural marriages was publicly at attacked attacked tacked 1 Senator asked Ye We would defend it said Mr Smi Smith tho Documents Submitted When this point was Wag reached and as 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