Show I I I I i i A IDAHO VIEW Boise Papers Comment on Proposed Convention Boise Statesman Tb testimony given Iven before the senate enate e CommIttee by JOAe Joseph h F Smith president of the Mormon church Is i profoundly In tere It Is of a rather startling char and will wiil be read wIth deep interest by all the people or the count country To 10 those who live In this region rellon It Ig 15 of especial It terest and Importance and will be resti and reread b a large proportion or of this thimi people While on the stand the president ex cx explained the relations or of the people to Ute the church In a manner that will not be sat sal satisfactory to all readers There w whee e many incongruities In what he said and t le I thought is 18 unavoidably suggested that j they ar arose front from the necessity of laying out s several erl roads upon which to travel In the different branches of the case caseI One thing was made very er I polygamy remainS a of the church President Sn Ith de declared Jared self a believer In It an ned that It I I had simply been suspended by the man festo of The explanation Is not new I but time the evidence of oC the president as a whole throws a ver very stron strong g Hg ht upon the po position or of the church In relation to the subject J Is of especial Interest In Idaho at this time because the people are to vote ote next fall upon Ute th callIng of at a conventIon That project was j bro brought ht forward through th time agency ot of the Mormon headers and traded through r the purpose a reW kom whIch all r feL enes tb ie polygamy be omitted 1 That is the underlying reason for submission of this constitutional convention question There Thet Js is otherwise no morr j for a constitutional ily rl r I in eat this state l CU than Lu Luany any aDY ther of time the Union Indeed there is 18 togs less Our constitution Is only fourteen years old It was fromM by a abod bod body of men of the ver very highest type and nd It could not be materially Improved upon now while It IL might be Yer very seriously Im ha paired Any manifest detect defect In the ca Can n be cured by am amendment It would ti not be practicable however to amend It as desired by the MOrmon l rmon b by di direct direct vote on because publIc attention would be upon that point and even Jf If the resolution should be traded through the legIslature by th the necessary vote It be tic ac at the polls In a convention however there would e be an opportunity to play pisy one Ohe party part against the theother theother other and thea attaIn the mid end sought tIO so many oIlier Issues being raised that LimO dIe new U as a whole would be lIkely to carr carry at the polls I |