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Show ATTORNEY CRITCHLOW RETURNS AND TELLS OF THE INVESTIGATION I What the Retention of Mr. Smoot in the Senate I Would Mean. No One Can Tall What the iut-com iut-com Will Be as to Smbot or the Church. . Soma of the Incidents Tiat Produced tho Deepest Effect on 'the J -f It Is Impossible to forecast " with, certainty tho result, and -f H -f even the members of the Senate have riot yet, probably, given to Hi 4- the matter any serious consider- -f Hj ntion. Thoy .-vvHl not make up their minds until tho evidence Is Hj -f before them. fact, very fen- -f H -f- jJcrHons , appreciate tho real H 4- ground upon which the exclusion -r 4- of Mr. Smoot is urged or why the . 4- samo objection should not bo 4-4- made to Mr. HoivelL who is also 4" 4- n member of the church. I think -f 4- when they come to realize the 4 B 4- fact that one vigorous, sincere 4-4- and determined protest upon tho 4 part of Mr. Smoot against ex- 4- Istlng" conditions would either 4 t 4- put a stop to them or drive him 4-4- from hia quorum, tfcey will real- 4- zo his Tesponslbillly for these 4 4- conditions, juid the fact that so H 4- long1 as he remains an apostle 4 4- he cannot bo absolved from such 4- H' 4- rcsp'onslbility. PersonaJly, Mr. 4- H; 4- Smoot is well liked by all and 4-4- thcro ip no fight being mado 4 Hj 4- against him save in his reprc- 4-4" 4-4" sontative capacity, and whether 4 H. 4- ho may be deprived of his seat 4 4- or retain It is, to my mind, of 4-4- llttlo consequence. His continu- -f B' 4- ance in the Senate will serve aa -f-' 4- a constant reminder to the people 4-I 4-I 4- of tho United States that po- 4 I 4- lygamy is no longer a local con- 4-l 4-l 4- dltion, but a national instltu- 4-4- Hon." 4- 1 'tf Attorney E. B. Critchlow, one of tho important witnesses in the Smoot in-vestlgatlon, in-vestlgatlon, who returned from Wash-lngton, Wash-lngton, D. C yesterday, made the Hl foregoing statement when asked whr,t the outcome of the investigation would1" be. In connection with the flings that J have been made against Mr. Critchlow i 1 by the official organ of the church ,the 'J attorney had nothing directly to say. He, however, did say that he was per-sonally per-sonally very much gratified to receive H;' the assurance from Mr. Smoot that hlf testimony had been absolutely fair and just to him. M; When interrogated upon the probable i future course of the investigation, tho attorney said that ho assumes that tho scope of the inquiry will be along the lines that were gone into with the fl church officials when in Washington. He said it Is quite likely that the Sen- ate committee Is anxious to find out H: , what it can about theso newer cases which alJ know exist hero in the State, ' and whether it is possible these things can happen without the knowledge of the church officials. There is no ques-' ques-' tlon, he said, but that the committee 1 Intends that this shall bo a. most t?earchlng investigation into everj' as-pect as-pect of the Mormon question. In speaking of tho pxcuse given by , the leaders of the church, that tho enabling act contains no express pro-hlbitlon pro-hlbitlon of polygamous cohabitation, , (Mr. Critchlow said that the Senators And people of the Kast generally rc-garde rc-garde d it as a manifest quibble. "At least three of the Senatorial com-mittee com-mittee were members of the House," he said, "when the enabling act passed, s.nd they will not listen with any pa-tience pa-tience to the contention that the term -'rolygamous marriages' did not Include polygamous cohabitation. They seem Inclined to think that cither a trick was f played upon them at the time or that fthe present leaders of the church have . manufactured this excuse for the con-' con-' alnuance of polygamous practices." Upon being asked what the most no- table features of tho investigation were, Mr. Critchlow said thero were several. 1 . Among othei"s he Instanced the scorn with which several of tho commltteo HI met the charge of President Smith that 1 those who. commented upon or coin- plained of cases of polygamous cohabl-tatlon cohabl-tatlon and new polygamous marriages were spies and Informers. Ho consld-H consld-H ered that Mr. Smith had lost ground 1 iby assuming this attitude. 1 Anbther notable feature of the inveH- 1 -tlgation, he said, was the answer of 1 Prssldent Lyman, who had shown him- 1 aelf guilty of continuous polygamous H cohabitation and had declared himself H ahe nrospectlve successor to Joseph F. I, Smith, in the event he outlived him, to the question "of Senator Ploar as to H whether he expected to continue his H courso of life, which he admitted to bo H contrary to law and the rule and dls-Hh dls-Hh clpllne of his church. Tho question re-1 re-1 lerred to wns as follows: HI "So that you say that you an apos-I apos-I tie of your church expecting to suc- ceed, if you survivo Mr. Smith, to tho office in which you will be the person H to be the medium of divine revelations. H are living and ore known to your peo-II peo-II pie to live In disobedience to the law of the land and the law of God?" HI "There was an Instant of Impressive HJ silence," said Mr. Critchlow, "and when H the answer came, 'Yes, sir,' there was HI iinothcr pause in the proceedings, in- H, dlcatlng the profound astonishment of Hi ' tue ent,ro committee as well as of H ' fie others attendant upon the hearing. H It was perhaps the most impressive in- H cldunt of the entire Investigation. H "The Senate committee as well as the H . entire countrj'." he continued, "seemed H ' to havo Pive full faith and credit to H the assertions of President Smith and i' his prcdeceasor3 that polygamy was a j .thing of the pa3t, understanding there-Hl' there-Hl' hy Polygamous cohabitation v:sjs l f course Included, and the effect- of those revelations cannot be understood by -those who 'have lived continuously in- this State. They arc now prepared to. believe what the people of this State have known for a long while, that the leaders are pursuing a course which means the re-cstabllshment of polygamy polyg-amy under conditions which Involve the greatest secrecy, ac Is evidenced by the numerous cases of recent polygamy, especially es-pecially among younger members of the church holding higher positions. "The keenest Interest was also taken in tho, account, introduced In evidence, 'frpm church publications of the fight made against Thatcher's Senatorial candidacy and his subsequent recantation recanta-tion arid humiliation. The evident authenticity au-thenticity of the account and Its cloe-I cloe-I relation to the questions' Involved In .this hearing evidently excited great Interest among the Senators, as was evidenced by their remarks outside the formal sessions of the committee." Mr. Critchlow ays there can be little lit-tle doubt that some 'members of the committee appreciate the enormous power ccntoed in the presidency and apostles of the church. Their questioning, question-ing, he said, seemed to indicate that in their minds these leaders and not the people at largo are held responsible responsi-ble for the conditions whlqh exist here. |