Show nn BEFORE THE COMJIISSIOV Hearing of Char Preferred Asainst tIme Cilr Registrars I At 10 oclock this morning Cr J H Moylo nnd R W Young appeared before the Utah Commission in behalf of the Peoples Peo-ples Municipal Central Committee to attend tie hearing of the charges filed by that committee against the registrars of time city Mr Moyle suggested that Mr LeGrand Young another of the attorneys for the committee would bedetalned In the District Court a short tme and that if lie Commission had other business busi-ness before I I would b agreeable to his side to continue thorltmn hearing n short time hcrlg tle Col Paige her announced that he had just been notified hI tele phone that Registrars Morris and Clute would bn wanted the District trict Court at I oclock At Gen McCIernands suggestion the Commission Com-mission held a brief consultation when it was decided to go on with the case of Mr McCnIIum On lnliilf of this defendant Mr Dicksou read an answer containing denials of come of the allegations the complaint alt versions of some of the facts therein stated at variance vari-ance with the statements of the complaint The CommiMiou ruled that i would take up the charges ngainsl Mr McCallum in their order ng C S Christiansen was placed on thin stand He told how ht < had called on Uie registrar to we I his name je on the list anti narrated tIme conversation that occurred I tlC CDcrtOJ orr Witness was not permitted to fee I his name was on thin list J G U Haynes aged 81 Ln was next sworn He came to the United Slate when a child had lived in Utah M years had been admitted ad-mitted to citizenship o many years ago and had I voted many years Registrar McCallum had shown I him his name mkti lleil on the registration t nnd hat refused 1 to correct It Witness thought this occurred two or three months g Mr Dicksou objected to this testimony for the reason that the incident occurred before Mc Calluni was a registration officer The defense showed witness affidavit affi-davit to the effect that the incident occurred early In November and also cited the fact that McCalluma answer confessed the circumstance WUnesx was allowed to state the conversation which occurred and on crossexamination said that e alum told him he must apply to the county clerk to have lib name spelled correctly and refused t reregister register him Witness naturalization naturaliza-tion papers were burned on a steamboat steam-boat on the Illinois River about KTO He had never obtained duplicate du-plicate isipcrs W T Jack of time First Wa was swornWitncssappliedon November Ntli to Me Calliim t lie registered in company with Mr Greenewald A Mr Christiansen was in McCal urnss ofllce when witness entered nnd had just asked 1 to lie registered Christiansens request was refused and he lef When he hal gone McCallum slid to GreenwaU I know him Christensen lies n d Mormon Witness heard Christian seu ask if hi name was on the Iht and I it was lot to b registered I McCallum refuted t grant either request made by Christensen but cistcrcd 1 witness without objcc lion Mr Pli Williams for tle defense tried t show that the Incident occurred oc-curred in McCalluma private ofllce while he was making his house to house canvass and was not obliged to register applicants at his office Mr Moyle replied that the incident inci-dent showed discrimination by the ofliccr In registering one man and refusing to register another Mr Jack hind gone to the office in company com-pany with a well known iiimibernJs Jake Greenewaldand was registered without question while Christian ten known to the officer to L a Mctmon was put of Time J Curtis a next examined amined Knew Registrar McCal lum Was present on Dec 2 when a number of men applied to Mr W l r tT McCallum to be registered They first saw McCulluin In the street and by his invitation went wIth him to his office On the steps of his office he said that that was his private office and he could not r gfcUr any of them there A man named Smilh stepped up and asked dk to et registered McCallum said he was going away for a few days when te < alum invited him into the office and then anil there registered reg-istered him Smith seemed t lie a stranger to McCallum Witness b lieved Smith to be a member of the MornionChurch all of the Peoples Peo-ples Party but thought he toos no part in Church matters Joseph Woolsey net testified He lived at U S Third East Street Had apple In the latter part of November t McCallum to be registered I was at the St James Hotel taw him register one or two men when witness aILed to be registered regis-tered giving i his name McCallum refused to register him saying that witnesss wife had told him Mc Callum that witness had come t Salt Lake t vote McCallum b came angry and threatened list if witness registered he would have him in thu penitentiary within twentyfour hours On crossexamlnaUou witness said lie came t this city in September from ICanosh was born In Provo L rll bl had lived in Kanosh seven or eight years voted In ICanosh test Augustowned t no property liens Came t Salt Lake because he heard there was work here ha J no recommend recom-mend from his lilshop to come was not advised by his Bishop to come knew nothing of other residents of Ivauosh who had come here Had been In the house where he now lived about one month before his wife came eight men besides himself him-self lived there and had been living here about three or four weeks b fore the registration officer called some of them came from ICanosh Mr Moyle objected t this line of cnnscxamlnaUon as i related t other men for whom witness was not responsible Mr DIckson held t was proper a showing that witness wit-ness was one of 1 pry who hid come to this city for an illegal purpose pur-pose a fact that would atlecthls testimony The point was argued by counsel pro and con and the Commission after conferring ruled that witness might he l > questioned as for as necessary to inquire Into his good faith In coming t this city This virtually gave Sir Dickson all the grope he desired and he con tluutd the cross examination eliciting elicit-ing the Information that two broth eraof wllnt wife were In the I li9Ute where witness lived and that witness knew everal men whose names Mr Dickran mentioned but did not connect kt the case Wit new wife kept bouse for the men staying there Witness obtained work from Mr Watson on the te sewer had no cenversaUon with Mr Watson about politic Mr Moylo objected t quertions touching witness work as Irrelevant Overruled Witness did not know Watson came to ask him for work because he had been told he a I boss on the ecwer had inquired of 1 workman work-man who the bcfes WB did not know who the L was till ho came t this city and inquired Wltnesa on being furthercrosscx amlned testIfied that he bIn a house b-In Kanosh for which he owed and tint the furniture In I belonged to his wife The eight men aU4Ss Third Kast Street boarded with him and ldl wifes father paid their board did not send for nig wife to keep aboardlng house 1 Much time was consumed In questioning witness about what occurred curred at the time be applied t Mc Callum for registration but nothing Important was elicited and witness was excused Mr Boyle asked If the Commission Commis-sion issued subptenas and received a negative reply C J Walquist was next sworn On D 10 witness made several attempts find McCallum Was In the hatters office when he came in McCallum said he could II cCalum cul not register him there but would call at his witness house Witness plied that the neighbors had told him that the registrar had already inssetl lib house McCallum then said ho could not register witness until Dec 23 Crosirexamlncd by Mr Dickson Witness was unmarried lib parents lived In Wasatch County had been working I for a man living In Silt Lake and came here to get his money concluded he might as well stay got work on the county road had no talk with any one about coming here to vote Intended to make tliU hlsixrmaneut bore If he could get work her Mr Moylo announced that this roscd tha timony against Mr McCallUm McCallum was then sworn and testified In his own behalf Every morning before going out on his canvass it wan witness custom to visit his office Ir Christiansen met him there one morning and asked t b registered had not found Christiansen in his canvas and told him in and that he would look for him rurtherTold Christian sen there was plenty of time for him to be registered and that Ir neednt worry Never checked any mans lame Liberal or Peoples until be had visited his house Ven had formed a habit of waiting for blm as ho caml out Df his hotel and on tIme morning when he registered regis-tered Smith the usual crowd o in waiting He recognized one of them iimed lluckwaltcr and told him his name was checked He admitted ad-mitted registering Smith as testified t by a previous witness as a matter of accommcdatlon beciuue Smith was going away ddt a rule t question closclyapplicants whom be did not know regarding their qualifications quali-fications Witness admitted lie truthfulness of Walquists testimony In reference to the name of Mr Hayiics he stated that his neW ne-W and rewritten on the Ibt Witness told Mr Haynes he would have tolH renRistered but refused to do so until Haynes should s unt 1 nc produce duce proof naturalization Regarding tcUmoily t Joseph Wools y witness said He called at 445 s Third lust Street was met by a woman who said there were ten voters there who wanted t register in lIme first room lie entered lucre were seVcr al rolls of bedding on the floor lot no furniture a second room contained scanty kitchen furniture fur-niture the woman said she had l > een thereabout six weeks and her husband came a month before she did and sent for her to keep a boardIng board-Ing house She promised to give witness the names of all tho men net morin and told him they had come to otc Next morning II called to get lIme I names when the woman told him lint her bus kind hail told her to sty to him that the men hail let come to vote hot 1 t work She did not give him the names of any more of lite men Witness discrit > ed the row wiUi Woolsey Denied calling Chris tiansen a dn Mormon Crosiexamlncd by Mr oIe Had refusal to register Woolsiy because be-cause lie felt confident he was not eligible Woolsey had used ollen sive language which led to the rour Had declined to register Walquist in his office If he knqw a man he would register him anywhere but unless he knew any given man wits a resident of his precinct and fully qualified would not regiter him anywhere exce > t at thin mans home Was equally well acquainted in both political parties knew more Liberals Lib-erals than Peoples Party men in lila precinct liau never refused to register any man whom he knew to b qualified but had put off an indefinite in-definite number whom he did not know Could not mention lime name of any Lilicralwhom he had refused fused t register on the street norof one whom he had required to produce Ir duce proof of naturalization Mr McCalium stated during his testimony that he considered I his duty to closely question applicants for registration whom ho nil not know concerning theIr qtialifica thousand to refuse to administer oath tothemunkts he felt satisfied Uiey were eligible Ills frankness admitting tint he had assumed anti exercised judicial functions was surprising surprsing A this point a recess a taken till 230 when the examination of Mr McCallum a resumed In reply tb Mr Dickson witness named two Liberals whom he had refused t regker before Dec 2 but admitted on crossexamlna ton that neither demanded t be registered and that both took wit ness word that they were not qualified quali-fied fiedJacob Jacob J Greenwald testified concerning con-cerning the regIstratIon of Wm T Jac1 and the refusal ot McCallum to register 31 Christiansen Did not hear McCallum f > eak of Chris tiansen as a itdJ Mormon Mc Callum refused t register Christian semi saying he did not know him but registered Jaetebtcauso licdll know him Witness heard all the conversation on that occasion The case against MtCallum was temporarily laid aside owlnglo the absence of witnesses and that against I D Winters was begun John A Hamilton was sworn Had lived In the Fourth Precinct nearly four re called at Mr Winters oflice on Novembci 30th six I times and again on the next Monday when he met Winter ou the stairs He asked t be Ilrlte to see If his name was on the list Winters replied thai the I registratlonwas closed but that checked witness Ime was on lie list and Chairman Godfrey asked I W Young If be held that the registrars after finishing their house to house canvass were under obligation t keep their books open till the thin 1 week In December MrYoun te piled 4tYes for tbe reason that only a very few voters were at home when the registrars called Chairman Godfrey remarked that were this done there would not tie money enough In the Territory t pay the lr that the other members of the Commission might speak for themselves but he did not care t listen t any more testimony testi-mony on Uils point At thisjunctureMr Dickson read Mr Winters answer t the charges made against him iu which the name of Mr Moyle was mentioned as Ions trying t control Winters ac tons Mr Moyle took the stand He and W C Burton bad waited on Mr Winter and told him that many voters of lie Peoples Party desired to b registered and I he would name a time when he would visit n I given district they would JjQnuin at home Winters promised that on that afternoon he would commeme ou the north tier of blocko In the Fifth Bishops War when whIm Band B-and Mr Butlou said they would notify their friends t be at homo i Mr Winters made this proposItion freely Witness could net say except ex-cept on information whether WIn era had done as he proposed Mr Moyle asked that the affidavit evidence of an absent witness 0 receivedIn Chairman Godfrey said I might bei n bad precedent to admit I an affidavit Mr Moyle said I that as there was no authoritative means securing attendance of witnesses nesses his side were meeting with much difficulty In getting their evidence before the Commission Chairman Godfrey said reasonable time would 0 given Mr Moyla to secure the attendance of bit witnesses wit-nesses Mr Woods was here sworn and testified t the registration of Wm T Jack and the refusal of Mr rc Callum t register C I Christian sea n present at the lime did not hear McCallum pak of Chris tiansen as a Odn Mormon At the close of this witness testimony testi-mony a discussion ensued regarding regard-ing the fine to which an adjournment adjourn-ment should bo taken At length pm tomorrow was fixed upon upn and the Commission adjourned |