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Show ISWCOT TESTIMONY ENDS; iMOflENT NEXT WEEK; (BEOflHEGSN ON STAND evidence, Mr. Worthlngton closed and Mr. Carlisle said he had nothing to offer In rebuttal. The attorneys said they would be able to make their arguments argu-ments next week, beginning on some day to be agreed upon between themselves. them-selves. : It was agreed that Mr. Carlisle should , have an hour and a half In opening, Mr. Worthlngton to follow with the same length of time; and Mr. Carlisle to have an hour In closing. - I -WAETHINGTON' March 27. The Introduction In-troduction of testimony in proceedings against Senator 8 moot was concluded " ; at 11:50 o'clock today. The argument ' will be mads some day next week to be agreed upon by counsel. The hearings have extended ' over three ssslons - of ; Congress. ' ' , Joseph -Geoghegan,. a manufacturer's broker of Salt Lake City, was on the , stand today. He was examined by A. S. Worthlngton, counsel for Mr. Smoot. concerning the interest of the Mormon church in sugar factories In Utah and . Idaho. Hormons Not in Controls . Witness testified that the church had financed these concerns before it ap-' ap-' peered that sugar factories would suc-I suc-I ceed. but neither the church nor the Mormons control the stock. It was r?own, however, that the two largest t mcerns bava Mormon officers and - a majority of Mormon directors. rj He spoke , at length concerning the ' active participation 'of church officials In business, and showed that Gentiles were in control of a majority of the reputable commercial concerns' of Salt ! . ' Lake City. -,;.. . . ' Eon Omissions. ' ; , Oil cross-examination by Mr. Carlisle 1 -"veloped that in the list of business 1 submitted, sugar, salt, smelting, . n.i.fiflg and electric llghl interests were omitted, and that many of these are controlled by Mormons, though the witness) wit-ness) thought the majority of stock was controlled by Gentiles. . . Trust Controls Sugar. ".t' - II Under examination by Senator Du-,. Du-,. bols, the witness admitted that he had t a strong suspicion' that the sugar trust i controlled the sugar factories of Utah and Idaho. He did not believe, how- ever, that Mormons owned the greater - it of the non-trust companies. . :ur putting In soma documentary v. ..-,.,...... .j t . . - |