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Show "" I ' """"" a, r ' - ' : ' V ' aW " ii - . 1 , k . , . X-f -J 14 ati u . e-S i j . i j WASHINGTON, D. C, ' March tf .-All of ths witnesses except one, Joseph Oeo-ghegan Oeo-ghegan of Salt Lske -City, to be called by Senator Reed Smoot, were heard yesterday yes-terday before the Senate Committee on Privileges-and Elections. Geoghegan will be called today, and at the close of his testimony the protectant s will press the record of the naturalisation cases and the respondents will submit counter testimony in the form of amdavUs. all of which will go In the record without objection. , This will end the taking of testimony, and aa soon aa It haa been printed Chairman Chair-man Burrows win call the committee together, to-gether, and probably Monday will begin consideration of the report to be . made to the Senate. The first witness" was Robert J. Shields of Salt Lake City, general aalea agent of the Inland Crystal Salt company, the president of which Is Joseph F. Smith, head of the Mormon church. Mr. Shields is a Gentile and never haa been a Mormon. Mor-mon. " - , He was recalled to refute the testimony of C A. Smurthwalte, which waa to the effect that the Mormon church waa so actively ac-tively engaged In the aalt business as to gain a control amounting to a monopoly, and that he (Smurthwalte) had been excommunicated ex-communicated because he would not consent con-sent to be driven out of busines In which , he rivalled a church Industry. What "Witness Said. The witness said Smurthwalte had sent representatives and afterward called himself him-self to try to get the Inland Crystal Salt company to buy the Beck Salt company. In which Smurthwalte had held the majority ma-jority of stock. Mr. Shields declined to buy on the ground that there were other concerns in the field and that buying one factory would not lessen the competition. President Smith waa not present at any of these Interviews and took no part In the management of the company. Senator Dubois Inquired concerning the organisation of the American party to oppose op-pose the Mormon church, and the witness Said there woold be less strife between Mormons snd Gentiles if there never had been such a party. Prof. Llnford en Stand. r,T- Jnjes H. Llnford, president of the Brigham Young college of Loran. testi-h!?-4 'iipnter M. Wolfe had not been dismissed from the college and the f.i!!ch bcu f the failure to pay his tithing as he had said on the stand. The dismissal said he, had been because of continued Intoxication. The witness said he was superintendent superintend-ent of the college Sunday-school and held a priesthood. He said that "Amertca""Hail Columbia," "The Star-Bpangled Star-Bpangled Banner" and other songs of patriotism were tsught in the Mormon primary classes. He said that In all the rears be had been connected with the college col-lege he had never heard of one of his students stu-dents becoming a plural wife. Patriotic Song Lately Added. " w0n c rose-examination Mr. Carlisle brought out. through the Introduction of the 190t edition of the Sunday-school song book, that "America" and "The Star-Spangled Banner" were added to the book since the Mormon Investigation was begun. - The witness was asked whether he believed be-lieved In polygamy, the principle of plural marriage. He said that his belief in the principle did not extend to the practice of the principle under present conditions. "That does not answer my Question." said Mr. Carlisle. "From a sociological point of view I believe It would aolve many existing difficulties." said ths witness. Believes In Plural Jtarrlagre.. "That la not an answer," said Mr. Car-Hale. Car-Hale. . "Do you believe in the principle of j plural marriage T" "Yes, sir. I do." replied the witness, hesitatingly. Mr. Carlisle dropped this form of examination ex-amination at this nolnt and Inquired Into ths relatione of Prof. Wolfe to Brigham Young college. Prof. Llnford said the motto of the college col-lege waa to fight the liquor trsfflc Mr. Carlisle asked If the v Zlon Cooperative Co-operative Mercantile institution of Salt Lake and the Smoot Drug company of Provo, both Mormon concerns, were not engaged in selling liquor. The witness said he knew only by general hearsay that they sell liquor. Zlna R. Card, librarian of the Brigham Young college, eeld the witness, was reputed re-puted to be a Mormon wife." He said he had not taken atepa to have her dismissed because of this relation. Denied They Were Plural Wive. At the afternoon session a large number of- affldavite were submitted by Mr. Worthington from persons named ee po-lygamiats po-lygamiats by the counsel for the protest-ante protest-ante la a list of officers of the State of Utah. Among the persons named were two women, Maude May Babcock and Re-beoca Re-beoca E. Little, charged to be plural mtvee. Both of these women denied the charge. Charles H. Marks, a Gentile lawyer of Salt Lake, waa put on the stand. He had examined the list of members, and said by common repute five members of the Constitutional convention charged by the protectant to be Mormons were. In fact. Gentiles. Going through the list of all officials of-ficials of the State since Utah was admitted admit-ted to the Union. Mr. Marks showed that there were seventy or eighty mistakes made In the list. The witness tetlfled that of the present State aggregate salaries paid Gentiles received re-ceived in.OOO and the Mormon f 11.600 annually. an-nually. He estimated that two-thirda of the population of the State was non-Mormon. . . Waa Eeputed to Be Korxnoa. On cross-examination, Mr. Carlisle brought out that the witness lived In a Mormon community, had a brother who waa a Mormon, and for a long time waa reputed himself to be a Mormon. Stephen H. Love, President of the Utah State Senate, waa also called to Impeach the Hat furnished by Owsn, but added nothing to what the previous witneee had said, except to admit that he hail - hMn eelesman for Zlon'a Co-Operative Mercantile Mer-cantile Institution and that liquor was sold at wholesale and retail by the "drug department." Incidentally he referred to J. M. Tanner and hla personal acquaintance with him, and said: "I knew one of his families.'5 "How many families has he?" Inquired Mr. Carlisle. "He la reputed to have three."- Clove of Provo Heard. James Clove, postmaster, and William P. Henry, City Marshal, of Provo, were th last witnesses and were questioned concerning the persona named by Prof. Wolfe aa polygamiata. Clove said David John, S. S. Jones, William Bean. Robert Kirkwood and, in fact, nearly all the others named, were polygamlsta, but with the exception of Bean, Albert Jones and Chamberlain, all of them had renounced their plural wives and were living In accordance ac-cordance with the law. Mr. Carlisle asked if it were not true that Albert Jones had Ave wives and fifty-one children, and that some of the latter were very young. Clove admitted that he had heard such things reported. Marshal Henry's Story. William P. Henry said he wasa native of Virginia and a Oenttle. Hla teatlmony waa similar to that of Clove. He did admit ad-mit that when Benjamin Cluff, Jr., returned re-turned from Mexico, according to report he had entered into plural marriages, his fireeence created something of a furore n the community and that he did not remain re-main long. Senator Dubois took the witneae in hand and asked him if it wasn't true that he eould not have been elected Marshal had he filed complaints against those In the vicinity of Provo who lived In polygamy. During Era of Good Feeling. "Oh. I don't know about that, renlied the witness. "I waa deputy under the United Statee Marshal when we werS prosecuting such persons for such viola-tlone.' viola-tlone.' Asked concerning this matt? the witness explained that It was from U to 16. "That waa the era of od feeling." suggeeted Senator Dubois "It was ths second administration of .,ovfr S'ST1,?0' . wa-geste4 the witness, at which Mr. Carlisle smiled approvingly amid the general laughter. "y. |