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Show ' ' ' 'l J,' T J. . - J L.i-.-yJ . U 1 1 - " The leal fiater.-.Ity of Salt' Lake City la exercised tt r.o imall.extert oyer a j sperh tl'.ez" i t? ' we been S Ilvered : by.; Tff s!er.t J j , T.' Fn-.!th at 'a j prlethood n.ef . . j in the Aesern bly hall on the evenlrj of April 7. ',It Is asserted "ty e me of those present pres-ent that President fralth handed some hot shots to those who f.!e ,damaga suits against corporations in this State, and he advised those present who might be called for Jury -duty to be careful In the verdicts- -which they, rendered1 against the corporations.' ": It Is claimed that -President Smith, during .the course of his. address. Informed In-formed those present that there : were J many corporations Jn the Btate of Utah, j and that .they were doing much' to build ; up the State and should not be comr pelled to defend petty lawsuits.-. He asserted,. as-serted,. it is claimed, that some men and women had a habit of falling off street cars and walking away with an Injured appearance, and later would "consult eoirie-shyster doctor, after which they would see some shyster lawyer, and tho next-thing would U a suit against the street car company," and the' same thing was true of men who claimed that they were Injured In some mine, smelter smel-ter ot some other, tuslness run by a big corporation.. - It la alleged that President Smith advised ad-vised those present to stop rendering verdicts agaliiSt .the : corporations , in such cases: .' , - One prominent member of the Mormon, Mor-mon, church st ted to THE TELEGRAM TELE-GRAM todey X) t while he was present at the roeetir.g he did not remember the '1 thlr.X" -said he. "that some remarks re-marks were made In relation to damage , suits fled against corporations. I remember re-member that at the time I thought that Present Smith's remarks were caJJM forth by Certain articles recently pub-1 llshed in McClure's Magazine in relation rela-tion to fake accidents and how corpora tions were held up by the alleged victim." vic-tim." ' ...... "I was not present at the meeting," said a well-known 1 Mormon . attorney this morning, "but I have . heard of what was said. I had so much faith In the statement made to me by some who were present that during a recent trial of a case against a certain corporation, I excused two men from the Jury whom I believed had been present at the meeting. Both were good men, but I did not know but' what they might be Influenced by the statement that I had understood had been made by President smith."- .. .- - v Two other attorneys, ' both- members of the Mormon church, were seen by a representative of . THE TELEGRAM this morning. ; One of them declined absolutely to be interviewed as to what 1 was said at the meeting, though he admitted ad-mitted that be was present.. The other one stated that he -had been present at all priesthood meetings held and that nothli r had been said to which he as a member of the bar could take exception. excep-tion. , ; - ' - . ' The fact, however, remains that more than one attorney is asking bis brother lawyer as to what President Smith did say on the subject, and Just what effect it. will have on member of ther Mormon" Mor-mon" church whQ may be called on to act as Jurors. In cases In-which a cor- Trr9T-vn ! tV cfnont. ... -' - - ' |