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Show .V jftHt MANIFESTO; JF ATM (BMOHY; ADMISSIONS OF WITNESS '.ftlrs. Kennedy Say's She Tried to Forget All About Her Plural Wifehood to Shut Out Its Horrors.. '. 1 APOSTLE MERRILL'S SON A POLYGAMIST. .J..; -. ; ' . V .-. (3, In his testimony before the Smoot investigating committee In Wash- Ington today Charles F. Merrill said he was married In 1811 to Chloe - Hendricks, his father. Apostle Merrill, performing the- ceremony. Merrill stated that he then had another wife, whom he had taken as a "plural" j in 1888 aad who Is stiU living. He admitted having cohabited with, both wives since that time. His first wife died In 1889. , 51 " SV- -BULLETIN. . . WASHINGTON, MAJBCH 8. FRANCIS M. LYMAN-, AN APOSTLE ! OF THE MOEMON CHTJBCH, PRESIDENT OF THE QTJOBTJM OF ' TWELVE AND PROSPECTIVE SUCCESSOR TO PRESIDENT SMITH, IN ,'! yrg TESTIMONY BEFORE THE SMOOT INVESTIGATING COMMIT-' COMMIT-' , TEE TODAY, SAID HE WAS NOT O NLY NOW LIVING IN POLYOA- j MOTJS COHABITATION, BUT THAT HE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE SO j TO LIVE.' . i j .. (WASHINGTON, March 8. Mrs. - ' 'Clara Mabel (Barker) Kennedy resumed the stand today in the Senator Reed : Smoot case before the Seriate Committee Commit-tee on Privileges and Elections. Mr. Worthington for the defense continued cross-examination of the witness and Inquired as to the reasons for her mar-rig mar-rig being consummated at Juarez. ' : Mexico, instead of si the Mormon, set-1 set-1 tlement at Diaz,' where she lived. - She "said she knew of iio reason and had no Information regarding an at- tempt to have the ceremony performed . . elsewhere. Did Tell of Plurality. : . She said she did not tell any one that ! the man to whom she was to be married ,had another wife, and so far as She knew, those performing the ceremony ? did not know the marriage was to be a - plural one. Later Mr. Worthington asked Mrs. , Kennedy If she did not know that application ap-plication had been made to Apostle Teasdale and that he had refused to conduct or to authorize the plural mar-. mar-. . riage. "What did he eay?" asked Mr. Worthington. Worth-ington. . Apostle Teasdale Balked. "He said it could not be done, as all thatAid been done away with," said Mrs. (Kennedy. Mr. Worthington called attention to ' the Inconsistency of the statements and he asked why she had said she did not know a request had been made to an- j ' other to perform the ceremony. .' 6he Tried to Forget. "I don't know how I happened to say that," said the witness. Continuing, she ' said with some emotion: ' "It was not pleasant for me to think about those things, and I tried to put ? them aside. I tried to forget all I could " atxtat it.-. . , in response to further questions from Mr, Tayler, the witness said her mother moth-er told her of the request to Apostle Teasdale and that she had no other knowledge of the attempt to get him tp perform the ceremony. " Charles Merrill on Stand-Charles Stand-Charles F. Merrill, a son of Apostle Merrill, was then called to the stand. ' He said he was tha son of his father's third plural wife and is himself a polyg- . amlst. - In answer to queBtions concerning his own" marriages, Mr. Merrill said he was married first in 18S7 to a wife that had died in 1889 and that he married "his legal" wlfe Chloe Hendricks, in 189L and had five children by her.- ' T "Floral" In 18S3. v ; ia married another , wife In 18S8, the ' ceremony being performed in the Logan Temple by M, C. Edwardson.. He' has had four children by that wife, the oldest old-est of which is 9 years and the young-' st 2i years. Their mother's name was Anna B. Stoddard. - "The marriage to my legal wife in 1891," said Mr. MerrilL "was solemnized by my father." "Were you living with Anna B. Stod- dard when' you married the woman whom you call your legal wife?" was asked. "I was, although she had no house. She stayed at the home of her father and" her mother and I Uved with my mother," answered the witness. Cohabiting With Both, In answer to questions from Chairman Chair-man Burrows Mr. Merrill said he has now two wives and is cohabitatlng with both. Senator Foraker asked the wines s, "Is not the woman you married in 1888 your legal wife?" I "No, sir." Mr. Merrill explained that when he married in 1888 he had a wife living and that he understood that under the laws that marriage was not legal, and that therefore his marriage in 189L after the death of his first wife in 1889 made his last marriage a legal one. His Memory Is Faulty. j Senator Overman asked for a description de-scription of the marriage ceremony in 1888 and the witness declared that he could not remember' how it was performed, per-formed, except that he went to the Temple Tem-ple In Logan and it was performed there. In response to a question by Senator Dubois, Mr. Merrill said there was no marriage certificate Issued, no record or any documents of any kind so far as he knew. He said there was no music, jio prayer and no questions that be could remember. "There was nothing but the marriage ceremony," he said with emphasis. Members Want to Know. ! "Well, tell us about that," several members of the committee demanded. "I cannot repeat it," said the witness. I "Do you mean to say that you do not know the ordinary marriage ceremony In your church?" asked Senator Hoar severely. ! "Yes, I know that," answered the wit-, ness. "And was not that what was asked?" be was asked. I The witness said it was. He was told to give the substance of it. Bather Vague Description, j The witness said it was. He was told to give the substance of it. He said he and his wife stood up and Joined hands. "Then they made you promise something, some-thing, did they not?" inquired Senator Hoar. -, "Yes sir." ! "But you have forgotten what . It was?" the Senator remarked with a laugh. "Oh. no, I have not forgotten." said Mr. Merrill. He then said that he had promised to love, cherish and support the woman. ' Kept Separata Houses. And did you continue to cohabit with her after you married the woman you call your legal wife?" Chairman Burrows asked. ' . The witness- said he lived with both wives, but that they had different homes at Richmond. Utah, about a mile apart. "You say you were' living with your mother when you were married the second sec-ond time. Where was your father. Apostle 'Merrill, at that time?" he was asked. . . .;; i , ; '. . t "On the Underground." ' . "He was on the underground most of the time," said the witness Jocularly. .' . , -"What do you mean by,. 'on the un- - . :- . 0 dergroundr" asked Mr. Worthington. "He was in hiding." "Why was he In hiding?" asked the chairman. "Because about that time there were prosecutions going on for polygamy." Mr. Merrill answered. He said that often of-ten times he would not see his father for a month. Claims Father Didn't Know. Mr. Merrill said that he had taken his 18S8 wife to his mother's home occasionally, occa-sionally, but that she had never stayed all night there and that so far as he knew his father did not know that ho had a wife already when he was married mar-ried by his father to the woman he calls his legal wife. Mr. Merrill said his father Is still living liv-ing and Is still an apostle of the church, but that he Is very feeble. Twenty Brothers, Seventeen Sisters. In regard to his father's family. Mr. Merrill said he had a father with six wives and that he had twenty brothers and seventeen sisters. He was asked how many nephews and nieces he had and said he did not know, but thought there were more than 100. "My father lives with his first wife and comes to the home of my mother probably not more than once a month." he said. "My father is a very busy man." the witness supplemented. Mr. Merrill thought three of his brothers broth-ers had married plural wives and that two of his sisters had married Into polygamous families. Mrs. Kennedy's Mother. The prosecution called to the stand Mrs. Emma Matthews of Marysvllle, Utah, mother of Mrs. Clara Mabel Kennedy." Ken-nedy." Mrs. Matthews said she had been a member of a. Mormon family for twenty-five years and is a Mormon herself. . She has been a plural wife, but is not now. Mrs. Kennedy is the child of Mrs, Matthews' first husband and was born before Mrs. Matthews became (Continued on Page 84 ' . ; : - "7 I do my own mother, and I lived in a family thus constituted until I grew up and became the head of a family of my own. ' "Consequently I have known nothing noth-ing else end I have felt that It was correct. cor-rect. J have always felt in my soul and heart that I was correct. I married first in 1857, again in 1869 and once more in 18S4. "The situation has been very painful to me and I have been greatly pained to find myself in opposition to the law of the country and of the church. But I had made a covenant with my wives to love, respect and endear them, and I could not .find it in my heart to separate separ-ate from them so long as they were true to me." Senator Hoar "So you. an apostle of your church, expecting to succeed Mr. Smith In the presidency and In that capacity ca-pacity to receive divine revelations yourself, confess that you are now living liv-ing and expect to continue to live In disobedience to the laws of the country, the law of your church and the law of Godr The witness replied with a simple, "Yes." 'He added, in reply to a question from Senator Dubois, that he considered his duty to live with and protect his wives. Not Bepcoved by Smith. , Mr. Lyman said he became an apostle in 1880, and that Reed 8 moot became an apostle In 1900. He said Mr. Smoot had never reproved him for living ln polygamy, polyg-amy, either In public or in the apostolic meetings. - "If I am thought worthy I will succeed suc-ceed to the presidency of the Mormon ! church, if I survive President Smith," said Mr. Lyman, In answer to a question. ques-tion. - First Tv Polygamlsts. Mr. Lyman said he is the presiding officer of the twelve apostles. The name of John Henry Smith, a-polygamlst, wan given as the second member of the twelve apostles, and that of George Teasdale, a polygamist, as the third apostle; Heber J. Grant, a polygamist, fourth; John W. Taylor, a polygamist. fifth; Mr. Merrill, a polygamist, sixth; making five apostles who are conceded to be polygamlsts. Smoot Attends Meetings. "Senator Smoot has attended the meetings of the apostles," said Mr. Lyman, Ly-man, "and has taken part in the exercises exer-cises at the weekly meetings." . The witness said he never Introduced any of his wives to Mr. Smoot. The meetings of the apostles are held in the Temple, said Mr. Lyman. He was asked the difference between the endowment house and the Temple, and said the former was only a temporary tempo-rary building used for sacred purposes until the Temple was completed. (Continued from Page 1.) r ::ormon. Mrs. Matthews said Mrs. : .nr.ply.is 26 or 27 yeara old and had v e to Diaz with her parents sixteen j ars 70. . rixes Eate as Hay, 1E34. ; . Mrs. Matthews said that while living st L'iaz she had known Mr. Johnson for 1 two years prior to his marriage to her daughter and that she had had no objection ob-jection to her daughter becoming his - rlural wife. She remembered well the marriage of Mohr.son to her daughter Rnd fixed the date definitely In -May, " 1S34. ' - r "He Just asked me If I was willing that he should marry my daughter and j I said yesy" said the witness. "She anted to wait until eh was 18, but he wm not willing." She saw both Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, the first wife, when they and her daugh-1 daugh-1 er, who was to become the second wife, left for Juarez. .1 Knew They Wars Going. , ' "You knew they ' were going to Juarez?" . "Yes." i "Did you know your daughter was to be married then to Johnson?" j "I did not" " ! "Where did you suppose she was go- I ing?" ; "I did not know." --. Did 2?ot Se Marriage. j . - "Then you did not seevher married?" T did not." - JHas she ever told you that she was jnarried to Johneon then?" "She has not; never asked her." MORE MORE Teasdale Advised Against It. j Thee questions were put by Mr. Tay-ler. Tay-ler. When he concluded Mr. Worthlng-ton Worthlng-ton asked a number of questions by ' which the fact was brought out that Apostle Teasdala had advised her against allowing her daughter to be- - ome a plural wife on the ground that it was against the law of the church.' Mrs. Matthews also gave' some facts concerning her own history In response to questions by members of the com- mittee. She is a native of England and "while living a widow in that country had become converted to Mormonism about 1886 by George Barber, missionary mission-ary of the Mormon church. Plural Wife Herself. I She afterward came to Utah and mar ried Barber, becoming-his third wife. : She had, she said, embraced Mormonism, Mormon-ism, knowing that It inculcated polygamy, polyg-amy, but when she became a plural wife he was not told that polygamy was against the law of the land. Merrill Is Recalled. Mr. Merrill was temporarily recalled and questioned by Senator Dubois, who said: i- "Mr. Merrill, do you still uphold the doctrine of polygamy?" J . "No. sir." was the reply. ; "But you practice it?" , "I do." - 'How do you reconcile the two statements?" state-ments?" one of the committee asked. 1 The witness did not reply. 1 but a - member of the committee Illustrated by raying he was like the roan who was for prohibition, but against the enforcement of it. Apostle Lyman Called. Francis Lyman, president of the quorum quo-rum of apostles of the Mormon church nnd the prospective successor of Mr. Smith as president of the church, was the next witness. He was born sixty-four sixty-four years ago and became an apostle in 1880. - ' i -Are you a polygamist V Mr. Tayler asked, and the witness replied frankly. "Yes." - He said that he had had three wives and that of them two are still living. j Signed Amnesty Prayer. j By his second wife, to whom he was married in 1884, he had five children, the ' last being born it 1900. Mr. Lyman said that he had been one of the signers of the prayer for amnesty, pledging hlm-F.elf hlm-F.elf to all that It contained. He did, not, however, recall Just what it did contain. con-tain. ! Mr. Tayler read portions of the pray- er 1 'Did you." he asked, "Interpret that to mean that you would abstain from polygamous cohabitation?" j "All That Was Bight." "I interpreted it to mean that I should do all that was tight." -I "Did you think it would be right to abstain from polygamous cohablta- Thiis was not answered directly at the time. v 1 ,1V Several questions by members or the - committee followed in rapid succession and Mr. Lyman admitted in response to them that he knew that in practicing 1 polygamous cohabitation he was disobeying dis-obeying both the law of the land and the rule ot his church. - Expects to Continue So. ( He also said In reply to one of these questions that he was not only now living in polygamous cohabitation, but that he expected to continue so to live. Mr. Hoar then took the witness In hand and brought out a succinct statement state-ment from him which was of a character charac-ter to interest all present. "Referring' to the rule of which you have spoken," Mr. Hoar said, Vyou understand un-derstand the rule of the church to be - the law of God, do you not?" . Mr. Lyman replied that such was his understanding. 1 fTl-.en you are living and Intend to live in violation of the law of God and -, .man?" - .. ,.: His Conscience Approves. "I fully Intend." said Mr. I Lyman, showing a disposition to elaborate more than he had done, "to be true to the law of my country, to my God and to my obligations and covenants with my wives, and I have never done a thing that my conscience did not approve." "I want," he proceeded, dropping into a pleasing tone of voice, to make a brief explanation if you -will permit. My case is different from that of most other men. I was born in 1840 and I can hardly remember when my father was not a polygamist. He was a friend and adviser of Prophet Joseph Smith , and was taught by him the Importance 1 and the truth of the principles of polyg amy. He accepted the teaching and entered en-tered into the practice, marrying six wives in the years 1843 and 1846. So that "my .earliest recollection embraces the life of polygamy. 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