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Show V ONLY PROPHETS NEED HAVE PLURAL WIVES wrong interpretation on the manifesto. Mr. Tayler . read from an address by George Q. Cannon to the effect that some things have been revealed to the Mormon Mor-mon leaders that could not be made public. pub-lic. The witness said he did not remember the address, but that he did not take Issue with the sentiment expressed. Prof. Talmage will continue his testimony testi-mony tomorrow. Prof. James E. Talmage was the only witness examined In the 8moot inquiry at Washington Wednesday. Prof. Talmage at the afternoon session was asked by Mr. Worthington if President Presi-dent Smith could exercise precisely authority au-thority over Senator Smoot so far as concerns con-cerns his duties In the United States Ben-ate Ben-ate or to what extent the president of the church could exercise authority. vThe witness said there was nothing to prevent Senator Smoot from reminding the president presi-dent of the church that he (the president) was not the Senator. , A to polygamy, the witness said plain English would have to be interpreted far differently than the construction he places on the marriage revelation to infer that there is anything mandatory about It. He said there is not one paragraph in the . , revelation that contains an inference that polygamy should be mandatory except " upon one man the Prophet Joseph and fn all other cases polygamy was permissive. permis-sive. At the death of the Prophet Joseph the command contained in the revelation descended de-scended to his successor, according to the construction placed on Mormon doctrines by the witness. Celestial marriage, explained ex-plained the witness, means a marriage for time and eternity, or for eternity only. Mr. Worthington had put Into the record rec-ord certain acts of the seventy-fourth conference of the Mormon church and by these brought out from the witness the statement that any woman who became the plural wife of a man since October 6. 180, la no more a wife under the rules of the church than she Is in the eyes of the . law. Prof. Talmage said he had participated Irv or witnessed the endowment ceremonies cere-monies between one and two score times. He denied that the alleged "oath of vengeance" ven-geance" given by certain witnesses for the protestants Is a part of the ceremony and said further that no "oaths" are taken In the ceremony. The obligations taken, he said, contain nothing of the character given by the protestant witnesses. wit-nesses. The witness, who Is a member of the board which exercises supervision over tounday-school work. Baid there had been - instructions for the use of schoolhouses for the conduct of religion classes, and that it had been made clear that the re- llgion and educational classes should be , kept entirely s?parate. On cross-examination Prof. Talmage said he did not know whether the plural marriage revelation ever had been laid before the people to be sustained, except as It was adopted in the book known as "Doctrine and Covenants." The witness said he believed that any woman who became be-came a plural wife since .the manifesto was technically unchaste. He said he knew of no auch marriages, and that no proof had been offered that Abram Can- f non had married Lillian Hamlin In 1898. 5 f If such a-marriage had taken place the witness thought Mr. Cannon had put the |