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Show 1 . I , , . I . """" whnm is she mrrll?" ' ' ! -r.. . it Ji. to i ' " I C. h." lie n s ex; '.ti.nfj ' .it t. i r-rlare r-rlare r ad taien I e in J.ex.'-'O. lift li.rft he f.a no k:ioie '9 of tie cer "i. v, and r.evr had mau any l.iqu:rl"- i-cernl: i-cernl: 5 It. It mi brought out t . r. ' Tayier tnat the witness had :a-1 no curiosity on the subject of trie mur-ria?e mur-ria?e because he beiieved the mamae to be a plural one. . Mr. Reynolds testified that he had twenty-six children. He (rave the names of the seven presidents of the seventies, of which he Is fourth in rank. Thre of the seven were polygaraists. . He (Key-noldg) (Key-noldg) had two wives now. "If you were to marry any woman tomorrow, to-morrow, which would be your legal wife?" - A. The one last married. Q. Would not that be adultery? A. It would- be If I continued to live as the husband of the other women, but 1 do not sustain such relations wUn more than one. Mr. Reynolds said he understood that the manifesto of 1830 permitted him to live with his plural wives without violating vio-lating the law, buk that no further wives could be contracted. Witness acknowledged acknowl-edged that he has had children by two wives since the manifesto of 1890. Witness Wit-ness had never preached against polygamy,, poly-gamy,, nor had he tried to get othera to do so. "I have held my tongue' said Mr. Reynolds. "Your situation made It necessary for you to do so, did It not?" "I think It did. Mr. Reynolds said he did not know of any effort made by any officials of the church to carry out the provision of the Woodruff manifesto putting an end to polygamy. Mr. Reynolds said the only plural marriages he had heard of since the n.anlfesto was that . of his daughter, which took place In Mexico. Senator Dubois asked Mr. Reynolds if his daughter or her husband had been cut 'off from the church because of the marriage. The witness said that both of them had been in Mexico, and had never een before the church authorities for trial. a Mr. Reynolds said That he was one of the advisers who aided in perfecting the Woodruff manifesto, which was first submitted sub-mitted in President Woodruff's handwriting. hand-writing. He testified that the committee had revised the manifesto. "I believe the TtfanlfestQ Is said to have been Inspired?" asked Chairman Burrows. "It was a revelation from the Almighty." Al-mighty." "And you changed ltf . "Not the meaning." "You Just changed the phraseology? "Yes, sir." . : ' "Then, as I understand it," said Senator Sena-tor Burrows, "when this revelation came from the Almighty, the grammar was bad and you corrected it?" 1 he witness said the phraseology had rot beeen Inspired, but was President Woodruff's own. This testimony kept the committee-room in an uproar. John Henry Hamlin of Salt Lake City, 'he brother of Lillian Hamlin, who the protestants have tried to show was married to Mr. Cannon in the summer of UPS, and that -the ceremony was per-fotmed per-fotmed by President Smith on the Pacific Paci-fic coast Lillian waa said by her brother to have been an attractive young woman. He had not heard from her for four or five years, and did not know where she waa now. She had one child, he said, a daughter. Who goes by the name of Martha Cannon. "Well, nobody doubts that the ehild Is Abram Cannon's daughter?" asked Mr. Tayier. t "No. sir,' was the reply. On cross-examination the witness said he had no positive proof that his sister had married Cannon. His sister had attended at-tended the funeral services of Mr. Cannon, Can-non, and her child Inherited the estate of Mr. Cannon. Mr. Hamlin said he had heard from his wife that Lillian had been married to Mr. Cannon and that the ceremony cere-mony had been performed on the high seas by the president of the church. His sister had attended a normal school In New York after her husband's death, but the witness could not say where the was new. He admitted that he had kept track of all of his other sisters, but did not know whether his sister Lillian was now In Mexico or Canada. .ct".::.to?:. r--?. 12. Dr. J. ::. r j (.'..! :-, 1 ". ..r" . 3 I . r .v Yc-':" -; -t.an Alv-'tc .U G'rirre Reyr.ol .& cf t ...t K-'.e, ".1 Jc'i.n i;-:.ry l."rr.'.m cf fc.i.t t ' I.;.t.e were tr.e wr.r.sea before the I ..oct ' invf si: ?-A'.r.g comrr.lt.tee Monday. Mon-day. Dr. Tucr-.-y's testimony related t-cn sdirf"- delivered la halt Lake ty ' I re1 " nt S'mlih cf the Mormon church, in -wr.kh t.io latter was Quoted by the vitntta as eayir.g that he coull not rive ur aJiy cf his wives; tnat It r..eant tterr, .1 iamnat:on to alandon a multl-l multl-l ):r ity of wives. Dr. Luckley sail he had made Inquiry In-quiry concernir.j Senator Smoot and he had found no one who said one word against him. I:verywhere, the witness said, "Senator Smoot was given an excellent ex-cellent character." On cross-examination Mr. Worthing-ton Worthing-ton brovt-ht out that the statements quoted f--- President bmlth's speech has not ' reduced to writing until a Cay or 1O0 later; but the witness declare! de-clare! r!nelf able to remember so perfectly per-fectly that he can make verbatim quotations quo-tations from speeches two or three weks after they are delivered. George Reynolds, a Mormon, living In alt Lake, testified that he Is the first assistant superintendent of the Mormon Mor-mon church Sunday-school society and secretary of the missionary committee of the apostles, and formerly clerk, or recorder, of the endowment-house. This relation was severed in srbout 187L The endowment-house was torn down in 1X.0, but the Temple is now used for the r same purpose. Mr. Reynolds told the committee that he has given certificates of marriage .since he ceased to be recorder of the endowment-house, in cases where widows wid-ows sought to obtain pensions. He made the certificates from records in his possession, but these records he said had since been removed to the Temple and he has not access to them now. In answer to questions by Senator Overman, Mr. Reynolds' said that marriages mar-riages were performed with dead per sons In the endowment house. . Mr. Tayier then asked If divorces were granted in the endowment house. "The church grants divorces to those who have been married for time and eternity, but does not divorce legal marriages until the courts have acted," said Mr. Reynolds'. "Plural marriages are not recognized by courts and there-. there-. fore the church does not consult the Vcourts In granting divorces In cases of rruch marriages." Senator Foraker ' asked if such divorces di-vorces are granted from dead persons. "In a few instances only, I should say," said the witness. "For something done after death or before?" the Senator asked. "In life time." "Is the dead person given an opor- tunity to be heard?" the Senator asked. "No, Mr; it is because such cases are held to be unjust to the dead accused, so that few divorces of this kind are granted," Eald the witness. . "Is any one appointed to defend the accused?" "Never; but the complainant -is given a hearing If satisfactory evidence Is fur-y fur-y nlshed to the church." "Then It Is purely ex parte T' , "Purely so." Senator Overman was attempting to bring out what assurance a man may have of meeting his several wives in heaven if divorces are granted after his death, when a recess of the committee was taken. - Mr. Reynolds resumed the stand this aftrmoon and testified that the president of the church has always the power to - issue ecclesiastical divorces. Mr. Tayier read from a re-published address by 4 Erigham Young, on the question of the unhappiness of first wives after plural . marriages had been contracted by their ' husbands. In this address President Young said he was going to give all women wo-men until October 1 (date of address was not offered in evidence), to decide whether they wanted to accept the teachings teach-ings of the churth. In the event that . " they did not want to accept the doctrines. j .President Young said he was going to give them their freedom to go where they would. He said he was talking to all women, his own wives included, the first Wives and all plural wives. 1 Mr. Tayier asked Mr. Reynolds if that promise to the women related to President's Presi-dent's Young's authority on divorces. The witness said that he thought that-President Young did not mean that. "Thert what did he mean?" "I think he was talking as a man. who - ' was annoyed and did not mean what he said." replied Mr. Reynolds. Continuing, he eald the action of the president was baaed on the same authority in "loosing -' n i earth" or "binding on earth," refer-i refer-i Tr to divorces and marriages. I Mr. Tayier showed the witness a eon- i , tract of separation between George T. and Ellen Watson, which Mr. Reynolds ' acknowledged he executed in ISM. He eaid that he does not know now whether the marriage he dissolved was a plural one or not. "Are you a pplygamlst?" Mr. Tayier 1 asked. "Yes, sir," answered Mr. Reynolds. ' "Have you any children married In polygamy?" 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