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Show SEVERAL WITNESSES IN : ? SMOOT INVESTIGATION : ' j- v . At Thursday afternoon's , session of , the Smoot lBveftHgatlon at .Washington, .Wash-ington, .MaJ. Aschard W. Young of Salt Lake . City, a ' former witness wit-ness for Senator Smoot, vu recalled, add Bald that the president of the church has no power to alter a revelation after It has been sustained by the church.. He testified further that If a man and W man should enter Into plural marriage; relations re-lations since the manifesto he would con- elder that they were living in unlawful lelations. Chairman Burrows asked if there - had bofn any vote of dissent at the last conference con-ference to sustain President Smith, the conference having been held since President Presi-dent Smith testified that he is living in polygamous cohabitation. CoL Young replied re-plied that he had not heard of any dissent. dis-sent. The chairman also inquired If the absent ab-sent apostles had a special mission to keep out of the jurisdiction of the subpoena sub-poena of the Committee on Privileges and Elections. MaJ. Young said he had heard the "absent apostles" were trying to keep out: of the way.'- Both absent apostles are reputed to be polygamists. William Langton testified tht James H. Wall is. Sr., who recently gave to the committee what he alleged to be the endowment en-dowment oaths, couid not be believed. Glen Miller, former United States Marshal Mar-shal in Utah, who had been a candidate for office several times, testified that he had defeated Mor.n.-r. candidates in a strmg Mormon district He declared Mormons to be fair In 'Politics and that Mor.con oflcUls gave Impartial adinlnls-iratlmis. adinlnls-iratlmis. - fcV;;tor Dubois askid the witness what had caused Mormons to bol: the Republican Republi-can candidates at the last electljn in tivlt Ike City. Mr. MlUnr replied that they ob.'ectcd' to Senator Kearns's management manage-ment of the party, an! cliai-K'd that money mo-ney had been used :n the pro-convention campaign.- Mr. Worthington objected to bringing in the names of individuals and at Els request the name of Senator Kearns was expunged from the record. Following an inquiry by Senator Mc-Comas, Mc-Comas, which, brought out the .statement that the Mormons held the concessions for light and power, street railways and other franchises In Salt Lake, Mr. Miller said that the street railway and the lighting light-ing companies were on the market ajid were bought by the Mormons. He testified testi-fied also that the majority of the business busi-ness in Salt Lake was controlled by Gentiles. Gen-tiles. John W. -Hughes of Salt Lake, editor of a weekly paper, testified that the sentiment sen-timent among the Gentiles was that President Pres-ident Smith was a fanatic In religion, but that he was- thoroughly honest and was keeping the church out of politics. He believed the Gentiles thought it was beat to let polygamy die out, as there were few polygamists left He had made an investigation Into the number of polysa-mlsts polysa-mlsts in Salt Lake City and found that there were only seventy-tour men, nearly all of them old, only two being under fifty years of age. Mrs. Mary G. Coulter of Ogden, a Gentile Gen-tile and the wife of a physician, testified In regard to political affairs. She was a member of the Legislature that elected Mr. Smoot a Senator. She said she went unpledged, but was glad to abide by the result of her party's caucus. Before voting vot-ing for Mr. Smoot she said she ascertained ascer-tained that he was not a polvKamlst Speaking of the Mormons in political sf--falrs, she said they "slxed up" very well with the Gentiles. Polygamous relations were never flaunt ed by the Mormons, said Mrs. Coulter, and the young Mormons particularly were opposed to the continuation of polygamous po-lygamous relations. As a member of the Legislature, she said, she was asked by as many Gentiles as Mormons to vote for Smoot On cross-examination Chairman Burrows Bur-rows asked If it would have made any difference In her vote for Senator If she had' known that a majority of Mr. Smoot's fellow-apostles were polygamists. polyga-mists. Mrs. Coulter replied that possibly she might have voted for Smoot because many Gentiles welcomed the opportunity of showing that their antagonism was not directed against the church, but merely against the principle of the church known as polygamy. She said further that she would not vote for a polygamtst. "What do you think of a man who would vote to elect a polygamist as an apostle?" asked Chairman Burrows. The witness replied that she could not sit in Judgment in such a case. Mrs. W. H. Jones of Salt Lake, who said she went to Utah at sixteen years of age as a bride and who has been prominently promi-nently connected with the Liberal and Republican parties in Utah, testified that neither she nor Senator Smoot had Joined the Silver Republican party, and said that both of them had "too much sense." On cross-examination the witness said she did not believe a polygamist could be elected to office by either Gentiles or Mormons. "How about Mr. Roberts?" asked Chairman Burrows. "That was so long ago I do not know. I was not working for Mr. Roberts, and I am glad you did not permit him to take his seat," she replied. |