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Show iiTTAGi GHARAGTEIi Olr ANTI-SMOOT WITNESSES ' MaJ. K. W. .Tonne was again on the stand at Tuesday afternoon's session of the Bmoot investigation at Washington, . tnd Mr.. Tayler asked: "Is it a fact that . the first presidency or the apostles must be sustained at the semi-annual confer-. confer-. ence lust the same as they are sustained I , when originally elected?'. , . V The witness thought that the confer-I confer-I ence could not, at least would not, ya-J ya-J ' cate a position unless charge were filed f and the official tried prior to the confer- : I '' -"once. .. . . ! i . Attorney Worthington. for Senator Sraoet, and Senator Burrow and Mo- ( 1 f Comas engaged In an argument as to the propriety of a question a to whether the i , endowment house ceremony contains any- ; ' thing hostile to this Government when ! ' the witness declines to give the wording of the oath taken by Mormons who go through the ceremony. i The member of the committee took the 1 , position that if partial answers war given ) the Inquiry , should extend to the en-5 en-5 i tire subject. Mr. Worthington likened I i 1 the situation to an Inquiry into Masonry I or other secret organization, and said i, that the witness should be permitted te ay that he had taken no obligation hoe-I hoe-I til to the Government, and then declined : - . - . to reveal a secret oath, which he Is obliged not to divulge. . " After the argument Mr. Worthington asked: . . ' "Is there anything to the oath that relates re-lates to your Government T" -"I don't knowthat I would understand my status If I answered - that question. I don't want to be in contempt and I should like the chair to tell me whether this is to be followed with further lay qulriea." said the witnesa Chairman Burrows ruled that if the question were answered be would inquire in-quire of the witness as to the character charac-ter of the . ceremony, and all of the obligations, 'whereupon Mr. Young declined de-clined to answer Mr. Worthington' s question. ques-tion. He said he had never heard of any person being- harmed because of revealing re-vealing oaths of the endowment house. K. D. R. Thompson, an attorney of Salt Lake and a Gentile, testified concerning the circulation of a remonstraooe against the testimony of President Smith that the Gentiles condone the offense of polygamous cohabitation. -.. At the meeting where this remonstrance was drawn a committee, of which Mr. Thompson was chairman, was appointed to form a non-Mormon party, but en account ac-count of the sentiment that It was best to permit polygamy to die out without interference in-terference or prosecution by Gentile the committee never was called together. The witness said that one of bis neighbors neigh-bors was Bishop Morris and that It waa understood that ha had three wives and has had children by them lnoe the manifesto. man-ifesto. It developed the witness had not read the remonstrance and -on cross-examination many things were pointed out to which he would not subscribe ss a witnesa. - - Charles De Molsey of Salt Lake. Commissioner Com-missioner of the State Bureau of Statistic, Statis-tic, and a non-Mormon, testified that the sentiment in the community on the question ques-tion of prosecution for polygamous cohabitation co-habitation was to let the practice alone until It died out. ' He thought the story of church -Interference in politics "is a bugaboo, created for the benefit of disgruntled politicians." He declared also that Senator Bmoot was the logical candidate for the Senatorshlp. I and the fact that he was an apostle made 1 no difference In his candidacy. F. S. Fernstrom of Salt Lake, who has been a Mormon for. more than thirty years, swore that August Lundetrom, a witness for the p rotes tan ta, who gave what he alleged , to be the endowment house ceremony, could not be believed under un-der oath. He said Lundstrom " turned against the church because he was asked to pay money- he '.borrowed from his bishop. C. P. Anderson, an assistant editor of a Swedish paper at Salt Lake, corroborated corrobor-ated Mr. Fernstrom's testimony. H. J. Hayward of Salt Lake, a contractor con-tractor and builder, also testified that Mr. Lundstrom could not be believed under un-der oath. . Jens Christian -Nielsen, a Danish Mormon, Mor-mon, testified that he was the husband of Mrs. Annie Elliott, who was a witness for the protestants concerning the endowment en-dowment house ceremony. She also testified tes-tified that Nielsen died six year ago. He was put on the stand for the purpose of discrediting the testimony of-Mrs. Elliott. Elli-ott. She obtained a divorce from her husband hus-band in 1899. William Lsngton of Salt Lake, a Mormon, Mor-mon, testified that J. H. Wallls, Sr., another an-other witness, who revealed what he said was the endowment house ceremony, bore a bad general reputation and could not be believed. Witness admitted he had been a polygamlst. The session wa shorter than usual to- day, because of the absence of witnesses. It is expected several witnesses will arrive ar-rive tonight and the hearing will go on at 10 a. m. tomorrow. |