Show III IMPORTS PORTS There U is stilt still greet greAt Int felt Mt b IW by ninny many renders of at the tho dally papers In lit Inthe litS S the tho case enee now before the tho com corn cornI I o on oa privileges I and election II The Tho Thet t Inquiry seems to have hlo been Leen entirely dl di diverted from the tho right of at Senator Smoot to retain Ills his seat scat and to bo hn devoted to toan toan an endeavor to 10 convince the Mormon Church of certain alleged offences offence Tho rho press Nt lI reports on this llda phase ot o otho tho the were at first firm men given In ht ouch uch detail that the reader won was wa to tor r form torm his hla own opinion ns tie to the re ro and effect of ot the tho testimony Hut the latest ore mute more In thu nature of or comments and deductions than accounts of the evidence so no sowe we ivo will probably have to 10 wait walt until the tho officio report Is la published before wo we ran cat decide ns as I to tho the tenor and rational result of the thc statements made by i Sonio sonic of at the thin conclusions arrived at al by bytho bytho bythe tho the reporters i f this the testimony are evi eI evidently eIlIen dently lIen I y trained J and the alleged state statements ments mente oi dI I which they tiro predicated pre I must murt hav h v en but partially under understood understood stood Until wo tie I know exactly what tho the stated vo wo had better beller reserve judgment as All to Its lis correctness or other otherwise otherwise wise vise For Irol Instance It 1 In Is l not probable that It was shown that the Church Chuich controlled in ii civil OB os well wen ns as t lent Icat as stilted stated In the dispatches itchenor u nor that two In Mormon churches churcheA and schools chool were deposed dc from their authority be bo because cause their political preferences worn Were not approved by hy the tho Church The fhe po preferences of af teachers t or ori i others oth rl In the Church have havo never been oll l them or acted upon to their Injury In tiny way ay wn no matter what anybody assort or Imagine and such Mich n 11 charge certainly could rould not be bo supported by evidence The endeavors of oC some special cor correspondents or respondents at III to color their theM reports to suit stilt the tho papers they write for COl or the tie popular JIBS bins receive Illustration In III n I dispatch that In the Son Sao l o Call nil all of April 20 O Among Amol other are these Only base put In iii Inan nn an appearance mud those tho of ot tho the Mormon Church who sho are 1111 expected to tn give evidence on the tho th ques then Uon of or the tin continued practice of po sire lire III In hilling hiding Ii President d Smith of ot the Mormon the I Church hureh hutch when ho lie appeared before tho committee said mild that ha he h would see to toi i r It that all nil whose testimony runny mony was desired lI alred would bo be present when M wanted anted There Is III morn moro In lit a n 1 similar vein eln but this In Is to show the value of or much tel Information 1 who has followed follow tho the pro must have seen cen that nearly nil all tho wit witnesses ossee in tn the tho case NO so far been beell Mormons In tho the first part of ot the Investigation out of If twelve wit noises who put In tn an at appearance and one two 10 only were wore Gentiles namely and lilies Hiles In the tho second f or present part only one out of oC four tour witnesses who hn have put pint In ht an nil ap liP In Ig n 1 Gentile the tho other othor three lire are no sin If 0 well known throughout tho the na nfl nation tion us liS prominent that It ht would seem eem the statement of the tho Call correspondent I Is la something tar far worse orno than n II blunder Now No an nil to 10 tho the hiding part of or tho the j Call till story atol The fact that three thieo of or the thu gentlemen who wIto were wanted nt at Wash washIngton InKton Ington are Arc seriously III hoe has been i placed beyond n a 1 doubt and we u boll u thin tho committee are 1110 oily fully convinced of at that There are arc only oth two 1110 who wIio have hl bo been n informed In Informed formed of oC thin thu desire for or their appear mice who have havo declined to put thum In III the thu way slay Wl of or n 1 subpoena na shut Hut It Il Is n poor guess that they thoy tho nr 1 are In tin hiding thore there IB is nothing to piove the thet t assertion They The have frankly rank stated their disinclination d Ile s i tit n to I Is the country their marital relation nil after the thu course of ot the committee committe In probing the personal affairs of or Angus M Canton Cannon wo we judge that the two g gen genI n I n referred to 10 will not be bo In any nn way wo encouraged to voluntarily put 1111 III In tl l nn appearance It Jl Is b equally untrue that President Pre Smith made mado any such promise as ns that alleged II II In III the Ih Cull Call story Wo o have pub I lulled In full the colloquy between heleen l 1 and Mr Ir nil that matter President Smith swag WOH not nol on the a stand shad when this tha wI occurred Ho lie hud hind been formally ex jus d and 11 discharged l Then Mr I r TRY Tay Teyu u t tAr whether Mr h Smith could get flet t tInto Into with any nay of those thea Apostles who have been I en Hll mid ami have hao not been heen reached Ho lie re reo piled I presume I could mud them theta In to time Mr Taylor 1 I do not know lena how I h soon I could find them Ilium 1111 Asked to gho their t nime munee Mr Taylor replied John Johnv v W Y Taylor Talor George M I y t 1 Cowley John Smith It wan shown that Mourn Smith and T Vf ere e very III fit und and Mr Ir Taylor r replied p Of Ot course a n titan mon who Is H physically III In of coming or whoso whose health et would bo be affected by coming ought not notto lo to ho bo required to rouse come Lee Ken ro roo port p JI 11 Now Noss what obligation wn wee there Im imposed posed upon or undertaken by President Smith 1 Ifo Ho line has hn done d no more mora charm ho lie In Intimated he ho would try tty to do The only persons ho was to try If to have reached Taylor and Cowley Cowie They The reached by hy letter anti their ro roI reo re replica I arc lira In tho the hand hande of ot tho the chairman oi of o tho time committee That Thill Is nil 1111 thoro there Is la lato Isto isto to that matter The Time endeavor endear of ot the tho Call writer to President Smith responsible for Tor the tho absence of or any on wit witness w ness lIes Is 18 despicable and coupled with tho the palpable errors of ot fact tact which he has han wired H us as noise shows that his reports are aro grossly grossl unreliable We te aro tiro at nt a 11 loss lose to see wherein the tho testimony of oC other witnesses than limn those at the tho first hearing as tie to the marital status latus of men who vho ho married plural wives before the Manifesto In tl of ot any Iny value ulue to the committee us III to that feature of ot the Inquiry It 11 simply Involves trouble for to I tho the witnesses witnesses expense for the government without further light t and no other satisfaction than to feed curl curi curiosity We do not hot believe bellee the committee Is ii In ht prying Into Inlo n a mans malis private pr veto vate lIto particularly In lit compelling him to 10 them theta when the tho explanation tion IB is of ot no ho III public benefit and Is not germane to the purpose of at thin thu Inquiry Into bite the eligibility of Smoot Jima lot us tie pongees IO 8 S our snub In ha pu IJu mid and In subjection to the powers lowers that be |