Show l T A At AND t TS t 1 Judge Powers Pow I Testifies About Theal Before Senate Committee On Olt Elections THE RECONVENED CONVENTION lie He head front from Documents Doc a State Acc Rec Accords ortis orris mid and of o Various Parlous I Washington April 22 Z A thorough re review reI view I of ot Mormon Marmon In to po 0 affairs 8 In III Utah today by Judge 0 W Powers Power thu tho only wit witness nests ness before betor the senate committee on Oil privileges and electrons elections In the lI Ration gatlon ot of protest nil Senator Smoot Severn Several times efforts were made by b counsel for the defense to whew show that thu t his story was teased based on hearsay but hut the attempts were met with tin army arm of or facts taken from signed statements of or members mem ben of or the Church documents which are nrc n a part of oC the records record of uC the nIts of or persons present ent at lit various places where the Church once eno was manifested and other evi eI evidence dente dence Judge Powers lower will continue tomor tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow row Judge Powers nt lit the Afternoon afternoon sea sen cs Finn don continued his review review of political affairs in Utah speaking specifically of or orthe the Thatcher and cases when those men wore were charged with ills Ilia obeying obe the rules of or the tho Church by nc ac C B R nomination for public without first taking counsel of ot the tile Church The Tho witness quoted a n number of or of or officers officers of oC the Church Chur h In their campaign against t Thatcher and Roberta H because of ot their acceptance lL nf ot without the consent of or high Church au authorities Among other matters of or Utah his history hl history I tory recounted by Judge Powers was WaR I tho the reconvened Democratic convention I on In Oct 22 2 1596 18 5 when lien the question of ot retaining redlining its ticket t in III the Held or withdrawing this thu ticket tIel and opposing tho the admission lon of or Utah UH an n II stole state was raised ruined Judge JudKO Powers spoke of ot candidacy for the senate and sold that four tour days after Thatcher announced on onn onn onn n platform opposed to church Interference ence once In politics he ho wua deposed as nn apostle liter After Cler hl defeat an all effort was made to bring about an no lion by hy the legislature I of oC the Church Churda that the defeat lIt watt accomplished by hy bythe hythe bythe the Interference In the thu This effort was wan unsuccessful and according to the witness Thatcher wan made to recant Isle his hl antagonistic view Flew Jew of ot Church Interference The Tho witness sA told of oC two to teachers In Mormon churches and lId schools being heinli deposed from their ecclesiastical au nu authority because e their political poll tI ul prefer preferences preferences were not approved ed by b the Church i and Nicol Hood 1001 who wrote a n 1 letter ltd ad II criticizing tho the election of oC Reed Heed Smoot to 10 tile the senate on the ground that high Church authorities should not accept such positions posit Ion II The committee adjourned until to |