Show What Vl lude Powers Said S of Or Church Control Interest in His ls Testimony the tho News to Tulu I lh IKs Is lor 01 respondent for nn an Official o i ca I Transcript Tt of or the Questions and Answers on This Particular I Subject t Interest and speculation ns to what JUdge Powers really te tlC to b Cole tha senatorial committee nt nl Washing Washington ton tOI a 1 few ow days ago ngo on the tho subject of at Church property bus hUR been such that tho nt News la laet t night wired Its lB special correspondent at ot the capital for tor an 11 trl of at that part of at his testimony In tl and explanation tho following special dis dispatch patch this morning Washington 11 1 D L April Apri G flOI 1101 Prom From the Iho report of tho th Smoot hearing the tho following Is taken U I forms tOllS the only reference made modo by h Judge JUl Powers to the tho holdings of lC tho Church In business concerns In Utah mah Hopkins What Is thero In that re 10 aside from that polygamy which docs not commend Itself to 10 good go 01 citizenship Powers It Is the dom dam domination by U the Ih of ot tho people of ot thai tha faith constant teaching that they must obey counsel belief that the head of or tho Church Is and that I Ihu liu hu the tho word ot or when he Is II Inspired and Interference In our political cal ril affairs 1111 the power that the Church has hal over our OUI held II through sll by bythe the In nil ni our large cor CO but partitions I will wi not 01 say all all al of ot them tut Pettus 11 Judge Powers can 1011 you ou give us UI any ni reasonable estimate of or the value of at the te corporate property hold halll by hy the Mormon Church cannot nt at moment 1 OIW I 1 I ICI can CI state Into on or 01 two tl Institution For Jor Instance thero In 1 the street It tt railway which has hll recently been with our electric lighting system Salt Sal Lake Ilke you OU mean ell Powers In Salt Lake fit 1 our elec electric pon r system I capitalized and for or many lall millions of or dollar employs s hundred of ot men mn You do not regard th the fact that Hie Iho Church holds property pro pert nn ni any 11 thing detrimental to the Chunh do you 01 Powers Nd 1111 I dont donl think ni church to 10 be ht a I business Institution tion lon and in II running street roll rollways ways banks bathing resorts thine temporal McComa Do you OU think the Mor Mormon tor mon Church ChuICh is II a n tru t In to Incorporations 1018 Powers It I Is s 1111 The trust representing the dun hurch eh Is II In III Inthe the th e 1 corporation It continuing Joos I Interest by 1 the In nil ni the larger corporations pub lie Il or 01 public monopolies would be bl bald for mo 10 to say In whether it I linn hn a f controlling Inter Interest ORt est In II Ihl hem I would not want to state whether it has hOI or 01 not of ot t corpor corporations controlling public monopolies and the Morman Church controlling on Oi election day Is 11 It or 01 Is It not lut true Iro that the Ihl Church whore Mormons control try Ir to control Iho votes lle of or their th h e or 01 favor fa v 0 people or the th candidate they the favor do to not know of such Much In III Instances stances do not to Influence an owners of or IM Halley Ami whatever Influence they exert over Ol the member Church Is 18 Taylor Haft It I been that It II difficult for 01 corpora owned by b the Mormon Church to obtain such general Il I legislation as o might Its 11 him not been le n for them to In obtain from our city Il councils Van Colt Tho Power 1011 company In 11 Salt Lake before belol M I consolidation with the tl company was Wil controlled by bya ly a I regular was wal It nl wan Af Vin al the tha street railroad Il I ron I I company by h a I separate corporation Powers It was I Van 11 Ott they tho ero oll i lell It I wan under Uller the name nomo of oC the I Light company Powers Yes Mh Van you OU n the II Chuich Chulch I owns a 1 of ot that stock Powers No sir Air I do not Van nn Cott Why do you 01 say sn the Church controls that corporation Mill mid it tt hall had control through Its trl who ho owns and con controls certain of oC the stock toll of that cor COl but how ho much luch I r do not know 10 has large lurge voice olce In it 1 I dont dolt pre lIre pretend tend to 10 81 hl the amount 1111 Who ho Is the Iha of ot the eph V I Smith Halley Who Is hI Joseph R J president t of the Mor Mormon mon Chi ehl Th Ih of oC Mormon Church Van t hiI I 1 you do to not 11 any A do to you OU that the 11 and the Church or 01 its Il leading all ni put own n of the tho stock of ot that corporation O because ns 01 1 t hn alli to 10 you lU I dont know Imo much stock they t h lime Ji VI In III It I 1111 Van ln o If Ir all ni thoA people put together do not own the control of o othe the stock In III that corporation do you 01 Mill 1111 nay 81 It I Is 11 the Iho hurch runs I h corporation and It I I oben this that president Irl of o tho thu Church Is president of the Ihl corporation that the attorney of til corporation Is a 1 leading member In Inthe the Chinch that when Ih 11 It consolidated I your firm which hall had been for tur the railroad com company lOI pany OR superseded 11 by h n 1 of tn Mormon Chinch and I do not know 1101 any In reason 1 n why 11 they hlo it I awny IWO from you Van 11 the tho Inferences on Oi which you 01 stale that thin Is l controlled CUI t by 1 the Church Ih f yes I Powers These at Inferences |