| Show ON Jle tho O IU or tho Ch w Iho A n J h rnA dent Joseph K 10 Smith of the Mormon Church on the stand for or the ilc d dell ell PI the s cond week of th oC or tho Iho moot case eme opened toda todal l tho Iho committee on and Dubois put Into tho record the census for taken tolen In III IW 1890 to chow that In III Instead stead of only three or four l Jr cent Ii III polygamy an all Mr Smith had said In III re reply reply ply there were about 23 per 1 I cent 0 Jf tho Mormon population ot if nn age ou them the III to bo lio win hJ were In tn that Stale Slate In Senator Du bois Kavc Ine It II ns liS his hili opinion then ther been no material reduction r In th Ih number of ls since l O Mr Ir Worthington conducted an 1111 exam of or Mr Smith to ascertain the th ono In III of or Tho explained the manner In which the Church Is 18 Into of wards s mid machinery of o the tho h which U any 1111 per pcr lIOn BOH have hll 0 to tobo bo brought and up upon on Oil He paid tho to do with tho judicial ot oC the tho Church They preach tho Iho Gospel and pend fen II missionaries to fo other Holds Tho President Apostles mid 1111 Councilors forming what Is known ns tho fifteen meet oneo a n week for prayer find consultation on all matters generally relating to the th Church The futile effort by U President Brig Imm Young In III to have hae Bishop Ja In Jacob cob I lie 1 removed irom the Ihl leader leadership ship of a ward want Willi related by h Mr Ir Smith to thol the tho presidency docs not lIot exercise ower over oer the wishes of tho people that the members of tho Church liy tl the freedom of their vote In reality rea III form Drill Urn power of lIt Several other like Instances vern re related reo for the tho same general purposes OF OJ JAN JA 19 n 1511 ISH Mr ton read rea the tho revelation hy Joseph Jm Smith Jr Jan 19 1 us nl president and nn nil nl the tho of If the High ill and the In III this r was a U command to 10 nCr tilt the or to reject them In II Ien rul OIl con t Mr Ir declared that even evenIn In tie 1111 ordinal revelation no III the th to 10 the Ihl It WOR WORIn In th power cC the tho members to accept acceptor or Mr MI Smith In reply to nn 1111 In lIall Heed Smoot became an 9 I 1900 l her let mo 1110 ask osk you ou when your lust child was horn born asked Mr I know Imol whether that has any en the case callI wild ald Mr III but 1 I It on tho day Mr Smoot nn on Apostle I there has been none since Ince fOil Mr III No th Then FO 10 fur ur ns Oil you Mr III Smoot were cO concerned I you were In III harmony remarked 1 Mr Ir DISCUSS Y Mr toll whether at any of tho Joint of the presidency and the Apostles the cilles lion of polygamous cohabitation had hadl l m discussed Mr 11 It had lot In III either advisory ory talk or 01 In regard to the tho Inking of nf Uio Iho action to prevent thu tho practise He declared that when Mr Smoot became nn Apostle Apo tle tho of oC most of the had hadeen ha been een fixed many years ars before bHore Jn In answer to question by b Mr Ir Worth alid Senator Mr Smith said Senator Smoot had e etor for tor or continuance of oC cohabitation EDMUNDS Im LAW CONVICTIONS S SIn In returning to 10 convictions Mr 1011 Smith said there thelo had been bren none nono SIMO the of that all of the tho con convictions under the tho J law were While Utah was WM u II territory Senator Dubol referred to Mr Worthington as aa counsel for or Mr Smith I pretest said Mr tr WorthIngton I um not the tho attorney for the wit new If I 1 were the examination would have been fur far different A list of ot the tho first Olst Judges judge elected since that the tho for tor Utah was WIS a 1 showed Iller territorial Judges were chosen without exception and that oil all of oC them had formerly sent Mormons to prison for polygamous cohabitation Tho pur deny the Inference rose po e of ot this was to that the Mormon Church dominates tho courts Mr loll read the list of ot cn and representatives elected from Ulah since the manifesto In 1890 to how chow the Iho percentage of Mormons to The witness 8 wa asked skelt In to each was ho a Mormon or orn 11 n In to Frank J Cannon who i wan wall elected to 10 the Mr Ir Smith lip ns cla sed ns liS a 11 I Mormon ormon but lie wai WM a 1 poor one Recess until afternoon oon |
