Show r T SMITH MITH I If IS r f EXCUSED L f AT T L TI r I Promised to Get Into Communication II III I J tion tn With WillI Witnesses Wanted By the Committee V HARMER TELLS OF HIS CASE DASE ii Said SaW He lie lIell cd That ThaI Senator Smoot 11 i Was Vis for or Ills i Arrest ii 1 March Several oil dais clas wt ot the Mormon Church today odny In the tho CU I be I foro toro the tho donate on oil privileges mid aEd elections that they had plural wives Ive i hUll continued l l to 10 practise polygamous cohabitation the manifesto s cr or 1500 M V Just before adjournment for the day lIa V I the committee held heW an on executive Beulon 41 The stated that It U had hail no nomore nolt lt more mure ready reldy to 10 put on the Ihl t I stand eland on account of o othe he failure of ot ReV nev never ReVeral ev everal er eral n I of ot the theman Mor llor Mormon mon man Church to appear i K F 10 was wan to use Influence with tho the V tEd to 10 got Rot Into j il Uon lon Ion with them It If U Lt was possible to 10 do du dol l tj 10 0 t I lI Loren foren r formerly a ft Bishop of or orth I th the Mormon dornon today Hue uve tIe the tIeS S first testimony lit itt favor of ot tho Iho that has haH been offered fred thus thull far In tho thod thoI I eight d ht days of ot lie He sold saId ho he I waif Kai convicted of or thu tho of or adultery and that tha t tie lie believed Heed Reed Smoot was wim lii i for hl his arrest against t Harmer was unlawful cohabitation tation With lIh a n woman who was Wats not hot his wife Ito and not nol a t 1 prosecution on account I l i of ot cohabitation with his iiI plural wives I V President Joseph K J Smith and a n number of at of or tho Iho Church have hoc been In tho tilo calle today ti won excused from further attendance 1 ind uld they the will 1111 return to lo Utah i TIm Chairman asked ell In III regard I to lo the ceremony performed In InI Int t I ho Iho Church Hu ho loke of at the marriages tiP for tor time the marriages for tor time mid and eternity anti tile the I for or rb only and asked It If the latter Is not no noI I Hilled They are aro all ull was Willi tho the I reA po I j 11 tills oils for tor eternity ever vcr per performed ler formed for tor living persons I I believe I have heard hearl of ue one or two II inch Ilich cases Fi M salI l tho the witness Are Aro any p ever eer sealed for tor I INo II eternity I 7 I No sir r rI I Does Doc thin service of sealing for or etor elar I ID alt carry the right of ot earthly I iI lion lionI 7 v x I r No Is lathe the practise over ever ell an ai n n a right T Not that I 1 know of Chairman asked lI the ho witness lo to Identify the tho Hook Book of ot Mormon and anti then Ihei to 10 tho Iho ho revelation of at the tho i I j Prophet Joseph ho asked sped peel i It Iti 1 80 Ill to the tho manner It was WasI I revealed nail was Informed that It was wall V to 10 him hIlT by h flod Joll Chairman asked a ked If It polygamy nn all taught In Ia that book hook and Mr Smith answered that It woo was emphatically for tor bidden 1 NI Heading from the tha hook book which 1 I III II I ii railed the tho Mormon Bible Chairman I Vl called attention to the words I Df f Clod Ond In reference reter to 10 David nod Solo Solomon ron mon his displeasure uro because of or the V that ho kept more than one ono wife tad nd nit many concubines Tho The chairman I 1 asked If It that lid did not polygamy Vi end If that was tho the CORe case when was tho the V of ot tho the Lord changed lit in order to 31 permit tho tUe practise u Mr Smith ald siW tie the book hoole or tho the law luw ij had Ilal not Mt been modified AmI that the chairman had read only a II part of or the Iho chapter I Head further ho said Chairman Burrows lead tead a 1 verse where the tho Lord commands the chastity of at women but still tho the witness said Read Oil on V Two more moro verses were road real and ami these e provoked like requests until the chair chairman chairman man ma 11 objected 1 I dont want to 10 read the entire lii bio bl he lie sold SMITH L tu ADS Mr Smith took tho the book and rend read n a averse verse veree which declared that when the tho Lord Levi wanted wan led his seed propagated he would command It This the witness declared Justifies polygamy when u a person Is 18 commanded by tho Lord to enter that state lIe He sail l the command came to Individuals as ns revelations from tram the thc Lord Senator Dubois Dubols nuked asked a I number of questions que In regard to 10 the revelations received recelo by Jy Mr Smith but Mr Van Colt tott counsel for the defense objected lo to the tho character of or the Inquiry He lie proceeded to tho the point at III some length when Senator Hoar Interposed ell saying paying that he would object to 10 arguments ments ment by hy the tho attorneys calculated to overthrow tho the rules established by the senate years ago In the matter of con conducting conducting ducting Investigations He lie sold said the tho counsel el were present for fOI the purpose of ot aiding the Inquiry arid nial that It could ho bo presumed by them that the senators would do Justice to all parties Janie He lIe said It was not hl wish that any question be ho put to 10 convey the to the minds o CIt 01 those present that because of his hl strong conviction of ot the tendency or delusion of If religious faith of the tho witness that ho hn questioned the Iho ht right of ot the tue of or to elect n it 1 member of ot that faith to a n seat slat In thu United States HinteR senate provided the man elected had not violated any nil law of ot thO tholand land NOT A Wlm Senator B Dubols Dubots explained that he wits was not a IL lawyer and aint It was 1111 his purpose to 10 ask Illk questions which a Il layman would understand and he hc wanted n a broad broadview broadview view taken In the Investigation Ha Ito Hathen then asked the tho witness whether r any revelations ho he had received had hall been heen sustained In the general conference through the thc uplifting of lC the hands of ot those thoKo present The witness answered An that ho had hlll re reo received no revelation sustained In that manner and explained again that the Iho Individuals by living a n moral life lite In Inthe inthe the tho sight of the I rd could tt c lvA rev roo revelations If they the were prayerful lIe He said the tho I rd would manifest t His 1118 will 11 for their Have you received Individual revelation asked Senator Dubols I cant say fay that thai I have tho the witness replied Can oh you OU say m U 1 nave V Voh not nol No but JuL If It I lived aa us I should live I Iam Iam Iam am capable of ot receiving Impressions from the tho Lord Just as all n a good gooel Methodist t might but bul I cant soy say sn that they inc ate revelationS Speaking of ot the endowment Mr said In reply reilly to Mr Tayler that the tho obligation Is tho the same saab ns no It always has been but that It Is not net an oath Vo Se 0 abjure oaths Mr Smith said that he was vas ns absent from Utah during the tho prosecutions un tin under tIer der the I net that he hll was not therefore prosecuted Was titer there a warrant out for tor you asked Senator Dubols I can present It to you now re rc responded responded the witness with some fome snap snail It was taN returned to tl me Ine Then you were pot not ot at It homo home looking after atler your our wives I was not neglecting them theal entirely to Mr Hoar Mr Ir Smith nid he considered that conditions In the tho State of ot Utah Justified him hint In the tho course ho Ih had hall pursued WHAT WAS TO TOOn TOOn TOOn On the other hand baud ho said vo we W have agreed not to any un more mor plural marriages II 1 f I a anti and I dont believe ho added bringing his clenched hand hanl down dowl on Oil the tho table tallie that that under understanding standing has been een violated Replying to trl Senator lepow DeloW Mr Mi h said no new revelations are 1110 In Incorporated In tho the of ot Mormon hut but butIn hutIn hutIn In the tho Doctrine and Covenants Senator Hoar asked ached some soma questions V bringing out lit the thu status of ot children under tinnIer the law lat 11 of ot Inheritance Tho rho children of ot wives t Ives get Het only what Is IH willed stilled to them or to their mothers said Halll the tue witness In my myown own lire I have made deeds to t my dif dlf families rum Illes He lie said In reply to 10 Mr Ir that the Book look of ot Mormon Is not tho the Mormon What hat Is III tho the Mormon TUble King 1 Janice James translation of at the nible mille Wo We W have hlo no Bible except the 10 of ot other Christian people Replying to questions relating to his hl former testimony t concerning Apostle plural marriage since Mr Mi Smith said It was Willi his understand understanding ing from himself that at the tho time limo of ot that marriage Mr Ir was WIlK sealed scaled for tor eternity to 10 an elderly woman who vho had hUll been his housekeeper Mr Ir understood said Knill tho the witness that tho the woman was In no sense his hili Ingal iagal V wife when shen Ill he w married Mary hUe His lI relation with her was wa Just as ns chaste an as with his sister Precisely so RO the witness replied Ho lie added that ho he had personally known knowlI of two other cases of or sealing scaling for tor eter oter eternity and that the tho Church sealed both bolh for tor or time and eternity At th thu tho executive session BOulon of or tho the com corn before recess was taken It was WM decided to allow a is photograph to 10 bo lie taken of ot the tho m tomorrow but Jul with no witness present ent Andrew Andrea Jensen l historian of ot tho the Church at nt tho afternoon session Res loll said aid ho hal hail two to wives who ho were sisters slaters and they tho both lived in the Iho same SAml house though ho he lived with Willi the first Mr Jensen saul said h ho he was tas not sot sealed In eternity to 10 the mother of ot the two wives I TOIl Lana hornier testified that hn he was wasn wasa n a 1 bishop for tor live JIve or six nix years but had hiatt been sent to the tho penitentiary In 1859 1890 18 upon 1101 conviction of ot and lout lost his hili good standing lie He said III III he ho rind hail two 1110 wives and Ida and I nd had lived also with mien Anderson hut but never as RS her husband HA 11 said she had two children by hy him one ono since lie Ilc had returned from tha ho penitentiary uenH no iio MIl Hv d In la I He lie said ald mien Anderson supports herself und tend that he had eon con contributed on nothing for tor her herself elf or her children Ho lie said suld she ehe hud had property of her own Mr Harmer was asked askell If It Senator Smoot hail had anything to do lIo with his ar arrest arrest arrest rest I think he lie caused ca It he said HaitI HaitIe He lie e was wa counselor at nt that time to tho the president of the tho stake 0 who was then away uway He lie 0 called me to Pr vo and told me methe methe methe the Church Proposed proponed to take uway my m and other I asked him to give glo me time to prepare pre aru my funnily family and then Ihen I started home Why was he going to take lake away your Our offices I hall hail committed a crime What hat crime Adultery to be frank frnnk Why do you OU think Mr Ir Smoot caused your our arrest before I reached home the tho sheriff overtook nod put me under nr rest rent re t I blamed Smoot for sending the sheriff after me inie I thought he lie might hOve have given in more time although all hough the tho I crime was n it bad one olle I do not know that was responsible for tor my ar ur arrest rest but It looked much like It APOSTLE t M II SMITH S Hyrum M Smith 32 years old u it 1 son eon of ot President Pre Smith It h und and one of the tue Twelve Twel vo Apostles read a 1 speech he had made In 1631 ISH In City at one of lit the quarterly conferences In which he salt Bald each one In tho the matter of or obey obeying obe obeying ing laws docs ns nil he pleases c but hut that hut each must bear bror the of ot his acts H lie said uld that was WI itS his lila view He lIe explained nt at length tho tIne manner maimer of ot sending out missionaries anti and said polygamy was wall not talked and 1111 that polygamous cohabitation Ion had mini never been talked nt at a 1 conference at lit which Mr Smoot was isas present At other meetings he ho had hunt heard dis the continuance of at plural mar Iliac marriages and the Apostles hint had taken steps to 10 prevent It Polygamous Ration lilt lon he lie said had not been consid considered ered When hen he lie Smith went on a II foreign mission IIII to Great Orent Britain he had been instructed not to discuss polygamy IIII He lie never meYer hall hail discussed It u as 1114 an Ax hut but when he win was n a 1 missionary he lie had told certain persons who shio assailed tho tine that It I was wall n Ii teaching of lit tim the nible null and had ended the controversies by b referring the tine persons to the tho Bible BO so BOthey they could Judge for themselves Senator Hoar Did you commend to prospective converts the rule rulo of oC your our Church against t polygamy I 1 always refrained from on polygamy THOMAS rHOMAS Jf Jr IV Thomas 11 H Merrill a II Bishop m hop and n it nIon itson son Ion of ot Apostle Allo tlc Merrill said he lie hind hall two wives and that he lie had hod six children by bythe bythe the first and four foUl by llY tho tim second The Tho youngest child chilil by the lie second wife Is 3 years old Ills His second I marriage took place In tho the Logan Loan In 11 where ho Im said his promised to love loe honor und anti respect the tho woman and treat treather treather her In every way WilY as inn a wife wire He lie said ho he did not Know whether marriages performed In the time temple are l He lie had performed two ceremonies him hUn Keif sif H lt had kept only on nn an Individual In record He lie did dill not nol use 1150 time the Panic came ser service vice let twice ho hn believed and hi iii answer to Senator Hopkins said Hald naldI saidI I have looked hooked for a II prescribed formula for hut but never neer found one ALMA AliMA l Alma Merrill first counsel to the lIeu Hen Henson son Ion stake saul cald he hud hind two to wives ono one of o whom ho ha married In 1885 and und the tho theother other In 1886 1881 Ills Itta wives wi VCR were sisters J and Rebecca hendrIcks I Ity y tho time first ho he said he unit had seven cn children and inid by tho the last eight and three others had died Tho Thu prosecution had hall no mio more wit wll witnesses nestles nesses today to put on the Bland Time The names of Apostles Merrill Teasdale Tea h ll Taylor and Cowley Samuel Sumuel S Ii Newton Nowton I IJ J 3 M H Tanner and nOlI Moses MORes Thatcher were I rend read anti and they failed ailed to respond to their names lIames President Ire Smith wits asked to do 10 all nil ha hl CUll can to Induce thelm witnesses to respond rp to summons At time tho request of Atty All Taylor TIler for forthe time the prosecution tho the committee went Into executive It H was agreed that counsel for mind against Senator Smoot should endeavor to come conie to 10 an nl agreement I on a n state stute statement statement ment of facts In the case |