Show TIlE THE 11 B NEW NEV NI W PROTEST tto Wo thet the tho committee or O 0 thc live that thit were verc authorized to tn mid nId to their number no o that n a 1 plan for fOl nn an null anti Mormon ormon organization might bo be tier per perfected iii selected twenty of or persons person for tOl tho purpose Wo do not no io believe bellco nil of ot them then will j rc as us some conic ot of them are arc 11 not of ot tho th dRill claim like likely ly Iy to follow toll a I suet lenders 08 is have fig ng tired Urcil In hI tho tim front of ot tho movement Thc Ih name nume of ot the 1110 ho prime mover Walter WalterJ J Mecke toes docH not now no appear In tho thu list lint for tor some reason renson lint Hut tho of ot otH H 3 II Iq IR l among tho thu chosen score core In view of ot tha thu declarations of ot Innocence by the tho of o tho the In tho the new lIew t I whirl which they th y hlo formulated tho tha testimony of ot 12 l I It II be lc before fore foro the Sonata commit tco of ot inquiry mattes naces Interesting It If not harmonious loading It will wll l ho o hy tw people who have han paid clo attention to the tho now no to which signatures arc aro being WP WI vp admit that but very v ly tow few have studied or even eve road the tho doc doe tuned deduce they did 11 lit not know of the polygamous testified to tl by President Pro Joseph Joaeph F J that tho Iho volt veil 11 baa haa been thereby tt In part for tor thu Ihu first time that nowhere In tho whole country did this testimony occasion so o touch much and acid humiliation as ns In III nod that th they y therefore denounce President lout dent Illat that tho the people of ot t or condone hl and lIke offences an it II libel upon their citizen citizenship ship find conscience Now No fancy K R IJ II H b baing placed upon n IL committee commit Ie to work up tip n a on o Much Hitch declarations as IU thOse after OrtI the following sworn testimony mony ho lie gave cave before the thc corn com MO we o m k the tic extracts front from tho thu I stenographic report 1 Mr lr Taylor Fayler How long have hao you OU I lived 1111 In III Halt Bait I iko city Mr Continuously since ma Mt fi Taylor Over Ocr twenty years year 1 tho the past peet six elx or eight years what haB hlll been tho ho general repute reptile t ute of or Joseph Jo K F 1 Smith the president of fit the tho church aH all to living with plural Mr That ThIt ho ice la s a II that ho he Is living in the tho irao thee tice of t fits hl faith fulth as III ct n a living with his isis wives In III cohabitation with vIti them Inferring to the lice protest against l Sen Hen Smoot signed by hy persons Mr Critchlow d that ho he It nt at the lice instAnce of ot Dr and acut that ho he Critchlow obtained tho tim aig g natures to 10 It that at nt least one of fit thu tho did not rend tho proto protest Then The followed this colloquy c Bolla tor 80 Ho these gner of ot thio name of ot tho thu III yourself our elt and your yourn OUI 7 Mr l J I do dj clot ot m menn an by hy n that JICe personal e I O I friends but hut a n t I thought you o said laid your OUr friends Mr Critchlow Yes sir fir not Inti mats mate friends of ot mine but acquaint j Senator Then arc arb we to understand that this movement was realty really Inaugurated and oM pushed by tho the mInisterial In the tho first nut In Instance Instance stance 7 Mr Ir Critchlow In the Instance It was Inaugurated by them thern because If It I may Inny say Ill so they were up to that moment the tho only persons persona who ever made any public protest against the condition tI on of or affairs in that state In tho ho discussion of ot this same matter of ot the feeling In regard to po polygamous relations wo we further from the tho Ice record Mr Ir Critchlow 1 t think that In nil alt probability as near cicar as I con can get at my state at ot mind at Ut that time It was that very ery shortly after att r the manifesto under the Iho conditions that existed ann ana that wu thought w vero ro to going to exist there was no Inclination on Oil the part of or the prose prosecuting prosecUting r to push these matters mailers as to present think that hint Is I so s thinking it was aa a n matter mailer that thaI would Immediately die dlo out Mr Ir You Van COtt c tt John Henry Smith Wile was there Mr SIr Critchlow I think FO ro Mr Van Cott Colt It was wan well weli known that ho he living In unlawful cohabitation cohabItation Mr lr Ir That was wn our un on of ot It Mr Van Vaa Colt Cott So Ho well reIl known was this was wall it not SHIt to there thoro generally I llin ml t where they the knew that a prominent Mormon was 1111 living In III un unlawful U lawful cohabitation they the made m no rio ob objection objection to It II In tho the way WR ut of protesting to the Is la not lot that truo Mr rr Critchlow Do you mean the generally Mr Van Cott COli I J mean mcall the Iho mons generally Mr Ir Critchlow I think that la Is true tr e eh Mr h Van Colt Cott They rite rile were disposed ed to let things B Bol go Mr Ir CritchloW Yes sir I 1 think so Mr lIr Cr That was the goner nl at feeling cling Mr Yes Yea sir I 1 think so 10 Senator Overman When was that Mr Critchlow During the tho time of tho the manifesto lit lii September S on down to very ery recent times pretty near neur nearly ly 11 I up tip to date or practically up to date Vell non how If It I was wa going to tosny say lIn what wits was the tha general Inclination Senator Selin tor Overman rico Tho general In In Utah Is not nol to prosecute Mr Smith 1 Mr lr Ir Tho rho general Inclination ton tion III In Utah Is lii not to prosecute Mr MI Smith Senator S Then Theil what have you OU to say accy SI on that point ns as showing tho ho great popular Indignation Mr There la Is no Incline ion on tIm tha part of ot the nod I the tho Senator refers reters to ruther than to Mormons there thero In III no sentiment there In Utah no Ito great amount of ot sentiment there hero In III Utah lint would favor flor putting Joseph Josephp P Smith Iii hi tho the attitude of ot being prose prosecuted for tor his hl hi religion Mr Van VIm Cott CoLt Yon speak of or the general disinclination to prosecute Mr Smith at nt the present time That Is true generally of ot who were svere such tuch the manifesto Is It not Mr Yes Tea ils sir It Is so Mr Van acl Tott Cott Mr I l i It not the Iho net fact that tho the general feeling teel In Utah among leaving the Mormons out put of ot been that If It nil nh plural hint had ceased since Inco time tho these relations of ot unlawful they were vere practically willing to 10 dose clone their eyes to Mr lr Critchlow I think HO o except in III n canca they were Wre really or r where they occurred in III n such n II manner r as ns to ho he really ex Ox amples to tIme tho people Amongst the officials ami oven even with lIh them I think It would be four fair to my any 1111 that PiO Mil WHO were Inclined to minimize these Incite things as its much mitch as nil possible for tor tho the lence or of tilt ti lit State nod the tho community nod for tor lie its II and to 10 remove the tho ho reproach of ot It the Iho country Mr Van an Cott CotI Now an ns to John lenry Smith tIme the fact that n a child was boric mm Jorn to OUR olin of lit his hits plural wives WIell during durIn t ho Ia time of ut tho the constitutional c conven 1110 t ion on an as a n general rule vere verc disposed to overlook If It they felt satisfied 11 that hut there were ero no plural mar mur Mr Critchlow Yon Me Ir 1 I think no so soend end felt tolt that Mint tho the timing thinK would work vork It Itself BC self elf out III In tue future Mr Van ali Cott oU ott Hut But whore where the tho polyp OhR have had their wives living nl In separate hOUSOS and acid have simply kept tp Ui the tho old relations without un till often orton Ivo sivo th the tha public of ot the It has been practically passed lOS Oll over oer line has It 11 nut tit Mr fi Yes Yen Mr Ir as nil a 1 matter Or f tact fact It IUM litis bead bellI A moan man Mr It Van Vu Cott Cotto Is IH not this tho fact ileo ulso that you did dill not deem yourself an as icing being lowered in tho tue community In iii any anyway way when you yet ent on all tho ho stump Mump with John ohn Henry Smith Mr iIi II Critchlow I certainly did thU not notor notor or 01 I 1 should not lIot Intro have gone tOM Mr Ir Van Var Cott No I mean that was ho tho general feeling with the tho lol mimics Mr Yes sir Ill I think HO so HOMr Mr Ir Van Colt eol ott I 1 wan asking n you about Roll on Oil the flump with John Johll JohnI bury lenry I Smith at Rt the tho time ot of tho ice mies Ion by Senator Overman O So in well wel did lilt like John Henry Smith and others who ho are ciro stand In ii Utah that hat thought nothing of ot this bin association with them in political and anil l hU s affairs mil things ot of f lint kind kim Mr ir h Critchlow I think that Is true After ACter such sworn statements nit us tho tIm foregoing how lIow aw ecu elU K I H U on Oil tho the committee to 10 which he ice bus hOll busboon boon beon icon by 17 tho time original five 10 low can COli ho ice oven oell subscribe to tho Ohio pro test eel after evidence like that ho Ice Ices given tha the declare 11 to bo be boA beA A libel upon u on their hlll end con comm sciences And how onn uan those signers pretend Ignorance and Innocence of ot ox IX sting bUng conditions In tho time faco tuco of at tho the on which tho time agitation wa Willi vas started 1111 accused Smith ami tin others nf of lh the very er cr timings things he acknowledged mId nud In III view of or the admissions of ot K 17 II Il Tho names mines of ot samoa como ot or tho the of at tho the protest of nineteen citizens appear also alson on n tho the new maw which h contra let denies that lint which wan In the theother theother other thor lint Hut whenever did consistency lilno in an nil lormon any |