Show I I J JUDGE bt r POWERS WI WIGI GI GIVES tS Most Prosecutions Under Edmund Law Were for or Polygamous Cohabitation Coli alit I a t ion FEW WERE VEBE FOR POLYGAMY POL Undertook to Show That the Of or be the Church and State Stile Are Me trum Very CI Intimate THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF UTAH Was Reviewed Claimed That Church Controlled In CIl Civil as el as S In Ecclesiastical MaIrs Special to the News Neis Washington 1 I D C April Apri Thatcher Is II the lust last witness to 10 arrive In iii II Washington up UI to the tho tl present time Ho lie reached tIm the city last evening eolin but owing to his bis physical condition huts hUH not appeared In tho the committee room 1001 up to this writing Mr Thatcher la is 1 within call cl however anti and 1111 will be bo ready ady to testify when his hla presence Is la needed So I far 11 ns its 11 proving time the contention that the Church takes an Interest In politics In Utah Judge Powers Power has hal the time witness for tor the tho faction up to the tho present time The Judge Judie scarcely needed to 10 be 0 hd Id by I IiI Ally iI farler He Ho lund hud evidently t t C t ted tId teti ed eti Id considerable care of or his hi testimony and ho he called colled rolet off or dates Intes amid political facts tide ns as ni readily ns as O though he Ie liar had written out anti and ani committed to memory memo the tho state statements ments ho he to present enl to the tho committee i but about everything that he ho hn hM hiM said sui f If I r politically rotates relates to 10 tho the poll prior to 1890 nut nt he be certainly has hM not yet ret demonstrated that anything of ot which ho he has haa knowledge applies to tho the election of Senator Ho Ito Jo occupied the entire etim time during durinA thu th morning session and iii hind had hadnot not nol concluded when time the hour hOr for tor or arrived J POWERS I SI IN Washington April Apri 22 The tirs fUL nt 11 ness today In the time case ense In 11 the semi sen senate ate committee on privileges audi elec dee elections lons was Judge 0 O W V Powers who vimo was appointed by President Cleveland In li H as lS nn an In assistant justice of ot the supreme court of ot Utah At that time prosecutions under tho thia Edmund Edmunds act were Just beginning amid during his hIl In Incumbency Incumbency he his said there theu haul had been 10 persons prosecuted for or polygamy and polygamous cohabitation among thorn thom being Lorenso Lrenzo Snow then one of ot the thel Twelve Apostles who afterward was wM elected President of oC the Church hutch Mr Snow was WU convicted and sentenced Judge Powers said ho he had hal examined persons who applied fur for naturalization In regard to an In application by ono 01 Nells Neils Hanson Judge loer sald ho was informed by b Hanson lanson that he ho Would obey the laws of ot the Church rather than laws of ot the land lall It If they should run to 10 each other The he ap at application for was WIS denied In Itt regard to prosecutions Judge JIlge Pow Powers Power ers era er said most mott of ot them thorn hind had been iteen for tor polygamous cohabitation few tel Ions were had for polygamy ho he said all as ns there thero WOK was then thon no marriage law 1111 marriages were secret and polygamy therefore was hard to prove proe Judge Powers reviewed the tho political history of or Utah to show tho the close rein lon of or tho the Mormon orlon Church with lh political polca affairs affaire alto also the tho Intimate asso association of ot tho the Church with the tho local anti municipal government Ho lie showed that the tho Church In civil aa ne lS well wel rue 11 ecclesiastical affairs In III ono Ole case cane It was shown that n a man was wa din ilis and ant was wan RI summoned by Abra Abraham ham hani 0 O president of oC the tho council of 01 tho the Utah Wake Hake f al o of ot Zion lAna It I not shown any relationship existed bo be tween toned Senator Smoot nan man men mentioned |