| Show ilU LL GI GIVES f CL Told Senate Elections Committee He Could Only Think of Five c le In ID s HE REVAS WAS FIRED FROM CHURCH Expulsion He SaW Said Not lot NO HI 11 Ills Ic Hade a I Particle I of ur Difference In Ills Is Business Busine DECLINED TO ANSWER QUESTIONS Did Pid Not rot ot Care C rc to Say What Had lad Trans When He lie Ic Was Vas Married In Endowment House louse Special to the News Newl e Washington D I C Jan Urn tho nut fist timo since IncO tho th Smoot hearings be bej beIn tho tha committee room was Wa j In n l Int t ut 1 a bevy belY of ot women who b ben been n attendants at each see sea lion ilon Today Toay through the tho morning Mm c C N M Owen was vae tho the only lady who oc ped a I neat lent In tho Urn room rom Apparently th testimony In favor ta vor of at Senator moot Smoot produced to Into has gone sono tar far enough to convince spectators Ip ns ti well wel ii Il a majority of at thc tha Ihl senators that the tho die cue of ot the hal hn fallen flat Oat flatIn In Ia that the senator has hu been able to refute tho the charge char o of ot Church domination In temporal affairs In the tho Witnesses for forthe Iho the lena tor have at least leut been equal In reputation to any Iny of ot thosa thoas brought here hereby by Dubols Dubis and they have certainly con II flatly talY the men who swore that the Mormon absolutely absolute con troll troIs political affairs In Idaho and Utah Four testified during tho the morning eeron they were James E Lynch Hugh Dougall Dougal Alonto A Noon and ind William Hatfield Their evidence bought out nothing startling and tind 1111 was va a amply limply In line lne of ot the tho policy ot Senator moots attorney to demonstrate that Mormons Mormon like Methodists or er any tey other religious sect vote volo as at they peate or as aa S the conscience dictates By Dy Associated Press Prel n Jan 14 James E K ot of Halt Salt Lake Lako waN waH tho first fit r today In the Investigation It I 1 I a Democrat and a non or ormon mon tron a Atty ty ttY Van Cott Cot for tor Senator intent mon examined the s concern concerning ing the th statement that that Angus Angul M Can Cannon non roa Jr his lila hail said h tho the marriage of Abraham tanton fannon and Illon In 1806 1896 Mr Ir said enid ho he Investigated ted tho the by Angus AngUA Cannon Jr at atthe atthe th the request of ot K J I B D Critchlow and fount louo that Angus M Cannon Calnon Jr woe not mat nt In Ia California In II WO mG but the tho wit M ne S admitted that his ble h hd had d made the tho statement lie le declared however that Cannon was wae drunk when J i he fald eald It I Chairman Burrows asked Mr Lynch concerning tho the feeling of ot young Mor dor Mormons none mons Ions on 01 the question of ot polygamy Witness s said that they the felt fel that tho tim must be done dolo away with wih but lut that ho had heard heArl nothing of th young moung Mormons making a I protest to toto the to heade of ot the Church HUOH lUOU M 1 r H U II M 11 Dougall Dougal of ot Utah bo ho explained that he was waa flied fired 1101 from tram the th Mormon Church wan var culled called to the stand H lie He Is he postmaster poet master of ot his town of ot Inhabitants He lie could coull think of ot only In II and sold eald lucre therA had been no since 1800 ISDO Ills Ille from tho tIme Church hurch In 1874 ho hI laid ald la had iad not lot made lado a particle of ot differ tern re in hi hiI his business even een though a n ma Jor rIty of It f his business came camo from Mom Mor mona mom momA A As AI a a Mormon ormon he took tonic the endow monte in 1802 He Ito le wee wan wal about 25 years old then and an wa wa wae married at that time l h he sold maJd lad woe was wal the only time hn ha har Iad ben been married About went welt through with wih him Mr WorthIngton f t M the oath nat of ot vengeance given by f certain ruin witnesses and nd Mr tr Dougall sal Bal eald jn the e oath was WA to the blood of oC th prophete or martyre martYr on thle gen hV Hi oration and ad not nt on this nation as hid v bp a n Mr Ir said aW h he hall hail t DoUgAl h served Bere In is th the e t it and was elected In a I Ar Mormon n county As to his hil expulsion front the h burch ho hn had nothing to say aay ked tho the witness t iu for to the nature natura ot of the tho ceremony per me When he was married In E WI tho the thoI WI an and Mr Do Sal I re me j I do not believe I that care to tell I senator tel m te Wt 11 there ther W what 1 a took penalty attached ached It If you Yea What was that penalty r I to state Wa Was It severe levero AV AVI As I remember It woe 11 r I Yes as It death mere o l e d do do 0 not belea I cart care to answer RY any questions on o that subject you have a n part parl of or your tee re g and yet you decline to the i state TM Yel e You were 8 e married tn when y you OU U tOok the tho l m n I Iro ro ron 0 flu n that t d day y sir air lr 1 he that thal on one could tot t be rould It bi flarried In ln the Temple Templo b 4 taken a en the untIl Int he Other hut huL that t M legal dl marriage ceremonies waro vere Outside I de Plural he 01 marriages said I d et ant be d outside emp ot of the Church Ye Say lay You were t expelled 30 O years ago you the t Yet Yes Ye sir r rt A And n you teal feel that after these thee t years yearB Mont ti a are Ste from ili the Church your obliga bInding T on you I eI sir air r I havo e illi considerable p Swore not t I divulging reveal revea anything I on t tod Mr direct r the witness tol that h he had t a 0 Obligations hac tak In a 0 secret acre society and end ho he had the some sauna scruples against dl such obligations A A NOON NOONA A A Noon Non of ot a r Republican of ot the peace veco and mul former Mom Mor Mormon Mol moon mon lon who sh voluntarily withdrew from the Church in 1870 testified tl that young Mormons amo opposed to and also n o that Mormons nr not tak tal Interest in politics Church as al a I He has hI been a n for tor orce bl hi Inco aud with wih the time ex cx exception of or 1806 1888 hits has defeated Hu lu lb endorsed Solicitor highly mind and was not he sold said soldat sall at It his election electon an no senator After his lila marriage Mr I Noon said BRI he took tok tOrn the endowments Mr r Worth Ington asked aked him hl If It he took mi 11 oath to avenue avenge tho blood of ot prophets on out this nation naton Witness stid he lie was warn perfectly clear that nothing In the obligation expressed caressed e hostility to tho the nation or to t this th A government Ho lie Je said It was taken from the tho Scriptures Revelations chap ter 6 verses veres 9 0 and und 10 There was wa wai With Ing lag In n It I he ho wild said of to th time United States He Re le said Ild It bee 40 yore yat ammo ho hue took tool the tho endowment and he could not remember tho Clue exact exactas press prest In language Iafe him himOn himOn himOn as a It I did not nt particularly Im Pu In On Mr tr Noon said asic he did not concen himself with wih polygamy polygamy amy am and was unable to plate tato who were pol In Provo Prove Mapy MAllY nature names namo wore were read rend to him and he Identified them by common repute as living In tn 1 Chairman Burrows asked Mr Noon Naomi also Rl o in regard to tho the endowment cero cern ceremony mony moy and he ho declined to state Its Is na uma nature natle title ture tle Ho lie 10 would not sicy SIY whether hether there was WR a ohanio ln tum II wearing apparel whether there was n a severe eyere penalty nt at It to revealing what had hud taken place or cr anything connected with wih tho obligation What would you yomi 01 say Ba Is fa to whether the penalty was to have hu the tongue torn out Olt or the tho out out of at the tho body asked Chairman Burrows Burows I 1 do not feel eel that thal I 1 could answer Mr fr Noon replied DOUGALL Mr Dougall wan waa recalled nail and asked whether then thel wan WiY anything In II hin Ide hil en In with lh his hU allegiance to his bin hl state and the nation Ho ic replied that thorn there was Wil nothing Mr N OIT was recalled n and id tho tim same annie question queston In ha the negative Chair man Burrows Mr h Dou Dougall gnu gall nl and ali several wanted to tl know why wh he ht would anita a part of at the ceremony und anti would not State It all 11 Ho lie scald Bald ld he fe could coull not hot remember time the exact wording of tho the obligation of ot Yen ven en but butt was wae WIS sure suro It was WI nut not lot hostile to tho time government mid Ind that It was wal ex exclusively elusively religious md timid not related In any affairs manner to civil or governmental WILLIAM WILIIAM William hatfield of ot balt fall Lake City wan WAi sworn Ho Ito 10 was u n Mormon un until til iii t he was wn 22 years of ago ngu und and then themi drifted away from the time Church Ho 11 tes tel titled tilled that polygamy IY was vas decreasing lu that he had Pm hal known of ot no plural marriages since Inco Mr took tim the endowments nt at atthe the tho time he ice was WAi married maried Ho lie lo was 21 years old 01 then than and left Ie It the Church about a ear car later inter Inter Koon Hoon after he ice vaa aa sworn tho the committee took tonic a n recess |
