| Show MORE CITIZENS ADMITTED on november 18 judge anderson And ereon held a session of court at which a num number berof of citizens were admitted and will hold another eveni evening session next week for the beela benefit of workingmen who cannot appear in court in the day time this morning several other citizens were admitted their names being wm win loder thom thomas thom as andy J ross boss richard wilson john H birrell G W edgar and thomas E wilkes joseph bull a man nearly 70 years of age appeared and answered the ques questions tiong satisfactorily he was objected to by joseph hurd and d joseph LI lipman man on the ground that judge budford sandford had refused him because he believed in polygamy to this judge anderson andersen remarked if he was rejected solely for his hia belief in polygamy I 1 think the ruling was wrong further inquiry caused some doubt as to the reason for the former rejection and the matter was deferred till tomorrow that the circumstances might be better understood when mr loder was being examined lipman asked him did you ever take an oath in the ell endowment Hou house seV mr moyle thought the question was improper but the court allowed it thomas goodman was one of the bitnes es ee of the good character of tb the e applicant and lipman asked him ado do you believe in in polygamy mr goodman prom from a religious standpoint yes mr lipman I 1 think that if a man believes in polygamy his testimony to another persons person s good moral character should not be admitted mr moyle will this court say that a mans religious belief is a reason for holding him to be an incompetent witness judge anderson it does not make him incompetent but it should be considered in giving weight to his testimony thomas wilkes was objected to by lipman lipovan Lipo oan because he bel believed lived joseph smith was waa a prophet upman lipman thought that every man aio who so believed had confidence in ia a fraud and should not be naturalized court I 1 know many good citizens who have been defrauded this is a matter of his religion let him be sworn A J ross boss passed the courts inquiry all right but when mr moyle askel aske I 1 him if he had ever been guilty of fornication he blushed put his hand to his face and denia denied it mr moyle to mr youngberg Young beig a witness for foe mr ross boss have chave vou ever known know n of ross boss having commit ted fornication r mr youngberg growing very red hedwin n the face and very angry that is foolish question I 1 dont think here is 18 any man of his bis age who has hae not I 1 think that is a d d foolish question mr hurd objected to the qu question es and the court sustained the objection mr moyle called the attention 0 f the court to the fact that it bad regularly allowed the liberal representatives to not only ask questions like that but many which were entirely foreign to the inquiry before the court judge fudge anderson then stated that mr Y youngberg jungberg oung berg sh should auld answer the question which he did after some hesitation in the negative ross boss was admitted after this was over there was a discussion as to the making of such inquiries by mr moyle the liberal representatives being very much annoyed at being met with their own manner of procedure durer hurd and lipman argued that the crimes of fornication and adultery should not be a subject of inquiry when a mans moral character was being testified to the court suggested that in some cases even a mans belief in polygamy amy had bad been proposed as a ground for objection As this was directly in point on mr lipmanas Lip mans action he be exclaimed polygamy is not the custom in this country but the oth erg era are why nine hundred and ninety nine out of every one thousand men in the whole country it bulge that way mr moyle I 1 am gratified mr lipman apman at your frank confession of your own situation I 1 am also P pleased leased that I 1 cannot include the cormons cormons mormons in your classification the first part of the remark brought our roars of laughter and as there was no further business court took a rece nov hov 14 was again occupied by judge anderson in hearing applications for citizenship and the following was admitted L leonidas leonida a matthew hudson F 0 webb henry deiner frantz kroll david jones her herman ma n holm gustaf D herber B R andersen W H andrews and casper ster in the case cam of delner deiner the witnesses had him but a little over a year mind and mr moyle objected to his admission on the ground that the law required that residence in the united states for five years should be shown the judge however admitted him and frantz kroll who wh 0 was in the same position two more I 1 liberal voters being thus added after they had gone however the judge said he had some doubt about such a procedure and would admit no more on the same terms when T 0 webb applied he was waa objected to by the liberal representatives because one of his witnesses was not a citizen having only taken out his first papers the court admitted him and said he would look more closely into the ats atsa a cowf issue raised and act upon the i esulis of his investigation on monday mr norris was refused admission bemuse because he thought he might aid in secreting a friend who might be accused of unlawful cohabitation and because he would not be as willin willing 9 to convict men accused of poly polygamy aa my as those charged with other offenses lenses of that is if it was a part of their religion 11 glor mr herber knew nothing of the constitution or principles principle of government but was not a mormon and was willing to obey the laws against polygamy he was admitted when john moore came he passed the examination satisfactorily and was about to be sworn when hurd and lipman asked him if he had taken an oath in the endowment house he said he had not they further urged that he had taken an oath against 1 n s t the government of the ani united t e d states mr moore denied that he hador that he had any memory of the government even being referred to lipman I 1 know that they so take fan n oath and I 1 want somebody acquainted quain ted with those ceremony ceremonies emoni some of the leaders subpoenaed to tell the court about them it is the general rule there to take an oath against the government of the united states but they wont reveal it B W driggs jr said that mr lipmanas Lip mans statement was untrue the applicant had testified that he never took such oath and the court had not the right upon the assertion of an officious clous and irresponsible person to compel the exposure of the secret rites of any organization court I 1 know we cannot make persons divulge the secret rites of any society but if any organization requires an oath against the government then we have the right to get at it if mr lipmanas Lip mans statement is correct then there are some who have left the church who can tell it lipman it is a notorious fact such an oath is taken but it is of such a terrible nature that not even an apostate dares to divulge it I 1 want some of these people who know who are in this organization to tell the court what that oath is mr driggs again objected unless the court would confine the inquiry to matters referring to the government he thought it was a gross wrong to compel men to divulge secrets just to gratify the curiosity of unscrupulous enemies if the matter was to be confined to any oath against the government he would like the court to so express it court the issue will be confined to ascertaining whether there is required ired of those who go through the endowment Edow endowment ment house an oath that is inconsistent with the duties of a citizen other secret rites or obligations shall not be interfered with congress has made special laws against this organization and its members and if there is an oath that is incompatible with the duties of a citizen that fact should be known lipman wanted authority to subpoena witnesses who might not be willing to come upon his hie in vi tation and the court granted the request mr moores application was deferred till thursday next at 10 a m when the witnesses will be called to tell what they know on the suba subject jec t introduced by lipman the rhe application of joseph bull whose case was postponed from yesterday to know the reason for his exclusion by judge henderson Hende raon was called and it was shown that he was refused citizenship because he said he would not take up arms against england in case of war the matter was referred to judge henderson to pass upon at an early day more citizens were admitted but none of those who stated that they were mormons cormons Mor mons passed though they were closely pincha pinched in the mill which has been instituted to ascertain the status of every applicant on the question of polygamy judge anderson presided edit at the proceedings having returned from ogden edward peterson came first he was not a mormon nV he became a citizen edward van ruty buty was not a mormon but he had bad attended a mormon meeting and had also been to sunday school a few times the liberal representatives attended to him and he replied that v he had been prompted as to the proper way of replying to questions mr moyle suggested to the court that it was not an offense to be prompted that was only one way of gaining information the court ruled that it was all right for a man n to be prompted on proper subjects such as appeared to be the case in this instance and mr van ruty buty was admitted oliver W choules had not teen been a mormon for ten years and soren boren johnson did not belong to that class so they were passed in the case of thomas M mumford lipman asked the court if he had ruled upon the question as to whether it would be proper to inquire of an applicant if he had committed fornication the court said he think it hardly proper to go into that unless it was followed openly and notoriously there was a difference between a single act and a continuous violation of the law as a matter of right or as a principle of belief john garbett was closely questioned by the judge as to his re legious belief after he had stated that he was a mormon mr garbett said he had never been 4 taught to obey the priesthood implicitly if he was advised to do that which he thought was right he would follow the advice if he did not he would not judge J anderson ordered mr garbett to stand aside as he was a member of the mormon church and his case was taken under advisement vi arthur townsend also a mormon 11 was treated similarly in this case the judge remarked if a aman man knows enough to obey the laws he knows more than many better educated men and will make a good citizen his case will be v A ana na 1 continued till nov 14 solely on the objection of his membership in the mormon nl church I 1 will say aay in regard to the practice of fornication as to that or any other offense fenee of whether it makes him a man of bad moral character depends on the circumstances if it was a single act it will not exclude him but if ft he habitually commits fornication whether openly or secretly he to is not a man or of good moral character if he is an habitual drunkard or habitually violates any other law he is a man of bad moral character in regard to polygamy and unlawful cohabitation there is an organized effort to establish them as a social condition but those are not the only crimes that will exclude a man from citizenship habitual gam ling for instance but occasional acts will not be sufficient to exclude a man A sin single le immoral act or even several not be grounds to reject an application for naturalization |
