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Show A FEW INTERROGATORIES. Senator-elect Smoot will be going to Washington Washing-ton in a few days. We trust he will go prepared to answer any questions which Impertinent or curious Senators ma ask him. Among these there may possibly be the following: follow-ing: First. "Apostle Smoot, to what temporal government gov-ernment is your first and highest allegiance?" Second. "Is it, or is it not, time that there is a temporal government In Utah, the heads of which claim a Divine right to rule, which right is superior to any authority of the government of the United States?" Third. "Is it not true that when only members of your creed were in Utah your government there was a pure theocracy, literally the government of one man?" Fourth. "Has that government changed except ex-cept in form and through the pressure brought by the influx of Americans?" Fifth. "For instance, Has any board of aldermen, alder-men, the majority of whose members have been Mormons, or any legislature, the majority of whose members have been Mormons, ever, In Utah, dared to pass an ordinance or olll, which the First Presidency of your kingdom has objected object-ed to, or has any such board or legislative body ever dared to refuse to pass any ordinance, or bill which your- First Presidency has desired to have passed?" Sixth. "Suppose you were to become involved in a lawsuit with a brother Mormon, that the case t ' 'JIM were to be tried under the rules governing in I'ifil such a case, before a state or United States Judge f ifjSM in Utah, and you should obtain a judgment; that j'JtljBM then your opponent should appeal the case to a '' iftfl so-called Church Court and the judgment should i! ftfffl be reversed, and a judgment rendered against you, I f ! would you press your judgment to execution, or r'Ptttfl would you have the papers sealed in the legal 'ifflflfl court, and pay the judgment rendered against you ' XI in the Church Court?" i.lnsH Seventh. "Suppose the speck in the Venezue- f jj j$fl Ian sky should increase to a war cloud involving ffSH the United States in war with Great Britain, Ger- ihBH many and Italy, and while the Senate should be tH considering appropriations necessary to carry oh sll that war, you were to receive instructions from ft ;B the First Presidency of your creed to do nothing ? iliB by voice or vote toward furthering the defense P' . 9H of the United States against such a peril, would 1ilH you ignore such instruction or would you keep H still and when it came time to vote pair with Sen- $M iH ator Tillman Senator Rawlins' term having ex- 'l H Pired'' ijji i Eighth. "Is not your oath of allegiance to the f If H temporal government in (Jtah, at the head of jH which is Joseph F. Smith, more binding on you j , Jk than your senatorial oath possibly could be?" ' lijjH Ninth. "To evade the penalties for laws trans.: IH gressed, you have often known your fellow JF H Saints to commit perjury in the Courts of Utah. f'IfH Have you or have you not justified such perjury?" j A JH Tenth. "Did you not sign the petition for iHH amnesty which was presented to President Har- IjfllH rison, did you not vote to ratify the present Con- f jjj jH stitution of Utah?" 1' '$!$ Eleventh. "Is it true that when that petition i'lIfH for amnesty was under consideration by the quo- K'lr'H rum of the Apostles, and some present desired to Wll modify its pledges, one of the quorum remarked ff ffH as follows: "Any modification will endanger its fflliU acceptance by the President of the United States, B II let us all sign and when we get statehood we, ilrf H will do as we please?' And did you approve of itjIIB that course?" filial Twelfth. "Is it true that the theory of your Eg LjH creed is that when a. member has been baptized, f? 1N arinointed, taken the necessary oaths and been f JH blessed, not only are all his past sins sponged out, fv 'tjH but so long as he clings to the creed, obeys coun- & (R sel and pays his tithing, his soul is safe, no mat-' 8 'if IH ter what he may do or say?" j The Apostle will note that all the above ques-; ll!ifl tions refer merely to his obligations as a Saint' Stiilll in his dealings with the government of the Unit- W jy'H ed States, and the final burden of them all is to iUII establish whether his Involvement In the net of S,;tlB his faith does not make it Impossible for him to ff jtH be a real American citizen. - Irf Jl |