Show JUNIOR SENATOR p WANTS FAIR PLAY George Sutherland Defends Reed Smoot in Presentation Presenta Presenta- tion of Facts A f EXTREMISTS ON BOTH SIDES Y r i r f Draw n Medium In Iii Support of v Contention I Hi Li Senior v i Retain Seal Scat i I Washington Jan 22 Tue Smoot case cac was as as renewed in the senate enato toda today t l when Senator George Sutherland of or Utah came to the defense of his col- col co 1 league The announcement that the I Smoot case was to come up UI toda today I brought a u large crowd to the gallerIe galler- galler f 1 I galler-I f Ie CP and the address addle s o of Senator Sutherlan Sutherland erland erlan was listened to with deep In In- In terest The he junior senator from Utah t did not come to justl Justify wrong wrong- wrong doing InI in t I Utah he said ald but ut simply Limply wanted to 10 show the real merits o of the case and let Jet ct the people judge accordingly in J Mr Ir Sutherland s a address wa a strong I argument why his colleague I should not be unseated and when h ho lie 1 toOk look his s seat at after aCter the lengthy length speech h lit lit- was Il personally congratulated by two thirds of or th the Republican senators tr Senator Sutherland began his speech by saying s. that the ca case e of or his colleague colleague col col- league Senator Smoot was n not t only I of ur profound concern to 10 the senator persona personally II but also to the people of I the tho state which he ha had the honor In part palt to represent and that he ho would woul go Into a discussion of it with a feeling o of more mOle than passing pai-Ing L Interest He sul said that he would be beas as brief as the gravity lt o of the issue and the wide range ranse which the investigation in I Hon tion before tho the committee ha had taken would permit In Utah he said sentiment is not entirely agreed on thIs ca case e There arc are extremists on both sides entertaining enter enter- laming widely divergent views an and 1 neither side Is nece necessarily dishonest or Insincere Fanaticism may amy be entirely consistent with the love o of oC truth and antl the thc desire for or Justice but It is not an anaid any aid to the ascertainment J. J of oC the one or the he administration of or the other othOl The difficulty with a 1 fanatic Is that he lie does not hot look 1001 at the facts through his nat na natural na- na t t. t t ural tural un e eyes cs Ho uses a telescope scope which l g j li Is another name for his prejudices IE f When lie he views tue tha shortcoming lof of h lie Jie Q k Jcu tI h bi o U m e n t rt tm and i vc n 9 ly he Q looks at his own he ho le CL reverses CI the operation lol Tho result nu Is ts that lo to the eyes of ot the he Mormon anti-Mormon extremist the evils nS of which he complains com coni- plains aIl are arc magnified while to the eyes COS of ot h he pro Mormon extremist tho they are arc aret t minimized or 01 nol fbi revealed revea at alt all I 1 shall I not riot attempt 10 to o satisfy elthe ot ol these extreme classes casses but shall shaH en endeavor tn- tn deavor eavor to lo discuss S the various arlous questions involved with candor and amI state the facts and vindicate the truth accordIng accord- accord In lug Ing to my understanding The Tue Issue to lo me seems sun simple tile If It Senator Smoot Is IJ a u law law- law breaker either cither as principal or 01 acc accessory sory if Ir he recognizes recognises cs an any an- allegiance to an any power paramount to the allegiance he owes OWN 3 to his country or his conduct Is or h has ha been such that thai hI his continued presence In the thc s senate shall bring reproach upon It he lie ought not to retain his seat If Tr he is not nol guilty of any o of these thee things s he ought not to bo be o deprived de do- of his seat scat in obedience to popular prejudice or 01 clamor Senator Sutherland then referred to lo lothe the petitions lint had been d He said ald he would express no opinion upon the question as CUI to whether or I I t. t not nol petitions ad addressed re d to the t senate enate J demanding that a u certain Judgment should be rendered In a case Involving I In ing the right of a Senator s to his seat sent are arc as us much out of or place r lace as would be e similar petitions aire addressed e 1 to a court of if Justice Perhaps something something- ml might ht be he said SaIl upon both sides of the I I c tion However that may be sn senators cannot permit th themselves to lo be swayed s 11 from a u Just determination of or the case caseby by petitions however numerous or r by I whomsoever signed ned I r f can conceive o of cases cares he ml said cases Involving questions of legislation legislation legisla legisla- c tion lion questions of political cal or governmental governmental govern govern- mental policy polley where th the senate should not only heed hee hut but should obey the demands o of the thc people but this Is IR a t case casc where the right o of one In Individual l Is more sacred acred than the mere mero demands s of all the people lIe He then took up UT the protests which hud hall been een filed lIell against Senator Smoot t. t first tho the protest signed by nineteen 1 citizens of Salt Lake and the second tho special protest signed by y John L. L t Leilich He said ald that the general plOt protest protest pro plO t test expressly alleges I that hat Senator Smoot was not charged with any offense of or- fene c cognizable by law which mf m C If Ie It Il means anything that he Is not charged with violating the law In any respect nor engaged In a con piracy conspiracy with any other per person on lo to violate the Jaws of or the state stale of or Utah with regard to Lo polygamy or any other law Tho The special protest Senator Sutherland Suther r. r land hind said charges Senator Smoot Ir Iii specific terms with being a This charge when made malle was re re- by the other protestants tanIS thou thell repudiation being sent by telegraph It was repudiated by counsel for Cor tho the protestants In his hi opening speech to tho the committee on privileges and aull elections elec elec- e. e lions No proof was made respecting It IL It an and there was wan much evidence In Inthe Inthe Inthe the record to tho the contrary II was conceded b by everybody that thai he Is 8 not a and never has been beon that J- J his conduct In that thai respect is ts entirely u above vc reproach i t Notwithstanding this however Senator Sutherland AId f ld III this thi falee charge c has been given wide clr clr cli- Y and general credence I throughout the co country The char charge o. o has been cen reiterated by irresponsible persons and find newspapers time and time Urn again He quoted from newspaper articles ar ar- ar- ar tides containing these charges wherein her it was stated that thai Smoot was a polygamist polygamist poly poly- and some of or the these e publications publication were vere pro probably published In good faith One Clemenson a B Presbyterian minister min mm- ister IEter who lived In Utah nearly nfl all his life hut hay gone up and down own the country country coun cOOn try as shown b by the public preta delivering delivering de dc- de- de f livering lI speeches charging charging- Senator J Smoot In specific terms with having Continued on Page Paga T Two To o ll I old J po r I l. l h 1 tJ JUNIOR JUNIO SENATOR W WANTS ANS F Al R LAY y PLA Continued f n Pa Pago lago o One marlc married 1 two plural wives going so flu far as to give their thel names and other details deais This cha charge is utterly ral false e anti and without foundation Senator Sutherland el erland land denounced for his iii mendacity en d ad t y Senator Sutherland then took up the lie question queston of or time the conflicting oaths oaths The Time charge Is made by Leil h he said sid that Senator Smoot has taken an oath or obligation as apostle or as member member mem mern- ber of tIme the Mormon church hurch inconsistent o tent with wih his obligation as a senator It I is significant that this charge Is not made by tho time general protestants protestants This charge like the charge of polygamy m is Js also repudiated by the time other protestants protestants pro pro- it Is also repudiated by co counsel coun Un- Un sd sel cl for the protestants protestant and amid was not an aim aniS iS issue until ulU the case casc had proceeded for some sonic time lime Then some witnesses were produced who testified that in the en endowment en- en hou house c ceremonies an oath was taken which imported hostility to the government Several of thc these o witnesses wit wit- wI- wI nesses were cro shown to bo ho people of oC bad repute and their thel testimony was emphatically emphatically em em- denied by a large number of persons who ha had be been n former members memo mem bees bers of the church and had gone gono through the lie endowment house cere cere- monies Senator Sutherland ma made e an elaborate elaborate elaborate ate anal analysis is of oC the tIme testimony of the time witnesses ses who appeared before the time committee on privileges and elections similar to the time manner In Jim which he lie would woul analyze the on of witnesses wit wit- nesses before a n Jury and ma made e it clear that there thero was wa absolutely nothing Inthe in inthe the time charge of oC having tal taken en an inconsIstent inconsistent incon incon- oath Ho He He then reverted again to tho the char charges cs in th tIme tho general genera protests that hint Smoots Smoot's offenses were not miot able Eblo in l law w these offenses lenses being first that polygamy and polygamous co coh cohabitation co- co h habitation blaton are still sun practiced by hy the tIme them m members members- of oC the tho Mormon church an and second econ that lint the thc church claims tile the ll right ht and exercises authority to In Interfere In- In in iii the time political affairs of oC Its Is iii members em be is Senator Sutherland said sail that when tho time people went to 10 Utah in IS 18 17 j they I carried the doctrine of or polygamy with them thor that it was openly practiced ali and amid proclaimed I h by m Y YOUng ung as early as ns 1852 nn and that hint congress knew that polygamy was mas as notoriously practiced and that no steps stepa were taken tal until the time law Jaw of was passed an and that nothing was wa done ono In Inthe Inthe the time wa way of enforcing It I but It Jt re remained remained re- re a u d dead ad II letter omi tho tim statute books books' No more than timan two or ci three ce cases were prosecuted under the time law tho time first lell being that of or George Georg Reynolds Rey ne- fourteen years cal after the tho law Jaw was wa enacted This con condition Jon remained until when the lie Edmonds law was I passed The Time Edmonds law In a addition dlton to tu n enacting re-enacting tho time law or of 1862 on the time subject of oC pol polygamy am defined and punished pun pun- f the lie crime of polygamous co- co This law with wo-S wat vJ vigorously enforced en on- forced beginning begInning In Iii 1881 1884 Moro More 1010 than two thou thousand und people were ere convicted d dand and sent to prison So vh vigorous was wa the time prosecution an and so strong became ne the lie pressure from roam outside and ln inside the time church that lint in iii a a. comparatively short time six Ix years cal the time manifesto of or orthe the lie church forbidding the tIme members of or ortHo tho lb church eli to practice pol polygamy m was wasI I issued ud In 1891 the tho Pro Church IJ Chulch or cc Peoples Peoples' party Was 08 disbanded and amid organizations or or- effected along national party lines In Iii 1896 the thc Inc was waK ad admitted admitted ad- ad to tho Ito union Pre lol Previous to 1891 there was wa no political organizations except a pro Church Church pr-Church and an Antichurch antichurch anti anti- Ant Ant- church part party D By tho ho enabling act et t passed h by congress in 1894 it was Provided ed that thu tho constitution of or the tue ew state should hoult contain a u 1 ll tL perfect t toleration of re te- te 1 I u sentiment CI t nt I with the pro th l marriages should be f for for- r rOC r- r O C prohibited TIme This riol In is Ii h In Iii t two o respects First Phat the proy pro pro- y i.- i. t L I nf of poh t mar mailing K jo joIn In iii the time form forum of a mm i o LI to the gun i m- m Ii- Ii r of if t n religious l Api A. A pio isu Sf ovis' ovis Is to b be le con trued construed trued with reference t to tn tho tl Lu- Lu paragraph to which It I is attached It I deals with wih the same fame me subject mater Congress knew me that the Mormon pio- pio lle for fOI years yeal's ears had claimed that polygamy poly oly- oly gamy was a part of their thel religious faith This provision In the lie enabling act was as wa equivalent to 10 Sing saying You may hereafter believe as you please an and assert such Opinions as a you please on the time subject of polygamy but bUl plural manages shall Ihal cease Senator Sutherland made macle this ex explanation ex- ex In reference to th claim that has been sometimes mes ma made c that leaders leaden of the church believe beleve and amid assert assert assort as as- sert sort tho the belief in the time abstract rightfulness right right- of polygamy In time the second place Senator Sutherland continued time the language of oC the time enabling act i is that Joly polygamous I marriages arc are forbidden not polygamous poly poly- cohabitation Congress dently intended to leave leav to 0 the time state 1 Itself to deal eal with existing ous Otis relations as it i might see 1 lit The TIme senator then therm explained that t at atthe time the time time the manifesto wn wa adopted in 1 1890 1390 there were wele over O l 2 IOU polygamous polygamous poly poly- ganious households R In tim the thc state slate When hon tl tho pressure o o oI pro prosecution vun romed ro- ro mp m ed d Mormon i hum n nature h being the time i anio moa mo a as other human nature It was ivitS eXI expected though not desired that lint thatto to a u or ci- ciless less les dc degree some of I these people would continue to live lve with wih their U wives It I was an aim undesirable i able situation hut but the time Gentries hind had felt Cel that the end which thc they were desirous desirous de de- sirous of oC a accomplishing was to got get get rid rie of the time institution of or polygamy or the I celebration of plural marriages with the time sanction sancton of the church in the future When Vlen the s system stem was Cormal formally aban abandoned one by the thc church there was little disposition on th time the part of non- non Mormon inhabitants o of the time state to hold the old polygamists to a very strict accountability for their acts so long as their timely relations were 5 not Hag Hag- tag tag- rant rn In general the lie feeling was that the best thing timing to do was to bear with the time situation in iii patience and In iii course of oC time ti these so ol old would be romo cd by death In Iii 1890 Senator Sutherland said there iy were 2451 H 1 of these po polygamous amu household They had gradual been heen icon by death and amid removal from flom time the state stat until ta today a there are hotto not nol notto to exceed of them The Time situation la is rapidly clearing Itself It I ha has been charged charge he lie f ld that there timers are arc some new cases of polygamy lie Hc thou thought ht that there ha had 1 been some soma sporadic cases of oC this character Such case cases were condemned by Morn ons ns and Gentiles Gentles alike alke and he lie condemned them himself in vigorous terms all an and declared that lint any ammy man who ha had taken tal takena a n polygamous wife since the manifesto sto stoof I of 1890 ou ought hl to be hc In Jail jai serving out the extreme penalty of oC the law Senator Smoot however b l by his expressions expressions ex ex- an and amid conduct had always since a n bo |