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Show j , eran int tl -oe : ae ae THE I know him well, an dam testify to it:here. Me eee lad to ° tified that he had not only taken thage obligations himself. bu t "that he' hz been one e of moe ceremony; who that saphinmaten he oaths had REPUBLICAN, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1907. ae which are often lost sight of else-| fore. am. thanen neon er "You admini¢- may theorize |as I was sincere wrongfulnes oa sneres glen olenae in my belief in ---__-___- . COMBAT BELIEFS. CANNOT becomes yor lesser offensive, extent, in a dependent greater in entirely say to you the people have acquiesced| upon! or the obligations, Until 1362, although polygamy had been ope , ee were which were given for wie practiced in the territory eds of times, and Mr. La rrenceé/and had or fourteen years before word "ng-|th Swore positively that the tad been openly proclaimed by ao i Was not. mentioned Hy all ‘in the e president of the cere ten years ath. bétore, there was no law, either fea"Mr. Dillingham. He js not a Mor- eral or territorial, upon the subject. mon now? So far as penal consequences were Mr, Saari He is not a Mor- concerned, polygamy. in Utah was just I speak of this because it has been | 4 nald that some of the wat porn. still assert a belief in pol i . What |ever we may 7 ao uhont naga !i8!ous idea is the most difficult thing|! ng in separate houses, and have sim-| in the world to combat. It submits] Ply kept up the old relations without! to no rule of logie. It fits into no|@0 offensive flaunting before the pubsyllogistic form. It is major-and min-j lic of the relations, it has. been: pracoremise and conclusion rolled into| tleally passed over, has it not? mon |good one now. As said; he. tert ay church away back in the sixties. swore there was no it He may tended such word named all In the oath. So we have the testimony of five witnesses who. say the word 7 tion" .is used, and of those five wu nesses, four of them are showneto be utterly unworthy of belief-drunkard at and of. tions: with them unsound says mind-and that his he has satanic one of nica- I have 1 # a because while opinions subject of not practice taste or be true, as some have con-|wrongfulness and about which I do not ex- a atta n Utah cea Foraker. And one Is a perMr. Sutherland. Yes; and o Ww a mre is shown by h =~ testin y her own Mr. Preaident, that there is some sort of an archale obligation taken i ceremonies monogamy, upon the |}you shall press any opinion myself, that -bigamy or polygamy was a crime at com-| mon law, there are _no common. law crimes against the United States, and from the Mexican treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo in 1848 until the admis- | or, juran these as such the polygamy, it. , eonnrtats of that was under jurisdiction the a sole the and or the and practice the of in|tive and official knowledge of the m nd state inhibits polygamy no fact. of the| . -no polygamy. He can only President, dogmatic be aeld an Form- erroneous the See of diately affec ted. declaration-"taus saith Te sulicd crusades in which immeasurable C eenettian followed verses year of the new test ; \hoaenlT fee find I have not. ef among the then little known something like a| Mormon people, mak- ent hoa cee one © m : ere in oo yut 1852 he made a report, jn etunat | Werrineee ae cohabitation-""are forever prohibited." ne tes-|ing a rather close study of their = r. iaw-) cial and religious institutions. Ea When that language and as the people of the country who the liv- a Mr. The that No; I feeling with Y ou Powers. Yes; Chairman. mr. Mowers. know about under my that) the mean the the Gentiles. a you any ic Mr. Taylor. Not. by the church y Mr. even? What Enforcement Would Mean. Mr. Booth. The church can, but I here is no legal wae out Beeman etre to enforce rigorously the law against unlawful cohabitation would mean in her case knowledge of the extent to which polygamous cohabitation exists in the aie today? tos : yay Weats to See ot onan Away. mat- mean there hone way of di oreiie her from exists. Cott. Lt have to the extent? Mr. Powers, not to]qa divorceement it has comehwithout observation. I from the . her rightbe rom founded that Some upon that Have No; I you any idea| her . could of the crusade ony England were lashed nae a horror. The story of its 20- th-m- those supersti- things. 50 Mr. You did not consider apen Mr. that chapter histoty it] Powers . Critchlow. I did not. How Critchlow Felt Then. husband brought give to nominy Mr. Critchlow Critchlow. I goes think very shortly after on and that tae also "Tieae é expressed the state of feeling: In Idaho Mr. Holzheimer, also a Gentle resient fF the state of Idaho, testified as of is punished. light the time the question get:at|caused it was,) brought manifesto,| affairs, under the conditions that existed and; that we thought were going to exist,| of polygamy considerable about a very because the the Mormon Reo that polygamy¥ le had to to ed and she suffers is the frosventtotk ig- were prosecute eta t fighting was the polygamous marriages cohabitation. We and knew notthat unlawful if we could ‘aeSeep the See ene a Mr. Holzheimer, At the time the/tjme manifesto was issued and up to that} went in all] probability, as near as I can, my state of mind at that time, cruelties; @ dark and sinister otherwise magnificent , Have. not we course of which he called the atten-|had paid any attention to the subject|™4kes Ijtion of the government to the fact knew, that there was a Aifference be-| im the President, on the}claimed to the world that polygamy Earknoniy GE Giicrince Si Castner unusual prec aed of mind, at once} die o Was a pune and a practice of the|woman. He committed the crime of|the finger of public suspicion was Mr Van arose/church, Yet, not only did the gov-|unlawful cohabitati : 1& pointed and the horrifying ery vof| was ther obligation,|/ernment verse may be administered. thaNow, two Mr.} dwell thing such of scripture, | way that of fall of | ed do anything suppressing Brigham disposes to that in the} practice, cohabit but and reappointed tj ews Culberson, Mr. President- The Vice President. a ee Utah proclamation 4 Does the sena- yield to the Law senator The remaining Mr. the was Dead passed 1862, a dead practically adopted Letter. in but 2 oh ag conan letter = - ygamists the habit for Condition bl : witchoraft As in the state] been fixed| whose Status already as| was late dred as and raised. 1768, less than one s.ui- forty years ago, within -y of some u men living Mr. Mr. the| President, when by fered eldest his the the King armies son, of of that John Van I Cott. Henry think It tation? would cease, but so on, no matter how might prosecute people long as it much you. for unlawfvl agitation. °</It) cohabitation, It would continile. peculiar state of Mr. Worthington. Mr. Booth, rank and file of say that Is the way you felt you about as well Ss, was generally, Moab,|@ Israel, should : known) . prominent of- Soieciion have| objection un- Mormon was ee to it in living they any way of proposition which the senator |tegarded that as being a distinct mis- men might have returned to living; mother, stifling the earlinst as well : Mr. Van Cott. I mean all the senator has said. like to ask indeed, that what the I shoula | found the testimony upon necessary today we discissing would this not be question. here | 2& Poly r- Prohibited could be not one interfered of those with. It men|religious required] delusion-to lghtenment and this aour clvilizatisa, of cn- =e senate r hi we i ; : There was never a proseculion at all quirement whatever upon the subject/taught and done in th- imo nf re. it in the third volume, at gr Wie 184 There the sen-| oe ground that the law was Sr stating corre t. In ue t this The 1 senator n- immediately after the state came Ituns {19 had seen fit to pass a law legaliz-| So Its Course, I say, Mr. Then sgn ; | an7begs eauld: ave, © that that from Utal olnmtiae nie that you other Sib | eke ulna ae uaa ie ‘AL , 28° ont, Gentile people of Utah is a disinclination to prosecute those cases Judge William M. McCarty, who was was shoul SOON of that . Cohabi- opinion tl is|tion e-\the to re-enacting the provisions law of 1862 on the subject of of polygamy, but also the statutes of Utah, about the ceremonies of his ordex|tlions as he might see {it to presen ribe Unless he were compelled, , he would|¥yz section 7 of the act, children born ' absolutely decline to state what were |0f these polygamous taarriages-and| in those ceremonies. He would be|cougress was careful io. say in the| perfectly willing to state what was not legislation "Mormon marriages ov} them. Any Mason would be willing | ™arriages to siate that there is nothing in the Masonic ceremonies or ritual that In any way imports hostility to the government, but if he were asked to state in detail what thise ceremonies were in all probability he would. decline the to church who are still declined members to state of | them. Mr. Gallinger A. Mason would solutely decline to state them. Mr. Sutherland A Mason. as performed ‘ abthe accordinp J to the : ‘1lion so al. at tea "with Some that| than to punish aneee it vigorously be gan was im it than Z. 000 perelne victed and nt |stvong henaris the earnest, and enforeed--more| more In me * a ~ De incorporated in|the Christian world-is no argument where it remains} whatever that the people one prac- stated Now. that it Mr. this were of a religious Mormoit there was nothing | 3embled President,-it charge of ed: in» the fact That general seems polygamy to than the husband made only. guilty In this ;0n in cenference as-| to] in the footing of territory ‘was equality with taken an inconsist- |States of the Unian. by was adopted absolutely unfound- | act, nice brings protest, us which back contains, 189 it Eoriaiatudion was of lines poiitien! national 1896 @ a few The of but from within the | Prior to the in the. comparative ve a definite people upon state me and who were] while they did not approve, while the sir; non-| I September, Utah Mr. Smith? ; however think] h believed There cases where is not 1840, to ou doris 1%. prosecute! I that they Conrusiie: eI have been children a number have been senator wus not entitled of the plural any offense to let these people wife is not}in whatever. this reeord |attention live out For to the their example, testimony secuted for Mr. Van his religion. Cott. your with lives, of two I call wit- provided the new the other!) enabling congresy| that state the}; by an| e reference i ete President a O. Democrat, eak to this W. tt} to of mich: (an there riages, attorney many the } of these I state o f Utah this the question air was tyat men were ought called Insisting to a viovio- were follow, special that and, grand as jury the fallure of the press , i to of|had in to. those proceed in the rumors, matter refused stating open, lewd would manner} new cases mar- I do not Rane. casi alone; on ee that they would that Saal soon ‘vou | : . eatarek ie just now to something that took place ome one of Mr. can, 1 today the are taken, {s die out, bs to let to I out the ok old retaln | or the main provision to which it is a| tical Powers. and I not Was I will simply their lives just as they have a fol-] Whitecotton of the nee aa have of IM a 5 ap a the ch nara: thst the status body of the start- said: \ Mormons Gentile "While testi-| question was elitr a a i ; F900 pr at that thine. that was the non- ., enti eye ed of Utah-all speak with prosecut-] have the] reference| eves to what matter Mr. States Mr. hota decidedly against ‘ | it, die out time when it comes, fer instance, to] myself or any other person going and} making complaint deine Oana Gees because he is living in unlawful co-| was going on and let the Glen Miller, former. United marshal, testified as follows Van Cott Now, fin your know- of it: they want to Wipe it out and|ledge of get it under their feet: at the same|over the as well as} here the] been C but the consensus of opinion has been that the better way was to close oul alc ; Polygamy. of people I will to Damar ievratse of opinion In Utah, people, Mormons and > sen Be Some ., Tired the Mormons: Power." do so state solution let these old men die off and not molest them 2 Mr. Worthington. It appears here that Senator smnoce had ; they * were continuin to live 10! The following witnesses among a] gether? > very large number of the Gentile resiMr. McC arty Mr. Worthington dents of the state of Utah gave the there have been a ‘few. who : insisted following testimony. Mr. J. W. N-]/on a vigorous enforcement of this law. principal Smoot, . it let {to them rather Gentiles in that regard you state why|-are sick and tired and disgusted| In polygamous with polygamy; they want to be vid are Church a. the Senator as : the state state and and in traveling everything of that kind, I wish you wou ae what "ae sentiment is among the Mormons in regard to new polygamous marriages, that is, since the manifesto. f | € amnesty to. ofnot the fact that the general fecling| Views, as I know them, of what are habitation, It calls up to us all these Mr. Miller. The general Impression particular law on ‘Wternad a 7 things of an unpleasant character| has been both among the Mormons been no have there that Gentiles, only|and the throwing neighbors, among of the Liberal "old guard" the ermed non-Mormons-leayvamong Utah, in 7 nw ro 7 such terms and conditions as he may ing the Mormons out of view-has party, Republicans and Democrats,| Support the women have Into the pen-| polygamous marriages sanctioned by prescribe, and in granting amnesty|been that if all plural marriages had|who fought the church party in the| ltentiary maybe, or taking the subthe church. either to individuals or to classes the} ceased since the manifesto, these re-| days when it was a power Those men| Stance of the man to pay the fine. It Mr. Van Cott. I wish to know parto regard in sentiment the man/|ticularly a and hesitate, a man if the}™makes that feel, still and. felt, have they| cohabitation unlawful of lations was} he did prescribe which conditions ing they the grant this should law in Parr deaesy the In the fourth tration of the law ever a man was for sentence from violat-| futu were practically yes willing to? it was before the a Jjudze|lutely invariable cus-| offensive, curred in a their|church will only stop will allow this plural marriages| matter to die ‘ho would out|CUllavly do that made for must be a man pé-| nothing but] against at-| ion seeing think ‘so, excepl}and pass away, they will not interfere|the law. Nothing else must First of all, of course, we] He can not take Into account were really abso- with them. or such to close and Sino an the adminis-] "Mr. Critchlow. I in the courts, when-|{n cases where they brought where they manner as oc-| to be] want peace in Utah We to be like the rest of-the should country. both as to fine was visited upon and him im-]to remove the the country. reproach of it like| rounding circumstances We| mosphere in before|stand. You can not make people who| ave been brought up under our sys-| was of secondary importance. It we litself out in the future. immoral. Of course it is, viewed which he appear the sur- and the lives.' in unlawfuul Mr. Mr. that a] in poly- cohabitation, as it is In favor of polygamy it Miller. Decidedly What Van Cott. as to kind the eaioroadeee fact here, 00d many of them are living from|lived whether whether exfsted a against against is your sentiment i or it opinof polygamy that in the ee ehureh before the manifesto? Mr. Miller. Yes, sir; it did. I know that. Mr. Van Cott. And also as to the restore could the chureh whether practice of polygamy if It should so attempt. Mr. Mille ; it believe not do I would be Seana to ever nesters polygamy in the State of Ut Mr. Van Cott. Do yor eho by repute of men living in unlawful cohabitation' Mr. Miller. I do. Mr. Van Cott. What is the sentlment of Gentiles In regard. to comPlaining or Deora in regard to such matte it Mr. Miller, "Well, there has been j a his seat must be of the gravest posproviso an exception whith but. for adopted, I might say rather as 4 Mr. Van Cott. Now, the other mat-} their standpoint. Viewed from the| was to bring about a cessation of sentiment @eainst that, as there has sible character, and such as to €Vi-/the proviso might be licld to be jin-| means to the end of getting rid of the|ter that you spoke of-this offensive| standpoint of a Mormon it is not. The| polygamous marriages. That was the| been against any informing against dence beyond all cavil that he was ower within the terms of the para-| system than as the end itself, flaunting. I wish you would give to] Mormon wives are as sincere in their} principle for which we strived, to|any of the infractions of law generutterly unfit to sit here. aph or section to which it is attachAnd so when the church issued this} the committee a little more in detail] belief in polygamy as the Mormon|stop people from marrying in poly-|ally. They felt that it was only a This senate is not a voluntary asr ee Ordinarily a proviso is to be strict- | manifesto forbidding polygamy in the} what you understand by that, and I| men, and they have no more hesita-|gamy. This was finflally ‘brought about| question of time that the practice soelation from which members may be ly construed. Ordinarily jt is to be] future and the people ratified the}call your attention now to the lan-|tion in declaring that they are one of|!n 1890 by the manifesto of the presi-| would die out through the death of expelled because we do not like them, or because other people, however numerous, do not like them. Member-| ship in this body is . oor a sels a grace, but lenges of the beyond right, right and whoever takes all reasonable upon chal- himseif question |construed with strict reference to the | manifesto, and it was believed by the| guage used by the Supreme court of| subject-matter of the pacagraph to|Gentile people in that state that it}the United States where it has quoted; which {ft Is attached ; was issued in good faith and that fu-|that particular phrase Congress knew when this Spas ture pare marriages seule no 4s Tr ; Mr. Critchlow, What would be of-| et was that adopted, the as Mormon the jus- | constitute the the country people, majority who of the knew, )} occur, would inhabi-| tice of his challenge tants of the new state, had tor many] It scems to me Fiat the offenses not years insisted and stubbornly contendcognizable by law may be discussed|,q that polygamy was a part of their under two. propositions: First, that religious faith, and that any interfer-| polygamy tion are and still polygamous practiced by cohabita-| some MeM-| bers of the Mormon church, of which church Senator Smoot is an apostle; second, right that and dictating und to this exercises temporal Its church the members claims authority in the of political CL with an the sey to From Origin Time, TO RIGHT Congress Permitted cnetie seer PRY state to to People permit guarantee VIEWS. to Fit the people to mode} he Saw us They Saw desired to things polygamy|who their RELIGLOUS wine of of with worship. at rather Present practice interference religious Congress ee Reviewed Chureh " ae polyga was |o¢ affairs, -------$------ ‘ DISCUSSION OF POLYGAMY. Question nee ere position Believe . guarantee, of themselves. to Was a pretty overlook the a Bonduck general of are how : unable aaa to ee good those dis-| many] wh2?/ understand-| Pate can conse a na y © doctrine of polygamy. thelr teary 10 thely oenns es ins or| the in fensive not be to one to another, polygamous person wife of and If course a man famlly might] had right ‘And that itis and yet the i. ae 2 re Ne Bg opinior « 3 c As wpexwon NT t 3 re the) is con-) ealning g and a pd Nee teen vst see at ts eel vne.| acre 1s sereno la kely no doubt people who entered into this) relationship ete ae: te 80, nolan was, ordained in by and it was it. might placed be there under offensive to you or somebody else, other part of town, it me, living might my to] ters be under where offensive the to a man same the takes roof, whole people Senator say that in Hopkins a Mormon good Mormons, would That just as that two sis-|tion might| not community.|has condition not care , you -mean|is, woman so will called-I_ readily as|it, for statesmen known been what anything renee ned; discussed, to solve. was and best plural| ques-| We have; people such a man Then they whether anything would whether we but good were later faith at' that somewhat we time. Now, do, it-was with the this: My plural wife there sympathy and her those who practiced it, and the removal of that generation. It was getting less and less all the time. That skeptical did. - ee been since that time a fieitelinhing to prosecute men and women who sin-|live in unlawful cohabitation. One of are|my own reasons-the way I looked is a to we she} think|at become There exists. Then again, it might be entirely inno-|say that such and cent and unoffensive to a great class|to be prosecuted, itSs;of people who do things those Sera Do readily become a plural wife as would a first wife?" Mr. Powers Those who are cere in the Mor mon faith-wWho In an-| wives (that has been my experience)| not be|as they would become the first wife.| offensive. Again, those a face,! while several wives of a man than a good|dent of the church, which was af-| woman in the East has in declaring] firmed, or sustained as they call it, by} that she is tne single wife of a man.|the conference on October 6, 1890,} There is that condition. There are|and again in 1891. We did not accept by|to were already in this relation, - my door side, and his children asso-j It is a pretty difficult thing for peo-|ciated with mine, and he visited a aalf| ple to understand-there are &/)or a third of his time there and a half great many people in this world or » third of his time somewhere else,| 4 3 the matter. are Powers, against tied as follows: . The Chairman, Will it is that those who Itve "When Be Righted. Critehlow is referred . and witnesses Smoot in the hear-|CeHabitation subject, testified as ed? Believed It Would Mr. Van Cott Mr. is extracts !ows: Judge follows: ¢ "COme ' ee third place, the authorized to fenders against admitted | that the by passage of the law and|against Senator period thereafter are le-]ings upon that. ° amous or plural: marriages are fore- of the Jaw, This provision of | prisonment, "ver prohibited' : to Gentiles rather born, | to I think every one who will read bie snanling act, to my mind, is sigMr. President, this was also the fevlMr. Van Cott Nov as to John|tem of government and our system of|4mous relations and are not inter-| this record will discover that it evi- |) nifeant in two respects. ing of the people of that state. The| Henry Smith, the fact That a child was| marriage believe that folks can. sin-| fered with. dences a good deal of confusion of In the first place, it will be obseryv-| thing which we demanded-and [I sav} born to one of his plural wives dur-|cerely and honestly believe that it js Mr. Booth. Well, my explanation mind on the part of those represent|eqg that the prohibition ol polygamous | "we because I was one of them froin| jing the time of the aT rbobatianal con-|right to have more than one wife,|of that is that the principal fight of} ing the protestants as to the precise | 5, plural marriages Is in tire torm. of| the time I was old enough to have any] yention, non-Mormons, as a generaljand yet those people believe it They the Gentiles has been to do away with] nature or extent of these offenses, It}, proviso to the paragraph or seetion| opinion on the subject at all-the|]rule, were disposed to overlook if they|are a God-fearing people, and it has| polygamous marriages. While, during must be manifest that any offense] which guarantees perfect toleration of} thing which we demanded was that! felt satisfied that there were no more; been a part. of their faith and their|Many years there were numerous which would warrant the senate in religious worship. The oltice of a pro- | the institution of polygamy, the system] plural marriages? life prosecutions for unlawful cohabita-}| declaring that a duly elected, duly ac-|yjco js perfectly well understood and|of polygamy, should be abandoned, Mr. Critchlow Yes. sir; I think Now; to the Eastern people their| tion, it was not for the purpose of} credited. and. constitutionally qualisettled. It has the effeet te carve out|and the punishment of the offender] so, and felt that the thing would work] manner of living is looked upon as| punishing. so much, those people who! fied district of Fumiors stated, should|or as IT have already said, the significant |irrevocable ordinance simould. provide | tom and practice to inquire of him)really examples to the people.| want to make of it a state like the Mr. Hyrum E. Booth testified: statement, re charge him with no "that there shall be perfect toleration | Whether -he would promise to obey the} Amongst the higher officials, and even states of the rest of the Union We Mr. Worthington. Now, I want to] offense cognizable by law." What, ) 0! religious sentiment that. no {n-| law. in the future. If he gave the] with them, I think it would be fair want the Mormon people to be like|@Ssk you, Mr. Booth, to explain why then, are the offenses not cognizable | habitant of the said state shall ever | promise, he was permitted to go in-|say that people were inclined to orine the rest of the American people; but]/!t is that if the people of Utah, and] by law which are deemed to be suffi- | be molested in person or in. property variably without any punishment at})imize these things as much as possible} we realize that there is a condition] the Mormon people Included, 4 large to poly-| are so opposed DALE: of them, East do the people of the which the/there and state the of peace the prom-|for to give the If he declined all ores of mode her of his.or on account in'} senate the to justify grave ciently depriving a senator of his seat‘ ligious worship, provide 1 that polvg- | ise, almost invariably the full penaltv] community and for its upbuilding and} not-and, I presume, can not-under-| 84am how you account for what Is| Ghiudtods UAre Be as court no case that I know of has|he had talked with his brother, who It is true it is| was then manager of the Herald, and done openly. the law, but it has not been| his brother advised him to let those because In Utah, o cea amount of sentiment there in Utah eee uld favor putting Joseph F: Smith in| the attitude of being per- thing in Utah being con- | the second place, children: tnat| nesses on the part of the protestants. to prewson-and.so} Were born of these polygamous mar | Mr. Critenlow, who prepared this propressure, not only | tilages, these "Mormon. marriages,"'|test and who was the principal witness manifesto, th following 1201, In govto the hostile was that in them ernment in any form : the pre church or so-calLed .* pie's Mr. Sutherland Yes; that is quita}party' was disbanded and political| correct I ink I have substantially | parties were organized thpoughout the charge of having ent oath are both Laren the first place, the perisition of/and thus get through with it. This is} Edmunds law are visited upon the} practically the unanimous testimony Mr. Hopkins. 1 desire to call to the me apace of six years the church} gitimated attention of the senator now address- | issued its famous manifesto forbidding de ing the senate the fact that the wit-| polygamy for the future, wilch minute | i nesses who declined to give the oaths|festo.was subsequently vatuicd py ie | In the they that States prosecuted prosecutions dealing with this question has dealt] holds, these men whose status-had al-|°f some twelve or fifteen other wit-| ifesto of 1890 with it in eae its social 7 rather ; than in its}ready-been fixed, ' the question at once| esses, perhaps oe thirty, who all testiMr. B rad . é < é & Criminal aspect. The object of con-|arose what was tne wise thing to do| fied about it. These extracts are from| in the ritatter a ddemieat te (hie Stress seems to have been to get rid|about it, and the feeling wnich was the testimony of Gentile witnesses, all majority of the men in Idaho would Of the institution of polygamy rather|entertained by the Gentiles eee substantially testifying to the same|favor ‘leaving those old men to live | tion about two years vears after the the Edmunds law oroke. senator from New Hampshire says,|ffom without, would absolutely decline to state them, |church,. that did state that character and and © was that those who had con-|, short time before to investigate this tracted marriages prior to the mani-|jn connection with a few other matfesto should be left alone. It was not,| ters; and the attitude of the press- |ceremonies of the Mormon sect'''-|Suilty of the practice. In other words,| would have infinitely preferred that will ask, Mr. President, to incorporate] prior to the passage of tie law ana for| the desire was not so much to punish|jt should have been otherwise, never-| those extracts in my remarks, without me definite period afterwards were |the sinner as it was to eradicate the|theless the feeling was that, all tnings| Stopping to read them now, lenltinvated: sin. This is borne out by a variety of] considered, the wisest and best thing The Vice President. Without ob-| Many Prosecutions Followed consider rations, I will not yaad a met-lwas to see as Mttle of it as possible,|Jection, permission is granted In 1884, slate them. Upon precisely the same ground Senator Smoot and these othc¢ | Passage of witnesses United supreme testified: boas McCarty. Well, been agitated, ahd CEASE . Polygamous ones dic."| lined to state what these obligations|bclysamy, defined and provided ror ay, a provision prohibiting] ticed it and taught it did not belleve general distnelination to prosecute Mr. Brady, another Gentile resident] e, and so did other witnesses; and |the punishment of the c-ime of polyg-| P@!¥samous cohabitation and kindred] sincerely in its rightfulness. mith at the present tim That is} of Vdahe Falls, testified. they declined to state it upon precisely |4™Mous cohabitation. By section 6 of | Offenses as well. Mr. President, polygamy having true generally of polygamists who were Mr. Van Cott. What is the sentithe same theory that a member of the |that act the President wus authorized | Mr. President, in this rather brief|peen abandoned by tais manifesto, and|*%U¥ch before the manifesto, ts it not? fapnt in Idaho regarding disturbing or] Masonic order or any other secret so-|tO grant amnesty to offenders uod review that I have given of this situa-| there being In the state of Utaa this Mr. Critchlow. is so. leavinginto undisturbed those ‘to men whol] ciety would decline if called to testify|the law upon such terms and condltion be seen that congress|large number of polygamous houseI have extracts Yes, from sir;the it testimony] went polygamy prior the inane in a in Utah of all) cases and who is now chief justice of ae ete|cengeee diet the Feige Maledee RELL ap . that one!o fi on ieesao ee Se "we ro praba head Nobel tores Gleads ic vr attempt-| po) p y has "ep wnt easentian e o do that, aos on the contrary,| tically the comanami 8 acai of sia SOx. 882 cofuiess paascd the so-|Ot only adopted the previous pro-| American people-has been opposed| to|Ccalled "Edmunds law," which in adai.| Vision of the law with reference to|to the almost unanimous thought of| objection' what interest } } \ die pretty|as has been intimated, nor has it been| out; that he belleved it was the best very recent*times; down to solution of the And because of the peculiar and most practical ae. up to| general. nearly pl id date, or ee f I was] state of affairs it was the opinion that question. My reason for calling the" erhaps, even no soing to say what was the general in-| the whole thing would die out; that|grand jury was the refusal of the eee it was a matter of a short time when public Prosecutor to proce ceed. | Senator Overman. The general in-| the question would be "entirely settled,| * ae Ends. President, in. to one] that} ore } with that the i 7 ° i ing every one of these existing polyg-|can not reason with a false religious} Mr. Critchlow, The general inclin-|are some. I do not know how ny| subsequently which confirmed your tagd oe one rea "= !amous marriages, I do not well see|pbelief any more than you can argue ation in Utah is not to prosecute Mr.|cases there are in Tdaho-possibly conclusion that the general sentiment mod rokelie _ aa how it could have been charged that| with a case of typhoid viene It sim-| Smith. twenty or thirty; maybe was against prosecuting for polygamconvicted, anil Nelin doing' so they were violating the| ply runs its course and mental Health Senator Beveridge. Then what Mr. Martin, another Gecuic resi-|ous cohabitation when the parties compact made between the United/returns, not when the Intellect has|™more have you to say on that point as dent of Idaho, testified: were married before the Seater States and the territory of Utah, what-| been convinced »by the appeal of rea- ee the great popular indigna"I wish to say for myself that I] What was that that took place subsepromptly held that his position was ever a have been said as to the ay but when h would punish ish, if I was d doing it, those| quently tl untenable and that the law was. vali: by the process 0 fu me a wrongfu think a great deal|and by the slow attrition of opposing | "Mtr. Critchlow. There is no Inclin-|old cases 1 belteve they ought to be Iss a aang tone to undersia whieh A might. wellY have. been said against the episuiats £ the jant ellec far| #tion on the part of tne non-Mormons, punished; but a aap : ft Most Favored oe "ict-Pre Mr. President- TheBE Vice-President. ‘oes the senator from cen yleld to the senator from ere aor nae Utah invalid ator from Texas will find that Senator | * qd fituts Smoot positively denied that any such - save: arith his obligation as that was taken or any eoeeante ae obligation that pporiaa,, is any way a . eas hostility to the governm manifesto, WOULD Picea bu Senator Overman. when was that?]{it been During the time of|against Mr. Critchlow. the. And eyen in our ow day, at vears of polygamous cohabitation, content-]ligion. the law until fourteen under ik ae a . tte attention to that r In 1876 a prose- ing itself with putting into the en-|the very noon .ime of saa and raSe ater Smoot denies 4a after It was passed. looked it. of ilogical rea score that/ tional a requirement act or one|2¥!ing ‘against instituted was 5 was|Cution that po sitive terms n vat any 7 such} oath h was | Cutlo = polygamy polygamous simply marriages} gious thought, fads have tneir thearsnds of] taken. If the senator is curious to}|George Reynolds. Mr. Reynolds hini- should be prohibited. fatuous adherents look at his testimony, he will find self furnished the testimony necessary So if the lecislature of the state uf yew : and 185 of the eee Yes, as It the consensus cases. Critehlow, one, the best . Believed The to let things go?) the mel- that sub-]8My would long since have ceascd to | Something else in addition. But un-J/ancholy fact runs through all history aesurd, too has been nothing unpleasant pore e that, congress deliberatuly|that an but anything be ies this provision any re-| nothing too cruel, to he believed and mitted from : memory. er tle he @o him problem, | feel openly violate the law and unlawfully] assume any attitude-on the questhat is} cohabit with their numerous wives. I| tion was an indication to me that the will say it this, that where that has oc-| press wasrosecuter. against it.whose And, in fact, the I disposed eurred has been mostly in {solatea| public attention a hear for the tttton Bound to Run Its Course. no protest- the difficult done ,, People in| made solve ABUSES was Sutherland I do. upon the statute books. Substantially and established. Congress must aavelreigned in his stead, as a burnt of-|ing to the officers? Is not that true? Senator Smoot's Testimony. nothing was done in the way of en-|*nOWNn that under a law simply pro-|fering upon the walls of the eily-| Mr. Critchlow. Do you mean the; Mr. Culberson. Some of us regara|foreing it. Personally I have always nibiting polygamy every one of thosre|from that far day wher the Hindoo non-Mormons generally? of Senator Smoot was ject, as to the naan: pee Mr. "Sutherland =. very peaiee concerned. not, to non-Mormons there} that where they knew that from Utah is now discussing as ex-|fortune, because I believe that had with his wives, and not a single one|as the holiest and strongest passion] Mormons generally. ceedingly important, I have not had|the government at once and vigorously | Of them could be punished. Under a/of the human heart, consigned to the Mr. Critchlow. I think the plasure, on of account of having|enforced the law and Bupniecented it | Constitutional provisionmarriages simply declar-|sacred waters of thein Ganges ithe toloved sali ‘Mr Van Cott. been called out the chamber. tc | by such legislation as might have been ing that polygamous should| child of her body obedience tne They were : Es oe "+ _) did It, had been taught) and the way many other Gentiles felt. right, and many of] what do you say as to the proportion ake care of the problem was which confronted the people of state, and I do not believe they Smith so. Mr. Critchlow. That was our derstanding of it. hie bday palin So eau known witcheraft was in effect the givin ef the Bible. From that ine. Mr besieged Cott. Prlichiow. the} that he was living in unlawful cohabi-!be at ams the Mormon church was organized, John Wesley solemnly (e-| clared that the giving up of the belef enabling act was/in more than 2,000|up 4 had ee iy the Hone in households pane re Ride Sa with ‘hem marriage. time the there were polygamous it iG with th Congréss Blamed es i * e Remained law a gp iv Hnuedrepute to lve governor | and of charges of polygamy and of|of that territory by the President ot having taken an inconsistent oath, and|the United States once before and dee to me it is shown beyond|once after he had made this public Ce Mr. a Steien! rik Young was actually appoint- | governor 6 | again. She would be without any benet of the right to soclal conversations with the man that she had marDoes _ it exist out-|rjed in good faith, and so forth. It Salt Lake would work a great hardship upon without doubt. her and her children. And, agatn, if Revel tinue cnn oe eg of them is in| that polygamy was being openly practween polygamy and polygamous coof Massachusetts. If some poor' wo-|there was no inclination on the part| them believed it was right: ant itleft al of the people of your state who ee they cried w ticed in that territory habitation. 7 = . ""}man, borne down by pove As filled| of the prosecuting officers to push|condition of affairs after the decumvion that way on that subject? mayiig Hue e ec or a loud voice, In 1852 the president of the church, by the sense of injustice, walked the} these matters as to present cohabita-|of the manifesto-family affairs- Mr. Booth. I should say, man committed crime living of path of life apart; if some child, un- tion-I think that is so-thinking it|that was an anomaly, to say the least, Judge Powers and Mr. ae ie. aoa hen not ord, holy and|/in a great public meeting held in the polygamy when, having thea wife 1ot judge and avenge| Salt Lake tabernacle, openly pro-|and undivorced. he ret h th dersized, crippled, deformed, exhibited | Was a ee that would immediately ang the question of how to handle and|the general sentiment amo ced blood on them that "Prot bl h ; ‘ ably' the bee \ } husband of remarrying isolated, cut o it. I do not know exists. I want tol The Chairman. non-|as tried it. When immediate jan was adopted by congress, congress | l0US frenzy over witchcraft. The beknew, as the people of the State knew, | llef filled a century with gloom and} a as condition me : heme ome: aH Det Gentiles: for like reasons, have felt that way; that it ought to be aljowed to die out, as it will in time, and for the further reason, as T have ciated here, that the principal thing Almost within the memory of our grandparents old England and New onnaissance of that section. He spent By Cott. the general Mormons? ieniackt | een polygamous eiaiien Mr. Lawrence that in the ce Was and ne feataene wares oP one = shred record to éstabiier velief in this} probably sir; the Mr. Van; Gentiles? cf walt ai Seen Pen see Le ee all ayett MI honestly Hee ta Carrying aloft the banner of the cross Mr. Van Cott. And in the ques-| know about 0! that Christ whose very birth signal-|tions I have put to you, you underMr. BeConmell formerly governor] ized "peace on earth, good will toward] Stand that IT do not mean to say that/of the state of Idaho, testifled that} M8" wnd ae ee command} you belittled yourself or tnat you|the foregoing extracts from the tes-| W288 "Jove your enemles, © Christ-| lowered yourself in any way by doing|timony of Mr, Critchlow and Judge} armies ee‘ Stives with Moslem savage world and bloody, ‘fury,| upon the in respuse ee uppeal to thelr religious pas- is Yes, in imme- 5 But where); had their wives Crjtchlow.. Mr. Van re-| sufferings Ons responsible whatdo he does reenact or ‘atj most for whatfor they in chat . In another respect tials language 1s t Mr. Cott. have people ter Mr.of fact, it has Isbeen.-A mar Van Cott. not this the be wrested from infidel hands; mad iveyes,a 1thatdo there not know just obligation what it is.thatone_ having In 1850 been Captain Howard is any directed by theStansbury, govern-| hostile to this government in any mind oa 80, nes isles the timony of rence says War, POlygamists re-| the from the beginning of fact} history has been covered with the] #lso, that you did not deem yourself| have ve about Sh22¥ patchwork of the unreasoning|@S being lowered in the community in|to what extent it foibles of theology. A thousand years) @ny way when you went on the stump| see 7 pass away. ayo Peter the Hermit set all Europe} With John Henry Smith? The Chairman. in a blaze of religious fervor with the Mr. Critchlow. I certainly did not,| side Se: the city of demand that the Holy - Sepulchre} or I should not. have gone. Mr. Powers. Oh, United |*t0d is :ni ns ce was passed definir so man can be punished and and providing for the punishment ot beceiee Seine bolieve pn Rag an the crime of bigamy. It will thus be may assert a belief, or the peopie or| seen that fora period of at least ten| some of the people with whom pea years congress and the government|be associated may believe or assert) acquiesced in this practice with posi-|a bellef.in the abstract rightfulness| 1 Mr. Religious Ideas Once ed Listen to Nothing. of|the,Lerd.' Civilization meio (and I have ws Sites opinions about that as anencar nere), | |they are within their ri hts in bell y.| ing it and tin seeertibe the belief, if they choose to do s The only thing this enabling act OF this compact m oY ex-|States government | sae " Errenous but kind oF sion of the state in 1896 the terrifory | between the government of the communi caja. lawful |assert : 3 ' you . please é as. (rg its/there and makes a sort of a colony of} of what they would term persecution.| church, not by law. I am looking at ft it. then it becomes offensive even to a| And so, notwithstanding a protest has! from her standpoint now-that when h whole community. That sort of thing} been sent down here to you. I willlonce that relation Is entered = upon ies tered the whatey hundr: <- INTER-MOUNTAIN loa pars unde derstanding of that sub- | w ject if all begin by stating. some orship; but congress also desired that f that guaranty st er "onacts and" pointing out some distine- | strue w Snows eves De cathe tions well enougt i understood in Utah, So as to include polygamou |marri ap SS eGR aS « was| ee : BELIEVED No . IN eae PLURAL WIVES Lustful Motive Entered Into lygamous Early Marriages NPL te . ) e oS Mr. Sutherland. Considering testimony, children.| seen that Mr. president, this situation, it Po- this must which be con- By these prosecutions she _ suffered] more really than her husband did. In| nearly all fronted us out In Utah after the manitesto was issued, was one which bristwhich one was difficulties, plural wife woman,| must God er It}a woman would|right ought/her would]|she of is a who according I cases the may pure-minded believed to the law that of say it was for) to accept that relation, and that} can not be released from her ob-| would be|ligations, upon. delay| not when they are once entered Mr. Worthington. You mean by the gain, I may say, where a man has Instead of hastening the time that we ve} 9 oe Chew sale) their fundamental law, perfect tolera- | be aves hit himse ey ere wife in community} hope to live to see; whether the in-|rule of her church? oL tion of religious sentiment and non- Almighty : , as sin-|a polygamous her of rule the Mr. Booth. By wives|stitution would not flourish by reason and brings other polygamous Co linterference with the mode of religious | cere in their belief in Its vgnttuines { { with the|led be point approached of than ligious women anes were practical from with standpoint them of men these not Inspired by lust. were they men; has man who Utah, who has in their daily Ufe, Any state the statesmanship reformer. Those who entered into were good vee the the from of stand- rath- the re- and mar- They pure lived ] {ny mingled who hag | i j { |