Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-09-01
OVERS ACCOUNTS.
Under Investigation Before Special
Commissioner stone.

States Attorney {. ; NaEian, VIII
represented the government
Messrs. F. :. Richards and l.
Graude Yong, representing tn
f.. .nurch; Bishop John r. windel
who had been subpPnaed as n wi
ness; F. Z. and Charles McGurri
stenographers; tho clerk 81 the Tei
ritorial Supreme Court; a numbe
Of Spectators and reporters.
Col. Stone took The oath Of ofiic
befo7e tiie clerk, when the latter T,
tired, and the two s.enographer
were next sworn. The commi.
sioner then dictated TO the stenog
raphers the introductory portion O
the record.
Mr.. Williams. aiIressing III
court, said he understood tina
Specifications were to have beel
filed in behalf Of the government
before the taking Of testimony, di
recting attention TO those portions o
I Mr.. Dyer's accounts which wer,
objected 70.
| Commissioner Stone said il had
been expected by him that thi,
would be done, but he thought testi
mony might he proceeded with, and
the Specifications filed during the
progress Of the investigation.
Mr.. Williams then moved form.
ally that the Specifications be re,
Iuired to he filed before commenc
ing to take testimony, aud that Tia,
latter be confined 20 matters re.
frrred 10 in the Specifications.
MI. Narisa objected to the motion.
Ginning that this investigation
was FOR the purpose Of eEa mining
into the whole OF Mr.. Dyer's az.
counts H. far Is might be found
necessary He said he would no.
II this time prepare specifications.
Mr.. Williams made a further argu.
ment in support OF his motion, in.
-isting that Il would be perfectly
consistent with the order Of the
Territorial Supreme Court insti.
tuting the Investigation, and with
the usual practice in such cases, T.
require such portions Of Mr.. Dyer's
accounts rs were objected 10 OF
Questioned, TO Ice specified before
taking testimony. Such would he
an orderly ami methoiical pro-
cedute.
Commissioner Stone ss'd the oripr
under which he vas acting required
him II investigate the whole 0f M.
Dyer's accounts and doings duriu.
the whole period Of his receivership.
II the specifications had been filed
it would have facilitated matter but
he did not think he hal the authority
10 order il done.
Mr.. Nariau offered in evidence
the record Of the proceedings that
lli been had before Judge Harknes,
and Judge SpTague, while they wer.
acting Is special examiners In thi~
'Bsa.
Mr.Williams objected 30 the intro
iucti0n Of such portions Of that re-.
ord as were not competent and rele-
rant 10 issues now pending. He
'Ould not specify them In detail. His
objection HaS sustained.
John r. Winder sworn. and ex-
tmined 10y Mr.. Narian: | was r.
siding in this city when the Ell
munlS- Tucker law was lass, j:
held no ecclesiastical position at that
time except the Office OF a Seventy;
'Ould not state the exact number %
stakes at that time; generally .
stake correspondei in ara with
county; tithing was collected Ia
the different Stakes aud Wa
deposited at local Offices:
some Stakes had tithing offices
anu some hai not: in some the titE-
ing Clfices were ward concerns.
could not state in whom the titles 10
the various tithing offices in the
various Stakes vested prior 10 the
Incorporation Of the Stakes and
Tarls; there are lhtee temples
completed and zone ia course OF
erection, / am partially posted rs 10
the USES for which these structures
are designed; the Church in the
past has believed i'm the doctrine C.!
plural marriages; l understand thai
plural marriages have in the past
been performed In temples, but
cannot speak from personal know
ledge.
Mr.. Narian here rad from the
testimony given by Angus VI. Can
non before Judge Sprague. in which
Cannon described the USES for
which Temples were designed, and
asked the witness IL he understood
Mr.. Cannon's testimony 10 lie true.
The witness answered afiirmatively.
Mr.. Narian read further from the
record Of Mr.. CannOn's testimony.
which related 10 the orlii a1ces and
work performed in Temples, and
asked the witness il Il was true.
The latter said he could not speak
from personal knowledge, As he
had never been through q
Temple. He further testified: There
was formerly on the Temple Block
a building known as the Endow-
ment House, but Il has been torn
down: the Tabernacle and Assem-
bly, Hall are used exclusively for
public worship; the Endowment
House was used for purposes similar
10 those Of temples, such as giving
endowmenis; marriages were also
performed there; | DO not know per
sonally that, during the prosecu-
tons under the Edmunds law. in
ISS4-5, plural marriages were proven
10 have occurred in that building.
il was generally Understood that
such marriages were, in former
years, performed there.
Mr.. Nsrian - Were YOU COM
mitted with a certain trauSlc-
ton 10y which salt Lake
stake was turned over 10 the
Temple fund certain property
amounting 70 thirty odd thousand
dollars. The witness answered az
firmatively and stated the substance
Of the transaction.
To Mr.. Williams-In the spring 81
1857 I was a Seventy; later / was a
High Priest; in May, lSS7, | be-
came a Bishop and Counselor 10 the
Bishop.
To lie Grand Y0ung-I cannot
speak from my pers0nsl knowledge
OF other uses than those | have
ramed TO which the Endowment
House was, and Temples now
are. put: one Of their uses is hap
tism for the living and dead;
do not know Of any plural mar
riages having been performed in
any Of these buildings since lSs4; do
not know that it is intended TO use
the temples for such a purpose; there
is a religious ordinance Of marriage
performed in the Church; il is not
a pOlygamOus marriage;
| could not definitely state all az the
uses n Temple is designed for.
lie Grande YOung-Don't you
know as matter Of public notoriety.
that there have been no plural
marriages since March 3, 1857,
witness-Such Is my understand