The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-13

A.-The one last married.
Q.-Would not that be adultery?
Att would be If / continuedto live
IS the husband Of the other women,
J but ] do not sustain Slch relations
with more than one.
His Idea of Manifesto.
Mr.. Reynolds said he understood that
the manifesto OF 1896 permitted him TO
live with his plural wives without vio-
lsting the law, but that no further
wives could be contracted. Witness
acknowledged that he has had children
~ two wives since the manifesto of
1890. Witness had never preached
against pOlygamy. nor had he tried to
Set others to do so.
L have held my tongue" said Mr..
! Reynolds.
Your situation made it necessary for
you TO do so. did it not?"
Il think 1t did,
MIR Reynolds said he did not know
OF any effort made by any officials Of
the church TO carry out the provision
OF the Woodruff manifesto putting an
end to polygamy-
Accused His Daughter.
Mr. Reynolds said the only plural
marriage he had heard of since the
manifesto was that of his daughter,
which took place in Mexico.
Senator Dubois asked Mr.. Reynolds
if his daughter or her husband had
been cut off from the church because
of the marriage. The witness said both
of them had been I'm Mexico and had
never been before the church authori-
ties for trial.
Mr.. Reynolds said that he was one
OF the advisers who aided in perfecting
the Woodruff manifesto. which was
first submitted in President Woodruffs
handwriting. He testified that the COM
mittee had revised the manifesto.
Inspiration Amended.
81 believe the manifesto is said to
have been inspired?' asked Chairman
Burrows.
1T was a revelation from the Al
mighty
And you changed it?'
mot the meaning"
you just changed the phraseology?"
''Yes, sir
Then as I understand it." said SEN
ator Burrows, when this revelation
came from the Almighty the grammar
was bad and you corrected it?"
The witness said the phraseology had
not been inspired, but was President
Woodruff's own. This testimony kept
the committee room in an uproar.
John Henry Hamlin's Testimony
John Henry Hamlin of Salt Lake
City, the brother OF Lillian Hamlin.
who the protestants have tried to show
was married to Apostle Abraham Can
non on the high sees in 1890,
said it was the family con-
viction that his sister was mar
ried to Mr.. Cannon in the summer
OF 1896 and that the ceremony was per-
formed by President Smith on the Pa
cific coast. Lillian was said by her
brother to have been an attractive
young woman. He had not heard from
her for four or FIVE years, and did not
know where she was now. She had one
ckild, he said, a daughter who goes by
the name of Martha Cannon.
We'll, nobody doubts that the child
is Abraham CannOn's daughter"
asked Mr.. Tayler.
mo, SIR was the reply.
Lost Track of Lillian.
On cross-examination the witness
said he had no positive proof that his
sister had married Cannon. His sister
had attended the funeral services OF
Mr.. Cannon. and her child inherited
the estate of Mr.. Cannon. Mr. Hamlin
said he had heard from his wife that
Lillian had been married 10 Mr.. Can
non and that the ceremony had been
performed on the high seas by the
president of the church. His sister had
attended normal school in New York
after her husbands death, but the wit
ness could not say where she was now.
He admitted that he had kept track of
all of his other sisters, but did not know
whether his sister Lillian was now in
Mexico or Canada.
The committee then adjourned until
tomorrow.