The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-08
SMITHS MANY CHILDREN.
MORMON PRESIDENT ADMITS
 HAVING FORTK-TWO.


 ares He Is Proud of all of Them Gwenty-sne Boys and Twenty-one GirIs-Mormon Woman Now ou the Stand.
 Washington, March 7.-After having Joseph F. Smith, president of the Nor mon church. on the stand for near ly five hours to-day before the senate committee on privileges and elections, which Is Investigating the right of Reed Shoot to sit as senator, both the pros ecution and the defence announced that they were through with him, and another witness was called. This was Mrs. Clara Mabel Kennedy. who told some secrets os the Mormon church which, if not broken down, will prove as important as the statements of Presi- dent Smith that he and other officers have been persistently cohabiting with plural wives in violation of the law. Mrs. Kennedy said she was married by
 
 church, to James Francis Johnson, a polygamist since the manifesto of 1890, and she had had two children by that husband. The marriage was performed in Mexico according to the witness, at the home of high official of the church.
 Near the conclusion of the examination os President Smith, MT. Taylor for the prosecution, pressed the witness for a detailed statement of the children by his three last wives and the witness protested vigorously.
 Am I to understand that I am not to be permitted to have children by lawful wife," he asked of the chairman. Unless am compelled to do so I shall decline to answer any questions in re- gard to the number of children I have had by my first wife"
 What do you mean by lawful wife?' asked Chairman Burrows.
 T have a legal wife," answered MT. Smith. T mean the woman I married first-the woman married many years ago. She is the mother of eleven of my children
 Do you include the number of chil- dren you have had by this woman since the manifesto of 1890 in the number of children you have had by all your wives since that timer" asked Senator Hoar.
 I do- was the response.
 MT Taylor again asked for a detailed schedule Of Mir Smiths children borr since 1890 and over the protest of MT Smith Chairman Burrows directed that the question be answered.
 Mr. Smith gave a list of children by the wives in the order in which he mar ried them. The list Is as follows:
 By Julina- Edith and Rachel.
 By Sara-Aseneth and Janetta.
 By Edna Martha, and one child which died.
 By Fielding, Jesse and Andrew
 By Mary -Silas, Agnes, James, May and Calvin. He did not know the age o1 the last named.
 MT. Taylor questioned the witness ir regard to the ages of several otherss o1 the children, and Mir. Smith answered.:
 T am not in the habit of carrying birth records about with me-
 Several questions were addressed te the witness in regard to the alleged marriage of Apostle Teasdale to plura wife since the manifesto of 1S90 and Attorney Van Cott for the defence en- tered protest on account of the man. ner in which the questions were put ano particularly in regard ito the assump- ton on the part of the prosecution that such marriage had taken place wher there had been nothing offered directly to prove 1t.
 Chairman Burrows directed that the information be given, but nothing was elicited which had not been offered pre-. viously.
 Both the prosecution and the defence announced that they were through witt MT. Smith for the present, but before he was allowed to leave the stan6 Chairman Burrows inquired:
 How many children have you now MT. Smith?"
 "Forty-two," was the answer, "twen. ty-one boys and twenty-one girls, and ] am proud of every one of then1.'