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or the Edmunds act. that he was no.
lerefore prosecuted.
Warrant For Smith.

" as tncrc a warrant out FOR yOu2
asked Senator Dubois
I can present it to Won now r.
sponded the witness, with some SNAP.
1T was returned TO me-"
Then you were not at home looking
after Your wives?"
Il was not neglecting them entirely. -
Replying to Mr.. Hoar. Mr.. Smith said
he considered that conditions N the
state Of Utah justified him in the course
Re had pursued.
on the other hand" he said. eve
nave agreed not to solemnize any more
plural marriages. and / don't believe. -
ne added. bringing his clenched hand
down on the table. that that under
standing has been violated"
Replying 10 Senator Depew, Mr..
smith said no new revelations are in
corporated in the Book of Mormon. but
in the Doctrine and Covenants.
senator Hoar asked some questions.
bringing out the status Of children I'M
der the law Of inheritance.
The children of plural wives get only
what is willed TO them or TO their
mothers" said the witness. I'm my
own case T. have made deeds TO my diff
ferent families"
He said in reply to Mr.. worthiEgtoH
that the Book Of Mormon is not the
Mormon Bible
What is the Mormon Bible?'
King James translation Of the Bible.
We have no Bible except the Bible Of
other Christian people
Teasdale's Marriage.
Replying TO questions relating to his
FORMER testimony concerning Apostle
Teasdales plural marriage since 1880,
Mr. smith said it was his understand
ing from Teasdale himself that at the
time OF that marriage Mr.. Teasdale was
Sealed for eternity to an elderly woman
who had been his housekeeper. Mr..
Teasdale understood, said the witness
that the woman was In no sense his
legal wife when he married Mary
Scoles.
His relation with her was just as
chGste as with his sister"
Precisely So" the witness replied.
lie added that he had personally known
of two other cases of sealing for eter-
nifty" and that the church sealed both
Tor time and eternity.
At the executive session Of the COM
mittee before recess was taken it was
decided TO allow a photograph to be
taken OF the committee room tomorrow,
bet with no witnesses present.
Andrew Jensen, assistant historian of
the church. at the afternoon session
sale he had two wives. who were sis
tiers and they both lived in the same
house. though he lived with the first.
Mr.. Jensen said he was not sealed iE
eternity to the mother of the two wives.
Ex-cOnvict's Story.
Lorin Harmer testified that he was
p bishop for five or six years. but had
been sent 20 the penitentiary in 1899
upon conviction of unchastity and lost
his good standing He said he had
Two wives. Ella and Ida, and had lived
also with Ellen Anderson, but never as
her husband. He said she had two
children by him, one since he had re-
turned from the penitentiary He now
lives in Springville. He said Ellen An
derson supports herself and that he had
contributed nothing for herself or her
children. He said she had property Of
her own.
Mr.. Harmer was asked if Senator
Smoot had anything to do with his ar
rest. Il think he caused it he said.
He was counsellor at that time to the
president of the stake. who was then
away.
He called me to Provo and told me
the church proposed to take away my
bishopric and other offices. j asked him
To give me time to prepare my family,
and then I started home"
why was he going 20 take away
your odices?"
because / had committed a crime.'
What Crime2"
adultery. TO be frank"
why do YOU think Mr.. Smoot caused
your arrest?"
Because before I reached home the
Sheriff overlook and put me under ar
rest. / blamed Sm0ot for sending the
Sheriff after me. I thought he might
have given me more time. although the
crime was a bad one. I do not know
that Smoot was responsible for my ar
rest, but it looked much like it,"
Hyrum Smiths Testimony.
Hyrum A. Smith. 50 years old. a son
Of President Smith and one of the
twelve apostles, read a speech he had
made I'm 1894 in Brigham City. at one
# the quarterly conferences. in which
he said each one I'm the matter Of obey
ing laws does as he pleases but that
each must bear the consequences of his
acts. He said that was his view. He
explained at length the manner Of
sending out missionaries. and said po-
lygumy was not talked and that pOIyg-
amous cOhabitation had never been
talked at a conference at which Mr.
SmOOt was present
At other meetings he had heard dis
Cussed the continuance of plural mar
Tiages. and the apostles had taken steps
10 prevent il. POlygamOus cohabita-
ton. he said. had rot been considered.
When ne (SmithD went on a foreign
mission to Great Britain he had been
Instructed not TO discuss polygamy He
never had discussed it as an apostle
hut when he was missionary he had
told certain persons who assailed the
doctrine that il was a teaching of the
Bible ard had ended the controversies
by referring the persons 10 the Bible so
''they could judge for themselves
Senator Hoar-Did YOU commend
upon prospective converts the rule OF
your church against polygamy2
81 always refrained from arguing on
polysamy."
Thomas H. MeTTill's Evidence.
Thomas IT. Merrill. a bishop and a
son Of Apostle Merrill. said he had
two wives. and that ne had six children
by the first and four by the second
The youngest child by the second wife
IS years old His second marriage
took place in the Logan temple in 1885
where he said he promised to love
honor ana respect the woman and treat
her in every way as a wife. He said
he did not know whether marriages
performed i'm the temple are recorded
He had performed two ceremonies him
self and had kept only an individual
record He did rot use the same serv-
ice twice he believed, and in answer to
senator Hopkins. said;
Il have looked for q prescribed
formula Tor marriages, but never found
one"
Married Sisters.