The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-08

! Church Owns Theatre. "Only one" said Mr. Smith That Is the theater which was started by Brigham Young. and in which the church has al-
 ways held a majority of the Stock" ! Mfr. Worthington announced that he had | finished with the witness and Mir. Tayier
 then asked if four out of seven members of the board of trustees of the Agri-
 cultural College are not Mormons Mir. Smith said that he believed that to be
 the case He answered also that his elec- tion as president was since MT. Shoots election as an apostle, Senator Foraker
 asked MT. Smith if he had any objection to Mir. Shoot becoming a candidate for
 senator and Mir. Smith said;
 T gave my consent to his becoming a lcandidate."
 "wby did you think your consent mes.
 essary7' asked Chairman Burrows.
 Because it is rule that any one
 of the general authorities Of the church desiring to engage In any bllsiness out
 side of its church duties must get the
 consent of the first presidency and then
 the twelve apostles before he can do so.
 said Mir. Smith.
 The presiding oflcsr of Mr. Smiths board was given as George R Elmer y,
 who he said is reported to be polys- arnlst.
 Mir. Smiths Children. I MT. TayIer returned to testimony in regard to the number of children Mir Smith has had since the manifesto of i 1890. and he repeated that there had beel
 eleven, to the best of his recollection. | Are you sure of the nnrnber7s asked | Mir. Tayier.
 T cannot say that am absolutely sure"
 Now, don't want to be impertincnt,
 but isn't 1t fact that there have hesn l twentyT' asked Mir. Tayler. | Nc; nothing like that" was the am 1 swer Well, how many by your wife, named 1 Alice? Please give the names" By Alice therc were Fielding. Jesse | and Andrew. The youngest Is about years old,' answered the witness. "That is the one born on the day nf | MT. Smott's accession as an apostle. is | 1t not?' asked Mir. Taylcr. The witness answered that 1t was, and proceeded to give the children born to his wife Mary. since the manifesto. By Mary the chil-
 dren are silas, James and Agnes. he ! said.
 'swhose child les samuei7'' asked Mr ] Tayler.
 .'He is Msry's," he answered. He stat | ed that he could not give Eamuefs axe or the age of his son Calvin. and that 1 by each of his other three wives he had at least two children since the mani- fcsto.
 Mir. Tayler pressed the witness for a
 detailed statement of the children by | the other three wives, and the w1tn ss protested vigorously.
 Am I to understand that I am not to be permitted to have children by my I lawful wIfs?' he asked of the chairman. I 'Unless am compelled to do so. shall decline to answer any questions In re- gard to the number of children l have l had by my first wife.
 "A Lawful Wife,
 'swhst do you moan hy lawful wife r asked ChairTnan BurroNs e 1T have q legal wifes eas Mr. | Smith. "I mean the woman " married hrst--the woman l married many years ago She Is the mother of eleven of my children"
 "Do you include the number of chill dren you have had by this woman since inc manifesto of 1890 in the number Of children you have had by all your wives since that timer asked Senator Hoar. T do, was the response. Mfr. Tayler again asked for detailed schedule of MT. Smiths children born since 1890 and over the protest of MT. Smith, Chairman Burrows directed that the question be answered. MT. smith gave a list of children by wives in order,
 in which he married them. The list is as follows:
 Rv JuIina-Edith and Rachael. By Sarah, Azenath and Jenneta; by Edna, Martha and one child which died; by | Alice. Fielding, Jesse and Andrew; by Mary, Silas, Agnes, James and maybe | Calvin. He said he did not know the | age of the last named. The witness was l questioned in regard to the age of severe l other children and Mir. Smith answered: | 'T am not in the habit of carrying birth | records about with me" Several questions were addressed to the witness fin regard to the alleged marriage | of Apostle Teasdale to a plural wife since l the manifesto of 1890, and Attorney Van | Cott, for the defense, entered a protest | on account of the manner In which the l questions were put and particularly in regard to tho assumption on the part of the prosecution that such a marriage had taken place when there had been nothing 1 offered directly to provo 1t. Nothing New Developed. Chairman Burrows directed that the l information be given, but nothing was | elicited which had not been offered | previously.
 1 Both the prosecution and the defense | announced that they were through with Mir Smith for the present, but before he | was allowed to leave the stand Chairman | Burrows inquired, How many children have you now, Mir. Smith?" ''Forty-one," was the answer. Twenty ! boys and twenty-one girls and am | proud of every one of them"
 The witness was asked by Senator Bur
 rows if Joseph Smith IT,, the founder of the Mormon Church, was polygamist
 and after answering afflrmatively, he said | that Mir. Smith was married to Eliza R. Snow in 1892 and to Marie Partridge in the forties. His first wife was living with him when he married the second Witness offered to give the dates later, ] but MT. Burrows said 1t was not necessa-
 " and that he had inquired only because
 he had been informed that he was not n polyagmist.
 As Mir Smith started to leave the stand ] Senator Dubois again stopped him and asked the ages of President Woodruff and of President Snow at the time of their deaths.
 It appears that both were more than 70
 when the manifesto was issued" said Sem
 ator Dubois. You have testified that both
 obeyed the law in regard to polygamous
 cohabitation and have not practiced it
 since that time. think 1t likely" Senator Overman said that he had a
 pamphlet saying that Jesus Christ was a polygamist Turning to Mir. Smith he
 asked:
 "Is that what your church teaches?" No. sir was the response. What
 we teach is that Jesus Christ was des-
 cended through long line of polygamists
 through David and dow nto Abraham"