The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-10

 ed the witness with some snap. "It was returned to me"
 ''Then you were not at home looking after your wives?"
 "I was not neglecting them entirely"
 Thinks Conscience Justified.
 Replying to MT. Hoar, MT. Smith said he considered that conditions in the state of Utah justified him in the course he has pursued. "On the other hand" he said, i've have agreed not to solemnize any more plural marriages, and I don't be- lieve.' he added, bringing his clinched hand down on the table. that under standing has been violated.'
 Senator Hoar asked some questions bringing out the status of children under the law of inheritance.
 "The children of plural wives get only what Is willed to them, or to their moth ers' said the witness. Tn my own case" he went on, T have deeded to my different families all my property"
 He said in reply to MT. Worthington that the book of Mormon Is not the Nor mon bible.
 What is the Mormon bible?'
 King James translation of the bible. We have no bible except the bible of other Christian people,
 Replying to questions relating to his former testimony concerning Apostle Teasdale's plural marriages since 1903. Mir. Smith said it was understood from MT. Teasdale himself. that at the time of that marriage, MT. Teasdale was sealed for eternity to an elderly woman who had been his housekeeper Mir. Teasdale understood. said the witness. that the woman was in no sense his legal wife when he married Marion Scotes.
 r...tI. chaste as with his sister?'
 Precisely SOL the witness replied.
 The committee at 12 o'clock took the usual recess of two hours.
 Afternoon Session.
 Andrew Jensen, assistant historian of the church. at the afternoon session said he had two wives who were sisters, and that they both lived in the same house. though he lives with the first. MT. Jensen said he was not sealed in eternity to the mother of the two wives.
 Lorraine Harmer testified that he was a bishop for five or six years, but had been sent to the pententiary on the conviction of unchastity and lost his good standing. He says he has two wives-Ellen 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 re- turned from the penitentiary. He now lives In Springfield. He said Ellen Ander- son supports herself. and that he had con- tributed nothing for herself or her chill dren. He said she had property of her own.
 MT. farmer was asked if Senator Smoot had anything to do with his arrest
 T think he caused it," he said. He was counsellor at that time to the presi- dent of the state, who was then away
 'He called me to Provo and told me the church proposed to take away my bishop ric and other offices. I asked him to give me time to prepare my family and then I started home"
 Why was he going to take away your offices?'
 Because I had committed crime"
 What crime?"
 Adultery, to be frank
 "why do you think MT. Shoot caused your arrest?"
 Blamed Smott for Arrest.
 Because before I reached home the sheriff overlook me and put me under arrest. I blamed Mir. Smoot for sending the sheriff after me. I thought he might have given me more time, although the crime was bad one. I don't know that