The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-15
SECRETS REVEALED
WALLIS DISCLOSED RITUAL OF
 MORMON CHURCH.
In Reed Semoot Investigatfon Before Senate Committee-Penalties for Disclosure Include Matilation
 Of the OHender's Body.

WaSntngtcn, Dec. I4.--Iestlmony Te- lating to the alleged ,polygamous mar riage of the late apostle Abram Cannon and Lillian Hamlin, and additional tes- timony concerning the obligations
 taken by persons who pass through | the Mormon endowment house. was of | fered today in thesinvestigation of the protest against Senator Reed Shoot | before the Senate Committee on Privi- leges and Elections. The Reed Shoot investigation was ! resumed before the Senate Committee | on Privileges and Elections. with J. H. | Wallis. Sr.. Mormon from Salt Lake. Utah. al the first witness. He testified that he joined the Nor | mon Church In 1851 in London and came to the United States in 1890, settling I in Utah. Mir. Wallis says he has had three wives, but not more than one at time. He knew Apostle George Teas l dale and also Marian Scoles in London. She came to this country as an unmar- l ried woman, and according to the wit | ness is reputed to have been married l to Teasdale in Utah.
 Questioned as to his belief the wit . | ness said he never believed fully in the | celestial marriages to the dead and four | times had stood as proxy for four mar l riages of living women to dead men. He married his present wife in the | temple.
 Explaining the marriages in the tenn pie. MT. Wallis said it Is necessary | to take the endowment before marriage | and In this way he had passed through l the endowment house twenty times at least
 Oaths are Described. Mir. Wallis was asked to give the | oaths taken by those who participated
 in the ceremony, and this he did. to- gether with a description of the secret | signs executed by each person, Near | ly all of the obligations were that | those who took part would not reveal anything they saw or heard on peril
 of mutilation of the person and every
 one who were in the temple. said the
 witness. were compelled to agree to the
 conditions laid down by the priests. | The penalties agreed to were given
 by Mir. Willis as follows: 1 That the throat be cut from ear to | ear. and the tongue be torn off. That the breast be cut asunder and
 the heart and vitals be torn from the
 body.
 | That the body be cut asunder at the
 middle and the bowels cut out. | That if demanded. we will give all
 we possess to the support of the | church."
 | The next obligation was one of chas-
 tity in which the obligator agreed not
 to cohabit with any psrson not given
 him or her by the priests.
 Another obligation was one that we
 would never cease to importune high
 heaven to ayenge the blood of the prophets upon the nations of the earth | or the inhabitants of the earth. I don't | just remember which," said the wit ness.
 | This was followed by a quotation from the scriptures I think. Revela- l tions. 6:s. the souls of those slain cried
 aloud on the altars for vengeance.' Mr. Tayler then turned the witness
 animation. Mir. worthington obtained
 from MT. Wallis that he had given mo-
 tice to his bishop several months ago
 of his severance from the church. l Regarded as Joke. | MT. Wallis when questioned by MT. Worthington told the Committee that he had always considered the obliga-
 tions in the light of a joke and that he
 had thought many others had consld- cred them in the same way.
 He said there never had been any
 solemnity in the taking of the obliga-
 tions so far as he could see. Worth ington told the committee that. he was not ready to proceed with the cross examination.
 George H. Bremhall, 1:esident of the Brigham Young University, then testi- fled that he had two wives married be- fore 1890. Senator Smoot Is d mem-
 Der of the University Board hut was not present when witness was elected
 President, Senator Shoot frequently addressed the students and always urged them to obey the law.
 At p. m August Lundstrum, of Salt Lake was sworn. He was borr in Sweden and became a Mormon siS years after coming to the United Estates. He had held high positions ir
 He testified that he went through tho
 temples in Salt Lake and Logan. He had heard the endowment obligations
 taken six times, he said, each cere.
 mony consuming from six to eighi hours. according to the size of tht icrowd. He said oaths of sacrifice ant of retribution were administered The whole proceeding was a series oi
 obligations. said the witness. but ht
 could not remember all of them. | The first in order he said, was the
 law of sacrifice which bound eacr person to give his entire mears anC
 talents to the upbuilding of the Nor
 mon church. The next obligation was
 that Of retribution. in which eact
 person agreed and promised to "ask God tp avenSe the blood of Joseph
 Smith upon this nation and to teach
 our children and our children's chill dren to do the same to the end of the
 earth.
 The next obligation was that of Chastity.
 ] MT. Lundstrum said he remained 6