The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-24

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George A. Smith and Hiram F. Smith
| who filled vacancies IN the council o.
| twelve apostles, are monogamists, ac
cording to President Smith.
There are six of the twelve apostles,
said Smith, who are in the status OF
polygamy."
DO they actually live with more thar
| one wife," asked Worthington.
Not having inquired into the matter
! l do not like to answer"
Does your cousin, John H. Smith
| live with more than one wife?"
Il am verv strongly inclined to be-
lieve that he does"
Questions were asked whether the
Woodruff manifesto suspending poly
gamy was a divine revelation" A
sermon delivered by President Wood
ruff on Dec. 1, 1891, a year after the
manifesto, was quoted. In this Wood
ruff declared that the God of Heaven
commanded him what to do and that
he wrote the manifesto as God COM
manded him to write it.
Senator Bailey pointed out the con-
f1ict between the Joseph Smith revela-
ton permitting nolygany and the
Woodruff revelation prohibiting it.
Il do not have much patience" he
said, with revelation that comes just
after a statute is passed.
4 THE Congress of the United States
has no business with my private affairs, y
declared President Smith with intense
earnestness, speaking of his violation of
the polygamous cohabitation law. That
was a State law of Utah, he said, and
not law of the United States. Il have
chosen to risk the penalty of the law
rather than abandon my children and
their mothers. / have chosen to care
for my children and attend to their edu-
cation, even IL by doing so | have vio-
lated the law"
Was it necessary in feeding and
clothing your children that you should
have further children by each of your
five wives?". asked Mr.. Burrows.
That was the kernel in the nut, re-
piled President Smith. i chose to have
more children, for the sake of peace
and harmony in my families.
Mr.. Bailey asked President Smith if
he was not only living in defiance of
,,the law of Utah, but in violation of an
Ordinance of the Church-that is, the
alleged inspired manifesto of Woodruff.
Smith admitted that this was true.
'You do not teach polygamy?" asked
Mr Burrows.
THAT is right. I am not openly and
| obnoxiously practising polygamous CO.
habitation.
How much better could you preach
the doctrine of abstaining from poly
gamy if you did not practise it,"
Il do not practise polygamy, indig-
nantly replied Smith. Il have prohi-
bited it. Polygamy means the taking
of more than one wife, and that 1 am
not doing"
After you have married more than
one wife and are living with them all,
you do not regard it as polygany?"
That is polygamous cohabitation, not
polygamy"
AT this juncture photographer push
ed his way into the committee with an
enormous tripod and camera. One or
two Senators furtively primped up,
ready for picture. but Senator Dilling-
ham entered an objection to having a
photograph taken. President Smith,
who sat at the foot of the long table,
was hustled to an obscure corner by his
counsel
There will be no picture taken OF
! this committee nor of the room," said
| Chairman Burrows. "The photographer
asked if he could come in here with
/ his instrument and I told him he could
( but could not take a picture"
! All this time the photographer work
/ ed away, trying to get focus.
NHe is actually taking focus" said
! Senator Dillingham;.
! There will be no picture taken OF
| this committee nor any member of il
without the consent of the committee,
J announced Mr.. Burrows.
| -
until Monday morning, leaving the BAT
fled photographer crouching under his
| black hood.