The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-20
.SMO0T CASE Is
ONLY SLEEPING
PrOteStantS Have Furnished
List of Other Witnesses.
GUESS AS TO THE COMMITTEE
TRIAL WILL DRAG ALONG UN-
TIL DECEMBER.
Especial 70 The Heraidl

NAI ASHINGTON, March 15.-The re-
wv cess in the Smoot hearings will
give this city and the country a
brief respite from the most disagree
able and unsavory scandal set out be-
fore the public since the Beecher-Tilton-
trial of thirty years ago. But the
Smoot case is by no means ended. The
protestants against permitting him 20
retain his seat have furnished the CONF
mittee on privileges and elections with
a long list OF additional Witnesses
whose testimony viii be given 10 prove
that plural marriages have been per
formed by officers Of the Mormon
church, notwithstanding the emphatic
declara ton of President Joseph F.
Smith that the church has Obeyed the
law i'm this particular I'm addition %
these witnesses the committee win try
10 enforce the attendance OF Apostles
John Henry Smith. Te-sdaIe. Cowley
aud other prominent M0rmons who
were SubpOeuaed several weeks ago.
but who have failed FOR various Eeasons
to put in an appearance.
viii Drag Along.
The committee not only will take the
testimony of all of these witnesses. but
very likely viii send a subcommittee
composed of part of its membership
10 Utah To- gather up still more owl
denCe of the wTOugdOings OF the Nor
mons. Utah is TO receive more adVer-
Using Of "a certain kind than ever has
been accorded any other state, for the
controversy over SmOOt and the Nor
mons seems certain TO be prolonged
until after the election of next fall
Neither party wants 10 line up against
the Mormons or for them pending the
presidential election. and consequently
Utah and its affairs are TO be hung up
in the air for ventilation for the re-
mainder Of this year and part Of the
next
The most surprising feature or the
investigation to those who daily have
listened 20 the testimony has been the
frankness and apparent truthfulness Of
the witnesses. No detail of domestic
affairs has been kept back Dy the mem
berS of the Mormon church and there
has been no hesitation ON their part 10
answering the probing questions of the
lawyer for the prOtestants or OF mem
berS of the committee The whole Coun-
Try has been startled al the condition
of affairs revealed by these answers.
but at the same time IL has been sug-
gested that the country perhaps would
receive as great a shock III the cOndi-
lions were reversed and the inquisitors
were nut on the stand and compelled
TO disclose their private lives as freely
and as fully as the Mormon leaders
have done
CritchIow and Hiles.
tt is conceded by the Morn1ous who
have been present at the trial that At
torney r. 3. Critchlow. one OF the pro-
testants who appeared as a witness
and who has been assisting IN the con-
duct of the case against SmOOt, was
very fair i'm his statements and gener-
ally truthful in his testimony Mr..
Shoots friends are very critical OF
n Ha-H ..1r ant
that he knew OF a Mormon who had
contracted a plural marriage since the
manifesto. and then declined 10 give
his name because the man was one OF
his friends.
With the close of the hearings for
two weeks recess there IS much spec
ulation among those who listened to the
testimony thus far produced as 10 It's
effect upon the committee The char
scter Of the questions prOpounded 10
the witnesses by the various individ-
uals on the committee forms the prln-
cipal basis for determining the views
of these members. The members who
have been active in questioning the
witnesses are Chairman Burrows and
Senators Dubois. Oyerman, Bailey,
Hoar. McComas, Foraker, Beveridge,
Dillingham; and HOpkins- FROM the
trend Of the questions they have asked
II is inferred that Foraker, Beveridge.
MelOlIas anu Dlll4llBL dlAA az oseAAA-ai-
unseating SmOOU- IT seems equally
certain that Dubois, Burrows, Overman
and Hopkins would vote to unseat him.
Hoar and Bailey Doubtful.
Hoar and Bailey have asked search
ing questions and they have not at
tenpted TO conceal their apparent dis
appreciation Of MormOnism. but both
are sticklers for adherence TO the spirit
and letter of the constitution, and II
is believed that both are OF the opinion
that constitutionally and legally SmooI
is entitled to his seat and viii vote 10
retain him. Senator Pettus also IS a
devoted adherent TO the constitution,
and he is regarded as likely to stand
with Hoar, and Bailey on the PROPOSE
ton. Senators Depew and Clarke nave
asked no questions during the hear
ings and nave been present at but rev
of the meetings. and they are ciaSseo
as doubtful. All Of these speculauons
may be upset in the final result II Jhe
contest becomes political and the case
is made a party question, or If public
demand for Shoots expulsion becomes
80 urgent that the action OF the mem
hers of the committee Will De lnIlu-
enced by It rather than by their Vie"