The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-18

sage of a resolution by the Idaho leg
isla ture calling a constitutional con-
ventiOn. He said the resolution. created
no comment and, in fact, its purpose
was ignored until Senator Dubois had
written a letter calling attention to the
tact that such a convection could re-
peal the Idaho tests against polygamy.
Mr.. Jackson said the resolution had
been rut through the legislature on the
advice of Apostle John Henry Smith.
Asked why the resolution was not
submitted 70 the people, Mr. Jackson
said the attorney general gave an opin-
ion declaring the resolution was i'm
properly passed. and the secretary of
state refused 10 certify the resolution
TO be placed on the ballot.
Mr.. Van Colt asked if the attorney
general who rendered the opinion was
not and is not now a Mormon to which
witness answered in the affirmative.
Mr.. Van Colt brought out the fact that
there were only nine Mormons In the
legislature which passed the resolu-
ton calling for a constitutional con-
vention, but Mr.. Jackson added that
member from counties where the Nor
mons held the balance of power were
under Mormon influence.
MI. Nicholson Is Recalled.
John Nicholson. chief recorder of the
Salt Lake City temple. was recalled
and examined in regard 10 the mar
. rage records he was supposed to bring
TO Washington. He stated that the
record he brought contains all of the
marriages that have been solemnized
in the temple since 1893, when the book
was opened
is the book you have here the only
one in which marriages have been re-
corded in that period?" Mr.. TayIer
asked
I have no recollection of any other. -
Then the witness explained that
there is another book in which are re-
corded the sealings Of men and women
who have been married outside of the
| church. He was asked if there were
still other books. and replied that the
various religious processes each have
a book Attention was called by Mr.
\ Tayler TO the testimony of August
/ Lundstrom that he had been sealed to
! his wife at a ceremony performed in
| the temple, and the witness was asked
/ where this ceremony had been record
! ed. He said It was in another book
+ More than fifteen minutes was con-
I sumed by Mr.. Tayler in a futile effort
/ u draw from Mr.. Nicholson the proper
+ name of the other book referred to. and
/ some reason why it had not beer
brought in response to the subpoena
! issued by the senate committee. SEN
+ ator McComas then asked the witness
! and likewise was unsuccessful
He Did Not Want to.
You are the keeper of this OTHER
/ book. are you not2' he asked
Well not the particular one
But YOU know where it is?' the sen
/ atOr persisted.
Il suppose l do" was the response.
Then why did you not bring it?'
Because I did not want to-"
] Mr. Nicholson then gave a long eX-
I PLANTATION of the character of the book
in an effort to show thar the subpoena
\ Of The senate committee could not bC
held TO call Tor any records except
/ those of legal marriages, which had
taken place within the temple. He de-
! scribed the second book as q record Of
( sealinss Of people who go into the tenn
! pie having been married outside. TO re
/ ceiye blessing This blessing. he said
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