The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-13
.DR. BUCKLEY 9RSfIFIES
 IN THE SHOOT HEARING
WHATHE HEARD AT 4 MORMON
 MEETING.

Declares President Joseph smith Said
 He Would Not Give Up His Plural
 wives-GeOrge Reynolds, High of-
 hciaI of the Church, Gives Some In-
 terestIng Testimony-smoot Not Con-
 nected with Any violation of the
 Laws of State or Nation.
 Washington, Dec. 12-Three witness es were heard to-day in the case of Senator Reed Shoot before the senate committee on privileges and elections. the committee resuming its inyestiga- tion after Q long recess.
 The first witness was Rev. Dr. J. Nj. Buckley, editor of the Christian Advo- cate of New York, who told of Nor mon meeting he attended in Salt Lake. Utah, last summer, in which President Joseph Smith declared he would not give up his plural wives.
 George Reynolds, high official of the church, testified in regard to ceremo- nies that have taken place in the en- dowment house and concerning ecclesi- astical diyorces granted by the church, and John Henry Hamlin told of the plural marriage of his sister, Lillian Hamlin. to Apostle Abram Cannon, which ceremony. he said. he understood to have been performed by President Smith since the manifesto of 1890.
 Most of the testimony related to the inside policy. but did not connect Sen ator Sfnoot with any of the alleged vio- lations of state or national statutes. The committee adjourned until to-mor- row.
 In examination of Dr. Reynolds Mir. Taylor showed the witness a contract of separation between George T. and Ellen Watson, which Dr. Reynolds acknowledged he executed in 1897. He said that he did not know now whether the marriage ht dissolved was plural one or not.
 Are you poiygamist?'' MT. Taylor asked.
 .'Yes, sir answered MT. Reynolds.
 Have you any children married in polygafny2"
 T believe so; one daughter"
 ITO whom is she married?'
 If married, 1t Is to Benjamin CIoughss
 The witness explained that the mar riage had taken place in Mexico but that he had no knowledge of the cere- Tnony. It was. brought out by Mir. Tay- Tor that the witness had displayed no curiosity on the subject of the marriage because he believed 1t to be a plural one. MT. Reynolds testified that he has twenty-six children. He gave the names of the seven presidents, of the seventy, of which he is the fourth in rank Three of the seven were polygamists. He (Reynolds) has two wives now. : Q.=-'If you were to marry another woman tomorrow which would be your legal wife?'
 A.-"The one last married. ]"
 Q.-"Would that not be adultery?''
 A.-"It would be if I continued to live a, sthe husband of the other women, but I do not sustain such relations with more than one"
 MT. Reynolds said he understood that the manifesto of 1890 permitted him to live with his plural wives without violating the law, but that no further marriages could be contracted. Witness acknowledged that he had had children by two wives since the manifesto of 1890. Witness had never preached against polygany, nor had he tried to get others to do so.
 VI have held my tongue,' said MT. Reynolds.
 Your situation made it necessary for you to do so, did it not?''
 T think it did
 Mr. Reynolds said he did not know of any effort made by any officials of the church to carry out the provisions of the Woodruff manifesto putting an end to polygamy.
 MT. Reynolds said the only plural marriages he had heard of since the manifesto was that of his daughter, which took place in Mexico.
 Senator Dubois asked MT. Reynolds if his daughter or her husband had been cut off from the church because of the marriage. The witness. said that both of them had been in Mexico and had never been before the church authori- ties for trial.
 Mir. Reynolds said that he was one of the advisors who aided in perfecting the Woodruff manifesto, which was first submitted in President Woodruff $ handwriting. He testified that the com mittees had reviewed the manifesto. T believe the manifesto is said to have been inspired?' asked the chairman.
 It was a revelation from the Al mighty.'
 And you changed it?" Mot the meaning" You just changed the phraseology? "Yes, sir"
 Then as I understand it, z said Sen. ator Burrows "when this revelation came from the Almighty, the grammar was bad, and you corrected it?'' The witness said the phraseoIogy had not been inspired, but was Presi. dent Woodruff,s own. The testimony kept the committee room in an uproar Mother Dead of Burns.