The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-01
WEATHER FORECAST, Washfngton, Feb. 2S.-For Alabamas Fair wednesday and Thursday, light variable winds.

under the direction of the Mormon leaders No man can be elected to either House of Congress against their wish."
 The election of Senator Rawiins was charged by MT. Kearns to have been due entirely to the Mormon Church in order to humiliate a deposed apostle. He then took up the charge that he {Kearns) had bought is own seat from President Alonzo Snow. The speaker spoke of his friendship for President Snow as having arisen by Utah's struggle for Statehood. and said: For some reason he did not oppose my election to the Senate. Every other candidate for the place had sought his favor: 1t came to me with out price or solicitation on my part
 The friend and mouth pieces of some of the present leaders have been base enough to charge that I bought the Senatorship from Lorenzo Snow. president of their own church. Hence denounce the calumny against that old man whose unsought and unbought favor came to me in that contest. That ever paid him one dollar of money or asked him to influence leg islstors of his faith is as cruel a false- hood, as ever came from human lips. So far as l am concerned he held his power with clean hands: and would protect the memory of this dead man against all the abuse and misrep- resentations which might be heaped upon him by those who were his ad- tack his fame in order that they may pay the greater deference to the pres ent.
 Self Respect Impossible. T am about to retire from this place of dignity. No man can retain this seat from Utah and retain his self-respect after he discovers the methods by which his election is pro- cured and the objects which the church monopoly intends to achieve. when the question of my success | sor became a matter of great anxiety to. numerous aspirants for this place.
 the discussion was not concerHng the fitness of candidates, nor the political popularity of the various gen. tlemen who composed that waiting list. nor the pledges of the legislators. but was limited to the question as to who could stand best with the church, as to whom 1t would like to use in this position: as to who could make for the extension of its ambi- tions and power in the United States" Mir. Kearns then took up the sub ject of the Mormon marriage rela- tion and said: Plural marriage rela- | ton have been continued defiantly. according to the will and pleasure of | those who had formerly violated the law and for whose obedience to the law the church monarchy pledged the faith and honor of it's leaders and fol- | lowers alike in the order to obtain statehood"
 l MT. Kearns charged that every apos- | tie of the church is in a large part irresponsible for this condition and | that it is quite evident the church
 monarchy is trying to re-establish the rule of the polygamous class over the mass of the Mormon people. Esa charged that not more than thyee ] orr jour anostIes have refrained from \ 1pfacticing pofygamy and that special
 reasons may exist In some particular case why a man in this class has not entered into such relation"
 Speaking of the tfthing system, Mir. | Kearns said that no account was made
 of this vast sum of one-tenth of all the incomes of the Mormons and that the | president of the church expended 1t &C., cording to his own will. He said the hopelessness of contending in a business
 way with this autocrat. was perfectly apparent, and continued:
 The Money Tithed.
 "Jt will astonish you to know that every dollar of United States money paid to any servant of the government who Is a Mormon Is tithed for the ben eft of this monarch. Out of every 1000 thus paid he gets S100 to swell his grandeur This is also true. of the mon- ey paid out of the public treasury of | the State of Utah to Mormon officials. But what Is worst of all, the monarch dips into the sacred public school fund and extracts from every Mormon teach CT one-tenth of his earnings and uses it for his unaccounted purposes; and by means of these purposes and the power which they constitute. he defies the laws of his State. the sentiment of hls country and Is waging a war of nulli- flcation on the public school system so dear to the American people. No right thinking man will oppose any person as a servant of the nation or the State or as a teacher in the public schools on account of religious faith. As have before remarked, this Is no war on the religion of the Mormons: and am on- ly calling attention to the monstrous manner In which this monarch invades all the provinces of human life and en- deavors to secure his rapacious ends"
 Would Not Consider.
 MT. CuIIom reported a bill from the Committee on Foreign Relations autho- rizing Secretary John Hay of the State Department to accept the decoration of the grand cross of the national order of the Legion of Honor. rendered him through the State Depa Etment by the government of the French Republic. MT. Cullom asked for its immediate con- sideratlon. MT. Hale said that the Sem ator from Wisconsin had uniformly ob- jected to all bills of that character and MT. Spooner. after making an inquiry said he would be compelled to object to consideration of the measure. Mir Gull lom, protested that the bill had come from the committee on foreign rela- tions, of which MT. Spooner was member. and that he had made no ob- lection to 1t there.
 When was 1t considered?" asked Mir. Spooner.
 He declined to withdraw his objec- ton and no response was made to the question.
 The Indian appropriation bill was laid before the Senate and the commit tee amendment relating to sectarian schools was considered.
 MT. Stone indicated a purpose of making a point of order against the amendment.
 Unjust, Says GaI1inger.
 MT. Gallinger referred to his former antagonism of sectarian schools sav- ing that his opposition had been 10 schools of that character in general and not to those of any particular de- nomination. but notwithstanding this