The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-28
SMITH is A MONARCH
With an Annual Income of 81,
100000 He Says.
Mormon Leaders HaveNOPolitics
But Self Interest.

committee to conduct an inquiry into
railroad rates during the approaching
congressional recess, and it was re-
ferred to the committee on contingent
expenses.
The house joint resolution authoriz-
ing the president to convey the thanks
of the United States to foreign govern
ments participating in the st. Louis
exposition was agreed to.
Mr.. Allison presented the final con-
/ ference report on the District of
Columbia appropriation bill, and 1t
was agreed to- He stated that the
house had yielded to the senate on the
price fixed for municipal building in
| Washington, which Is $2,50O,0O0.
A joint resolution presented by Mr..
4 Fulton accepting the invitation of the
management of the Lewis and Clark
exposition to be held next summer at
Portland. Ore, was adopted. It pro-
vides for the appointment of a COM
mittee of ten senators and fifteen
members of the house of representa-
tives to represent congress on that oc-
casion.
The chair brought to the attention
| of the senate a communication from
ex-Senators Thurston and Higgins at
/ torneys for Judge Swayne in the re-
| cent Impeachment trial, making re-
quest for a sufficient allowance to the
| judge to pay the expenses of the trial,
4 including counsel fees. The commu-
tee on the judiciary
The anti-polygamy resolution intro
4 duced by Mr.. Dubois was then laid be-
fore the senate and Mr.. Kearns address,
/ ed the senate.
I Mr.. Kearns being recognized said he
could not permit the occasion to pass
without saying what it seemed should
1 be said by a senator, under such con-
/ ditiOns before leaving public life. He
| then reviewed the history of Utah and
recited the conditions under which
] statehood was granted.
The pledges given by the people Of
| Utah. said the senator, Il believe con-
sisted of the following propositions:
. That the Mormon leaders would
| live within the laws pertaining to plural
marriage and the continued plural mar
rage relation and that they would en-
force this obligation upon all Of their
/ followers under penalty of disfellow-
THAT the leaders of the Mormon
church would no longer exercise politi-
cal sway and that their followers would
be free and would exercise their free
dom in politics, in business and in social
affairs
Continuing, he said:
| Utah secured her statehood by SOL
emn compact made by the Mormon
leaders in behalf of. themselves and
| their people.
THAT compact has been broken will
fully and frequently.
mo apostle of the Mormon church
has publicly protested against that
violation.
81 know the gravity of the utter
ances that I have Just made. I know
| what are the probable consequences
| to myself. But I have Dondered long
and earnestly upon this subject and
have come to the conclusion that duty
to the innocent people of my state,
and obligation to the senate and the
country, require that shall clearly
define my attitude"
Mr.. Kearns said that the question of
religion is not involved and he passed
/ from that subject to the social aspect
with brief comment The social au-
4 tocracy, he said, at present is at as
! high a point as it has ever reached.
He described the surroundings and the
powers of President Smith who, he
said. affects a regal state, and has
established himself with the dignity
of a monarch.
I'm all this social system said Mr.
! Kearns, leach apostle has his great
part He is inseparable from it, He
Yields now such part of the power as
the monarch may permit him to en-
joy; and it is his hope and expectation
that he will outliVe those who are his
seniors in rank, in order that he may
| become their ruler"
Taking up the business policy of the
church Mr.. Kearns charged that it
amounts to monopoly. He recited the
holdings of President Smith by virtue
of his office as we'll as his private hold
| ings and said that when Smith became
president he boosted of his property,
while now he is in receipt of an income
like unto that which royal family de-
rives from a national treasury. One
tenth of all the annual earnings of all
the Mormons in all the world flows to
him. These funds amount to one mil
lion six hundred thousand dollars an
nually."
Continuing Mr. Kerns said:
Parties are nothing to these leaders
except as parties may be used by them
Go iG q ~
ministration and congress they will lead
their followers to support Republican
/ tickets; but, if by any chance, the Dem
/ ocratic party should control this govern
ment, wiki a prospect of continuance
| in power you would see a gradual veer-
| ing around under the direction of the
Mormon leaders. No man can be elect
ed to either house of congress against
their wish"
The election of Senator Rawlins
was charged by Mr.. Kearns to have
been due entirely to the Mormon
church in order to humiliate deposed
apostle. He then took up the charge
that he (kearns) had bought his own
seat from President Lorenzo Snow.
The senator spoke of his friendship
| for President Snow as having arisen
from the events attendant on 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; it came to me with
out price or solicitation on my part.
\ The friends and mouthpieces Of some
of the present leaders have been base
enough to charge that I bought the
senatOrship from Lorenzo Snow, presi-
| dent of their own church. Here and
/ now ] denounce the calumny against
that old man. whose unsought and I'M
4 bought favor came to me in that con-
| test.
THAT / ever paid to him one dollar
of money or asked him to influence
| legislators Of his faith, is as cruel a
l falsehood as ever came from human