The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-09
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WOLFE UNDER FIRE.
The Cross Examination of Attorney
WorthIngton is Severe.


ftion Of protests against Senator Reed
LSmOOt of Utah before the committee on
Rprlvileges ano elections, Professor Wal
ter Nj. Wolfe, who was a teacher in the
Il Brigham Young college at Logan and
tmember of the church until recently, was
today subjected to a severe cross-exam--
ination by A. s Worthington, counsel
| for the senator.
/ A large number Of letters which had
been written by Wolfe TO members of
1 the church We're put into the record 70
SHOW that he had not made complaints
OF the conduct of Benjamin Cuff on the
IMeXican expedition as he had testified
in direct examination. He denied
charges by counsel that he had been in
toxicated in several public places and
that he had expressed cOntrttion- because
OF his refusal TO pay uthcs. Mr.. Worth
ington. will call a large number of wit
nesses TO discredit Wolfe.
PoIygamy at Provo.
on redirect examination the names OF
a number Of residents Of Provo were
read to the witness, and ten of them, ne
said, were living in pOlygamOus cohabita-
ton. He said he knew George Taylor,
brother n-law of Mr.. SmoOt, and that
Taylor had asked him Cwitness) to give
with the great majority" This was
Just previous to the election Of the leg
lslature that elected SmOOt to the senate,
he said; and, further. that Taylor asked
him TO do all he could for the election
II told him." said the witness. that I
would if I thought it to be the will of
the Lord Mr.. Taylor said he believed
it was the viii of the Lord and 1t seemed
to have been. He told me then that
Shoots candidacy had been discussed
end endorsed by the high council Of
Utah, convened as a prayer circle
PoIygamous Students.
In response to questions by several
members OF the committee, Wohe SAID
that in Brigham Young college Ovena
Jorgenson and Florence Reynolds were
the only students whom he knew TO have
become plural wives. He thought that
the children OF pOiygamous relations
locked upon pOlygamy as divine insu-
tuition. OF the Provo citizens, whose
names were read, only one, Thomas
Chamberlain, had entered polygamy since
the manifesto. A number of the songs
alleged to have been hostile 70 the gov
eminent of the United States were put
into the record ana Wolfe said these
songs were sung frequently.
Spanish Fork Witness.
William J. Thomas of Spanish Fork,
Utah, the next witness, said he had gone
through the endowment house in 1869 and
had taken an oath to '-aVenge the blood
sOf the Prophet Joseph Smith upon this
nation and to teach his children to do so
down TO the third and fourth genera
tons" He said he was dropped from
the church in the SOS because he had
! spoken too openly against plural mar
Senator Knox asked if he had ever done
anything to carry out his obligation to
avenge. the. blood Of the prophet upon
this nation"
NO sir. I enlisted twice to defend this
nation,'' said Thomas.
The witness told Of NJ Nicholson, for
Smerly an emplOye Of Thomas, going TO
Mexico 10 take a plural wife Nicholson
ted the witness he was going where
he could live his religion"
Houser's Testimony.
John P. Holuger of Bear River City,
Utah, a member of the Utah legislature
from 1899 to 1903, testified that he voted
against the Evarts bin prohibiting the
first wife from testifying against her
husband in polygamy proceedings. He
was defeated after this. but said he
thought that 1t was not his vote that
defeated him He said he took the en-
dowTnent house oath in 1889. He repeated
liz oath of vengeance, and as he remem-
bered it, he agreed to avenge the blood
o. both Joseph and Hyrum Smith
Smurthwaite on the Stand.
Charles A Smurthwaite of Ogden,
Utah, testified that ne had been eXcoun-
municated from the Mormon church in
April. 1905. He is A director of the Beck
salt works. and told of having been called
TO Salt Lake City to see President Jo-
scph T. Smith and members of the fiTss
presidency, which held the controlling III
teresa in the Inland Crystal Salt COM