The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-12
SHOOT ARRAIGNED
SENATOR BURROWS DELIVERS AN
 ELOQU ENr PHilsLIflC.
Declares That MOrmOnism Threatens All That IH Good i'm Life and tfs Apostle should 5e Im-
 peRehed.

Washington, Dec. 11.--At the conclu- s-n of the morning business in the Senate today. Senator Burrows, chair man of the Senate committee on priv ileges and elections, called uc the reso- .ution from that committee Declaring that Hon. Reed Shoot is not entitled to a seat as Senator of tho United States from the State of Utah, Ind ad- dressed the Senate on that subject Senator Burrows first reviewed his torical facts in connection with the es- tablishment of pelygamy by the Nor mon Cnurch. He said there had been no proof submitted to sustain the ale fation that MT. Smoot Is a polygamist. adding that the recommendation of the committee on privileges and elections in favor of declaring vacant the seat of the Utah senator is not based upon such charge.
 Mir. Burrows Impeachment was bas ed entirely upon the connection of Mir. Smoot with the governing body of the church. consisting of the presidency aud the twelve apostles. He referred to this body as hierarchy and sad: 1 Power Is COmmandinms
 "The power exercised by this body is far reaching and commanding. hold Ing in its grasp practically the entire membership of the organization and through it the domination of the state by arrogatfng to itself and inculcat- ing the belief in its followers that they are endowed with supernatural powers as prophets. secure. ana revelators,' and especially commissioned by the AL mighty to dominate the affairs of this world, and that resistance to the will of this theocracy is rebellion against God.
 ! 'The testimony sustains the allega- ton that the Mormon priesthood is vested with supreme authority in all things, temporal and spiritual, and 1 that the first president of the twelve apostles are supreme in the exercise and transmission of the mandates ef this authorlly."
 | He said that since the admission of lUtah into the Union, the people of the 1 state have bOen, if possible, more com Ipletely under the domination of the Mormon hierarchy than during the long years of their territorial exls- tence."
 The only office held by nom Mormon under the state government during the ten years of it's existence, as an cleo :. tive officer has been the attorney gener- al.
 He cited many cases of political in- | terference, not only in Utah, but ad- joining states. and quoted at length the church mOnifesto of 1896 requiring members to obtain the co..sent of tho hierarchy before becoming candidates for office. Smont had been compelled to obtain tnIs permission. lie was nominated by the hierarchy. sala Aar. Burrows. and the selection ratified by the legislature.
 Scheme for Church Control He went on: No more cuuningly devised scheme could possibly be con- cocted to put church in politics and make it potential therein than this. For the moment it Is known that a candidate has the endorsement of the church and the permission of the h er- archy to be candidate that moment he has back of him the whole power of the Mormon church and his election is assured. There has been no case in which a candidate for high office in Utah has obtained the consent of the church to run and has been defeat l ed. ..... ..."> @-.
 He said that Mir. Shoots member ship in the church governing body which inculcates a belief in polygam Is conceded. Concluding that the mem bers of the hierarchy teach rolygamy as a principle of human conduct. he took up the question as to whether. thev practice it. On that point he said,
 The evidence upon this point is so