The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-02
WILL Be UNSEATEO, IF
BURROWS HAS HIS WAY
Utah Senator's Political Pedi-
gree to Be Fully In
yestigated.

When the Smoot hearings are resumed
In the Senate Committee on Elections
February .. Senator Burrows, as the lead
er of the anti-Mormon crusade. Will de-
vote himself largely 10 the development
OF Information regarding the Endowment
house proceedings. This is believed to be
the most damaging feature that has been
brought out against the Mormon Senator,
and on II tho opposition to MIN bases It's
hopes Of having Smoot turned out OF inc
Senate.
The testimony to prove that Smoot was
a poygNmlst failed during the preceding
hearings before the Senate committee.
The evidence on the subject of polygam-
Gus marriages having the approval or the
Mormon church was not satisfactory
as the prosecution could have wished
Some definite Information tending to
provo that the church still sanctions
plural marriages. in spite OF the Woodruff
manifesto. was brought out and will be
further strengthened in the hearing That
Is 10 coma.
Tho testimony on the Endowment-hous
oath and the relation of the hierarchy to
political affairs was of most sensation.
al character, In facts the evidence OF
flost OF the witnesses was so extreme as
to bring more or less discrcdit upon IL
senator Burrows realizes this fact and
Will give particular attention TO strength
enins this part OF the record.
1t Is believed that the opposition can
prove that the character OF the oath
taken I'm the Endowment-house Is sufi-
Client TO warrant the unseatlng of Senator
Smoot who has passed throughout the
Endowment-house ceremonies. Some en-
tertaininG testimony on this point Is
promised when the Senate committee re-
SGncs It's investigation
Chairman Burrows has adopted tho
policy OF Keeping secret the names OF the
witnesses nc proposes to put on the stand
In the fight against Smoot He does not
want 10 get caught In tho trap he fell Into
lust year, when friends OF Smoot spirited
OUT OF the country certain men who had
peen subpoenacd to come to Washington
ana teSuly against him. Several OF the
men VINO were wanted by Chairman Bur
rows disappeared and turned UP in Mexi-
co canada and Europe Senator Smoot's s
new new arrangement. They claim 1t Is un-
lalr TO keep secret the names of men who
are TO be brouoht hero as witnesses, as II
prevents them from preparing a defense
is settled p''>
ono OF tho most interesting witnesses
sta2o shae senator is Burrows vii put on tho
Deen professor OF theology in a Mormon
ihStitutlons Wolfe, who Is a man OF In,
eeH!sehce. recently became apostate
Iegarding practices in the Mormon
chureh Wolfe made a trip through GER
tam Stah towns where he discovered that
plural marriages were being contracted
among distinguished officials of the Nor
mon church When Wolfe expressed sur
Prise at these proceedings and demanded
a. 81 eNPi99Ihation. he was replied to in this
Wise Haven't You learned yet that tho
Woodruif manifesto was only q means of
Deaung the devil around the stump and
maj, onaI 1he church not only favors, but en-
courases polygamous marriages?"
Ihls astounding revelation was too
much Tor Wolfe. who renounced his al
lesianco TO the Mormon church and vol
unteered TO appear as a witness araIns,
senator Smoot. He Is expected TO prove
star witness in the proceedings next
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