The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-04-13
TWO APOSTLES RESIGN
NEW ONES ARE NAMED
designations Of Apostles coWley and
Taylor Announced at Conference
and Richards, Whitney and =.
Mckay Chosen to FIJI
Vacancies.

Salt Lake City-At Sundays session
| of the conference of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
Apostle Francis M. Lyman announced
to the m crowd in the taber-
nacle that Apostles John w. Taylor
and Matthias F. Cowley had resigned
and that their designations had been
accepted last October, because they
were out of harmony with their quo
rum and with the presidency of the
church. The announcement was also
made by Apostle Lyman Of the death
of Apostle Mariner w. Merrill, who
died at his home in Richmond last
February.
Apostle Lyman also announced the
fact of the death of c. D. Fjelsted, a
member of the council of first seven
presidents of seventies.
MI. Lyman continued to preside over
the conference while the authorities
were sustained. He asked the mem
bers in voting to raise their hands
high so they could be seen. President
Smith was sustained by the unanimous
vote of everybody present. So was
every other member of the general au.
thorities.
The acting members of the quorum
of apostles were put up together to be
sustained, and there was no dissent.
Then came the three new ones to be
appointed, and the men chosen, in the
order which they will rank as to SEM
iority, we're George F. Richards, Orson
F. Whitney and David o. Mckay.
In view of the changes made in the
quorum, the line of apostolic success
sion to the presidency of the church
is as follows: Francis M. Lyman,
John Henry Smith, George Teasdale,
Heber J. Grant, Anthem H. Lund, Rud-
ger Clawson, Reed Smoot, Hyrum M.
Smith, George A. Smith, Charles W
Penrose, George F. Richards, Orson +.
Whitney and David o. Mckay.
Judge Charles H. Hart of Logan,
who succeeds to the vacancy in the
council of seventies, was formerly
judge of the First judicial district. He
had been called on a mission to the
eastern states, to depart next Novem-
Der, but his elevation will probably
cause that program to be changed.
George F. Richards, the first named
of the new apostles, is president of the
Tooele stake, and a brother-in-law OF
President Smith. He is a son of the
late Apostle Franklin D. Richards. He
was born in Davis county and is II
years of age. He was ordained an
elder in the church in 1876. He is a
farmer, a Democrat in politics, anC
was a member of the legislature D!
1899 from Tooele county. He was or
dained as a seventy in 1884, and be
fore he became stake president he
was a counselor to the president OF
Tooele stake.
Orson F. Whitney, the second named
of the new apostles, is one of the best
known men in the Mormon church. He
is bishop Of the Eighteenth ward OF
Salt Lake City and is the author of a
t~hree-volume History of Utah" He
was born in the ward of which he is
now bishop, and is 81 years OF age.
He Is a grandson of Newell K. Whit
ney, the second presiding bishop of the
church.
David O. Mckay is president of the
Weber Stake academy. He has been
active in the Sunday school work OF
the church, and has been on missions,
particularly in Scotland. He has been
prominent in church educational work.