Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-28
Gen. Geoghegan Tells About the
Stock Owned by Church in
Various Corporations.
BUSINESS LIFE IN SALT LAKE.
Gcntilcs and "Mormons" Divide Their
Business, Trading Where Money
WIN Bring Most.
(snecial 10 the "Nensol

Washington ID. c., March 21.-"The
committee stands adjourned till called
together by the chairman" was the an
nouncment made by MIR Burrows al
IL o'clock today. The evidence is all
In ana nothing remains now but argu :
menta Of counsel. Mr.. Carlisle will
notify Mr.. Burrows when he is ready
to proceed with his business IN New
York and expects TO he back early next
week. After he finished his opening
Mr. Worthington was given an oppor-
tunty to prepare a reply and later Mr.
Carlisle viii close
Lack of interest in the hearing was
again demonstrated today when Sena
tor Burrows once more failed to secure
the attendance of anything like a quor-
UNI OF the committee In fact when
the hour of meeting arrived the only
senator's present aside from Mr. Smoot.
were Messrs. Burrows and Dubois, The
seats assinged to visitors were by no
means crowded, not more than half of
them being occupied Aside from those
summoned az witnesses and counsel
there were less than a dozen men and
ABOUT an equal number of women pres
ent. The first business done was 10
admit to the record the afiidavits Of
fered by Col Worthington Yesterday
which refute many statements made
by Z. NJ owen relative To the religions
Affiliations Of state ana federal officers
OF Utah since the admission of bile
state. incidentally the committee de-
clded that 1t Will be unnecessary TO
summon Other witnesses.
Joseph Geoghegan of Salt Lake city
was called to the stand and gave detail
ga statements concerning stock owned
ny me church ia various corporations.
ueNotliis hlfnselt principally to the sug-
ar corporations IN Idaho and Utah. He
referred briefly to the business of y
o. Nj. J., and showed that It by no
means controls the entire mercantile
business or the state. On the contrary
ne pointed out that Scowcroft & Co. Of
ogden have become strong competitors
IN the Held and do a business of 81 600 :
900 a year.
Reference being made to the bust
ness of the commercial banks of salt
Lake, he said that four controlled by
Mormons' have deposits Of about Sc =
oOO'OOO while the four Gentle" banks
nave about twice as much. He insisted
mat religion does not enter into The
'"S"''eS nv VI oall Lake, ana the Gem
tiles and "Mormons' alike divide their
patronage among those where they be-
leYe their dollars viii produce the best
result without any reference to the re-
ligious affiliations of owners and man
ayers OF business enterprizes.
AT the close of Mr.. Geoghegan's tes-
timony, Col Wiorthingtou offered n
number of additional affldavits includ-
ing one from ], II. Smith to refuta
statements made by Prof Wolfe. Az
ter consultation by counsel they were
all admitted to record except where re-
fecting upon the personal character Of
Wolfe; all such paragraphs were clint
mated
ON request of Mr.. Worthineton
Chairman Burrows authorized the pub
llcation In the record OF an article en-
titled The Church and Kingdom of
God, which appeared i'm the Deseret
News of Dec l9, 1903.
Mr. Carlisle expects to make his open-
ing argument about Wednesday next.
and 1t is probable that the case will be
ready to submit to the committee for
final action by the end Of next week.