The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-08
WHAT ANTI-SMOOT
MEN WILL OFFER
Documentary Evidence to Show That
Church Requires Implicit
Obedience.
MORE ABOUT ENDOWMENTS
MAY TRY TO PROVE THAT APOS-
TIES TAKE SEPARATE OATH.


New evidence against Senator Reed
smoot. to be. introduced when the TAX
ing of testimony is resumed in Wash
ington, Will consist largely, it is said,
of documentary evidence. The Jour
nal of Discourses,'' which contains
many sermons by Brigham Young and
other fathers of the Mormon church,
is likely to be inserted in the record
bodily.
The object of presenting this line of
testimony. according to one of the lead
ing men who signed the protest against
Senator SmOot, is to prove that from
the beginning the church authorities
nave exaeted implicit obedience from
the rank and file, and that if is a tenet
or the church that its authority is su-
perior TO that of the government.
The Mormon oaths.
Further testimony. it is said. will be
introduced on the nature of the zen
Z dowment OATH This testimony. it IS
claimed, viii be both documentary and
oral. Several witnesses at previous
hearings testified to the alleged ma
ture of this oath; but according TO
the protestants, some senators On the
privileges and elections committee
want further light on the subject
Senator Smoot himself testified that
when he was elevated to the apostle
ship he was not required to take any
additional oath. He admitted having
taken the endOwments. Some Of the
rrotestants insist that an apostle is re-
quired to take an oath which Gis-
tinctly acknowledges the supreme pow
er of the church in all things temporal
as well as spiritual, and an effort may
be made to get this oath in evidence IN
some sort of shape.
Others of the professionals say they
believe that Senator Shoots testimony
on this point was true, and that any
additional obligation which ne assumed
upon becoming an apostle was implied
rather than tangible.
No PoIygamy Evidence.
No additional testimony goinz to
show new polygamy, it is claimed. viii
be offered One Of the protestants says
that he and his associates believe that
the committee is convinced that
polygamOus marriages have been sane
toned by the church since the mani
feSto. He added, though. that If more
evidence on that line was required it
could be furnished.
In many. quarters it IS believed that
testimony tending to show Apostle
Shoots interference, in an ecciesiastf-
cal capacity, in the last city election
I'm Salt Lake will be introduced. IF that
is true. however, the committee has
given no indication of it.
Owen on the Ground.
Charles Mostyn owen, detective for
the prOtestants. has been in Washing
ton for several weeks, and it is said
that he has furnished John G.. Carlisle
who now has charge of the anti-Smoot
case, with a list of witnesses to be ex-
amined. Inasmuch as the taking Of
testimony is to be resumed about Jan
%. 1t is expected that subpOenas will
STRIVE in Salt Lake, to be served by
United States Marshal 3. B. Haywood
IL a few days
a Senator SmOOt, it is understood. will
loffer no new testimony in his own be-
Malt, though it is probable that he Will
bffer evidence to rebut anything that
lkay be introduced against him by the
other side