Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1903 — ANOTHER MORMON TRIAL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ANOTHER MORMON TRIAL

Senator-elect Smoot, of Utah, to Da U era o an Inveattgatlon. Remarks made by Senator Burrows, the chairman of the committee on privileges and elections, indicate (bat the

country is to have another exposition of Mormonism at the coming session ,of Congress. SenaL tor Burrows is to lhave charge of the ■investigation which lis to be made into ■the charges against 'Senator-sleet Smoot of Utah, and he announces that all of the charge* are to be Investigated thoroughly.

These accusations are of varied character, including the allegation that the Senator-elect has more wives than Brigbarn Roberts, who was elected to the House of Representatives, but who was not allowed fee take hie seat because of hit polygamous practices. Senator Burrows says he has received a great number of letters protesting against the admission of Smoot. As to the scope of the investigation, the Senator said he would take a moral and not a religious view of the case. This position is to be assumed because the feet that Senator-elect Smoot is a Mormon would not, in itself, have any standing in the case. The committee is to decide whether the accused has lived a polygamous life, either openly or secretly. It is also to find out whether or not the Senator-elect has taken any vows, as an apostls of the Mormon Church, which art antagonistic to the United States.

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