[Smoot Hearings] Reed Smoot answers complaint. (1)
-- Jan 5, 1904
[Apostle Rudger Clawson] Cautioned against exercising keys of sealing in plural marriage. (2)
-- Jan 16, 1904
[Smoot Hearings] Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections convenes at 10:30 a.m. to begin hearings. Present Senators Bailey, Beveridge, Burrows, Dillingham, Dubois, Hopkins, McComas, Overman, Pettus, and Smoot. Opening statements from Thomas P. Stevenson and Robert W. Tayler for the complainants, Waldemar Van Cott and Augustus S. Worthington for the respondent, also from Reed Smoot. Executive session, 1:20 p.m. (1)
-- Mar 1, 1904
[Smoot Hearings] The committee meets briefly at 10:30 a.m. Present Senators Bailey, Burrows, Dillingham, Dubois, Foraker, Hopkins, McComas, Overman, Pettus, and Smoot, with John G. Carlisle and Robert W. Tayler for the complainants, Van Cott and Worthington for the respondent. (1)
-- Mar 2, 1904
[Smoot Hearings] The committee meets at 10:00 a.m. Present Senators Bailey, Beveridge, Burrows, Depew, Dillingham, Dubois, Foraker, Hoar, Hopkins, McComas, Overman, Pettus, and Smoot, with attorneys Carlisle, Tayler, Van Cott, and Worthington. Joseph F. Smith is first witness. The committee recesses from 11:45 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. Smith testifies again. The committee recesses for ten minutes. Smith's testimony continues. The committee meets in executive session at 4:05 p.m. (1)
-- Mar 3, 1904
[Smoot Hearings] The committee meets at 10:30 a.m. Present Senators Beveridge, Burrows, Dillingham, Dubois, Foraker, Hoar, Hopkins, Overman, Pettus, and Smoot, with attorneys Tayler, Van Cott, Worthington, and (for Joseph F. Smith) Franklin S. Richards. Smith's testimony continues. The committee recesses from 11:55 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. Smith's testimony continues afterward. The committee adjourns at 4:20 p.m. (1)
-- Mar 4, 1904
[Smoot Hearings] The committee meets at 10:30 a.m. Present Senators Bailey, Beveridge, Burrows, Dillingham, Dubois, Foraker, Hoar, Hopkins, McComas, Overman, Pettus, and Smoot, with attorneys Richards, Tayler, Van Cott, and Worthington. Smith's testimony continues. The committee recesses from 11:55 a.m. until 2:00 p.m., after which Smith's testimony resumes. The committee adjourns at 4:35 p.m. (1)
-- Mar 5, 1904
[Smoot Hearings] The committee meets at 10:30 a.m. Present Senators Bailey, Burrows, Dillingham, Dubois, Foraker, Hoar, Hopkins, Overman, Pettus, and Smoot, with attorneys Richards, Tayler, Van Cott, and Worthington. Smith's testimony continues. The committee adjourns at 11:55 a.m. (1)
-- Mar 7, 1904
[Smoot Hearings] Committee meets at 10:30 a.m. Present Senators Burrows, Dillingham, Dubois, Foraker, Hoar, McComas, Overman, Pettus, and Smoot, with attorneys Richards, Tayler, Van Cott, and Worthington. Smith's testimony continues. The committee recesses from 11:55 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. Smith returns, followed by Clara Mabel Barber Kennedy. The committee adjourns at 4:08 p.m. (1)
-- Mar 8, 1904
[Smoot Hearings] The committee meets at 10:30 a.m. Present Senators Burrows, Dubois, Foraker, Hoar, Hopkins, Overman, Pettus, and Smoot, with attorneys Richards, Tayler, Van Cott, and Worthington. Kennedy continues, followed by Charles E. Merrill, Emma Mathews, and Francis M. Lyman. The committee recesses from 11:55 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. Lyman resumes his testimony. The committee adjourns at 4:30 a.m. (1)
-- Mar 9, 1904
[Smoot Hearings] The committee meets at 10:30 a.m. Present Senators Burrows, Depew, Dillingham, Dubois, Foraker, Hoar, McComas, Overman, Pettus, and Smoot, with attorneys Richards, Tayler, Van Cott, and Worthington. Joseph F. Smith returns. The committee recesses from noon until 2:00 p.m. Andrew Jenson testifies, followed by Lorin Harmer, Hyrum M. Smith, Thomas Merrill, and Alma Merrill. The committee adjourns at 3:55 p.m. (1)
-- Mar 10, 1904
[Smoot Hearings] The committee meets at 10:30 a.m. Present Senators Beveridge, Burrows, Depew, Dillingham, Dubois, Foraker, Hoar, Hopkins, McComas, Overman, Pettus, and Smoot, with attorneys Richards, Tayler, Van Cott, and Worthington. Jenson returns. The committee goes into executive session at 11:45 a.m. and afterward recesses until 2:00 p.m. Jenson continues, followed by E. B. Critchlow. The committee adjourns at 4:10 p.m. (1)
-- Mar 11, 1904
[Smoot Hearings] The committee meets at 10:30 a.m. Present Senators Beveridge, Burrows, Dillingham, Foraker, Hoar, Hopkins, Overman, and Smoot, with attorneys Richards, Tayler, Van Cott, and Worthington. Critchlow continues. The committee recesses from 11:55 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. Critchlow returns. The committee adjourns at 4:10 p.m. (1)
Footnotes:
1 - Paulos, Michael Harold (editor), The Mormon Church on Trial: Transcripts of the Reed Smoot Hearings
2 - Larsen, Stan (editor), A Ministry of Meetings:The Apostolic Diaries of Rudger Clawson, Significant Mormon Diaries Series No. 6, A Rudger Clawson Chronology, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City 1993
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