When asked about his long exile today, he…

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eph Smith, and son Hiram Smith, he is the nearest relative of the prophet who holds by the tentes of Mormonism, and he is the last of the promi- nent officials of that church to sign the Ed- munds-Tucker act, which act resulted in presi- dential pardon just two weeks ago. When asked about his long exile today, he said: “When the indictment was found I was in Idaho in charge of certain church records which the United States authorities were trying to gain possession of. I at once left the country, going to the Sandwich Islands, where I remain- ed two years engaged in missionary work. From Honolulu I went to Mexico, and from there made several trips to Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Indeed I have been in Utah half a dozen times since 1885. Of course I have traveled incog, and only among the Mormon people. I then went to the northwest territory, laboring among the Mormon people there. When, my pardon was signed I was in Cali- fornia, and started at once for Utah, and have for two weeks been in the Cache valley. I have accepted the anti-polygamy manifesto and be- lieve that polygamy is dead forever.”