THE PROTESTS AGAINST THE RIGHT OF HON. REED VOLUME II. WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 1906. WASHINGTON, D. C., December 12, 1904. The committee met at 10.30 o'clock a. m. Present: Senators Burrows (chairman), Foraker, Pettus, Dubois, and Overman; also Senator Smoot; also Robert W. Tayler, counsel for the protestants; A. S. Worthington and Waldemar Van Cott, counsel for the respondent; and Franklin S. Richards, counsel for certain witnesses. TESTIMONY OF REV. J. M. BUCKLEY. The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Tayler, call the next witness. Mr. TAYLER. Mr. Chairman, I call Dr. J. M. Buckley. Rev. J. M. BUCKLEY, being duly sworn, was examined and testified as follows: Mr. TAYLER. Where do you live, Doctor? Doctor BUCKLEY. I live in Morristown N. J. Mr. TAYLER. What is your business or profession? Doctor BUCKLEY. I am editor of the Christian Advocate, of New York. Mr. TAYLER. That is a denominational religious paper, I believe? Mr. TAYLER. Of what church? Doctor BUCKLEY. The Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. TAYLER. Are you a minister of the Gospel? Doctor BUCKLEY. Yes, sir. Mr. TAYLER. How long have you been editor of the Christian Advocate? Doctor BUCKLEY. Twenty-five years. Mr. TAYLER. How long have you been a minister? Doctor BUCKLEY. Forty-six years. Mr. TAYLER. Have you during your life given any attention to the Morman Church, its history, and its doctrines? Doctor BUCKLEY. I have. Mr. TAYLER. How was your attention first attracted thereto? Doctor BUCKLEY. By a settlement of Mormons within 10 miles of my place, of being brought up, and by members of families that I knew this was about fifty-five years ago-going to Utah. Mr. TAYLER. And have you, during your life, been a student of questions and cults of that kind and other kinds? Doctor BUCKLEY. Well, where they have been forced upon me I have studied them to the best of my ability. Mr. TAYLER. What attention have you given to the Mormon Church in the last few years? Doctor BUCKLEY. As soon as I could command finances enough to make the trip I made a tour to Utah--that was about thirty-five years ago and saw Brigham Young in his glory and heard Orson Pratt |