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In January 1904, Senator Smoot prepared a rebuttal to these criticisms with the help of several non-Mormon lawyers.
The actual hearings began in March.
Mormon President Joseph F. Smith took the witness stand and was interrogated for three days.
Apostles Matthias F. Cowley and John W. Taylor did not show up after being subpoenaed.
Apostle Marriner W. Merrill ignored one subpoena and died soon after being subpoenaed a second time.
Taylor fled to Canada.
Other witnesses included James E. Talmage ; Francis M. Lyman, president of the Quorum of the Twelve at the time ; Andrew Jensen, church historian ; B. H. Roberts ; and Moses Thatcher, who was dropped from the quorum in 1896.
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