| 97 history of Joseph Smith as published in the Deseret News about 1855, he makes a statement which is quite important. It is as follows:
I notice these interpolations because having been employed (myself) in the Historian's office at Nauvoo by Doctor Richards, and employed, too, in 1845, in compiling this very autobiography, I know that after Joseph's death his memoir was "doctored" to suit the new order of things, and this, too, by the direct order of Brigham Young to Doctor Richards and systematically by Richards.
The annual conference convened at Plano, Illinois, April 6, 1875. Presidents Joseph Smith and W. W. Blair presided; H. A. Stebbins secretary; T. W. Smith and E. L. Kelley assistants.
Elders Phineas Cadwell, G. H. Hilliard, and S. V. Bailey were appointed a committee on complaints.
Reports were submitted from Australia, England, Switzerland, Canada, Nova Scotia, and Wales, and also from nearly every State and Territory in the United States. These reports generally indicated progress, and the general outlook was hopeful.
The following extracts are made from the minutes, which we think of especial importance:
The Bishop reported as follows: On hand at last annual report and received during the year, $3,864.06; expended during the year, $3,619.29; balance due the church, $244.77.
Allendale Branch, Missouri, was transferred, at its request, from Nodaway District to Decatur District.
On the 9th, Bishop Rogers nominated Elder H. A. Stebbins as his counselor to succeed Elder E. Banta, resigned. This nomination was ratified by the conference, and he was ordained on the 11th by President Joseph Smith and Apostle J. H. Lake. Hans N. Hansen was ordained an elder at the time and by the same parties. The Quorum of Seventy reported as follows:
Report of the Quorum of Seventy: Quorum met on call, C. G. Lanphear in the chair. The president gave the following report of the present situation of the members as far as he could ascertain:
C. G. Lanphear, president; laboring in his calling all of the time.
Duncan Campbell, one of the seven presidents; laboring in Indiana, Michigan, and Canada.
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