OCR Text |
Show attorney general and the president of b's full warrant of such an action. Mi-Harrison Mi-Harrison is now undetermined as to whether he .-ball grant a general amnesty am-nesty to all parties convicted of violation viola-tion of the act of 1882 including those convicted of polygamy, unlawful cahab-it cahab-it ition or whether he shall confine it to members of the Mormon church convicted convict-ed of polygamy. lie has had several Interviews with Senator Paddock upon this question, aud has sent for Senator Dabois to consult with Mm regarding the matter. Senator Paddock was at the w bite house at the same time. The President expressed a doubt whether a general pardon to those convicted of unlawful cohabitation and kindred offenses, which wonld Include a number of gentiles, might not be considered as an undue laxity on his part toward sexual Immorality, Ha expressel a perfect willingness to pardon the poly-gamists poly-gamists who were connected with the church, offering as his grounds the petition pe-tition of tbe church authorities, and their statement that the teachiugs of the church had led these parties into ;uch action. Roth Senators Paddock and Dubois strongly urged upon the president to make the amnesty a general gen-eral ne, but loft him without baing able to ascertain exactly the limits to which tbe presidential pardoning power would be extended. One impression, however, that visitors to the white house who have talked with the president have obtained, and that is that he is not thoroughly satisfied by experience that the profession which tbe chnrch is now making is genuine, and that the peo pie have become In reality, and not in name alone, Americans. It the preside t wai thoroghly satis-ged satis-ged Utah wonld become a republican state he would not only at once grant this amnesty but wonld recommend statehood as well. AMNESTY. Tbe Associated Press brings the news from Washington that President Harrison Harri-son has at latt definitely made up his mind to grant amnesty in accordance with the petition of President Woodruff and the Mormon church. He expressed the desire to grant tbe prayers of the petitioners, bnt hesitated to act until he bad fully satisfied himself that the general gen-eral pardoning power granted nnder the constitution empowered him to remove the political disabilities of a class. The thorough investigation on the law bearing upon the question made by the then solicitor general and now judge, W. F. Taft, has satisfied both the |