Show THE PRESIDENT 01 ON UTAH AFFAIRS the presidents ale mare I which has hits been anxiously looked forby all parties as is nn all indication of is future policy las bas beert been issued and published nil till over tho the land lind the portion of the document in which many of the christian part of the community have been especially inhere intonated od is that which relates to utah all and the cormons mormons Mor IMor mons lie ile lia has been urged repeatedly by petitions peti lions from the religionists of all denominations to recommend in hi his s ines message sage to congress special legislation for the tile abolition of polygamy and 11 mormonism morin morill in ill chah how fit fur r they will ill bo b gratified ratified by what he lie hag has eaid on the subject remains to be seen but perhaps sonic some of ali them m will not consider him rabid enough to satisfy their pious rapacity the president iterates reiterates re tile old story of his predecessors of the difficulty of enforcing the laws in utah and says this imposes upon congress and the executive the necessity of exerting all the powers given them by the laws and the constitution for the extirpation of the obnoxious ism in this territory so long as they confine themselves to the powers thus conferred for the purpose named the cormons mormons Mor Morn mons ions will not complain but if special and unconstitutional measures are resorted to we certainly shall demur and remonstrate the president recommends the modification of the law of evidence so as to make a wife competent to testify against her husband when he lie is charged with bigamy he also advises the passage of a law by congress making it incumbent on any on one e who sol a marriage in the rim to file a certificate if f such in marriage arriage in the supreme court of the territory where it is solemnized president arthur assures angres congress on gres of his determination to act in cc concert 11 with them in the adoption of necessary measures for the suppression of the peculiar institution in utah but he be at the game same time reminds them that such mea measures must be just and discreet of course the president was compelled belled to say something in his message on oil the subject of mor moni stu he ile was forced by party policy and religious clamor to join in the general hue line and cry against the latter day saints it will however be as well fir for him to remember that one greater than roan man has said man proposes but god disposes WE wi wo auit if the yarns that guiteau is daily spinning in the criminal court will not make a rope sufficiently strong to keep him in in suspense after ho has kept honest peo long iong hi m suspense about his probable outcome |