| Show LETTER FROM prom DELEGATE CAINE the omaha herald of the lith contains the following letter written by De delegate leate hon john T caine to president cleveland HOUSE OF representatives washington D C dep dee dec 7 6 sin since our conversation this morning additional sensational statements have been sent from omaha and washington and published throughout the east which are so f fale ane and nd such outrageous misrepresentations of the facts in regard to the actual situation in utah that I 1 am constrained to lay before you the truth the adjutant general of the army apparently patently ly authorizes the statement that the secretary of the interior and the Attorn Attorney eyGen General ral rai received reports from the governor united states marshal and other there to the effect that the disposition of the mormons cormons is quite offensive that demonstrations are belag being made of a threatening char acter aua ana aud and th that it the slightest accident Is likely to cause a riot not la in which the residences and offices of rf the united states judges district attorney and other officials maybe may be mobbed and perhaps personal violence attempted e etc t etc you yon u esteir s sir and your constitutional advisers have been deceived by designing men who seek to create in the east the impression that the mormon people are unruly and turbulent the ordering of additional troops to utah is the result of a deliberate attempt on the part of the republican united states officials hereto here to create the impression that there is danger of a mormon outbreak the object of this is first to make it difficult for or a democratic ad ministration to remove the officials and second to influence congress to enact legislation lesi in the interest of a desperate ring of adventurers who seek to control the government of the territory in spite of the fact that they constitute an infinitesimal portion of the population and haye have no interest in the material welfare of 01 the great bulk of the people the bior Alor mormons cormons mons have been subjected to a systematic attempt to goad anem to a hostile act the federal judiciary has persistently ruled 0 so o as to shield disreputable non mormons cormons from punishment for lewd and lascivious conduct while mormons cormons have been pr prosecuted 08 acute d with the utmost rigor to for fon r unlawful cohabitation under the so called edmunds act which makes it a crime for men to cohabit with more than one woman the chief justice of the territory and a majority of the court have held that the edmunds law applies on ony ly to I 1 mormons cormons Mor Alor mons and a man who was arrested on a charge of debauch debauching debau ching ine lne his sister in law was discharged by chief justice zane on the ground that the edmunds law was not intended to be a general corrective e of morals when a deputy marshal a married man was a arrested by the police on a charge of lewd and lascivious conduct with a woman not his wife judge zane zone on habeas corpus proceedings promptly dismissed the accused on the ground that adultery or fornication was not lewd and lascivious conduct unless it was practiced in public on the other hand prominent mormons cormons Mor mons who had separated themselves from their plural vives wives on the passage of the 1 ads law and had endeavored to ho bo leh len ieh obey anat law were indicted for unlawful cohabitation and when they asked the right to prove that they had not had sexual intercourse with their plural wives chief justice zane ruled that such buch evidence was immaterial and irrelevant that unless they had publicly abandoned their plural wives they were guilty of hoedl out I 1 as their wives which constituted their offense of unlawful cohabitation under ta tae 94 edmunds munds munda aw it pot that iu in the entre history of civil alid add criminal judicature no english or american court had ever held that cohabitation meant other than sexual intercourse the mormons cormons had to so go to jail because they did not publicly renounce their plural wives in the execution of the edmunds act the utmost latitude has been given gisen to the mai mal shai and his deputies domi cilliard cill iary lary visits had been common and spies and informers had bad been encouraged a d to ply their infamous trade when f en a reputable mormon resented an grat gratuitous ua tous tons insult by a deputy marshal on the street he was fined by judge Zane arid sent to lali jail lor jor five live days on the untruthful charge of attempting to intimidate an officer of his court the stones stories about attempts to lynch collin and the gathering of mormons cormons for that purpose se and the necessity for placing collin in the hands of the military for foi protection are altogether false the sensational reports telegraphed from omaha about a mob goin going to fort douglas and demanding g collin are manufactured for a purpose there theres is no necessity for the presence of additional troops in utah you sir as well as your advisers have been im imposed upon by governor murray and marshal ireland these representations are maliciously false the mor mons understand pe perfectly that every effort has been macu and dud is being made by officials to provoke an outbreak TheAlor the mormons cormons mons know that they would be doing themselves an irreparable injury by attempting any violence or unlawful act they have not under the most intolerable and unjustifiable conduct of federal officials dl disturbed the peace or ill in any dav resisted the execution of tho the laws the mormons cormons ask only for an impartial administration of the laws and just treatment they have appealed to the supreme court of the united states and are patiently awaiting a decision by that high tribunal on the rulings of judge zane they believe that his extraordinary interpretation of the law will be re rebuked b liked the mormons cormons do not object to the presence ot of the troops in their midst they do object however to the sending of troops on false pretenses they object to being misrepresented and set before the world as defiant turbulent and given to mob violence when all their history proves to the contrary thae those who have demanded and secured reinforcements for cements sent to td ft douglas have not cot been animated by an honest purpose but with the object of annoying and if possible of goading the mor mons to violence the dior Alor mormons cormons mons insist that the reasons assi assigned ned for sending additional troops to galt gait salt sait lake are outrageously false very respect respectfully fully JOHN T CAME |
