Show UTAH A SATRAPY Her Present Condition of Vassalage Vas-salage Ably Set Forth Legislative Appeal to Cojress for the Passage Pass-age of the Home Rule Bill To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives Repre-sentatives of the United States in Congress I assembled We your petitioners the legislative assembly as-sembly of 1ho territory Utah respectfully I respect-fully represent Utah contains an aggregate wealth of more than 5200000000 The proceeds of her farms live stock mines and manufactures manufac-tures for the year 1800 amounted to 23000000 She has near a quarter of a million of civilized people who in point of intelligence intelli-gence industry and all the essential qualities quali-ties of good citizenship are up to the standard of any American community Polygamy once practiced by a small portion por-tion of her people has yielded to the supremacy su-premacy of the law a sense of tho evils flowing from it and of the utter futility of further attempting to maintain an institution institu-tion obnoxious to general public sentiment In the midst of wonderful material progress pro-gress her people have recently turned their attention to the study of questions of government gov-ernment and legitimate politics and arc espousing the cause of one or the other of the national parties These new conditions have come naturally natural-ly honestly and for the future are absolutely ab-solutely secure A patriotio people are pledged to their preservation Retrogression Retrogres-sion involving as it would dishonor and dire misfortune is impossible Utah in the feelings of her people has been lifted from her humiliation and disgrace I dis-grace Today she is imbued with the hope and determination to be freefree in the I full sense of American constitutional freedom free-dom which means something more than liberty permitted which consists in civil and political rights absolutely guaranteed assured and giiarded in ones liberties as a man and a citizen his right to vote his right to hold office his equality with all others who are his fellow citizensall these guarded and protected and not held at the mercy and discretion of one man or popular majority or distant body unadvised as to local needs or interests The governor the secretary the members mem-bers of the judiciary except justices of the peace the marshal the public prosecutor and his assistants the board of commis sinners appointing all registration else lion officers and controlling the elections are elected by a distant appointing power andre and-re utterly unaccountable to the people for the manner in which they perform the du ties of their offices The governor nominates the auditor of public accounts treasurer the governing boards of all public institutions such as the university Agricultural college Reform school and insane asylum Thus the people peo-ple have no voice in the selection of per sons to manage their public funds and institutions stitutions created and maintained at their expense The territorial school commissioner commis-sioner is selected by the supreme court and owes no responsibility to the people Clerks selected by the district judges nod the probate judges appointed by the President and with the advice of the Senate Sen-ate select the regular panels for jurors The regular panel is supplemented by por sons summoned at tho discretion of the United States marshal The determina tion of rights of life liberty and property rests with tribunals no part of which owe any accountability to those most vitally concerned in the faithful performance of their duties The marshal and his deputies are clothed with the most farreaching authority under which they may usurp the functions of all the local constabulary and police of the territory Even the jus tices of the peace are shorn of their limited jurisdiction by commissioners appointed by the supreme court and whose jurisdiction jurisdic-tion is made coextensive with that of such justices The will of the representatives of the people In tho enactment of needed legislation legisla-tion is liable to be defeated at the caprice of a gubernatorial autocrat clothed with the power of absolute veto While tho county prosecuting attorneys elected by the people are permitted to initiate in-itiate prosecutions in the Inferior courts no such prosecution can be carried forward for-ward to success except according to the pleasure of the district attorney imposed upon the people from abroad The most vicious interference with the vestige of our local liberties is the maintenance main-tenance and action of the Utah commission commis-sion who in their appointment of registration registra-tion officers have often selected corrupt and irresponsible persons They have filled the registration lists with fictitious names and resorted to other devicas by which repeating re-peating and other frauds might be successfully suc-cessfully perpetrated at elections There is no province or dependency it is believed of any civilized nation wherein the people are not accorded more of liberty and the rights ot man than are possessed by American citizens in Utah The situation is intolerable to freemen The people through us their chosen but Helpless representatives demand relief The officeholders their patrons those who fatten upon the degradation and misfortune misfor-tune of our people all the hordes of the beneficiaries of the present system will resist the appeal Your memorialists however confidently relying upon the justice of the representatives representa-tives of the American people ask the Congress Con-gress of the United States to enact into ala a-la as a measure which will afford immediate immedi-ate relief the bill introduced into the Senate Sen-ate by Senator Faulkner and in the House of Representatives by Delegate Caine For the local government of Utah territory terri-tory and to provide for the election of certain cer-tain officers in said territory Your memorialists further ask that as all essential conditions exist entitling Utah to admission into the Union as a state and that as soon as your honorablo body is satisfied of this fact a law may at once bo enacted permitting her to take the position for which she is so eminently fitted And your memorialists will ever pray etc |