| Show THE COMMITTEE MEETING uniform hostility to church interference the counties were represented as follows deaver beaver G 11 II Fenner fennemore nore box elder bider hyrum standing cache joseph munson 1 L R martineau Martl neau carbon J A williams proxy davis david sanders P P willey walley emery E A wall garfield G R dark clark by proxy grand 0 W warner juab charles haynes II aynes millard joshua greenwood by proxy morgan thomas K R condle plute W D B cross by proxy rich anson C call salt lake 0 W powers D C dunbar W H dale N M brigham J 11 1 1 moyle heber sanpete San pete I 1 E L terry oscar berglund Bere lund by proxy sevier G li bean summit jolin john L boyden solon spiro by proxy tooele thoele W V J robinson utah A J evans by proxy 11 A wilson allson by proxy W N dusenbury A D gash S it thurman wasatch J R murdock Murdoc lc by proxy washington A W lying weber H W G williams W L magill mal david evans proxy thomas dee proxy iron kane san juan uintah and wayne were not represented judge powers in opening the meeting stated the purpose tor for which the co committeemen had been brought together was to consider the advisability ot of reconvening the state convention to take lie action tion regarding the crisis which lie he said confronted the party he called for espres expressions along from the lite members of the comm committee attee and the low flow ot of opinions began the rule was established that each speaker be limited to fifteen minutes or the committee might have been in session yet tho the expression of hostility to church interference was uniform but opinions as to the best method of mee meeting ting the exigency were varied doubt was expressed as to the expediency of calling the convention together again and the delegates to eap exp expense ense some thought it would be sufficient tor for the committee itself to issue the proposed declaration ot of independence for or after all the talk about taking the democratic ticket from the field it was assumed in the discussion that about all ail the state convention would do it if reconvened would be to issue an address other members of the committee suggested tile the calling ot of most maas meetings in various parts of 0 the territory to adopt resolutions thomas dee of ogden was th the e only speaker who defended the church authorities ties he thought the matter under consideration h had ad been overdrawn and that joseph F smiths smitha remarks had been distorted he thought president I 1 smith had acted in line with his duties aa A a member of the first pre presidency C y dees remarks wore were not received I 1 v qa with nf t ilo approval and he surrena surrendered ered to david levang evans tor for the ever evening ing session the pr proy ay under which chic it lie he had been acting on the committee the roll of counties was called and the vote was unanimous in favor of 0 reconvening the convention then a subcommittee sub committee was appointed with chairman powers at its head and including thurman moyle and evans to draft a n call the subcommittee sub committee spent an hour in the preparation of its report the call as presented contained no refer nece to the proposed defeat or of statehood and some home of the members wanted a clause covering that inserted but judge powers explained that the concluding paragraph was intended to co cover v 0 r the suggestion and so the call was adopted by the com committee cittee as reported |
