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Show DUOKlriO.V DAT, Some ae-rimoni-.u; prarapLa havirg been pubLished in a. cp.a of coLlem-porarie;, coLlem-porarie;, relative t-j thy cou.-.-e of ihe CoiamilU-o appoin-..-d to prc-par-j for Decoration Dec-oration Lay, general Maxwell called in ihe Usbald olHu, one day Kit wtci,-, and reqjetei t:i:it we sn-.uld w.-i:e a nice Hu.o article di-i rt.-aur. all sach fttiings on w h an octl.L: a-d ex-preiaed ex-preiaed himself that, it w.ii t'.rgf- if one day could uA be erij..yL-d in harmony without side h-u-:i nr.d p:v:lL-aa f--.jJ2g beir.g made inai.ifL liii Wi- the sufc-stat.ee sufc-stat.ee of his t'-h. Such an anicle appeared the next nior.-iir.g in this fa. per, and it but Lre&'.h-.d th fcpirit o:" preTloui ones. We plainly exp:e-??d ourelve, as we felt, and saii: "We would not envy the man who, und-.-r auch circumilanc-::- a3 tLc-io cf Decoration Decora-tion Lay, wouiJ h---iia'.e to meet any and aii citizens of our common country because of scctior.al or poi tical diJ-.r-erices." Since tlien Mr. Maxweil has changed his mind. At a small meeting of ultra radical a.Mi-ilormonr, on at-urday at-urday night, ho laddr-ed himself to the subject in his ordinary style, and helped through a reso.ution which wili be found in tho report of another meeting meet-ing held lait niglit, where the ;ame resolution res-olution was again adopted. This reec- ; lution orders the general cornmiu.ee to refund to President l'ouns and other Mormons the money which had been solicited from and donated by them to aesist in defraying tho expenses of the occ as ion. Tho meeting had a perfect right to 0 resolve, and this is a matter in which neither we nor the people are deepiy interested. in-terested. It is a light between a faction a very smallaction and the committee commit-tee appointed for tne day. lithe committee, com-mittee, as a committee, act like men we presume the people would sustain them; if tho faction rule, that is all thero is about it. Xebody, that wo are aware of, is going to work up a tit of anger over the matter. Tho occasion is a memorable and a national one, but miserable, mis-erable, petty splceu can mar tho design of celebrating at any place. As for the money question, we have a word to say. Tho money was solicited by a committee acting for tho purpose; it was freely given; and tho preamble to the resolution, which went behind tho record and charged "sinister motives" to tho donors, is a piece of unmitigated, ungontlemanly ani ill-bred impertinence. imperti-nence. With the quarrel, as it stands, wo have small concern, and are but little lit-tle troubled relative to the result Since tho above was written, we received re-ceived the following from tho committee: commit-tee: Committee'! Aildreu to tlio public. The undersigned committee, appointed appoint-ed at a meeting of tho soldiers and sailors sai-lors of tho lalo war to prepare a programme pro-gramme of observance for tho annual Decoration Day, May Jlh, and to provide pro-vide ways and means to carry the same into elluct, having to tho .best of their ability performed tho duties assigned as-signed to tho committee, have tho honor to submit the following report : That the committee has been met with general favor by trie entire community, and contributions were liberally made by all to whom tho objects of Decoration Decora-tion Day woru made known. Ihat ample n. Oins in money and materials ma-terials have been collected by the committee, com-mittee, to make tho observance of Decoration Dec-oration Day a lilting memorial to tho memory of tho dead, and honorablo to the living who decire to commemorato the fame and valor ot" our departod countrymen. Taat the committee, under their instructions in-structions from tho soldiers and sailors' meeting, have presented tho subject to the people of Salt Lake City in the spirit of that patriotism whieh knows only tho American name on a day hallowed with solemnity and reject, und in all ca?os tho people hayo recognized tiie;.-anetity of ttio occasion to bo celubialed. Tho committee in view of tlio good feeling miiiuieted by this comiiiHiiily, take pleasure in presenting the subjoined programme of exorcises and ceremonies, and invito all of our feliow-cili.ena to participate in tho celebration of Decora-lion Decora-lion Day? P. E. Conno-, Chairman, Geo. ji. Maxwell, J. I'. Taggart, Thos. 11. it.ites, James P. Page, Secretary- |