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Show WHAT CONSTITUTES A RESIDENCE? Tho prcssuro upon, our columns yestnrday prevented our noticing the answer, ol Hon. t!ao. Q. Cannon to tho complaint filed against him by District Attorney Howard tr set aside his naturalization papers. Mr. Cannon Can-non in;his reply, published in Thursday's Thurs-day's Herald, emphatically denies the charges made in the complaint and covers the whole ground. The attempt to set up the charge- of fraud, because he was absent as a missionary mission-ary to the Sandwich island, is terribly thin. If every missionary from this territory who goes outside of the United States to preach the doctrines in which ho believes, loses his rcsi-deuca, rcsi-deuca, then hundreds of tho inhabitants inhabi-tants ul Utah would be placed in a very awkward position. Such a dec-trine dec-trine is monstrous and cannot be sustained by anything from the books. A man cannot be without a domicile, and he is not supposed to have abandoned aban-doned his last domicile until he has acquired a new one. Missionaries who go from this territory to preach gi with the intenvion of returning. Tuey neither abandon their domicile hsre nor acquire a now one elsewhere To all intents and purposes they are resident- here. This was Mr. Cannon's position. He left here iu obedieuce to a regular c All of tho authorities of his church, rsluctantly as wo understand, because be-cause tharo was an attraction hero from which he did uot whsh to part. His stay in the s?.mdiob. isl.mda was entirely controlod, wo are satisfied, by the wUima of the authority which had sent him there. It was a mission which could not havo been desirable to him, and he douh'Ieis gladly welcomed wel-comed the opportunity to return to his heme. Iu the legal sense of the terns, then, he never was a resident of the Saudwich Uiand, for lie never acquired a residence there. Tisis valley was his home, his relatives who had brought him up, his brothers and siiters, aud all his near friends and property were here. He came here in the first settlement of the valley val-ley with tha intention of making this his future residence; he had taken it up tfJifjK- man-jiidi. The presumption is a reasonable one, from the knewu character of tho man, that h:id ho not been called to o on a mission bv au authority which ho viewed as bludiug he would have lived Continuously in the territory up to tho present time. The motives mo-tives which prompt this attack up in Mr. Cannon's uatuialization papers arc tio truiispanMjt that they need no explanation to be made con-cr.-niing tliL-m lo "Miynnooa" and non-Murniuns who rcoide here. It is ono feature iu the general attack which is btiug made upon the people of the Imitory by lln; unscrupulous tricksters who die ui:ki:ig for power. He is the delicti: to congress, and if he can bo annoyed and blackened, even though no point can be successfully success-fully .made agnintt him, those engaged en-gaged in tuiti crusade wiil take comfort. com-fort. This whelo question, however, was thoroughly disais-.ed before the committee on elections at the lust house of representatives. If Mr. Caunori's caso had rrot been a strong : one, he would havo fared badly. Cut! when as strong a commiltco as that was known to be, composed of able lawyers of both political parties, decide, de-cide, as it did, that Mr. Cannon was entitled to tho soal.wo may safely conclude that the proceedings instituted insti-tuted hero arc entirely vexatious and prompted only by a hope to annoy. |