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Show would (Kercise the power. It l but liumnu nn turn for titom to do so." The few win, left the liberal purty and joined the mormons on party line would not be able for .-my length of time to control the overwhelming inortnou majority that is b . k of ilnM.-i. It would settle an enormous expense upon the people of the territory, increasing the rate of taxation. It is a dishonest dis-honest melhod of obtaining htaleliood. It is un 1111 effort to obtain by strategy what the pasl has satisftcd all the mormons roitld not obtain by main strength This bill is I burglar that breaks into your . strong ehest nt night. It is fraught with evil; and nothing bill evil I fori tab. Think of it! Ml the courts of the territory; all territori 1 offices all the election ui.iehiii. r-, and all the schools under un-der this bill are within reneh of the leadi rs of tin- mormon .-hureh. True, statehood is not linked and It nine be said I hat 'his bill will give people all opportunity to test the ti.mil faith of I be church leaders who ad Tooate division upon party lines; but the, piod faith that the gentile-clivisiouistH would ask for would be ns to whether they would be kept in ..'Ii. .- I tab is advancing; state- 1 cl Is ajieacl. I do not believe thill this underbuild.'!, flark-lanteni, midnight proceeding pro-ceeding wlH succeed.'' Von feel thru, of course, thai Hilt bill Justifies the liberals who iiavo declined to divid ill party lines?" "J certainly do. The musk has been triup.-d from the conspirators. The soft word- and cunning phrases that beguiled few men into the b ulief thai, they could safely eliviclo lu re are found to have been spoken with forked tongues. The. result will benellt the liberal party. We liuvo an Isuue tendered that wo shall meet, t sends to the background all iiiestions of'wulk grades high taxation, pullet dereliction and mat- i o! :, u( . and brings ton mow to tnc. troni the great qaetUoB that has divided hi 1 0 the people in the past. As a result and upon this, issue Rait Lake City will poll a libera! majority that will emphasize the fuel that the royal gentiles of Utah do not pro pose to make of this fair territory a state that Is chained to the chariot wheels of a cliunh." now and have about as much use for that j bill as Mephisto has for holy water. We dm't need that bill for anything. ' at Sua "1 don't think that any such MIMIt can paJi ft congress. Of course. I j oppoea It and think it would undo all that has been done, aud surrender the power of control of affairs to the very people that should not be entrusted with them." StMUTOlR Ci.awmin t don't believe the bill w ill ever become, a law. It is, of c ourse, In my opinion, better than the present don ditiou of affairs. Utah is too large to be ruled by appointment Her people mast have self-government. U, K. Hi nn mii, the real estate: man, was sir.. ugly opposed to the bill. "1 hope It will be defeated, and believe: it will." said be. "Sueh n measure could not but result disu-. troiisly for Utah, and would turn back the H heels or progress." 1'. A i 1:1:11.11 11 was another busy merchant Whom attention had been called to the bill, but he had not had time to read it. He would not express him.-' !f regarding it until after u careful reading of It. A. 'mix, of the Urn of t'ohn Bros., w hen called upon had not read the bill, but stated that be did not consider such a measure at present necessary. lie wits Inclined against its adoption. Colossi. Mrhkitt 1 am for the bill, for the reason that I assisted in drawing it up. If in the experiment it should develop that It is not what we waul, then the same power thst enacts it lias the right to repeal It. M .1.1011 Ebb, of the Walker house, had not read the bill through. 'T won't express nny opinion on the subject until after I have read and studied the bill," said the genial landlord. J. II. Walks, ot Walker Bros. A Fyler had not read the bill, and dec lined to ex press his views until he had done so. 8. II. l.nwis It. certainly 16 equivalent to statehood, except in name, which the Americans Amer-icans of Utah are not prepared to welcome. K.i-UiivKiiNoK YVr.sT I am, of course, in favor of tlie bill, as 1 am of every good democratic measure, In my opinion, it en-Ur. en-Ur. lv removes th" only objection expressed by President Harrison ill his recent message to congics-. lei that document the president Skid that in; act grunting Statehood would be irrevocable, and now this bill provides what i call a liberalised forms'1 rrltorlal government, The power still remains supremo in congress, and that body can at uny time repeal the bill and provide for the government of the territory through the national government, If it should be found that the people of Utah are incapable of doing it themselves. To my mllid it is a grand ehancc to test the sin cecity of the mormon people III their profes. j sions of loyalty and ohedleUCC ti) the government. govern-ment. It will put them on probation and show whether they are to be entrusted with statehood. Utah is gelling too great both in population and material resources to be much longer governed under tho territorial form.'' Jl'tiOB J riii answered its follows: "What do you think of the bill presented by Senator Faulkner and Delegate Caine relative to change of governmental methods m Utah?" ''I think if Is fair and lust, to everybody. It -fives local self-government, which is the corner-stone of denu crucy; and .' am a democrat." dem-ocrat." "Then you dou'l apprehend any ill results by affording Uie mormon people m opportunity oppor-tunity to test their sincerity relative to tho profession u nbodied In tho manifesto and their subsequent action in affiliating on national na-tional party lines'."' "I think the musses of ilm people can al-wuys al-wuys he trusted to do right anywhere." l'i:i;o Simov, of Ihe linn of Simon Bros, and president of the Suit Lake chamber of commerce, said: "the bill us introduced by Senator Faulkner and Keqircscntativo Caine Wans statehood feer Utah, and I am not In favor of it a, the present time. Before we think of milking Utah a state the pcopie I will have to be educated upon party lines whether republican or democratic, and this cannot he accomplished at once. " As we an .going along at present, Utah will be fit to bo admitted Into tho Union in four or live years from now, and il any measures are adopted to press the issue, as the hill introduced evidently means to do, 1 dare1 say there will be a strong opposition against it." M niTiN Law lJ '1 am strongly opposed to the measure, w hich I consider an infamous infam-ous one- that should h" vigorously opposed. Its passage would undo all that bar been accomplished In Ihe last twenty years of hard up hill w,.ik, and the gentile population popu-lation would be compelled to emigrate. The bill was concocted out here by the mormon church. It again would control thing-and e' itv office in the territory outside out-side of the municipality of Salt Lake would be In their hands, it would mean that the gove rnment of Utah was turned over to the church. No, sir, iho bill must be fought down. I consider that the senate is composed com-posed of gentlemen too intelligent to psss any such measure." Mic Baiiihs. of Barton cV Co,, had not read the bill through, but bud glanced over It and obtained u fair idea of its provisions. "1 think if both wise and cxpedieii."suid he, 'that sneb a measure should be passed, ft provides a local self government and is a splendid way to test the sincerity of the mormon population before absolute powers are granted to Utah. The unsettled condition of affairs here are largely instrumental instru-mental in re t.ird ug" the progress of the territory. ter-ritory. Capi.nl. which even now cannot be kept away, will ilow in here in great qoan-tlty, qoan-tlty, uud the progress and development of tho territory will be greatly stimulated by the adoption of the bill." Judok Bennett I have not inquired into tho bill analytically, but looking ut the matter in c general proposition, 1 am opposed op-posed to It 1 I'm opposed to It for the reason that U puts the te rritory under dem ocratlc control and turns us over permanently permanent-ly to the opposition. Is there any precedent for such lesisla-ttonl lesisla-ttonl Nor..' whatever. It is an uuamoly; but I am not prepared to go into the question at this time. P.. K. Bi.ckii "I think the bill outlines a splendid form of territorial government ami would be e grand measure for any other ter rltory situated dlffcrculh tbuu Utah, but I don't like to place the charge of affairs iu j the hands of tho mormons. 1 don't believe I tbe time is yet ripe for statehood, and 1 I would rather not sec tho measure introduced ' become a law. There are some good feat-I feat-I urcsand many objectionable ones in it.". B. Pahk, of the firm of Joslin Park, had not vet read the hill. From what he bad ' heard of the bill be could not say what the I result would be, lint was inclined to ihink it would be: against the best Interests. Utah I 1ms got to conic to statehood some day, but 1 Mr. Park said that ho was not prepared to ! tay tlint the territory was prepared for it at ' tb'-s '.imc. Captain Hp.ek.nman I am In favor of I nothing that looks forward to statehood or that could put us under the mastery of the j mormons. We are uot ready for home rule 1 until the territory of Utah is In the band., of ' the gentiles, whether they are democrats or ! Ifpublicsns. Mavoh SCOTT Toll have seen the effect of dividing ou parly lines already don't give us any statehood. Wo are ruling ourselves Jkl. k k WHAT THE PEOPLE THINK toneerning the ltetuarkahle Hill introduced intro-duced in Congress Yesterday. The telegraphic announcement that a bill bad been introduced in congress to strip tbo government of its territorial prerogative! and to place the government of Utah in tho hands of a gubernatorial cabinet bec-aniu at once the paramount topic of discussion iu the offices of the professional man, tho counting room, the present executive-chambers executive-chambers and the curbstone. It was quite natural for the report to have aroused comment and tho vol. Ume of comment itself is sufficient reflex of tho fact that few men looking to tho prosperity uud the prolcctiug of the territory's terri-tory's material interests are slumbering. To tbe contrary, it brought forth expressions ex-pressions of almost equatorial heat. Especially was this visible among that ede-ment ede-ment who have been iu the debate here politically poli-tically agnostic. They contend that it ox. poses to them a situation of affairs was just what was to bo avoided. That it set the fears upon which they were pairing at rest-That rest-That It throws perfect sunlight upon the compound of daylight and dmkuess through which they had been wouduriug, and in this lamp lit by congressional matches they are unable to see their -ay clear. The effect of the ''home rule'' bill has manifested Itself in multifarious ways. There are liberal who claim that It puis Utah back to the position it occupied be. foro tbo manifesto was issued; demo, crats who say that it is a "revelation" in Which the authors seek to determine the sincerity sin-cerity of those wlio are seeking statehood; thero arc republicans who ngrce with this theory and thero are republicans who do not. The latter say that It Is an unmistakable promotion of the fact that Congressman Caine is knocking ut the doors for the admission of Vtr-h. Tfiis, they say, he has constantly and un i mproin-lsingly mproin-lsingly d. uied. They charge him with treachery aud state that what lie said from the sbemp in that last eventful campaign is ovrtirown and controverted by the bill which Faulk )v;r und the dolegato from this territory seek to put through congress. These are reflections from what has been said upon tho streets aud iu the resorts. Tbo attitude of the journal is dearly defined de-fined ou its editorial page. Jluge Fow Kits was soon. "Have you examined the bill that was iu-troduced iu-troduced in congress yesterday with r ter enie to Utah!" "I have given it such coas!dcr..'.:on as I could this morning in the intervals of business." busi-ness." "What do you think of it'.''' "I think that It ought to be entitled 'A , Bill to make of Utah a political norm aphro. dite.' It iu reality creates a stele that re-malus re-malus in umbush. Under its provisions Utah would become a commonwealth with, out. sex." "What are your principal objections to ltr "In the first place, it gives to the mormons ell that they can desire. It gives them con-trol con-trol of the entire territory. Out of the seven judicial districts provided for by the bill, there Is only one, and that is ihe Sal; Lake district, that could lie counted upon as being gcutile. It would place all the public school within tbe powesr nnd control of tin-Mormou tin-Mormou church, lor, they have pcopie enough to i lect all the territorial officers aud it would not be a long time before they |