Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-11-20 | Page 6 | Know Utah

KNOW K UTAH H I Itt By ALBERT L T F. F PHILIPS I It tt t was as the in politics in Utah that cau caused ed I a a. party of ot to become becom reminiscent and Ui th the cOn o conversation drifted back to th tho long Ions ago aso when ef cf efforts d- d torts forts were being made to secure the admission o of ot r the state of ot Deseret Deseret into the union Col Colonel nelA A W W. Babbitt had gone t to Washington with Illi a 3 copy of a L constitution which had been framed by the higher r ot of the church This was wae as in fn 1849 Th The reception given the emissary from Deseret et as wa s unusually unusually un un- usually cool United States Senator Stephen it A. A Douglas sponsored the documents which Colonel B Bab Bb Babbitt b- b bitt ht had d taken with him and he had lad all papers an and i documents in the caso case referred to the committee committe on territories Then on January 28 1850 the house hous of representatives ordered that a memorial presented presente i by br the delegato delegate from froni Utah to be admitted to a seat seal I in the lower house be tie referred io to o the committee on or 1 elections The house on the recommendation of or th the committee on elections unanimously recommended 1 the adoption of ot the following resolution That II it I Is inexpedient to admit Almon W W. Babbitt to a seat seal in this bod body as a delegate delegat from m the alleged state of ol r Deseret In a committee of or the whole the tha report I of tho the committee on elections was read and amon among the many re reasons sons advanced why Colonel Babbitt should not be admitted was the following The comes to us as the of a a. state but of a state not in the union and I. I therefore not entitled to a a. representation here The The r admission of ot Mr Babbitt would be a quasi t of or th the existence of the state of ot Deseret and no ad act sho should ld be done by this house which even by implication implication im im- im- im may give force and vitality to a political I organization cx and independent of or the laws of ot the tho United States Considerable debate ensued and the report was adopted by a vote of i to 77 and thus the state of ot Deseret failed of ot recognition from congress ss C I Later on a a. copy of ot a a. memorial appeared drawn up p b by George J. J Adams William 1 Marks and James J. J Strang and presented in the senate It set forth that men women and children were illegally expelled from Missouri plundered of ot their effects ex exIled ex- ex lied from their homes driven in destitution hunger and arid want It in midwinter to a a. distant land passing much of the way in hi the midst of foes who not only refused them shelter and food but kept them in continual danger I If jou ou tell us as some of your predecessors told our martyred prophets while they were yet jet et alive that you havo have no power to redress wrongs then there is presented to the world the melancholy spectacle of ot the gre greatest test republic en on n earth a a. Christian nation acknowledging Itself powerless to judge ludge unable to protect the right a nation on whose righteousness rests the hopes of man confessing that there is a a. power lower above the law The begged congress to pass a a. law granting the right of the Saints Saints' to settle on and forever occupy occupy the uninhabited uninhabited un un- un- un inhabited lands in the tha islands islands' in Lake Lalee Michigan Although there thero were no occupied lands in those islands In 1850 the petition was referred to othe the committee corn com on public lanes lands Later on there was a a. handful of people who claimed to be Saints who occupied a small island in the northern part of ot Lake Michigan the leader o of the party st styling lIng h himself the Mormon Morpion king