Show I rK Know By Bj ALBERT LBERT F. F PHILIPS It was said aId rhen William H. H Seward of state visited Utah and dined with BrichS Brigham Young that two to such Illustrious leaders could not have bave met anywhere re to better ant ad advantage for c exchanging ng of national na na- na- na reminiscences and of or personal courtesies than in lii the home hom of William Jennings in Salt Lake City National affairs rather than the Motion Mormon onnon problem were discussed and the conversation ron lasted for severa several sev sev- sev- sev era eral hours it was said At the table the tile host asked the question Mr Seward how is it possible that you ou can carry the multitudinous affairs of this vast repUblic re republic re- re public so perfectly and connectedly In your our head Mr Young replied the statesman my life training has made me as much at home in the complex af affairs affairs af- af fairs of t the e nation as you ou are the religious leader of a people Secretary Seward aft afterwards visited with President Young at nis' nis his office in Washington but the interview at the house of Mr Jennings was the marked hl historical meeting between these two famous personages A few years cars afterwards General Pl Phil l Sheridan and staff came calile to Utah to plant another military post In the he territory At the time it if was apprehended by the government go In view of conditions then that the Mormons would resist the rigorous measures which were cre then contemplated President Ulysses S S. S Grant prompted by Vice President Colfax had resolved solved to end forever the dominance of or the Mormon authorities author author- over this t territory First General Will wm Shaffer was appointed governor governor governor gov gov- next James B. B was chosen as the proper person to occupy the then very ery important position ix of chief justice but before prosecution commenced con com in the courts against Brigham Young and others General Sheridan was sent out by President Grant to view the situation and to strengthen the I military department in Salt Lake and Utah Immediately Immediately Imme Imme- I on his arrival General Sheridan was surrounded surrounded sur- sur I rounded by the most active Mormons anti who saw the he prospect of the thc territory being placed under marital martial martial mar mar- ital law The Tile arrest of or Brigham Young Daniel H. H Wells and others already had been anticipated as was wa also the abolition of the thc Utah militia the later latter latter lat lat- lat lat- ter er being one of or the military measures dt discussed Inthe in inthe the councils held in the governors governor's room It was thought that such events would provoke the Mormons Mormons' into the commission of ot some overt act of rebellion or at least resistance to federal author- author ity ty Probably President Grant himself at the time tune desired desired desired de de- de- de sired to place the territory of Utah under the semi semi- military rule it is certain that Governor Shaffer ShaHer directed all nil his movements t tc ft that end But still General Sheridan was not insensible to ta the thc social Influence Influence in- in fluence luence of the Mormon people Like General Wiliam Wil- Wil iam Tecumseh Sherman who stole away Irom rom the Mormon anti circle which fain had had captured him himo to o enjoy an hours hour's social Intercourse urse in ill the elegant home of Mr Jennings Here though this merchant citizen had lived ed his religion the general met nothing noth- noth ing ng suggestive of the necessity of harsh measures to tobe tobe tobe be appl applied ed to Mormon Mormon society The Jennings Jenning's home was one of or refinement and wealth with an estimable lady presiding over it who had lad united two branches of her ber husbands husband's family as asher asher her own General Sheridan was susceptible to toO this home lome Influence Mormon society after all was not barbaric The people had made the wilderness blosi blossom blos- blos som i as the rose ros |