| Show 4 Bitterness e engendered gendered between the two elements In Utah which culminated in the adoption of at resolutions resolutions reso reso- at a mass meeting in the ord ol Tabernacle demanding tho resignation resignation res res- ignation or the removal of Governor Governor Governor Gover Gover- nor Harding and Justices Waite and Drake of the territorial supreme court on account as alleged of the fact that they were attempting to subvert every right of freo free citizen citizen- ship The demand was made upon them by a a. committee consisting of I Jeter Jetel Clinton and John Taylor but the tho officials declined The petition for their removal made to President President President dent Abraham Lincoln failed ailed However so bitter had the feeling feeling feel feel- ing become between the majority of the people and the governor that in June 1863 Governor Harding was removed and was succeeded by James D. D Doty former superintendent dent of Indian affairs who was In Inducted Inducted inducted In- In ducted Into office on Monday June 22 Meanwhile during the latter atter part of Governor Hardings Harding's regime stories stories stories sto sto- sto- sto ries became current that Brigham Young was to be arrested run off oft to the tho states for or trial plural marriage marriage mar mar- being the alleged cause causeS the arrest to come in a raid that was to be made according to the story then current by soldiers from Ft Itt Douglas but a vigorous vig-orous denial was made by General Connor HOME GUARDED Regardless s ho however vever t the e home borne of the president of the church was surrounded by guards The raid I materialize but however did not owing to the charge charse alleged President President President dent Young called the United States marshal to his home ana anc there submitted to an arrest and was arraigned before Justice John JohnF F Kinney who after a a hearing held him to answer to the grand jury jun He gave bond for 2000 for his appearance When the grand jury convened that body failed to to return an indictment The charge against him was bigamy under the bigamy anti-bigamy law aw enacted by congress congress congress con con- gress in 1862 His arrest was the first one under the law and the first conviction under the law was that of George Reynolds in 1875 who was private secretary to Brigham Brigham Brigham Brig- Brig ham Young Then followed sensational re reports reports re- re ports which were sent East alter after the grand jury failed to indict and the talk was that another war was imminent i in iI Utah Meanwhile another change in the Judiciary of the territory occurred Chief Justice John F. F Kinney had served from froni June 27 1860 and who held a previous year four-year term from August 24 1853 to o July 13 1857 was removed and was succeeded succeeded suc sue by John Titus of Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania Secretary Frank l Fuller uller was also removed and was was was' succeeded by Amos Reed o of Wisconsin Associate Asso Asso- date Justices Charles Challes B. B Waite and Thomas J J. Drake who had come with Governor Harding not being disturbed Justice Waite Walte while on the bench wrote a book entitled The Mormon l Prophet The re removal removal removal re- re moval of Justice Kinney and Secretary Secretary Sec See Fuller was said to be for to Brigham Young At least this was th the reason given KINNEY ELECTED At the August election in 1863 Judge Kinney was elected delegate from the territory to congress succeeding suc sue Dr John M. M Bernheisel who had served a third term In his is first address delivered in the house he made an eloquent plea for tor Utah and her people Fernando Wood of ot New York had in a speech on the floor of the house referred to the people eo Utah as profligate profligate gate outcasts always hostile to the moral and political Institutions of the United States jn In n answering the speech Judge Kinney excoriated the member from New York and paid unusual l tribute to the people who had v founded Utah arid and he declared that a aman aman aman man meaning Wood who was the leader of th thi Copperheads which party part at that time flourished in Various various various va va- rious parts of the country who would stand up in the American congress at a time when the government government government gov gov- was vs struggling for Its existence and pronounce the ef effort effort effort ef- ef fort made ti to put down the rebellion as a hellish crusade ought to be expelled d as unworthy to occupy a seat upon that floor Then he paid eloquent tribute to the pioneers Afterwards he made a strong appeal appeal appeal ap ap- ap- ap peal in another address for tate tate- statehood hood for Utah introducing an enabling en en- abling act to permit the people to prepare a constitution and elect of officers officers of- of leers to form a state government nt It like Uke other efforts failed |
