Show 0 i NOW AND THEN l The report ot of Governor Arthur L. L Thomas as Is seen alluded to various measures for far the solution ot of the Mormon larman and expressed ex- ex pressed the view that any temporIzing tern tem policy which left lett the church In a position to control contral the politics ot of the territory was only delaying the final settlement No intimation w was s gIven as what was wa's meant by fInal settlement but I he was able to submit another another an- an other report repart a new order of things had been introduced In the territory There was a nev I era In affairs in Utah Wilford Wood Wood- was then president ot of the church and andon on September 25 1890 he issued a manifesto which meant peace In the territory and was the beginning of the of the Mormon problem and which fosto Cesta was ratified by the October conference of the In which he declared declare that it- it was his Intention intention tion to submit to the laws f congress congress con con- gress and particularly the one which prohibited plural marriage One clause of af hIs manifesto read Inasmuch as la laws ws have been enacted b by congress forbIdding plural marriages which laws Jaws have been pronounced constitutional by the court or of last res resort art I herebY declare my my- Intention to submit to those laws and to use ue my influenCe influenCe enCe with the members ot of the church over which I preside to have e them do likewise The new era for far Utah had dawned Jl |