| Show I 1 j I PT hi his hiI s I beg to Warn wain you OU Mr Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- tar tary and through you the country of dangers that tin thre threaten eaten ten and troubles troubles troubles trou trou- bles that will surely come and nd to ask action that will adjust the wrongs so long committed In Utah Half way measures will not answel answer an an- and delay is dangerous In Innocent Innocent Innocent In- In blood of f Mormon Normon and American will eventually be shed in establishing good ent In Utah and antI the vast adjoining territory territory terri tern tory of the west being occupied by this power Time will not and cannot prove the remedy That was a part of ot the con conclusion reached each d by Governor Ell Eli II H. Murray Murray Murray Mur Mur- MurI I ray in his report of ot conditions in I Utah as he saw them in 1883 and which he embodies In his report to I Ithe the secretary of the interior Then Then he appealed appeal d to the secretary thus I now ask that all laws passed by congress for Utah be repealed and that if It be the purpose to overlook crime crimI against the flag and the lesser crime against the law polygamy that it should be of officially officially ot- ot determined mined and announced in I order that the people of pf pf this great region may know to expect and how to arrange their famil family and business affairs If on the other hand the country proposes proposes proposes pro pro- poses to see that Its Us laws are executed executed ex ex- and its authority recognized by all alike and everywhere re then I respectfully suggest the following follow follow- ing lag Under the Edmunds law the Utah commission has returned a monogamous legislature which meets In January next It If that legislature falls raUs to repeal all 1 laws lawsin Ws in full passed by former legislatures respecting an establishment of ot re relIgion religion religion re- re ligion to repeal all statutes under which laws of or congress have been nullified and falls fails to pass laws forbidding polygamy and any person who solemnizes what is termed a plural marriage to provide for neglected and deserving wives and fails as ns other legislatures legisla tunes tures have refus refused d to do to be bestow bestow bestow be- be stow the right of dower or 01 Its equivalent and falls fails to recognize In InUs Us Its labors the authority of or the United States as the absolute sovereIgn sovereign sov soy political then that congress shall repeal that section of the or organic organic organic or- or ganic act establishing such a body and assume control in government here This it has beyond question the right t to do and this I believe to be its duty to do without a delay delay delay de de- de- de lay beyond the ending of ot the next territorial legislature Then Governor Murray lurra proposed a remedy or saying It cannot reasonably be expected that congress at so great a distance and with the wants of or a great country to care for tor can know In detail the wants of ot a t territory y so sowell well as men interested in the business business busi busi- ness and who live in the territory A A. A pilot in the lighthouse ot off Sandy II Hook 0 01 cannot guide a vessel across acrosS- the Atlantic ocean The pilot must be on bo board rd ship So I take it it congress must establish a another agency in Utah h one familiar famUlar with the wants and requirements of Ot the territory familiar with Its localities localities ties and bound up UI In Its welfare with their lives Ilves and fortunes and who bear honest to tp the government of the United States If IC it be he true that the government for tor over 30 years ears has had an unfaithful unfaithful unfaithful un un- un- un faithful agent in Utah is It It not right th that t it should dispense with such service and establish ful agent there Is it right that the government go should do less than an on intelligent earful business man would do under like cl circumstances circumstances' In or order ler to lee keei kee this side of what might properly be the heroic reme remedy y I present in hope and confidence my mv former formel Intelligent observation and experience confirm me In the necessity and wisdom of that course In lieu lieu- of the legislature legislature legisla legisla- ture tune as now pi provided for fo in the organic act and which 1 may thay add has been and is practically practically ally appointed b by the president of ot the Mormon church constitute a legislative council of ot sa say three or five or 01 if ssan thirteen or ole they to be appointed b by the president and confirmed d by the senate senate sen sen- ate who wh shall write a code of ot lawSIn lawSin laws lawsin in the constitution constitution con con- and the laws of ot congress and which will vill pro prove proa a government not only for the people but hut b by the people |
