| Show UTAH utan legislature thirteenth SESSION in accordance with a resolution passed at the close of 0 the last session cession the members elected for the present session assembled in the state house hoise on monday the at one pm quorums ot of both tha be council and emit house boing being present at the haur hour appointed the pro opened by the election pro ten lew of hon daniel 11 wells president of the council and lion john tayler taylor Tayl tir speaker of the hoube house the Secreta chief cerk called te the rolls and committees examined the credentials denti als ais of members the hon amos reed secretary of the territory administered the requisite oath to both the members of the council and house and the following a gentlemen were elected or OF TUB tur COUNCIL daniel 11 wells president patrick lynch secretary joshua arbur arhur assistant secretary Ir breaton reaton free ser sergeant e ant at arms wm tm ar W cluin cluff messenger saml H 11 B smith foreman oseph joseph young Cha chaplain chaklai OFFICERS CERS OF THE HOUSE john ta taylor 0 speaker eaker T thhomas bullock k chief clerk robt L campbell assistant clerk win C staines Sta inea serge sergeant ant at arms johns gleason jUes jmes messenger genger orville foreman W W phelps chaplain the oath being administered to the officers aus ana other preliminary business being attended to the Bjes vlon slon adjourned until yesterday day morning at XO 10 TUESDAY the council and house met in joint session rifa riwa na the committee appointed to wait upon the gluek executive introduced his excellency amos R ad acting acting Govern governor who on entering in was wa s greeted by the assembly his 1113 excellency eel cel lency desired to communicate with the assembly in writing wi leleon wheaton the chist chit clark clerk road the fo Howing MESSAGE TO THE HONORABLE COUNCIL AND HOUSE OF or representatives OF THE legislative ASSEMBLY or UTAH tr GENTLEMEN As the chos chosen en re presenta tires tives of the thee people I 1 you have assembled to deliberate on the manifold interests committed to your care and devise derise and consummate con buch such measures as will meet the requirements of the occa on and redound to the general weal A a ordinate coordinate co branch of the legislative owr twerp I 1 shall be happy at all times to concur in all proper measures dis dib disinew ined for th the protection of the rights of the people ot of this una errit Y or for or the promotion of their advancement van cement and prosperity with which the interests of 0 the government of the united stes are ao so intimately connected the past season has been one of gereral good health and of unusual prosperity it y t to 0 our peo ille ikle nie cle the earth has yielded bountifully ta fully t to 0 t the e jaust industrious rious hand of the husbandman and the moments of our well filled granaries and storehouses have found a ready market at highly demun dative rateb both at home and among the teeming populations of the northern a an ni 1 stern mines your meeting affords me an opportunity of ci you as Amo american rican citizens citizen citi zeni won von upon the success successful fui ful efforts of the general government towards que ling an unhallowed r bellion which has for nearly three ye irs ira de vA stated BO so large a portion of our common chantry and upon the well founded hope in q ellred ired by the rec nt past har that peace will soon dawn i a united and prosperous land aks As ALs legislators of this territory and the rep of a people happily far removed ron rom the scenes of civil strife strite it affords me grat great pleasure to be able to announce to yoa you the tha termination ot et hostilities and depredations by the indians and the conclusion of treaties athe of peace the bands banis occupying the te and the southern part of idaho for these blessings under the guid guld guidance aiice alice of a benign providence we are indebted to the loyalty of the people and the valor of our mave brave troops at the east and to the efficiency energy emerig V and and courage of the california voun M feas in our m ast dst committing to our breth rao amo oj A the oher aid of the with r tilt tiit ylli thy and heartiest prayers I 1 the h honored d a and niga riga hero heroic c task tasu of crus crushing bing ding out the rebellion we may safely rely on the con ti I 1 n nuance u an of peace within our borders so long athe as the cek presence e ence odthe of the soldiers here shall re strain ir a i i anthe the savage from the comi bals rals son of tho those outrages mes wes for which be he has been BO so sei verely punished in accordance with un universal versal custom it is deemed proper to invite your attention to those subjects touching the general welfare which are likely to demand 5 3 our consideration and to suggest such as seem to be required by the wants and dite bite interests rests of the people prop e A revision of the laws odthe of the Terr territory tory would be desirable and would seem to be required in view of the present inadequate and defective detective system but as the expense of would necessarily be great and the ur getcy geicy of the matter does not render it indispensably rec tec necessary necessary essary I 1 cannot recommend that it be undertaken der taken at the present time be he dawn of a new era is already opening upon the terri agry and the shifting scones scenes around us as well as the novel requirements which new pursuits and varied enterprises to which this as all oben ober young communities is incident in ciden p will reder render necessary at an early day another compilation as they will require other and perhaps different laws irom from those now on the statute book foraging for ling ning as it does the greal Great Basin dasin and the centre entre 6 0 f our extensive region thia this territory bids fair to rival her neigh neighbors bors hors on 1 the he east west and in gold lold and silver rine while in her beds beefs of baser metals she will unquestionably surpass either the evi evl of this are abundant and each day accumulate and I 1 congratulate you on the act fact that our extended and varied resources of ov mineral wealth are about to be developed indeed are already beil bell bearg developed and cannot but result in a large increase of our lation these interesting facts devolve upon you as the guardians of the public peace and welfare new and responsible duties the manifold interests of 0 agriculture tho tha enduring basis of alit permanent er manent Tro pro prosperity should as I 1 have no doubt they i I 1 receive your special attention and be fostered by ivery every means within your poker in this territory fertile as itis it is in all the products of j the he farm firm and abundant as ae are our harvests beneath the industrious hand band of the husband inan wan the soll soil in the main is only cep ible of cultivation when watered by our mount in streams at reams or by means of artificial water courses our people are thus necessarily to a very limited area of producing land every acre that is capable of 0 being made maie productive should therefore be preserved to t the th people ceole and made to bied its bounteous products to the willing hand of toil stimulated dated as it enquest will be by the new conditions and the bright prospects of the mar war future now opening upon the pope these suggestions are made in view of the events eventa daily transpiring around LS us and preliminary to calling your att antion to the spanish fork and sanpete indian reservations this thia latter reservation situated in the centre of the fertile valley of tf that name and surrounded by an industrious agricultural population is of small extent embr embracing acine not more falore than five bundred hundred acres it has been lying idle for several years past and there is 13 little probability ot of its ever again being required for indian purposes kes ies the land is capable of pro good crops and injustice to the people ready ready and willing to reduce it to profitable cultivation should be b vacated as an indian reservation to which it is not adapted and for tor which it is evidently not required the I 1 he spanish fork reservations at the southern end of lake utah contains about fifteen thousand acres of land of good quai fly and all buscem tible of irrigation some years since a small portion of this reservation vaa cultivated as an indian tarm farm but the tte tle amount of produce realized was wag wagin in no manner at ail nil commensurate with the co t to the government for the past three years no work has baa been performed on this una reservation and it has returned to a state of nature the farm house is in very bad repair the th fences all gone and the land overgrown with weeds and bushes indeed it is today to day simply a tract of naked wild land wi ivi b h few of its improvements yet remain remaining inc inz and thebe at best but mon moni metas of decay and ruin no less than af f the mis aken alien policy which seeks to ameliorate the condi tion of the red man by placing g h him i in in nea near r proximity to a thickly populated white settlement oa on the other hand it has been a fruitful source of irritation and dissatisfaction to the indians indiana who a e continually led to ex hect benefits which they never receive and the fact tat t at while holding out hopes des tined lined never to be realized it draws the indians into the most densely popi popl populated settle ments menta to the great annoyance of our citizens whom they burthen with ahava a h avy and continual tax is not the least amon among the evil evils la justly complained of even should abe reservation br bp again devoted to indian purposes only a small port portion fortion loil of it would te be cultivated still leaving the toe greater part until ed and running to waste it is 13 estimated that the money necessarily expended annually it in maintaining the purchase yo r the indians in the market at least double douvle the quantity of provisions that would be obtained from the thle farm after an experience of two years in the indian service in this territory I 1 am satisfied that this reservation Is a detriment to the government to the indians and to the people the withholding of such puch amount am or land from intel intelligent cultivation in view liew of the great preat acquisition of atlon hat bat that wi we are sure to t receive is as unwise as it is im politic when it I 1 is that cur people so 10 far removed from other sources burces of supply are compelled to rely entirely on their own exertions and the limited amount of arable land lahd throughout the territory it ia is therefore respectfully recommended that you memorialize the P resident of the united states to lacate vacate these indian reserva reservation reservations tio ns and throw the land open to occupation and cultivation by our citizens your earnest and early to this matter is asked to the end hat it ibm may ay be brought it poss ross possible ible to a successful isau issue in time to have these lands put in cultivation the coming season the condition of the utah indians in thia this territory will require your aurthar attention I 1 Roam roaming irig as they do through all our settlements south of this city they are and hava bave been since the settlement uett iett lement of the territory a great annoyance to and a continual burt burthen ben hen some tax upon the people the influx of a considerable mining population among them may result in disturbances in our midst while the assistance that government ia is constantly I 1 rendering them cannot result situated as they are in any permanent goo 1 the general government has haa set apart the country drained by tile tiie uintah river and icat tributaries tributa ries extending from the wahsatch Wah satch range of mountains to the green or colorado river a distance of some eighty miles east land ani west with at beast east an equal distances distance ces cep north norm and south bouth as a reservation tor for me permanent settlement of these indians Indi ars after I I 1 1 careful examination it hag bag been fou tou found nd to be 1 most admirably adapted to that purpose many of thee indians are anxious with tile the assistance of the Govern Governia government mert er t to remove there i and setti bettl and it is believed that all could be readily induced to go the reservation is more than ample for them al all contains abundance of game and is well 11 supplied with wood water and grass graas I 1 recommend that you memorialize congress 1 for an appropriation a ade adequate ate to the purpose and with a view to mailling maling a treaty with these indians providing for their early removal to that reservation your attention is is called to the he great deficiency in the mail facilities of this territory the large population that has haa sealed in the rich mining districts of idaho and the consequent great trade and travel that have sprung up tip between those points and this city their principal source soura of supplies demand an in increase of mail facilities in a justice to the several communities interested there should he be a daily mail carried in coaches from this city to eastern bannack and virginia cities with a branch abraner of ilde lide service from the northern part of this territory to boise or western bannack Ban naci the mails from this thia city south to payson through the jarke jarge and thriving cities in the valley of 0 lake utah viah should be increased t to 0 a dily service the important and increasing business carried on between this territory and southern requires that the mall mail service to portion of this territory should be extended through to t san bernardino Bernar dm and los loa angelea angeles there also be a weekly mail from this city west to thoele tooele city and grantsville Grants ville in tooele thoele valley vailey it 1 is recommend rec ommen ed that yea yen me moralize the postmaster general tor for this thia iner increased ased aBed and additional ditlof dit ional lonal dal aal mail mill service the pacific railroad Rill road so long the them theme of the rater the scholar and the poet the dream of the statesman and the hope of the land is about to become a reality p and the day is not far distant when its iron bands bear bearing ingon on its breast the products of the world will unite in in interest as they are now united in sympathy and affection the people of 01 the tile atlantic and the pacific slopes each low mow on this thia undertaking the greatest enter prise lse ise of this or any other ae age but serves to tind bind with bloks of steel the farthest extremities I 1 of 0 a wide spread continent and cement iuli till closer the bonds ot of our imperishable union but to us t has a nearer and more practical significance significant and as its iron bands ar approach us each day nay nearer and nearer from the east and the west it draws us closer to or 0 ir r former homes and op opens ens to our vision the near prospect of weal wealth t I 1 I 1 a and nd prosperity erity when the rich commerce of the far off 0 lent hall shall seek our doors through the golden portals of the occident to be exchanged for the products pt our farms the fabrics of our industry alfa ami the riches of our mines this territory now so 90 far rem removed rived from the th east and the west by lofty mountains and barren plain swill when this great work shall have been c consummated be the highway of the commerce of the world and the great resting place and ans an 1 depot of the nation it is is therefore with unalloyed pleasure that ican I 1 can congratulate you oli on the buess successful fui ful and rapid progress in the construction of the pacific railroad which is is making steady seady and giant strides towards us its completion will I 1 have no doubty doubt soon place us with our inexhaustible haus tibie tible mineral 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