Show irm i 1 I cau COUNCIL acil monday 4 the council met pursuant to adjourn nent but no business was wag done and after calling balling the roll and prayer by the chaplain an adjournment tilla tilleo today to day was resolved upon HOUSE monday house met pursuant to adjournment uhe speaker referred the various portions of the governors message to the appropriate prop rop committees A petition from mr thomas Snarr for an appropriation to defray expenses incurred during illness from a wound received while in service was presented and referred red i the committee on railroads were instructed ted tea to bring in a bill creating the office ice fice of inspector of railroads locomotive engines and other machinery financial report of rich county was presented by hon 0 corich C rich report of auditor of public accounts on the wasatch wagon road was presented when the house adjourn adjourned od COUNCIL tuesday council met pursuant to adjournment A A memorial to congress con gress gross for tor annual sessions of the le legislature was presented and laid on the table ta b e the death of his ris emeel lency governor durkee durece was announced when councilors councillors Counci lors smoot harrington snow and thatcher were app pointed a committee to draft resolutions of respect to his memory asa As a mark of bf respect to the memory of governor durkee the council then thon adjourned HOUSE tuesday house met pursuant to adjournment petitions forthe incorporation of washington gi ton city Washing washington on county and santa quin U utah county were presented and referred house adjourned till this afternoon 1 11 HOUSE jan 2 pm A bill for an act to provide for the protection of stock from froin contag contagious ious diseases was 11 read the first time and referred to the committee on agriculture trado trade and manufactures financial of utah and kane counties were vre pre presented dented and refer referred red Ted COUNCIL jan IS 18 A petition from the grand jurors of the third district court pr praying dying for a change in the jury law was presented and ani referred to the appropriate committee A memorial ta to congress for annual sessions of the legislature also one for an appropriation to defray the expenses of the present session were read vead adopted and sent to the houe noue house for concurrence adjourned till tomorrow to morrow house I 1 jan 19 house mot pursuant to adjournment coune council 1 l memorial to congress for an appropriation to defray the expenses of the present session was concurred in i council memorial praying for annual sessions vas yas referred to committee 0 on memorials hon peter maughan chairman of committee on elections forwarded a report of tile the num number berand and kind ot of officers to be elected by a joint vote of this legislative assembly the committee on counties was instructed to tak taud take d into inlo consideration the propriety of extending the jurisdiction of beaver county over the territory known as plute flute county and baud that of county over sevier evier gunty county for judicial election and ro revenue purposes taylor J F smith ardc and aud C C rich were appointed a committee to draft resolutions of respect to the memory or of the late governor G 0 durkee 1 house ouse adjourned till two tomor todor to bor dor mor row the following speech by y mrs ail miner r of this city was to have been given at t the ladles mass friday last but 0 wing owing to other enga engagements 9 indents its author was unable to deliver it A gentleman who happened to aee see it since then thought it too good to be lost we think so too and present it to our read ng they will endorse that opinion I 1 not being a womans comans rights woman or an anna dickinson I 1 feel some embarrassment barras in appearing before so large an assembly but as my chef of womanly excellence has ever been those noble women of the revolution Ee who sacrificed their personal ease and comfort and laid their hearts as it were on the altar of their country by cheering and encouraging their fathers brothers husbands and sons to battle bittle even to the death for civil and religious liberty I 1 feel that I 1 should be unworthy to mention their names or claim descent from revolutionary revolution ary sires were I 1 not to raise naise ra ise lse my voice against the worse v orbe orae than colonial bondage that bome some are trying to force upon ua us and for what because we dare to worship god and obey the dictates of his revealed will when but a little girl and full fall of the importance of ancient history I 1 remember asking a learned judge adge j whose pet I 1 was if the laws of solon bolon and lycurgus were f not the groundwork ground work of all legislative enactments his answer was no 1 little miss the bible is the found foundation atio atlo of the law in all chris chrls christian tian lands now tha the question arises what is there in the law of moses or the teachings of jesus that forbids even seven women from laying hold of one man and asking to be called by his name if ahey they wish truly that grand old poet and inspired writer must have had a view of the present time when he said baia woe unto them that decree unrighteous de ree cree reeland sand band that write grievousness which they have prescribed to turn aside the needy beedy from judgment and to take away the right from the poor of my people that widows may be their prey and and that they may rob rov the fatherless would not many a truehearted true hearted woman be v orse or thim widowed and her children dren truly fatherless if the originators and endorsers dorsers en of cramins Cr agins and colloms Cul infamous bills could but achieve their purpose while the hearts of many of in my y sisters are burning with indignation athe at he the author of this last named bill I 1 ow own n that mine is filled with pity for after having care cure carefully fully read it 1 have come to the candid conclusion that he never knew the happiness of domestic life or the purity of a virtuous womans homans love eyen from birth he must have been a lonely waif I 1 fancy I 1 see deg him looking from ills bis window at some bome fair young girl leaning on the stalwart alart st arm of a hale oid old u i d gentleman her grandfather her face upturned to his beaming with affection and reverence meeting the look of tenderness in return which his withered and perverted nature was as incapable capable hi of understanding but bub judging their t feelings by his hl soWn own he added with ah an air of triumph the paragraph gnp no apman wpm an shall shail marry marny her hgr own grandfather X I 1 must mus tsay say that section would id do for the comic blackstone and now to C congress ong resal will you deny to us the descendants of the pilgrim fathers the rights for which they forsook honors and wealth in their native land and endured the hardships of pioneers life br or show to the emigrants within our borders who have since fled from the he old world our constitution is a sham and our oun boasted liberty a lie we trust not let senators and representatives and all our would be benefactors know that wethe daughters of zion uphold our brethren by our pur faith and prayers that we have no wrongs for the outside world to right we W need no champion nor will we ac dept of onel we have endured privations forced upon us by yourselves and have not feared them we found utah utah a desert 1 and if nece neoe necessity asty require it we have the courage to leave eave it so |