Show REPORT OH ON A PORTION OF THE GOVERNORS MESSAGE enosa portions por tiona llona of the governors message to the legislative assembly bly relating to political situation fc polygamy and anti governmental action having been referred by the council to the committees on judiciary and education the two committees jointly considered the subject named and on friday last by councilors councillors Counci lors wells and thatcher presented a report which was read and ordered printed for the further consideration of the council Counell your committee to whom was referred so much of the governors message as relates to tb the e POI pol political I 1 situation polygamy and governmental ern mental action beg leave to submit the following report were we not impelled by a ft sense of duty in justice to ourselves our constituents and all upright men meil to notice this part of the message we wo id gladly gladia pursue that most excellent and aud efficient policy of our honorable and intelligent pre decea sors bors who have usually borne with great patience and forbe forbearance arance grance treating with silent indifference the slanderous harangues on these sub ejects usually given at the opening of our legislative assemblies but the seemingly united persistence stence in yur lur forcing cini fini upon congress gon Uon gress and a too wo credulous public just nowa now false and calumniating misrepresentations in yur lur credulous public just nowa now false and calumniating misrepresentations in regard to the matters treated upon in his excellency is political situation must be our apology for deviating Nr in the present instance from those wise and end perhaps more dignified fied nied examples of the past gito fito to assimilate the territory of utah in eo so far as laws and arid business are concerned with the country of which it is and must forever be an important part la Is a recommendation we would gladly carry into effect we believe it always bas has been done BO so far as the labors of this body could accomplish it the first laws of af the territory were chiefly copied from the statute books of older and more experienced states and territories being simply adapted and made applicable to the wants circumstances circum cum stances and location of our people I 1 ean and bince since then our laws have been largely drawn from the revisions of the states of new york vork york kork california and other states abc abb ites and territories which command the greatest legal acumen and ability that the country affords aa As to bus bub business inesso where there is any lack or obstruction we maintain on the best beat possible authority it is not through the de delre ire or practice of the pe permanent manent and representative citi zens of oar territory but arises from the treacherous reports of a turbulent and unscrupulous transi toly element who seek continually to misrepresent the people of the territory to increase and exasperate the public publio prejudice against them in order to obtain inimical legislation from congress and otherwise disturb the general tranquill tranquility ty capital is sensitive and seldom seeks beeks investment in the midst of turmoil forced or other otherwise your committee are aware that official threaten ings and the invidious mut of self constituted political missionaries have made foreign capital timid and regret it quite as much as his hia excellency can treso alethe are the obstructions to business and much as his hia excellency can treso alethe are the obstructions to business and the only ones that thai your committee are conscious of if it were in the ow r of the legislative assem E bly ly to effect the abil abai abolishment hinant ol 01 such characters or ti 0 correct by legal enactment those vicious misrepresentations they would doubtless most moat cordially operate cooperate co with the executive in doing BO so with the confident belief that such enactment as stated by his excellency 1 would open wide the thle gates gales to cap capital t al nud and thrift to peaceable and enlarged industries and would gladden the homes of the entire resident resi reaia enu ent population iopu lation of the territory but your committee are fearful that legislative powers in this reject are ate curtailed the next point in the tile political situation is the recommendation the next point in the tile political situation is the recommendation to secure tho tilo full blessings bf of american citizenship under the constitution and anil its benign lawe awe how gladly would we and our one hundred and tifty fifty tao thousand usand uenta secure escure unto ourselves this highest and most precious heritage of our illustrious forefather forefathers si who niage it the proudest tiling in g in life to ho be freemen of the glorious rf public they onder under the favor of god established hed but sad aud and un erub hcan man no a it mey may in be lino tills blessing fg is denied us we behave have sought to be thus thua endowed trying by oui our loyalty in industry us and patience to deserve it t an ani I 1 have offered our prayers to those hose w who 0 have the power to bestow it in freedoms name in the name of those who vrho made political freedom a possibility but we have been unanswered let lot his E excellency xcell ency indicate how these petitions tlona tiona may be rendered more effective and we will join with him in another effort to be heard in regard to accepting religious fr freedom from the supreme court the di divinely vively inspired constitution of the united states guarantees the rights of cons cong conscience clence and we suppose the various religious establishments and denominations in the territory of or utah accept their religious beliefs from the throne of god surrounded by the courts of heaven and we know of no orthly o tribunal potentate or power that cab can ean rightfully declare what is or Is not or dictate what shall or shall not be mena religious belief upon the supremacy of the constitution ution we were agreeably impressed with the beautiful rhetorical figure the executive employs to express our reli to the constitution aud and laws he besaya says bays As the bun sun controls the solar riya system tem eo so must the constitution and laws of the united states control your yourak ac tins tinb and mine the force of this simile we cordially acAu leoce in the principle it but DUI would suggest to TO the me honorable non members of the assembly that for obvious teason reason having a bmw rn terrt members of the assembly that for obvious teason reason having a bmw rn terrt national reputation they contemplate themselves the melves operating in the paths of any nuy of the planets pianola of the system even the obscure ellipses of the asteroids rather than encroach upon the path iao flo peculiarly appropriate 3 to his hia excellency cel lency the orbit of venus your committee would be gratified if his excellency K it will ever ha be his endeavor to promote prof noto the best beat interests of people came with greater assurance but this his fair promise As hammerel ham perel with such singularly contradictory conduct that to expressly express lt it mildly we are dumbfounded it does not appear to your committee that the effort of his hig excellency excelia Excell ney ney ncy to deprive the people of utah of their votes cast for the gentleman of their choice to represent them in the halls of congress and to foist upon that honorable body a comparatively unknown person permon purporting to be their representative ia is with the expression of interest for their welfare eq couch couched so eloquently in his message to this hody body he has exhibited either lamentable ignorance ignorante ai a to the value of suffrage as one of the best beat inhere ts of people or is hopelessly lost to a sense of justice in attempting to pervert their xhelo presed expressed ex will in either case whether in assuming to know better than the people themselves do what their do dodro desire dro is in the matter of representation or in ignoring and despising their votes we find nothing n oth I 1 n to inspire them with confidence in i T his h Is professed friendship furthermore and in harmony with this flagrant at tempt to nullify the peoples peopled votes current reports widely circulated and not denied indicate that the governor in his recent eastern tour hias has reiterated and sanctioned the infamous ramous Ju proposition to de do the people of utah of or even the me degree of 01 american american citizenship ciu cit iz and freedom they now en or me 01 american ciu cit iz and freedom they now en oy to destroy the legislative assembly to whom bir his message menage is is ad dand and to create in its stead an appointed commission more in beeping keeping with the til e tyral tyr ai governments govern ninn ts of effete monarchies than with the enlightened civilization of our country if the rumor prove true that governor murray has so far forgotten the first principles ples plea of political liberty so dear to el erry byry pry american heart as to in any way countenance the above suggestion we have no heni hemi hesitation tation as a traitor to the best hest interests teresta in of people who m ho lie pro festes fettes to serve but we would rather believe le lieve thia thiis report to be bei a fabrication indeed from the tile patriotism his excellency so freely in his uia message we enn can scarcely entertain the thought that one who knows the honesty arul we enn can scarcely entertain the thought that one who knows the honesty arul fidelity i industry and peaceable character of people can be depraved enough to san sant tion so enormous and outrageous an usurpation of their heir dearest nights right your committee repudiate the tile insinuation of his hia excellency that this legislative assembly is not rep of the people benave we nave not come here liero as representatives of any church creed or religious establishment lish ment and would deplore as muchas much aa any one or an any Y body of people the ascendancy of or the dominion of pr priestly es tl v and ecclesiastical influence pr predominating ed mina ting over the minds of le legislators gis lat orb or the civil authority of the government we have i already buffered suffered too much and are arb laboring under too much oppression from similar causes not to bo be keenly alive to all such pernicious influences on the contrary arki we have come from the people of the Tenito ryas their political freely and fairly by a republican ballot our constituents are a progressive gres sive people who have thrown off the dogmas egotism bigotry and superstition of the past so characteristic of the self beio appointed world lings who assume to lord it over gods heritage for filthy lucres sake and hireling hirel lug priests who divine for mone money yand and preach for bire litre mahn maeng g merchandise of mens mena souls and who combine together to destroy the innocent and try to dictate I 1 to others what they shall or oun OUR not believe or practice had your committee the assurance that the governor is as free from such influences as al nie aie e the representatives koiv now assembled and people whose representative representatives a they are we ve would experience less regret in reporting upon this part of his bis message his tits excellency can however rest rests assured that in our opinion in no sense should the church be ulac placed edby by law over the state or other civil government although the influence of gods religion on the mind of man stimulates him to good the influence of gods religion on the mind of man stimulates him to good deeds to love his neighbor to ebi efi en neble nebie his nature to cause gim him him to observe and keep his official intas and solemn obligations and better qua qualifies lides him to obey and administer the law your committee are confident confident that the legislative assembly of utah will not pass a law concerning any church or establishment of religion of any kind bind name or nature for it would be an unconstitutional law if they should and an examination of the statutes of the territory will disclose no law of ot that character unless authority for chartering religious educational and benevolent institutions can be po eo therefore it follows that the assertion of the governor that political power is wielded by church authority throughout utah ia is not a fact it may be conceded that the officers of the tho church exercise exer clee cise authority in affairs 1 but not in the sense bense in which his excellency wishes to be understood what officer of any church does not exercise authority in temporal affairs Is isit it not temporal to build houes houses of worship to officiate clate clato at weddings and funeral funerals 9 to preach and travel from i lace to place to collect money for charitable missionary or benevolent purposes temporal to print and circulate tracts bibles and other religious publications to own and operate large and extensive book concerns tn ili thebe these respects officers of churches in utah as else wh re exercise temporal authority in temporal alo alT affairs airs but that sovereignty of the tile church is bup kup reme anti and its practices followed th tho the laws and courts to the contrary whatever that means is not a fact and for the best beat of all reasons namely because there are no nor courts contrary to the church neither delther iut lut indeed feed iced cm cin therode the there rebe robe be fo any hing thing ui of lual luau that kind kinu would be ue unconstitutional consequently ui lual luau kinu ue consequently null and void if we understand the political sentiment of people they are only too toog gial giad iati lail for the un ted states government to rule supreme exer Us its undoubted right and sovereignty within its constitutional limits sud aud authority for there are no people within tb the a broa braal A boundary of its proud domain who honor love and reject it more or who have more needom need of ane exercise of its protecting care in all of its great humanity than its citizens inhabiting these mountain valleys who appeal for its ita protection against the tile wicked schemes and machinations machination of such as are combined and actively operating tor for their overthrow and destruction referring to iu that giaui portion of hisek i cellen celien cyb cyd message regarding as and bour ram iu giaui i cellen celien cyb cyd message regarding as and bour ram bess sess ments tithing your committee beg t report that they are nit int aware that assessments for political or other purposes ses Ees are exacted by or from persons holding public office under the tho authority of the territory and while 61 voluntary contributions lu in nil nii ail aid of church or charity and in hid of po political I 1 it ical parties may as state J be commendable yet we can but feel that it might justly be deemed presumption on the part of the negia begia latUrell to attempt civil service reform by enacting laws evs forbidding assessments for political purposes by oy or from our general I 1 government of ficiala however much we may deplore the annoying effects of the system under chica this Is accomplished or however much we may way sympathize with those who are subjected by reason re asoh of their appointment by the general generis a government to office in n th this Is wor tor territory to such ass Ast assessed lessed exactions we submit that its not our prerogative nor ia Is it in our power to correct the evils evil of a party par ity system over which aa as legislators of a territory i we have bave no control whatever bep we therefore can only ex pres press soun sour our oun regret that such assess ments menta fr political ml purposes are not as intimated by his excellency cys messa message gei entirely voluntary bandiuk the insinuations of his excellency to the contrary your committee are not aware that |