Show washington WASHING TObi upon a bisone our correspondent jilts the mark an to toe the bill not belue being signed tile the utah used as a 1 pigeons bennetts Ben uetta and cans speeches in demand special Correspondence 1 washington feb before this reaches its destination the telegraph will nave notified you what disposition the president nag has made of the utah or anti mormon bill it has now been in his hands bands tor for six days and the wisest men are as of knowledge as babes as to the disposition that will be made of it by him the tact fact that he be is so long ions in ze returning turning it challenges the confidence of those who have persistently as arted he would sign the bill upon its presentation to him it must lie be remembered that the hands bands of the president are full so full that it is almost impossible for him to give as close attention presumably as he could wish to many measures hp presented for his bis approval c THE DELAY in the return of the utah bill to the house eveald even if it be signed gives busm us for one favorable inference that his mind was was not made up anthe on the question the statement has been made again and again in certain papers in your vicinity that the president would assuredly sign the measure if it came to him and that without delay I 1 have noticed a disposition on the part of your public to place some faith faietti in the reports re orts thus sent from tere here so lar far as I 1 have had opportunity of judging ing these reports r could not bedor unreliable and it is a matter of surprise that any credence cre deuce whatever is given them the history of legislation ol of to your people durier this session must nave have demonstrated tais this fact beyond a doubt THE PRESIDENT does not commit himself before beforehand hod on any question and his bis delay in returning toe anti mormon mormon bill is unmistakable proof that lie deems its provisions of sufficient importance to be carefully scanned that it is constitutional tut ional iopal in all its details is gravely ard seriously questioned by many whose opinions will and must respect among the most profound lawyers and in several details some it IL may be practically tidally unimportant to your people there seems little doubt that it is constitutionally wrong and fundamentally bad if president ident cleveland shall come to the conclusion that it trenches on established principles there is not the shadow of a doubt that he will veto it his courage no DO one questions and while A ALL IS 19 uncertainty etere mere seems to be a growing opinion that he be will refuse to sign it this t his is evidenced by an occurrence in I 1 the house the other day A report bad been started to the effect that the bill had been vetoed veiled and the state statement ran through the house almost like wild wildfire fird and occasioned a greit great deal of comment many of the members familiar with the details of tue the bill do hot abot hesitate to declare that it ought to be vetoed I 1 think it might be predicted with safety that if he be bill shall be vetoed it will wili nut not be passed assad over his bis head dead and I 1 almost feel like predicting that the president will return it UNSIGNED Wl whether aether however this feeling arises because ot an earnest belief that it is ia inexcusably bad legislation aud and a desire that it should be condemned by tle the 11 president resident or because of a solid leasol reason had better be left unexplained we are the best of us too apt to reason from our prejudices rather than to them it looks almost childish to suppose any man would dare to stem so wild a current as that which runs against all things that bear the impress of aina ll 11 but cleveland is a brave and honest man and has already done things fully as surprising hur as such an act would be the Le Leagur agures eh in tah do not want him to bin it even evenia Ev I 1 if the redistrict ing in and reapportionment of the territory shall put power powe nto their bands it will NOT PUT POT ALL and it Is all or nothing that the they want nor do they want the bill even if if every mormon shall be excluded by the test oath I 1 have been told that a gentleman roberts by name in salt bait lake ana and others citizens and liberals have declared they did not want the officers elective even if the mormons cormons were to a man shut out from the tae polls the reason reason being that the men in the mining camps would elect whom they chose and the leaguers who have foisted themselves to the front trout would be cut out if they do not have the absolute control of the territorial taxes treasuries and offices by a power which is irresponsible and not amenable to the people if they in ia other words are to depend upon the suf frages of those who can vote this gentleman roberts and others I 1 am informed have declared they had a id d eglit tight rattier rather the I 1 MORMONS to hold powe 11 they complain of the one man power of utah they go to the country and raise a storm against it in behalf of the powerless miners of that territory and in their bitter hearts and craven minds damn the pos sible approach ot of ant am era that will see sec realized all ail for which they have cried so long lone and with such lastly lull lungs 9 1 a and nd with such successful results A reformer r 1 1 r mer in this age is a peculiar animal he like one man power because itis it is not the power of his creation with all appointive power ower in hands bands of a governor who abo hixi halls s from a state that witnesses within its borders more lavy lawlessness in one week thau than has occurred in utah almost in its history these men who are fo bo anxious for the liberation of poor sinners and enthralled mormons cormons Mor mons all would be well but when it comes to dispelling MORMON by p placing lacing in ia alland all and mighty power the honest miner who contributes autes his fifty cents a month to the fund which was inaugurated that certain men might become the masters of these very miners who might enslave them the league leaders prefer a migull sight that the mormons cormons should continue in control there reformers reformer sl I 1 bah no young man with souse sanse enough to kiep keep out of anlin an insane sene asylum would ever desert the ranks of his father and friends to conspire and affiliate with a mob only in the desire for power and this desire which burns so fiercely that no principle and manhood might erect would be sufficiently high or strong to keep them from over leaping it if only oaly they may hope for power that can be used fir vile personal enop ends decent men can only pity the vain and ignorant youths 0 u who permit themselves to be aured lured away by such but when I 1 MEN OP OF MEANS and recognized c capacity ipa city can be ensnared it is time tuat they should bp taken care of f I 1 can promise and I 1 think with a degree of safety that there will ere a greab great period elapses esp be a revelation or re revelations vatious regarding patriots whom it were a compliment to cal call 1 mere scoundrels scoundrel st that may cause m many a 0 y an eye to open which has been closed close lose d I 1 in n serene and dreamy continence conri conti dence 1 11 nn name ame no names and I 1 am too clever by half to give any dates but the fuse to is lighting and there will be au an explosion stand under boys I 1 representative tucker is here again and has baa not abandoned his determination to bi bring ing up his bis resolution lor for a constitutional amendment I 1 prohibiting POLYGAMY there remain but five more working days for congress and the appropriation bills are away behind by a recent decision of the abair appropriation bills take precedence over other matters and the chances therefore of recognition by the speaker for the purpose of calling up individual measures is not as favorable as it has bai been it will not however be a matter for surprise if he shall succeed in getting it up and some action being taken on it before the adjournment tuckers chances for a judgeship for which aich be has been hankering seem very 8 slim lim indeed his anti mormon rabies has hag not helped him any there has been a great demand for THE SPEECHES made by ron hon B R T bennett I 1 in the house and senator call in the senate one member of the house not a mormon af amli filiater ater ordered copies of efte last one given give n by representative Ke bennett sa bs soon goon as it had been beds delivered while senator edmunds was talking inthe in the senate friday night senator interrupted him and asked if there were not a chesnut bell in the cla chamber amber comments are unnecessary WALTON W WOLD OLD |