Show GOVERN GOVERNOR OJ WEST'S REPORT B D C u Oct Oot 80 80 The annual report of Governor West ot of Utah was wai published today He Be charges the tM Southern Paci Pacific o road with responsibility for dumping the be Cali Cali- California California California fornia industrial army upon the peo peo- people people people of Utah He says ay the tb expense en- en entailed entailed tailed CD-tailed tailed was wai about and unless the Territory is Ie reimbursed it will 1111 sue ue the Pacific He commends commend President Cleveland for tor the amnesty granted the recommends the restoration to t o the Mormon Church ef or If Us realty worth W WASHINGTON Oct Oat After BO givin Iving g an account of the invasion of Utah by California West In his bli ann annual report a britt brief synopsis ot of which has bai already appeared in the NEW NEwe refers reters to the Statehood ques- ques question qu e tion Great ireat joy be he say says aj has bas been brought to the people of ot Utah by the passing pasing of the enabling act for lor our ad- ad admission admission mirion ad-mirion mission into the Union a as a state While the changes in our social and political conditions condition have been rapid they ba have ve nevertheless been com com- complete complete complete and no voice is now heard beara In to statehood All AU political parties md lAnd people concede the justic e ot of it and are re now DOW working for the building up of ot the new com com- Under the state govern govern- government ment government ment we confidently anticipate an ax In- In In Influx flux of ot population sufficient te to t o strengthen our cities cultivate our ou r valleys and as ae a soon as a toe India reservations ar are thrown open for e- e men to completely transform them the Into productive gardens and aDd 11 thrifty villages and towns On January 4 1893 President BiK- BiK H r rison granted amnesty and pardon a aall all persons persona then fen liable to the penalties peDal prescribed by law by reason r aion of unlawful unlawful r ful tul cohabitation under the color dl or polygamy or plural marriage who since i nee November 1890 abstained from fr such uch unlawful cohabitation but upon the express condition that they should ebol d in the future faithfully obey ob y the laws Jaw Before the issuance of ot either the th manifesto or amnesty hundreds hundred of our oar citizens had bad been be in convicted of ot poly poly- polygamy polygamy gamy adultery a and unlawful cohabitation tation and aad were w r therefore under the to act of ot Congress dIsqualified Unqualified from rot vot- vo voting Ing and bolding office In 10 a compa Lively few lew cases casell ca e however separate pardons ardone had bad been benn granted but at the she tn date of ot the ranting granting of and aDd pardon by President Harrison for tor un un- unlawful an lawful lawful cohabitation few lew Indeed were wele penalties then liable Hable to the penal- penal ties of the law Jaw and consequently but few tew were relieved by it The result was wai that those thole who had been convicted felt that for tor some BOIDe e reason they bad had not been included to Ie lathe the amne amnesty ty and aDd so 80 o were unable to ID register reci t r or vote During Duriac the p past eighteen months month numerous individual applications for tor pardons pardon have been beeD be presented and granted ranted and the strain and and impediment of conviction Aa- Aa Je moved moved mond Polygamous practices practice ba having entirely ceased and aDd statehood having been accorded the Territory th them the seemed no longer lODger to be either or propriety in withholding from b unfortunate citizens the u right to remit regal remitter ter and vote Acting upon this taia ideas idea petition wa was drawn a- a and 1 Uj by We e governor secretary Qt ot tAle We t ft supreme court and U United tUa Stale tam attorney attorney ey and anti was wa by the t he e IP r presented to President Cleveland re- re r requesting questing quelling a full fuU and complete am tir and pardon to all person per oD w whether they bad had b been en convicted or were ware hen ben liable Hable to the penalties of f the act act act for toz polygamy adultery or unlawful bobs p- p nation under unter the color of or polygamy or plural marriage The President very very on the of ot Sept ber ber 1894 granted amne amnesty ty and par p r don as a requested end and extended ika Ike n provisions to all persons o at any time violated the laws law of the United States by com committing corp co comitting the offenses named 1 named ex t persons perlone who might have be been D nol 4 In the former lormer amnesty ity and anu ana felted bi-felted felted it Jl by subsequently eq violating the law Jaw This prom prompt t and ant very genera s action of President Cleveland has bas ba Ill th int t with with the tb hearty approval of all aU ola oJa of our people and Is 1 especially appreciated by hundreds hundred of ot our best beat citizens who were disfranchised and who h have since the issuance 01 of the amnesty availed themselves them lv i of ot the very vary Im- Im Important portent loi-portent duty of registering to vote rot at atour atour our approaching election 11 In my last laet report I recommended the 01 la laws WI returning to o the tb Churche Cb Church ot of Jesus J Christ of day Latter Saints Saluta commonly called the Mormon Church the real teal and personal estate valued a at which had bad been to So the government The people Of the Church no DO longer violate the J jaw prohibiting the practice of Congress has bae granted ranted them Ita and nd all ail the reasons r a on which m fm- fm te polled the passage pa age of ot the law laws law 40 d aUng ng the proper property no no DO longer JODie longert to t In the face of these the e changes It p ld indeed be for tor the to longer looger withhold this arty r from the people who have haTe It 16 from their substance bard hard earnings In the days daye of ot their J arty Ft erty Congress has hag v very r wisely and aDd promptly returned the personality valued at and 1 I renew my recommendation that the realty valued at be also aleo restored to them The T e ethe congressional legislation author author- 4 0 the allotment to the Indians In inee ee of ot certain of ot the lands em- em embraced embraced em embraced braced within the Uintah and Uncompahgre reservations and the opening lor settlement and sale of ot the remain remain- remaining lUg ing land lands as recommended by me in my last report will wUl prove of ot untold advantage and wealth to the new newState ate It will open for tor settlement mU mil- millions lions of acres of ot the most fertile and perfectly watered lands lande land and will fur furnish nish b homes for thousands of our young people who need no longer emigrate C the be valleys of ot adjoining states for tor locations The governor e estimates the She populatiOn population f tion n of the Territory on June 80 I 1894 at an increase of ot over i the census figures of ot 1890 1899 The on of ot Salt Lake Cit City is given Is isMS isan MS He reports the assessed led val val- valuation val valuation of the Territory for 1894 to be as f Beal Real property improvements te 1981 Q property pert railroads railroad tele- tele telegraphs telegraphs graphs and aDd telephones t total tal The assessed valuAtion valuation Ion of live Uve stock is II stated to be Horses Hones and mules cattle sheep |