Show DELEGATE CAINES statement to the chief executive UTAH A explanation only an impartial administration of the laws Is asked t on the ath instant hon john T caine delegate to congress addressed the following letter to president cleveland it speaks for itself HOUSE OF TJ S D C dec SIR since our conversation of this morning additional sensational state ments have beeri sent from omaha and washington and throughout the east which are so false such outrageous misrepresentations of the facts in regard to the actual situation in utah that I 1 am constrained bolay tolay before buthe truth the adjutant generalou Gener alof tho army apparently authorizes the statement anzilie attorney general havo received reports from the governor united states marshal and other officials there to tho effect that the dia position the cormons mormons df that demonstrations are being made of a threatening character and that the slightest accident is liable to cause a riot in which abo residences and offices of abo united states judges district attorney and other officials may be mobbed and perhaps personal violence attempted the police of the city are all cormons mormons Mor mons and a great part of tho military garrison has been sent to wyoming where the anti chinese riots occurred it was thought bast to take reasonable precautions and so the troops at omaha leave been sent to salt lake and will camp in the neighborhood of the city eo as to bo available in outbreak you sir and your constitutional advisers have been deceived by de sien iut men who seek to create in the east the impression that the mormon people are unruly and turbulent the ordering of additional troops to utah is the result of a deliberate attempt on the part of the republican united states officials to create the that there is danger of a mormon outbreak the object of this is first to make it difficult for adem erratic administration to remove the second to influence congress to enact in the interest of the ring of desperate adventurers who seek to control the government of the territory orv in spite of the fact that they constitute an portion of the population and have no interest in the maternal mat erfal welfare of the hulk of the people the cormons mormons have been subjected to a systematic attempt to goad them to some hostile net the federal judiciary has persistently ruled so as to blifeld disreputable uon cormons mormons from punishment for len d and lacia ous conduct while cormons mormons have been prosecuted with the utmost rillor for unlawful cohabitation under the so called edmunda act which makes it a crime for men to cohabit with more than one woman 1 lie clinef justice of the territory and a majority of the courts have held that alie edmunds law applies only to cormons mormons Mor mons and a man who was arrested on a charge of debauching debau ching his sister in law was discharged by chief justice zana on the ground that the edmunds law was not in tended to be a general corrective of morals when a deputy marshal a married man was arrested by alie police citron the charge of lewd and lascivious conduct with a judge zane on habeas corpus proceedings promptly dismissed the accused of on the ground that adultery and fornication was not lewd and lascivious conduct unless it was practiced in public on the other band when prominent cormons mormons who had separated epa rated them wires from their plural wavea imme j dia tely on the passage of the edmunds law anda had honestly en deavo red to obey the law were in djulca for asked lor alie right to prove that they had not hud o 0 intercourse with their wires chief ruled that evidence waa immaterial and irrelevant that they had publicly abandoned their plural kivee ihly ere cuilty of holding them out as their wives which constituted the of unlawful habitation under the edmunds law it mattered not that in o 0 entire history of civil and lure no englith or american court had efer held that cohabitation meant than sexual intercourse the cormons mormons had to go to jail because hoy did hoi publicly renounce their plural wives in the execution of the edmunds utmost latitude baa bean div a to he marshal anahis deputies domiciliary visita have b aeo common and spica and informers have been encouraged to apty pty their infamous trade b when a reputable a gratuitous insult by a deputy marshalen Mar shalon he he was fined by judge sent to jail for five daya on the untruthful hargo of attempting to intimidate an officer of hie court on the nighton of november a young mormon named macmur ran meeting by chance a marshal named collin in an alley collision occurred wherein the and received a proba bay fatal wound ed lately t was telegraphed land hat mcmurrin and two other cormons mormons had waylaid collin and attempted to assassinate sas sinate him and that gollin shot ono and drove lua other assailants away the only truth in ehte story is that mcmurrin and collin medby accident in alie dark in a narrow alley and the former was i j U 4 ht alie stories about the attempts to lynch collin and the gathering of cormons mormons for that purpose and the necessity for placing collin in the hands of the military for protection are altogether false tho sensational reports telegraphed from omaha about a mob koine to fort douglas and demanding collin are manufactured for a purpose they are without any foundation in fact whatever preposterous there is no necessity whatever for the presence of additional troops in salt lake city or in utah you sir well your advisers have been imposed upon by governor marray and marshal ireland their representations aro maliciously false the mormon understand that every effort has been and 19 leaine made by characterless federal officials to provoke an eidt the cormons mormons know they loulu doing them selves irreparable anju y by attempting violence or other unlawful act and they have not under the most intolerant and conduct of federal officials disturbed the peace or in any way resisted the execution of the laws the cormons mormons ask only an impartial admi of the laws and just treatment by the federal govern ment they havo appealed to the supreme court of the united states aal are patiently awaiting a decision by that bieh tribunal on the rulings 0 judge zane they believe that his extraordinary interpretation of the law will be rebuked the cormons mormons do not object to the presence of the troops in their midst they do object however to the send ing of troops upon false pretenses pretences they object to being misrepresented and set before the world defiant turbulent and given to mob I 1 when all their history proves to the contrary those who have demanded and secured reinforcements to be sent to fort have not been ani by an honest purpose but with the objector of annoying eible of roa ditis the cormons mormons to vio lence the cormons mormons insist that the reasons for sending arditi to salt lake city are false most outrageously false very respectfully jons T CAINE to the president |