| Show flAT J fl-AT THE WHITE HOUSE President Cleveland Meets the Protest Pro-test rs This Morning Anti Mnkes Some Pertinent Inquiries About Utah Matters Cleveland Pumps the Committee but the Committee Dont Pump Him We Have Met the Enemy and We Are Theirs WASHINGTON May 9 Delegate John T Caine Elder John W Taylor and Elder John Q Cannon the committee appointed at the Mormon mass meeting held in Salt Lake City last Saturday to present a petition and statement of grievances griev-ances to the President arrived here last night This morning they sought the White House and obtained an interview with Mr Cleveland Delegate Caine was the first spokesman and introduced the committee Colonel Caine Mr President allow me to introduce Mr J W Taylor and Mr John Q Cannon of Salt Lake President am glad to see you gentlemen gentle-men more especially so since it has been represented tome that you were nowhere to be found Colonel CaineI beg pardon Mr Priilint this ii i Elder J W Taylor not President John Taylor President Excuse me I am not sure I understand the sense in which some l terms are used by you In what sense for instance is Elder used Colonel CaineIn a Church sense you Presbyterians I think Mr l > resident resi-dent have a like term President Then you are the younger lTJ Taylor and a son of the President I presume Mr TaylorI decline to answer PresidentVhdn did you see your father Mr Taylor Mr Taylor 1 cant remember residentWhere is your father Mr TaylorI dont know President When do you expect to see him himMr Mr TaylorIn the fullness of time President Are you authorized to speak for your father Mr 1 Taylor I cant remember resident1Jr Cannon if remember aright your name and that of Mr John I Taylor are generally associated Colonel CaineAgain Mr President I must beg to correct a false impression This is Elder J Q C not Apostle G Q C you see Piesident Ah yes a son of the ex Delegate Mr Cannon dont know President Where is your father Mr Cannon 9 Mr Cannon dont know President Do you expect tosee him on your return l Mr Cannon decline to answer President One other question Mr Cannon with your permission though your answers heretofore give little hope of favorable results No man no goodman good-man at least is justified in withholding from his fellows any knowledge which I will tend to make men live better lives or be happier My attention was called to an interview in your Tribune April 22d with a Mr Cannon in which he was credited with saying HI told my children I would fit up my rooms to live within the Edmunds law I happen to know that like statements have been made by others of your citizens circumstanced circum-stanced the same who are now in the East Can you enlighten me as to the character of the fittings to which this Mr rtannnn refers Mr CannonI can not my relations are not such as to require selfdenial or mechanical aids to live within the law President The inquiry Mr Cannon is 5 not made from any disposition to trap you into a confession but simply with a view to use the information for the improvement of both public l and private morals here You may not know it Mr Cannon but there are evils elsewhere than in Utah which need to be cured Mr CannonYes sir we know it If there are any respectable or virtuous people peo-ple outside of Utah the special correspondents corres-pondents of our Church paper have never made their acquaintance PresidentKnowing this are you justi fied in withholding the desired informa tion 9 Mr Cannon have it not certainly as I have had no occasion for it I think however it was discussed in council coun-cil but no action taken it was generally admitted by the Elders or so reported the only effectual fitting would be a lock outside the key to be left with the Chief Justice enclosed in a timelock safe or dropped into the Salt Lake where as you know perhaps it is next to impossible to dive without strangling lresidentThanks on reflection it is i plain the same rules can not be applied to communities so different though the evils to be corrected are akin Your dilemma as to the keys however could be easily overcome here the creation of a Bureau of Protection with Dr Mary Walker in charge would insure their ab solute safety May I ask the address of this determined man for future reference Mr CannonI cannot give itj it would be useless as it is liable to change today resjdentWhat it has been will suf ficeMr Mr CannonIt has been Angus M Cannon of the Salt Lake Stake President Another President pray how many have you Mr Cannon 1 dont know how many stakes there are besides the First Presi dency and the Seventies President It would seem no exaggera tion Mr Cannon to say the woods full of them are Colonel Caine We have no woods in I Utah Mr > President we have a PenI I however which unless a halt is called will he full to overflowing President Is there any disposition Colonel on the part of your people to call I a halt as you express it Col CaineI I cannot answer President Col Caine these gentle men and indeed yourself seem strangely noncommittal and show a caution and L lack of confidence the reverse of com ltlimen t lJ Col Caine We have been taught it by experience in the courts Mr Presi dent where they make no secret of dis crediting our witnesses notwithstanding great pains are taken in training some of them residentIndecd j Col Caine I must I beg to be informed as briefly as possible as to the object of this call I Col CaineWe are here Mr Presi i dent as a committee appointed by our j people to present the within statement of grievances and this resolution of residentI protest I of the I was advised of the coming M committee and they were des I j cribed at the time as Not active polvg t anusts Are you that committee i Committe We are PresidentDid your recognized lead j ere take part in the proceedings to which these papers have reference Col CaineNot iq4he flesh PresidentDo I understand that they did in any sense Jj > y Col Caine I decline to answer President Col Caine this house has been thought unhealthy but it has never before to my knowledge been mistaken for an insane asylum Col Caine We wish to know Mr President if we are to expect the same treatment in tlfe future ai we have had in the recent past President decline to answer Good day gentlemen Col Lament has the I SALT LAIn DEMOCRAT arrived Col Lamont I dont know President What have you caught it Col Lamont decline to answer All exit dazed by different doors After Walter Savage Landor |
