The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-06-01

We gave our readers . glimpse Of tho
frauds pcrpetratod BY the census takers Of
Kansas in yesterdays paper; to-day We favor
them with glance at frauds Of like encrni-
ty in Utah. The Slavery propagandists and
the polygamists progress with equal steps in
their outrnges upon law and justice, in ex-
tending the ss,win relics OF barbarism''--po-
lygamy and slavery.
John HYDE makes the following statement
in reference to the Mormon census Of Utah
II is generally understood that when suf-
fcient number are located, frame q constitu-
ton that it is republican, and apply for ad-
mission, that then Congress may admit new
States into the Union" The FIRST question
10, what will constitute this sufficient num-
Der? do not think that there is any statute
that settles this point. The basis OF repre-
scntation was originally one member q Con-
gress for every 10000 inhabitants is
now diminished for every 9o,OVo. Conse-
quently, if Utah had 10000 Inhabitants, she
would be entitled to ono representative In
Congress. But other States have been admit
ted with less population than either OF the
above numbers. 1t remains, therefore, OPP
this "sufEcient population in Utah. Itthen
becomes an interesting question to know
what is the real population OF Utah. In the
spring of 1856 a census was gotten up at
Salt Lake City, by which the Territory was
reported to contain over $4,000 inhabitants.
They DELAYED copying the different returns
till the day before the delegates wore to leave.
As it needed copying, |, with others, was re-
quested to assist; and knowingly affirm
that the census is un outrageous, deliberate
and intentional fa.sehood. In u small val
lev, Cache Valley occupied by the "Church
herd,D and in whicn were never more than
dozen herdsmen nj any one time, they have
represented over seven hundred persons. In
the returns of settlement called Battle
Greek, they have returned the names OF por-
sons who were dead many who were then in
England, but "eIpected to come" some
whom know to have died in London; many
names Of persons not vet born, "but who
ought to be, and will be, by and by!" They
have also adopted this method in one ward
Of Salt Lake City, over the returns OF which
looked. The census agent OF another wnrd
also told me that he also thus exaggerated in
his return and that he was instructed to do
so. These things nm cognizant Of person
ally, end have every reason to believe that all
the returns were gotten up in the same style.
The avowed and freely expressed design OF
this ridiculous fabrication was to return
names for far larger population than wins
really in the Territory, and thus to make n
more imposing figure before Congress. To
the correctness of these census returns each
agent made affidavit but nfidavits and oaths
are small matters when the "interests Of the
Church, are at issue From the number Of
inhabitants returned in 1851, which, although
exaggerated in the same manner, but not to
the same extent, accept as the basis of cal
culation, and adding to it the natural increase
and emigration, and deducting from it the
proportionate mortality, and a heavy emigra-
ton from Utah, which the authorities"
have always appeared studions to conceal
at the very outside there cannot be more than
$4,000 persons living in Utah Territory. All
these even are not in the Territory many Of
their men are absent on missions in various
parts of the world many families represent.
ed rs being in Utah, are settled, some in
Southern Oregon, some in Western Nebras-
ka, but all represented as being in Utah! In
Utah, ii should also be remembered, that the
vast mass Of the people are women and mi
nors; that the men are mostly foreigners,
who have been in the United States only
three or four years, not long enough to be-
come naturalixed and entitled to vote.-
Many Of them have not taken the first steps
towards naturalization; and many do not in
tend, being willing to become "ctizens Of
Mormondom, but not at all inclined to be-
come citizens of the United States"