The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-03-14
MORMONS In NEW YORK
Ex-Delegate Cannon and Delegate
Game.
Bishop Sharp Relates the Failure
Of HOar's Amendment.

EX-Delegate Cannon, of Utah Ter
ritory, and John T. Game, the dele
gate elected last November from
that place, arrived in the city this
morning from Washington and took
up their quarters at the Grard Cen
trail Hotel. Mr.. Cannon said to a
TELEGRAM reporter: 81 have come
from the national capital, and am
going home. | am not here on any
particular business connected with
the Mormon Church. You could
not apply to worse source for in
formation about Utah, for | have
been in Washington all the winter.
Mr.. Caine, who is travelling with
me, IS in the same position as re
CARDS Utah news. You had better
see Bishop Sharp, who, l under
stand, is in New York, and stopping
at the st. Nicholas" Mr.. Caine, in
response to an inquiry about Nor
mon emigration, stated that emf
grants from Great Britain, and par
ticulaEly Wales, were arriving in
considerable numbers every year,
| OA0 sllGtS LIZ Dehlby VI EIOul W rs
looked for until April.
HoAR'S ELECTION AMENDMENT
BAFFLED.
Bishop Sharp, though unwilling
to speak about the affairs of the
Mormon Church, was communicat-
i've about the state Of political
feeling in the Territory. There was
universal satisfaction over the
action of the Supreme Court in
granting an appeal to the Supreme
Court Of the United States from its
own decision in the case of the
probate judgeship of Weber
County. Governor Murray, acting
upon the HOsr amendment to the
Edmunds bill regulating elections
in the Territory, which was tackled
on to an appropriation bill at the
end Of the session of last year, ap-
pointed some 200 of his friends t.
offices which he considered vacant.
The Hoar amendmeng gave
him that power. But the ques
ton arose whether the offices
could be considered vaaant
The Commissioners who came tt
regulate the elections had not com
+ pleted their arrangements in time
for the August elections for these
) offices, and the incumbentS helC
over for another year because Their,
were no elections, Governor Muir
. ray made out over two hundred ap-
pOintments fer the three districts o
the Territory. all of whom went t
: the District Counts to Gust the in
! cumbents. In two Of these TIN
judges he'd that the Governors ap
pointments were valid, and the in
, cumbents appealed. In the third
Chief Justice Hunter held that the,
were invalid, and the Governor
appointees appealed. 1t was agreed
to make test case of tn
probate judgeship of Weber county
and the appeal came III
before the three district judges
, sitting as. a supreme court Of
the Territory. In this court the
governors appointments were con.
, frmed by two of the judges, Emer
son and TWiss, the third, the CHIEF
, justice, being adverse. Application
was made for an appeal to the Su
! preme Court of the United State!
at Washington, and it was granted
AS this will be reached in about
two years time, and as new elections
will be held for these offices il
August, the question is virtually
shelYed and the present Incumbent
will hold on. This result was salts
factory TO all parties save the ap
. pOintees, because the Governors &C
ton was a virtual notification o
the will Of the people, n. Y
Evening Z eIegraBl.