Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-01-16
EASTERN NEWS.
Gov. Murray Reads the
Mormons a Lecture.
HE STRONGLY URGES THEM
TO ASsIMILATE.
Something of a Warning Which
They Will Not Heed.
A TRAIN OF CARS CAUGHT IN
FLAMES OF OIL.
Thirteen Humans Broiled in the
Cruel Heat.
WILLARD WILL SPRouT AND
GROW AGAIN.
WILLARD WILL SPROUT AND
GROW AGAIN.
ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL

ESPECIAL TO THE SENTlNELsl
SALT LAKE, Jan. 15.-Gov. Murray, IN
his message to the Utah Legislature, said:
BY the law of Congress, approved March
%, 1882, this session, your honorable body
is made one of extraordinary interest to
the people of Utah and the country at
large. The manner of conducting cleo
tions is further made dependent upon the
action we may take. 1t is my earnest de-
sire that measures be devised that shall
meet the reasonable expectations OF Con-
gress and the country and the require
ments OF the people of Utah. We are ex-
pected by discharging our duties as
| legislators to write such q code of laws as
shall, while conserving the admitted local
necessities of the Territory, be an assur-
ance of our fidelity to the nation, and
satisfy the exactions of public opinion on
the questions on which Utah is regarded as
not in harmony with the other portions of
our country. Whether we shall do this or
not will depend upon you. With you will
lie the initiation OF measures looking to
this result. 1t has been charged before
the country and Congress that the ecclesl-
astical power, established by the Terri
torial statutes, held by many as sovereign,
would not permit the Legislature to pass
certain laws intended to be in harmony
with the national law. This 10 a fearful
charge, here in free America, especially IN
reference to o Legislature deriving lite ex-
istence from Congress, which is paid for
services by Congressional appropriations
from the public funds out of the National
Treasury. To silence so grave a charge l
will gladly cooperate with you in passing
laws that will retire the affairs of Utah
from the Halls of Congress, and forever
bury out of sight the charge that ecclesi-
astical power dictates legislation in Utah.
l am sure that Congress and the country
will be gratified to see that our own affairs
may be settled at home on the basis sug-
gested. / made an appeal to the last Leg
~islature to pass laws necessary to assimi-
late the Territory Of Utah with the
country. In 30 far as laws and business
are concerned, it was my purpose to avoid
the necessity of Congress extending a cor
recting land in the matter. The Legisla-
ture deemed it best not to act, whereupon
Congress properly passed the Edmunds'
law. By this law many citizens are de-.
MED the exercise of political privileges
employed by them before the election
machinery was suspended. Privi-
leges exercised by the citizens Of
the Territory were delegated to other
hands. This legislation was o warning
voice as to sovereignty of the Government
of the United States. Men who see in the
Government, or in those who differ from
them, only an enemy, are unwise. Such
counsel, followed to its conclusion, means
alienation. The present condition Of af-
fairs cannot longer continue in safety to
either the United States or the people of
Utah. / know that difficulties are in the
way OF many good people, and / appreciate
them. II it was is my power l would re-
lieve them from their entaDglements,
burthens and disabilities. Constitutional
morality must prevail or the nation must
fall. As representatives of the people you
hold the future in your hands. Allow me
to strengthen them in the right-stsy
them from wrong. When clouds are seen,
wise men devise measures for the public
good. l ask the repeal of chapter five OF
the Compiled Laws of Utah, because un-
warranted dangerous powers are granted
the church corporations; because OF the law
respecting the establishment of religion;
because 1t vests ecclesiastical courts with an
authority that may only be exercised in
the United States by civil courts; and if
for no other reason, because Congress by
express statute, approved July l, 1852,
disapproved 1t. Yet the Legislature OF
Utahre-enacted it in the Compiled of Laws
1877. The law Of the country having been
disapproved, Congress should not have
allowed IL to remain on the statute books.
I repeat my recommendation made to the
last legislature. Sheer justice demands
the right dover for wifehood. Unjust
discrimination, unrest, untold suffering
follow its denial. Every enlightened ar
gument favors it. 1t il denied by no State
or Territory, except where something bet
ter is given. To bestow the right of suf-
frage upon and deny the right Of dover Ia
IN anomaly. I earnestly urge that this
right be no longer withheld from the
wives of the Territory. In fact there are
no laws upon our statute books denounc-
ing polygamy, bigamy, adultery, fornica-
ton, incest and illicit intercourse as pub
lilo offenses, I submit that this is not
creditable to Utah. ! trust the Legislature
will not fail to place the seal Of condemna-
ton upon these offenses. Congress in
1862 passed an anti-polygamy Act denounc-
ing bigamy as an offence and prescribed a
penalty on those charged with the viola
ton Of this law. George Reynolds, who
had q plurality Of wives, was taken in ODE
dience to, and, with the sanction Of the
ecclesiastical authority, tried and con-
victed in the courts Of Utah. The consti-
nationality Of the Act Of Congress was the
main issue. After evidence had been heard
this was made q test case. The Supreme
Court Of the United States, in an elaborate
decision, declared the Act constitutional.
Reynolds paid the penalty OF his trans
erosion. In the light OF this pronounced
constitutional law. / submit to you as
representatives of the people of Utah that
you will be unjust to yourselves and un-
mindful of the supreme law and cruel to
those you represent in failing to pass anal
laws upon the subject with effective meas
ures for their execution. / ask q repeal of
the Law for the incorporation Of the
Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company
and the repeal Of ell law making