The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-20

earthly power, cO:LpelS them to eXer-
else their religious rights and privi-
| legeS in the face of and in violation of
the law; that they are prepared to, and
will, if required of them, sacrifice their
personal comfort, their property, SUI
Ter indefinite Imprisonment, and sur
render lite itself, rather than yield and
promise obedience TO the law, and
foregO the privileges they claim.
The Government can have and hold
but one position towards this people,
which is of easy statement: It's au-
thority must be respected, its laws
must be obeyed.
ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
The Governor states that the Federal
/ officers have been and continue vigil
! liant in their efforts to enforce the law.
The District and Supreme Courts have
been open, and dispose of business
promptly. From July l, 1884, to June
30, 1885, for polygamy and unlawful
cohaDitation, nine convictions were
had, eight of the persons residing in
Salt Lake aAd one in Beaver county.
From July l, 1885, 70 June 80, 1886,
three convictions for polygamy aud
! eighty one for unlawful cohabitatiCn
were had. OF the eighty-four persons
convicted fitty-one resided in Salt
/ Lake, eleven IN Weber, eight Ia Bea-
yer, five in Tooele, four in Davis, three
in Box Elder, and one each In UtaR
and Sewer counties. These cOnVic-
| tious have been had in eight ont of
twenty-four counties in the Territory
| In the remaining sixteen counties the
Mormon population is largely in the
ascendancy, and believe in and prac-
tlce polygamy as well as IN other coun-
| ties.
Temples have been built at st.
George, Manti and Logan. Here celes-
tiaI plural marriages are cele-
brated. Heretofore terms of court
have been held only at Salt Lake, 0g-
| den, Provo and Beaver As the con-
dition of business will permit, the
! Governor states be will provide for
| terms Of court to be held at st. George,
Manti and Logan. He further says
that "whIle vigor has been shown in
the prosecution of offenders, tbs court
will suspend judgment and allow the
convicted party to go free, If ne will
promise in the future to obey the law. !"
/ He also refers to his visit to the keni-
| Tertiary shortly after reachiugthe Ter
ritory, when the hope OF clemency was
held out to those convicted of pOlyg-
amy and unlawful cohabitation who
would promise to obey the law in the
future, but not one accepted the offer.
To secure a more satisfactory en-
| forcement of the laws in Utah, he re-
commends that the United States Mar
shall be paid salary of 5000, and ali
fees be abolished. He recommends one
deputy at y 900, one at 81 800, and that
ali other deputies be paid il per day
while employed. The Governor, JUS
tees of the Supreme Court, and Dis
trict Attorney, to be constituted a
board who will designate the number
of deputies to be employed. The Gov
ernOr earnestly SAYS: ut must be re-
membered always, in considering mat
tiers concerning Utah, the unusual and
extraordinary conditions prevailing,
population of nearly 100, 600 hostile to
the law and animated with religious
feIvOr, to resist and defeat its enforce
ment." Thus the ordinary methods
which would in other places be suffi-
cient, utterly fail here. The Marshal
and deputies should be men of
the best character. Their duties are
onerOuS. Such men should be well
paid. The Governor says: II know of
no armed organization for resistance
to the laws, nor do l believe that any
exists, and no physical resistance has
DCCA OAC4CO W l4I NLAOANCIlCAL VI Iut
laws, but the hostility Of the people,
and the bitterness engendered by the
situation, and the prospect of further
stringent legislation presents a sit
uatiOn where violence and outbreak
might be easily provoked. In the alb
senCe Of q militia, even with authority
OF law for its organization under the
unfavOrable conditions existing, I
would recommend that a strong and
sufficient force Of troops be kept in
garrison in the Territory, and such
laws be passed as will make them as
promptly available to the civil author
tiles of the Territory tor the main
tenance of peace, the suppression Of
disorder and the execution of the pro-
cess of the courts, as if they were the
militia of the Territory"
Gov. West says il surely would be
wise to lessen the power and not per-
nit an increase Of the strength of the
Mormon people so long as they remain
hostile to the law. He calls attention
TO their sending missionaries abroad,
and expresses the opinion that the pro-
visions of the Tucker Edmunds bill
now pending liz the House to abolish
the Perpetual Emigrating Fund Com
pany will. if it becomes a law, prove
beneficial.
THE MORMON IaIMIGRATION.
He portrays strongly the manner in
which the Mormon immigrants are
brought to Utah, absolutely under the
control of Mormon agents, and states
that IN the past six years, II $50 foreign
Immigrants were brought to Titan.
The Governor also expresses the opin-
lon that the Tucker Edmunds bill,
now pending in Congress, ought to
In conclusion, he acknowledges the
Kindly manner with which he haa haan