Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-05-08

Territory, appealed from the Third
Judicial District of the Territory Of
Idaho, commonly known as the
Idaho test oath case. a synopsis
of this decision has heretofore been
given in the NEWS, and il is not
necessary to give it here. For his
torical purposes, however, it win be
preserved entire in the DEsEREE-
WEEKLY.
Appendix b is comprised Of ex-
tracts from reports rendered to the
Interior Department by the Utah
Commission and Governors West
and Thomas The account of the
registration and election Of 1857, as
given in the majority report that
year Of the Utah Commission, is re-
produced, as is a portion Of the ma
jority report Of the same body for
1859, which sims 10 convey the i'm
preston that the Church OF Jesus
Christ OF Latter-day Saints is an or
ganized conspiracy against the laws
and institutions Of the country. That
portion OF Governor Vests report
for 1857, which gives an account of
the CONES pondence relative TO the
constitutional convention OF lSST,
which took place between John r.
WisGer, chairman Of the Peoples
Territorial Central Committee, and
J. B. Rosborough, chairman Of the
Central Committee Of the Demo
cratic Party Of Utah, the chairman
and members Of the Territorial Re
publican Committee, and J. L.
Rawlins, chairman of the Demo-
cratic Club, is also reproduced. All
this appeared in the NEWS at the
time.
a lengthy extract from the
report of Governor West, for
the year Isss is given. This re-
port was published, we believe, by
only one newspaper in the Terri
tory, the chief ''Liberal'' organ. II
was so full OF MISREPRESENTATION and
falsehood as 10 be appropriately
suited TO the columns OF that sheet.
In the portion quoted by
the congressional committee is
contained the statement that
the charter Of z. G. NJ. l. provided,
as a condition TO become n stock
holder, membership in the Church
OF Jesus Christ OF Latter day Saints.
The false and absurd character Of
this assertion was shown in these
columns. A long extract from the
report Of Governor Thomas for 1859,
the most important portions Of
which were given in the NEWS,
closes Appendix b, and the aggre-
CATION Of material presented by the
committee in support OF favorable
action on the disfrsnchisement bill.
1t would be long and weary task
to attempt to separate the small
amount Of truth contained in the
conglomerate mass Of falsehood,
misrepresentation and absurdity
with which n majority Of the
House Committee on Territories
has sought to bolster up its report.
1t has ostensibly tried to show
what sort Of people the "NIormons'
are, and in the effort has outraged
the rules Of right and logic which
ought to govern in such a proceed
ing, by gathering information ex-
clusively from their enemies.
The members OF the Utah Com
mission who signed the majority re-
ports quoted from by the congres-
sional committee, and the iucum-
bents Of the gubernatorial seat in
Utah, who have furnished aid TO
the disfrancbisement scheme, can
not escape the responsibility which
contemporaries and posterity will
attach to the efforts made by them
to destroy religious liberty upon the
American continent, nor for the
consequences which may attend
those efforts.