The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-12-23
SIX DEMOCRATIC SENATORS
Utah. Arizona and New Mexico
Will Be States.
Al Opposition to Their Admission Has
Practically Disappeared -Polysamy
No Longer Exists In Utmh--
Great Resources.

OF Utah, Arizona and New Mexico.
Its expected that the three new states
will send up six democratic senators.
The house has just passed the bill to
enable Utah to come into the union
and it will pass the senate at an early
day with very little opposition. The
house committee on territories, that
had the bill under consideration, was
nearly unanimous in recommending its
passage. minority report was made,
but it differed from that of the maior-
ity only in recommending that the con
stitution of tho new state should for
ever prohibit polygamy and that the
large grants of land to the state for
pubic purposes should be reduced.
As this territory will, in all human
probability. have the doors of the union
opened wide to her, and on account of
its peculiar situation with relntion to
Mormonism, the facts submitted to
congress by the house committee are of
general interest.
Polygamy.
The committee say that the Mormon
church will be G3 years old on the 9th
day OF April, 1894. l'olygamy was not
taught or proclaimed in the Book of
Mormon. Tho church long existed
without polvgamy and was about "a
years old when the revelation of polyg-
amy wns promulgated, two of the treee
original witnesses to the translation of
the Book of Mormon seeded from the
church after it had adopted polygamy,
and upon that account. The revelation
concerning it was first made public in
1852 and published in the book of doc
trines and covenants in 1853.
The formal abandonment of polyg-
amy may be said to date from Septem-
Der, 1890, when, after rigorous prose-
eutions by the United States govern
lnent extending over number of years,
the authorities OF the church decided
to fully rclinquish the institution. On
September 25, 1890, Wilford Woodruff,
president of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints" issued II
manifesto declaring: 1--WE are not
teaching polygamy, or plural marriage,
nor permitting any person to entcrinto
its practice. Also denying that such
marriages had been soiemnized that
year, declaring that the endowment
house was by his instructions taken
down. On the 9th day of October, 1890,
eleven days after the manifesto was
issued, the church met in general con-
ference. 1T was estimated that from
10000 to 5000 people We're present.
Every quorum and council OF the
church, from it's presidency and twelve
apostles down to the least authority in
the church, was represented There
were officers and members present from
all parts of Utah aud the country round
about. The manifesto was read to the
assembly, and by it formally and fully
accepted and declared binding forever.
Later official reports and declarations
of the Mormon leaders but confirmed
the renunciation in good faith of
polyenmy.
On December 10, 1891 the president
and apostles of the church made n
formal petition for amnesty to the
president of the United States, asking
pardon for past offensea against the
laws relating to polygamy.- In this pc
tition appears the following curious
passage:
In September, 1890, the present
head of the church, in anguish and
prayer, cried to God for help for his
flock. and received the permission to
advise the members of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints that
the law commanding polygamy was
henceforth suspended
Responding to this petition, Prcsi-
dent Harrison, on January 4, 1898,
issued n proclamation extending elem
ency to all persons who had since No
vember ], 1890, abstained from po,yg.
amous practices. upon the express con-
dition that they should in the future
faithfully obey the laws of the United
States.
mittea sny tbev .ra cnnet,a;,,aa q, ~.
lieve ..vyitbont do,h, '., w. "oe ,,osi,n,; ~ ne
thnt tho ;nst;t,t;nn of ,ni,.na,,,,, ,,on. -.
taught bv the Mornnn church n .vha;h na.N as as
of faith o., nr,cticc is Now obsri,,,ni,
slammed out and extermin,ta1 :,
The character Of tLs Morn,o, nao,,o
is declared, to be. nccordinr 10 le ampie
and satisfactory ar;cence ef tha ,,i.,.,- ~
best for thrift, honesty. noralitv so.
briefly and yirtue. other thnn thcir dis
pnted doctrine Of nolvpnmv For in
stance, ex.United States Marshal nver
who has resided in tho tcrritorv for
sixteen wears said tho Mnrn,,,, al ~,
observes his business obliunt;ons IL,
word is as good as his bond. and his
business relations are .lwars h;rh
toned and honorable. Governor Stepl.
enson of Idaho in his official renort in
1883. said: Paris has n nomlnt;on of
about 800, all Mormons. md there ;s
not n saloon or gambling honse or ~
other place where Intoxicating linnor
is sold, and this, | am told. is The ca So
in all the towns in Idaho where these
people have exclusive control"
Utah had a population In 1soo Of
2o7, 9oa. which had increased bv M.
vember, 1892. to. ea3, $50, only about
2,OG0 of the population were otherth than
whites. The total number of votes for
delegate in November. 1892 WAS a. 57r.
an increase OF 1852 over The vote ut.
the election the yenr previous, TIE
agricultura products are wide in
range and large in quantity, and in
1901 valued by the assessors at over
SIC. 0oo, 900.
The territory has about 3, 600 miles OF
irrieatinr canals In 1890 the irri-
gated farms numbered nearly ii 900.
comprising es3. .473 acres the average
size of the IRRIGATED farms being ~
acres