The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-25
THE TWO PRoCLAMATIoNs.

Salt Lake City, Utah, October 20, 1894
To the Editor of The Herald:
Dear Sir-It is desired by a number
of your subscribers that the publica-
ton of Presidents Harrison and Cleve-
lands amnesties, which appeared in
The Herald a short time ago, be re-
published for the benefit of new en-.
quirerS. 1t will have a beneficial eff.
feet upon a certain class of our citi.
zens, who absorb facts more readily
by comparison than otherwise Re-
specially, SUBSCRIBER.
In response to the foregoing, we here
present the two proclamations, emitting
the preamables, which it is unneces-
sary to reproduce, as the milk in both
cocoanuts is the amnesty portion. This
is Harrison's grant after waiting from
November 1890 to January 1893:
Now, therefore, 1, Benjamin Harri-
son, President of the United States, by
virtue of the power in me vested, do
hereby declare and grant full amnesty
and pardon to all persons liable to the
penalties of said act by reason of I'M
lawful coha bitation under the color of
polygamous or plural marriage, Who
since November 1, 1890, abstained from
such cohabitation; but upon the ex-
press condition that they shall in the
future faithfully obey the laws of the
United States hereinbefore named, and
not otherwise. Those who shall fail to
avail themselves of the clemency here
by offered will be vigorously prose-
cuted.
This is Cleveland's amnesty, after
waiting but from one night till the
next morning:
Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland,
President of the United States, by vir-
tue of the power in me vested, do
hereby declare and grant a full am
nesty and pardon to all persons who
have. in violation of said acts [anti-
polygamy laws of 1852, 1882, 1881 COM
mitted either of the offenses of poly
gamy, bigamy, adultery, or unlawful
coha bitation under the color of polyga-
nous or plural marriage, or who, hav-
ing been convicted of the violation of
said acts, are now suffering deprivation
of civil rights in consequence of the
same, excepting all persons who have
not complied with the condition con-
tanned in said executive proclamation
of January 4, 1893.
On receiving, by telegraph, the text
of this broad act of clemency. from
President Cleveland, the Utah Com
mission, by its chairman, notified the
registration officers to omit the presen-
tation of that part of the registration
oath which reads as follows:
And 1 further swear that l am not
a bigamist. or polygamist, and that /
have not been convicted Of any crime
under the Act of Congress, entitled
Gan Act to amend Section 1852 of the
Revised Statutes of the United States.
in reference to bigamy, and for other
purposes" approved March 2, 1882 nor
under the acts amendatory thereof, of
March g. 1887, and that do not asso-
ciate or cohabitate polygamously with
persons OF the other sex.
The consequence was that large
number of gentlemen who had previ-
ously abstained from attempting to
vote or hold office. awaited themselves
of the opportunity afforded them to
register, and they are now legal vot-
ers and qualified to hold office under
the laws
The great difference between the
two proclamations will be seen on
comparison, by everybody who can
read and is competent to understand
plain language. Harrison's merely
pardons persons guilty of one offense
carrying the smallest penalty under
the anti-polygamy laws. and that only