The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-28
FULL AMNESTY IS GRANTED,
MORsfoNs PARD0SED FOR THEIR
 PoLYaAM0Us MARRIAGES.
President Cleveland Foliows tho Example Set More Than Year Ago by Benjamin
 Barrison-satisficd with the Evidence

President Cleveland Follows tho Example Set More Than Year Ago by Benjamin Aarrison-sntisficd with tho Evidence Presented.
 Washington, Sept. 27.-Through the department of state to-day President Cleveland made proclamation of ann nesty and pardon to all persons who have been convicted of polygamy under the teachings of the Mormon church. The proclamation is as follows:
 By the President of the United States of America-A Proclamation:
 Whereas, Congress by a statute ap- proved March 22, 1882, and by statutes In furtherance and amendment thereof. defined the crimes of bigamy. polygamy and unlawful cohabitation in the terrl- tories and other places within the juris- diction of the United States and pre- scribed penalty for such crimes: and Whereas. On or about the 9th day of October, 1890, the Church of the Latter
 Day Saints, commonly known as the
 Mormon church, through Its president issued manifesto proclaiming the pur- pose of said church no longer to sanc- ton the practice of polygamous mar
 riages, and calling upon all members of
 said church to obey the laws of the matter: and
 Whereas, On the fourth day of Jan
 uary, 1893, Benjamin Harrison, then president of the United States, did de- clare and grant full pardon and am-
 nesty to certain offenders under condi- | ton of future obedience to their require
 ments, as Is fully set forth in said proc lamation of amnesty and pardon, and Whereas, Upon the evidence now fur nished I am satisfied that the members and adherents of said church generally
 abstain from plural marriages and po- l lygamous habitation and are now living In obedience to the laws. and that the | time has now arrived when the inter-
 ests of public justicesa and morality will be promoted by the granting of am | nesty and pardon to all such offenders
 as have complied with the conditions l of said proclamation, including such of
 ;aid offenders as have been convicted under the provisions of said acts; Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, l president of the United States, by vir- l tue of the power in4n1e vested, do hereby | declare and grant ayfull amnesty and
 pardon to all persons who have in vio-
 lation of said acts committed each of
 the offences of polygamy, bigamy, adul- tery or unlawful cohabitation under the
 ,olor of polygaunous or plural marriage,
 or who. having beerr~ canyicted of the violations of said acts, are now suffer
 Ing deprivations of civil rights, having
 the same, excepting all persons whC have not compiled with the conditions noted in said executive proclamation ot January the fourth, 1893. r T.
 In witness whereof I have thereuntc
 set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. = e | Done at the, city of Washington this l twenty-seventh day of September, in | the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred, and ninety-four, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and nineteenth. Grover Cleveland. By the President:
 w. Q. Gresham, Secretary of State.