The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-03
He Is Under Promise to Visit Salt
Lake City.
TIME NOT DETERMINED
WILL PROBABLY LEAVE WASH
INGToN EARLY IN JULY.
Mr.. Thompson Carried His Fight for
Walker Block Right Into the
Family of Assistant Secretary
Taylor-Question as to the APP
plicability of the 'Utah Act"
Especial Correspondence,

Washington, May 30.-The president
has not yet determined the exact time
of his visit to the Rocky Mountain
states, and his itinerary is not yet ar
ranged. He starts on his western out
ing early in July and first visits Min
neapolis. 1t is supposed that he will
go direct to the Yellowstone park, but
this is detail that remains to be set
tied. He has given positive assurances
that he will visit Denver during the
trip and has intimated that he will go
as far as Salt Lake. He is under a
promise to visit the Utah capital, dat
ing back to the time of the Mormon
semi centennial.
This is the third time since his in
auguration that the president has de-
cided to visit the Rocky Mountain
country and the Yellowstone park. but
on both of the previous occasions he
was compelled to alter his plans. Mrs.
Mckinley has long been DESTROYS of
visiting Americas great wonderland,
and il is largely to benefit her health
that the present trip is undertaken
1t is vet too early 10 say who Will
constitute the presidents party, but it
is known that he will be accompanied
by several gentlemen prominent in his
administration and their ladies.
The contest over the Salt Lake pub
'lic building site brought to the capital
the largest delegation of her citizens
that has been here since the old days
when admission was pending. The re-
suit was a great victory for b. ID. N
THOMPSON, who came on the field at
the last moment and made a quick dash
for success.
The field was already pretty well
filled with good campaignerS, put
Thompson carried the fight right to the
assistant secretary's fireside- He is an
old friend and acquaintance of Assist
ant Secretary Taylor, having been a
follower of that bright politician in
Wisconsin campaigns. Mr.. Thompson
was also acquainted with Mrs Taylor.
and he argued his case at the Taylor
House as we'll as the treasury depart
ment. He was aided in his success by
the fact that the supporters or the
other leading sites had offered no OBJ
jections to the Market site as second
choice. But he deserves full credit for
the strong and successful finish of the
fight.
President George Q. Cannon came
near renewing an 'old acquaintance"
with the assistant secretary while here.
They are both from the same part Of
the same Illinois country. Both lived
there in the days of the Mormon excite
ment, and Mr.. Taylor distinctly re
members witnessing the burning OF
the Nauvoo temple But the gentlemen
never met while they were neighbors
in the Sucker state.
Other Utah Affairs.
The Salt Lake delegation thinned out
rapidly and none of its members are
now in the city. Mr.. Thompson is at
4
Snow in Chicago, both on legal bust
ness.
The question whether or not the
Utah act is applicable to the District
of Columbia will in all probability soon
be brought to the attention of the su-
preme court of the United States for
final determination
The court of appeals of the District
of Columbia several years ago held
that the act does apply here, and pros
ecutions have been conducted under II
since. In fact prosecutions under the
'.Edmunds act" sO-called, are nearly
as frequent in the district as they ever
were in Utah.
The matter has not been before the
highest tribunal in the land, and many
leading members of the local bar are
of the opinion that congress never in
tended that the act should be of effect
directly at the practice of polygamy.
The issue, it is understood, is to be
raised in the case of MaXimillian w.
Falk. recently convicted of adultery,
and sentenced by Justice Cole to i'm
prisonment in the West Virginia peni-
Tertiary for six months. Falk has
noted an appeal to the court of appeals
but that court having already passed
on the matter. it will be carried with
out delay to the supreme court
Investigate Alkah Salts.
An investigation of the alkali soils
in the Salt Lake basin is soon to be
undertaken under the direction of Pro-
fessor Milton Whitney of the depart
ment of agriculture. He is now in
New Mexico, but will arrive in Salt
Lake City about the 10th of June. With
him are two of his most experienced
assistants, Frank D. Gardner and
Thomas H. Means.
The Salt Lake alkali investigation is
but a continuation of the work of the
same character which was prosecuted
last year in the valley of the Upper
Yellowstone, where much good land has
been practically ruined by accumula-
tons of alkali. Professor Whitney and
his associates of the soils division be-
lieve that much of this land can be
restored by intelligent irrigation, and
these Investigations look to that re-
suit He will remain in Utah about