The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-17
WESTERN MEN GET GOOD
PLACES ON COMMITTEES
RawIinS Added 10 Foreign ReIationS---keanS Is a
Chairman Others Well Placed.
Apostle Smoot and Ben Rich Complain of Many Southern
0urages

Senator Heitfeld today introduced
resolutions and memorials from the
legislature Of Idaho as follows. That
the field gun captured at the battle
of Santa Ana. Philippine Islands. by
the Idaho volunteer infantry be
transferred to the state of Idaho; ask
ing for the establishment of a branch
of the National Soldiers home at Fort
Sherman. asking an appropriation for
the construction of canal around The
Dalles-Celio rapids of the Columbia
river, praying for the re-enactnent Of
the Chinese exclusion act; protesting
against the passage of the Grout anti
ole0margarine bill; to provide for the
amendment of the constitution SO as
to have senators elected by a direct
vote of the people.
Complain Of Southern Outrsges.
Senator Kea1ns today accompanied
Apostle Reed SmoOt and Ben E. Rich
To the department Of justice and placed
before Attorney General Knox the
facts of recent OutIages perpetrated on
Missionaries Stewart and ZundeI in
Georgia Messrs. Rich and SmoOt
stated to the attorney general that
they had tried to prosecute the par
tiCir5nts in these Outrages in the state
courts, but five of the men who were
members of the mob are members Of
the grand jury and that the other
members have friends on the jury, and
il is, therefore, impossible TO get an
Indictment against them. A Baptist
minister from the county where the
outrage occurred called upon the Gov
eruor of Georgia with a view to having
the matter hushed up, representing
I 81. Of q,
county had been members of the mob.
The apostle and Mr.. Rich asserted
that the records of their office IN Chat
tanOoga were correct in showing that
so per cent of the trouble caused by
mob violence in the south has been
inspired by ministers of the gospel an
tagOnistic to MOrm0nism. Senator
/ Kearns. in experimenting their state
meuts. stated TO the attorney general
that the citizens of Utah, without re-
spect TO religious belief or party af-
hIauOn, were entitled TO the prOtec-
ton that the constitution of the United
States guarantees to every citizen of
the United States. The attorney gem
eral will send a letter to the United
States district attorney OF the district
where the Outrages occurred, calling
for fun information, and Messrs- Rich
and SmOOt believe the matter W1t now
I be thoroughly investigated by the de
partment of justice. Mr. Rich stated
that he had secured sufficient evidence
10 secure convictions in the federal
courts and has been assured by the
/ federal officials in Georgia that they
have ample evidence to send fifteen
or twenty men to the penitentiary.
Reed SmoOt viii leave tonight for
home. stopping en- route few days
! i'm Chicago.
EIyton Coming Home.
/ Indian Agent 0Iyton will leave to-
night for his home at VernaI
! @. O. Shields, president of the
. League Of American SpOrtsmen, called
upon President Roosevelt today to en-
+ Iist his aid in securing more adequate
protection than now exists for the
3 large game of the west. He urged
+ that an appropriation OF $4,000 be
made for protecting wild game in the
Yellowstone National park; that the
park be extended TO include the timber
+ reserves south and east; that the gov
. eminent purchase the Allard herd of
. BuGaloes and that shipments of wild
animals or birds from the territories
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