may be stated generally, are as follows: To found, build, equip, provide for, maintain, and regulate, in all necessary and proper ways, industrial homes, boarding houses, schools, hospitals, and places for instruction, aid, betterment, and general benevolent and charitable purposes at Salt Lake City and other places in Utah Territory and elsewhere, and in which to promote and accomplish the fitting of persons for industrial and all other pursuits; also to teach, instruct, discipline, educate, and fit for the active duties of life all classes of people without distinction, but more especially women and children, in all pursuits and industries whereby the interests of individuals and of society may be bettered, and whereby people may be fitted to earn, each for himself or herself, an honest livelihood; to establish private schools and school systems and courses of study; to provide rewards for merit in any and all work done under the supervision, aid, or instruction of this association; to provide work and remuneration therefore for all persons who are needy or in want, and especially for women, girls, and children so situated; to provide and secure situations for such as ac quire efficiency in any industrial or other pursuit under the guidance of this corporation; to relieve distress and ameliorate suffering among all classes; to aid in every proper and charitable way those who are in proverty and want; to provide for and seek to establish among the masses a better knowledge of sanitary laws and care of health; and generally to forward and aid in every lawful way all benevolent, charitable, and educational purposes and objects whatsoever; also to solicit and receive contributions, to give exhibitions and entertainments, and to adopt and exercise all other proper means to raise funds and the means to carry on the corporate business and further and accomplish the objects of the association; to provide by by-laws for increase and maintenance of memberships of and in this corporation; and lastly, to make all lawful rules, regulations, and by-laws, and to do all other proper things to aid in systematizing, providing for, and carrying on all the business, and in forwarding all the objects of the corporation, and to acquire and hold real estate and personal property sufficient to carry out the purposes of the corporation.

The founding of "industrial homes, boarding-houses, schools, hospitals," and providing “for instruction, aid, betterment, and general benevolent and charitable purposes," not only at Salt Lake City and other places in Utah, but "elsewhere," showed that "no pent-up Utica" was to confine the operations of the promoters. Besides "the fitting of persons for industrial and all other pursuits," the "interests of individuals and of society" were to be bettered, and "people" generally "fitted to earn, each for himself, or herself an honest livelihood." Of course such a magnificent scheme, for the "betterment" of humanity, would 'necessitate the establishment of "private schools, and school systems, and courses of study," and all this would perchance fail unless "rewards for merit" were provided at the expense of the national tax-payers!

So comprehensive a scheme for general relief" for all persons who are needy or in want" might not succeed without a national employment bureau "to provide and secure situations" for those who "under the guidance of this corporation," acquire "efficiency in any industrial or other pursuit." Having done all these things, founded, built, equipped, provided for, maintained, and regulated industrial homes, boarding-houses, schools, hospitals, established private schools, school systems and courses of study, and distributed rewards of merit, obtained employment for those needy or in want, something was yet to be done, and accordingly the Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah must provide for and seek to establish" among the masses a better knowledge of sanitary laws and care of health.”

It is not my purpose to ridicule the Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah, but simply to call attention to the visionary charac ter of its projectors. No doubt the "several national organizations," which we are told are identified with and interested in the establishment of the institution, have the very best intentions. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the National Woman's Home Missionary Society, are without doubt worthy organizations with great and meritorious work in hand. And, as I have remarked, there is something in

the undertaking to relieve the suffering in Utah caused by the rigorous enforcement of the laws against polygamy which appeals to Mormons as well as to non-Mormons. If this benevolent work was not to be made, as it has been, the cover for open as well as insidious attempts to undermine our religion, I am sure that it would be welcomed by the whole body of the Mormon people. But it has been made clear by the advocates of this appropriation that those who are the directing spirits of this so-called charity are not only intent upon making it a vehicle for proselyting, but that they are unwilling to have any control exercised over the disposition of the means provided from the national Treasury. The first appropriation was made August 4, 1886, less than five months after the incorporation of the Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah. It was made as follows:

To aid in the establishment of an industrial home in the Territory of Utah, to provide employment and means of self-support for the dependent women who renouncelpolygamy, and the children of such women of tender age, in said Territory, with a view to aid in the suppression of polygamy therein, $40,000; said sum to be expended upon requisition of and under the management of a board of control to consist of the governor and justices of the supreme court and the district attorney of said Territory; and said board shall duly and properly expend said sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purposes herein indicated, and shall, from time to time, report to the President their acts and doings and expenditures hereunder, for transmission to Congress.

But the safeguards thus provided did not please these philanthropists. They surely could not truthfully allege that the "board of control" was not in sympathy with the alleged objects for which Congress gave the money. The governor of the Territory, the justices of the supreme court, and the district attorney were as zealous in the work of destroying polygamy as the most rabid anti-Mormon could desire. But because the terms of the law required the $40,000 "to be expended upon the requisition of, and under the management of a board of control," and did not hand it over outright to those who had gotton up the "institution," there was immediate and continued dissatisfaction. The "philanthrophists" who had had themselves made into a corporation and constituted themselves the directors and managers of a charity on such grand proportions and with such multifarious objects did not want to be hampered by men who felt bound to regard the letter as well as the spirit of the law. How could the vast scope of their allembracing work be comprehended by such a "board of control?" The founding of industrial homes, boarding houses, schools, hospitals, and all other sorts of institutions, including "private schools, school systems, and courses of study," and a national employment bureau, with an attachment for giving "the masses a better knowledge of sanitary laws and care of health," could never be realized if the Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah had not "free course to run and be glorified."

The evidence of the "bickerings," of the "heart-burnings," of the "unpleasantness" that followed has been spread on the pages of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. The trouble began just as soon as the $40,000 were available. We have the "record of the joint meetings of the Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah and the board of control" brought before us to show what?-that those responsible for a wise and legal expenditure of the money Congress provided were hampering this great charitable undertaking! I will quote the first two propositions that the executive committee of the Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah presented to the board of control November 30, 1886:

Resolved, 1. That a committee from the Industrial Christian Home Association

be appointed to take steps toward a formal opening of the home January 19,

1887.

2. That the board of control be asked to sanction the opening of two departments, a cooking school and sewing department; the latter to include appli ances for everything pertaining to family or household needs.

The committee was appointed and the meeting with the board of control took place, as the record shows:

Present of

Executive committee met board of control at Continental Hotel. board of control: Governor West, United States Attorney Dickson, Judges Zane, Boreman, and Henderson.

Resolutions presented by executive committee to board of control.

No. 1.-Laid on the table.

No. 2.-Laid on the table.

Wherefore this summary disposition of the propositions of the Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah by the board of control? The sententious "record" is silent. Does any one who knows Governor West, United States Attorney Dickson, and Judges Zane, Boreman, and Henderson doubt that their reasons for this summary disposal of the "resolutions" were not wise and proper? They did not deem it necessary to formally open the home with two departments, a cooking school and a sewing department, until there was somebody within the terms of the law to provide employment and means of self-support" for. They thought there ought to be "some dependent women who renounce polygamy, and the children of such women of tender age, in said Territory" available for the "cooking school and the sewing department" before they were opened.

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And again, in June, 1887, when the Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah had been for several months with an establishment running and wanted to buy ground and begin the erection of a building, Governor West ventured to suggest that before such an outlay could be sanctioned the necessity therefor ought to be shown by inmates ready for it. The reply was characteristic: "The outlay was necessary to insure the inmates." There was a temporary home, but the house was very old and inconvenient" and not in a locality with surroundings calculated to attract "the needy or those in want!" It was, forsooth, because of this that only "nine polygamous women" during the first year were in the home. And this number was secured by a systematic and persistent canvass of almost every settlement in the Territory. The Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah was nothing more nor less than a missionary establishment with its agents spread over the Territory attempting to proselyte in the interest of different Protestant religious denominations.

There can be no objection to the National Women's Home Missionary Society and other organizations prosecuting their work in Utah and using every legitimate means to forward their undertakings, but have these religious propaganda any special claim upon the national taxpayers? At bottom the Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah is not and was not established solely for relieving "dependent women and children" of Mormon connections. Such an object was a mere pretense. The design was and is to build up an establishment which would afford a resort for an army of women and girls recruited all over the United States for purely missionary work in the Territories. It was to be the headquarters of denominational school-teachers, lecturers, and other females with a "calling," and the "reclaiming" of Mormon wives and daughters was simply to be the means of opening to the projectors the Treasury of the United States.

The trouble between the board of control and the executive committee of the Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah was inevita

ble, and grew out of the fact that the purpose for which the appropriation was made confined the expenditures to a specific object-to provide employment and means of self-support for the dependent women who renounce polygamy, and the children of such women of tender age." The board of control did not feel justified in allowing this specific object to be departed from, and hence the "unpleasantness."

It is not strange that the gentlemen composing the board of control very soon desired to be relieved from the disagreeable duty imposed upon them. The capacity of the persons running the Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah to make "life a burden" for those who did not surrender their convictions of duty at their behest, can well be imagined. They had behind them a perfectly unscrupulous newspaper to daily misrepresent and vilify those who did not cringe to "the lash mercilessly wielded." The machinery for commanding public attention throughout the country was perfect and run by mendacious and malicious people.

The surprising thing is that Governor West did not sooner seek to escape the unpleasant and onerous responsibility which had been imposed upon him. He knew perfectly well that however conscientious he might be he would not escape misrepresentation. It has been charged in the Senate and in this House that "the hostility of the Mormon leaders" was sufficient to thwart the efforts of the Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah,

To have money expended in such a way as would most clearly accomplish the object stated by Congress

And in the very next breath it is alleged that

The new Governor of the Territory, who acted as chairman of the board of control, largely took charge of the matter, and by his rulings as to the construction of the language of the appropriation prevented the application of its provisions in very many of the cases where relief was applied for.

That this indirect effort to make it appear that Governor West was influenced by Mormon leaders in his rulings or in his "construction of the language of the appropriation" is unjust and unwarrantable, will clearly appear when the facts are stated. The board of control was composed of the governor, three justices of the supreme court, and the United States district attorney. The governor was one to four, and these four were and are intense and I believe prejudiced opponents of everything Mormon.

The insinuation that Governor West is in the least wise amenable to Mormon influence is impudently false. On the contrary, he has been extreme in his efforts to deprive the Mormons of every vestige of their civil rights. In his recommendations, and in his exercise of personal influence in this Capitol, he has been a radical of radicals. The fact that Chief-Justice Zane, District Attorney Dickson, and Justices Boreman and Henderson constituted four out of five of the members of the board of control gives the lie most emphatically to the statement that Governor West ran that body in the interest of the Mormon leaders. The truth is that the managing spirits of the Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah would be satisfied with nothing less than the absolute control of the money voted by Congress. They had a grand scheme to carry out, and with the national coffers freely tapped and flowing gold into their laps, they hoped to accomplish "all they had dreamed of." Their first year's experience was disappointing. In the language of their report, the past has had its rejoicings as well as sadness; its days of bright sunshine as well as dark storms." The 66 sadness" and "storms" came whenever the board of control inter

fered with the plans of the executive committee of the Industrial Christian Home Association.

But "sunshine" was bright and effulgent when Senate committees were listening to the siren voices of the lady managers and their representatives, the distinguished philanthropist, Mrs. Newman, and the disinterested husband of the amiable president of the institution. Before a year had elapsed from the voting of the first $40,000 the Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah was here in the person of this wonderfully bright and clever woman beseeching Congress to curb the functions of the board of control. Success was almost achieved. The time, however, was too short, and the board of control remained in power for a short season. At the very beginning of this session of Congress the same indefatigable and, I regret to say it, not over-scrupulous lady made her appearance and began her work. The result was the following item in our first deficiency bill:

To aid the Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah in carrying on, under its articles of incorporation, the work of providing employment and means of self-support for the dependent women who shall have renounced polygamy, and their children of tender age, $40,000; and the unexpended balance of the approp.iation for aiding in the establishment of an industrial home in the Territory of Utah contained in the act of Congress approved August 4, 1885, entitled An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1887, and for other purposes," shall be deemed a part of this appropriation; and the board of control mentioned in said former appropriation shall audit the expenditures under this appropriation and report yearly to the Secretary of the, Interior.

It was supposed that this would accomplish the purpose-the board of control being reduced as was thought to a mere board of audit. But, unfortunately for the schemers, the language was obscure—“the board of control mentioned in said former appropriation shall audit the expenditures under this appropriation." The Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah did not want a board of control even mentioned in the appropriation bill. It was deemed fatal to their grand scheme. What would it avail to have the national Treasury thrown open to them if a board of control was to supervise the spending of the money? Perish the thought! Their grand and general amelioration of the human race, the founding, building, equipping, and providing for so many different beneficent establishments, including a national employment bureau, and teaching "the masses a better knowledge of sanitary laws and care of health," at the expense of the whole people of the United States, would surely fail if a board of control was to insist that they should find subjects to practice upon before they began the good work!

And so another desperate effort is made to get the use of the people's money without restrictions as to the manner of using it. The Senate lends a willing ear to representations, some of which I shall presently deal with, and has put upon the deficiency bill the following amend

ments:

112. Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah Territory: To further aid the Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah Territory, under its articles of incorporation, in the establishment and maintenance of an industrial and educational institution in Salt Lake City for the benefit of the dependent women and children of Utah and Idaho Territories who desire to sever their allegiance to the Mormon Church, $75,000; and for contingent expenses of the association, $5,000; in all, $80,000.

113. The money hereby appropriated shall be disbursed by the treasurer of said association, who shall give such bonds for the faithful performance of his duties as may be deemed requisite by the Secretary of the Interior. All accounts of expenditures under this appropriation shall be audited by the Utah Commission, which shall hereafter act as the board of control for said institution, and shall make an annual report to Congress covering the work of said institution and its expenditures.