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[p. 2] ; column 2 ; 17 ¾ col. in. ; Hon. John Bidwell has asked the House of Representatives to station a large militia in Utah to keep affairs in order. A summary of the conditions of the Mormons in Utah from M.B. Hazen: they have increased in number to 100,000 and their government could be described as a "Theocratic Despotism." The people are tightly controlled by their leaders and the farms are operated in a closed system of agriculture. The federal government needs to strengthen its authority in Utah and increase friendly relations.

[p. 1] ; column 1 ; 25 col. in. ; Continued from 7 Jan 1852. A report of Chief Justice Lemuel G. Bandebergh, Judge Perry A. Brocchus, and Secretary B.D. Harris, of Utah, concludes that Governor Young had disrupted the balance of power in Utah by influencing the judicial and legislative branches with his position as President of the Mormon Church. He is also accused of embezzling twenty thousand dollars and of threatening bodily harm to the Secretary of Utah. Polygamy is openly avowed and practiced in the territory. Many Gentiles "have been sentenced, for trivial offences, to two, five, or ten years of labor upon the public highways, with ball and chain to their legs, with no shelter at night but caverns dug in the earth by their own hands."