Letter to the Presidency and High Council of the Salt Lake Stake of Zion, 25 June 1897
Salt Lake City, Utah, .
Presidency and High Council
of the Salt Lake Stake of Zion.
Dear Brethren:
It having been brought informally to the attention of the
First Presidency that a paper had been prepared by the High Council of
the Salt Lake Stake which Bros. George C. Lambert, B. M. Harmon and Geo.
M. Spencer were required to sign, and which paper Bro. Lambert, at
least, objected to sign for the reason that it would stultify him, it
was deemed prudent under the circumstances by the First Presidency to get
those of the Apostles who were convenient to join them in listening to
a printed document which had been circulated among the stockholders of
the South Jordan Canal Company by the three brethren above named; and to
listen to a paper which had been prepared by the High Council for these
three brethren to sign. Accordingly the First Presidency and President
Lorenzo Snow, F. D. Richards and John Henry Smith, of the Twelve Apostles
met at President Woodruff's Office on Monday, June 21st, and listened
patiently to the reading of these two documents. Before doing so,
however, there were verbal statements made to them concerning both
sides of the question involved so as to throw light upon the position
of affairs and the causes which led to the publication of this report by
an auditing committee consisting of the three brethren above named. It
appears from the printed document itself that this report which they
made was rejected at a meeting held for the purpose of hearing it, by
