[sideways text] Rec'd May 1st 1888 ans'd [May] 12, —[1888]— [end of sideways text] PRESIDENT'S OFFICE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST. OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS, GIBSON MILLER & RICHARDSON, OMAHA. P.O. BOX B. Salt Lake City, U. T. April 25th 1888. Elder Joseph F. Smith, Washington, D. C. Dear Brother Joseph F.: Your esteemed favor of the 17th inst. has been received and perused with much interest. You have been very careful to give us full details of affairs ...

not been thus enlightened. We had a meeting with him last evening. Through having to attend a meeting of the City Council, he did not keep his appointment by three-quarters of an hour. We stayed together till 11 o'clock and then had to break up somewhat abruptly to return to our quarters or we might have been kept hours longer. We have made another appointment for to-morrow evening. We had a very plain talk with him. I (President Woodruff) spoke quite plainly to him con- cerning the position that you and the ...

had told his wife, however, that as they kept the best rooms they ought to pay a larger proportion, and also for any extra attendance, &C. He also intimated that if others had their expenses paid, he was entitled to consideration on that account. We repeated to him what we had be- fore said in letters respecting money that had been advanced to him, that we were startled when he asked for Twenty-five thousand dollars more, without giving us the least idea as to what had been done with the Fifteen thousand which ...

present method of operations will not result in accomplish- ing the end we have in view. He thought political re- sources ought to be exhausted before missionary work should be engaged in. Upon being interrogated as to what he meant by this, he spoke in a vague sort of a way about the nine Senators who had met at Senator Call's, and that they ought to have been kept together and more added to them, and they made missionaries for us, to convert others; and in this connection alluded to excursions which they frequently took and dinners ...

satisfaction. He evidently thinks, and so expressed himself, that money is the all-important factor to be used. Upon this our views were expressed with great frankness, that we did not believe in a money campaign; we had not money enough, we thought, to spend in the way he indicated. While money is doubtless nec- essary for various purposes, and might be used judiciously to aid men who are in straits, to use it as he proposed was entirely contrary to our feelings and we think it most impolitic. It would undoubtedly make the "lobby" hungry ...

he attributed his lack of explanations concerning funds and other matters. He freely acknowledged that he had not done right, and that he could not blame us, under the circumstances. Just before we parted he mentioned that he had in contemplation the organization of a National Bank in Utah. He said that he had had conversation with the Comptroller and had endeavored to get the privilege of calling it the National Bank of the State of Utah; but that for political reasons this had been deemed unwise. He said that he ...

can to obtain from him all the information he has to give, and to learn definitely what his future intentions are. With love to yourself and to all the brethren —Brothers Caine, Nuttall, Richards, Penrose and Gibbs—and praying the Lord to uphold and strengthen you and keep you out of the hands of all your enemies and from every evil, We remain Your Brethren, Wilford Woodruff Geo. Q. Cannon [sideways text] Commitee. [end ...

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