OFFICE OF The First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. P. O. Box B. Salt Lake City, Utah, June 25, 1897. 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 ...

the stockholders present and others who held proxies of the absent stockholders. One of the views taken by the First Presidency and Apostles was that the High Council in taking up this case had perhaps transcended the bounds assigned it, as this was a case in which legal questions were involved, the Canal Company being an incorporated company; but this suggestion did not preevent the First Presidency and Apostles from listiening to the documents. After hearing them and exchanging views it was deeply regretted by all present that this rejected report of the auditing committee ghad been ...

wrong and injure the character of the committee by requiring them to sign the paper that has been prepared. We think this would be injurious to them, and two wrongs never did make a right. Our view, therefore, is that this matter should be arranged so as to correct whatever evil may have been done by the circulation of this printed document, and at the same time not injure the men who audited the books and who made the report from the books as they found them. In making this statement we do so on the presumption that the ...