| 114 quorum record the names and issue license to those seventies acting under the ordination referred to in the Reorganization.-The Saints' Herald, vol. 22, p. 592.
The committee on location reported. Their report was accepted and committee continued. Their report was as follows:
Your committee report that no decisive consideration has been had by them; but that as soon as practicable they will consult, and report progress at as early a day as they can. J. Smith, W. W. Blair, J. H. Lake, I. L. Rogers, David Dancer, Committee.-The Saint' Herald, vol. 22, p. 593.
The Second Quorum of Elders reported that they had received into their quorum Elders F. C. Warnky, Solomon Thomas, and Solomon Salisbury.
Elders H. J. Hudson, P. Cadwell, and J. W. Briggs were appointed a committee to draft a memorial to Congress.
After consultation the committee reported, asking for an extension of time until December 1, then to submit their work to the First Presidency for approval before presenting to Congress. The report was received, plan adopted, and time granted. This memorial was subsequently prepared, approved, and sent to Congress, reading as follows:
MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS.
From a committee of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, petitioning Congress to inaugurate more decisive measures in the suppression of misrule and tyranny in Utah: setting forth, with documentary evidence, that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints does in no wise favor the criminal policy of Brigham Young, etc., etc., etc.
To their Excellencies, the President and Vice-president; and the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives, of the United States, in Congress Assembled:
At the semiannual conference of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, held at Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the eighth day of September, 1875, the following resolution was adopted:
"Resolved, That Phineas Cadwell, H. J. Hudson, and Jason W. Briggs be hereby appointed a committee to draft a petition for the consideration of this conference, asking Congress to inaugurate more decisive measures in the suppression of misrule and tyranny in Utah, embodying such statements of fact and documentary evidence as the interests of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints demand; that
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