cullom-struble

Updated: May 18, 2025

When the progress of the Cullom-Struble bill began to make its threatening advance, my father went secretly to Washington; and a short time afterwards, word came to me in Ogden, through the Presidency, that he wished me to arrange my business affairs for a long absence from Utah, and follow him to the capital.

Frank J. Cannon - Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft

I repeated the promise that my father had authorized me to carry to the Senators and Congressmen who still had the Cullom-Struble bill in hand; and I emphasized the fact that because of this promise the bill had been held back with the certainty that it would never become law if we met the nation half way. I was watching him to see if he sensed the point I wished him to get.

Frank J. Cannon - Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft

I found him there, in the office of Delegate John T. Caine of Utah the cluttered office of a busy man and he explained, composedly, why he had sent for me. The Cullom-Struble bill had been favorably considered by the Senate Committee on Territories, and the disfranchisement of all the Mormons of Utah seemed imminent. Every argument, political or legal, had been used against the measure, in vain.

Frank J. Cannon - Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft