-- Mar 3, 1887
[Polygamy] By June, 1888, the government had confiscated from the Church property valued in excess of $800,000. The government had seized by this date most of the real property of the Church and then rented back to the Church part of this property. The Church rented the Historian's office and the General Tithing office for $300 per month and the Gardo House for $70. These rentals were raised to $500 per month for the Tithing and Historian's offices and $450 for the Gardo House. The Church farm was also leased to the Church. The President's office was placed in the charge of two marshals and Temple block was leased to the Church for $1.00 per month. (1)
-- March 23, 1887
[Marriner W. Merrill] I paid M. D. Olney for herding our stock in 1886 in full today $10.00 cash and $20.00 wheat on Smithfield T. O. (Tithing Office.) (Previous payment made.) (2)
-- Sep 9, 1887
[Heber J. Grant] William B. Preston thought our entire system [of tithe collection] was incorrect and unjust and desired a change to a cash basis. We receive $750,000 per annum in tithing and this sounds big but it is no such an amount, as it is not worth more than $500,000 as the prices are too high, then the great amount of clerical work and waste of perishable articles would cause the tithings to shrink to about $250,000 and if the facts were shown the great gov[ernmen]t of the US would not be trying to take our property as there would not be so much of it as they now imagine ... (3)
-- Oct 5, 1887
[Heber J. Grant] This morning attended a meeting of our quorum at the residence of Francis Armstrong. Wilford Woodruff, Lorenzo Snow, Erastus Snow, Franklin D. Richards, George Q. Cannon, Brigham Young, Joseph Smith, Moses Thatcher, F. M. Lyman, John H[enr]y Smith, J[oh]n W. Taylor and myself of the quorum were present E. George Reynolds. .... . Erastus Snow asked if he Cannon remembered that he did not favor calling into question the transaction of Brigham Young and that he (Snow) had remarked that from brother Cannons's position we virtually when electing a Trustee in Trust made him a present of all of the people's tithing. Brother Cannon did not feel that his position justified such a conclusion as Bro[ther] Snow arrived at. Bro[ther] Cannon continued his remarks and explained that order to protect himself he had returned the Church books and disclaimed acting as he did because he was piqued. Claimed that he could not influence the ideas or opinions of Pres[iden]t John Tay
lor and inasmuch as the general policy adopted by Pres[iden]t Taylor had been carried out during his administration he did not think he (Cannon) should be held responsible by his brethren for mistakes in the Pres[iden]t's administration ... (3)
-- During 1887
[Statehood] * The Church rented the Historian's office and the General Tithing office for $300 per month and the Gardo House for $70. These rentals were raised to $500 per month for the Tithing and Historian's offices and $450 for the Gardo House. (4)
Footnotes:
1 - Tungate, Mel, Mormon Polygamy, http://www.tungate.com/polygamy.htm
2 - Notes from the Miscellaneous Record Book, 1886-1906: Selected diary notes from the journal books of Marriner Wood Merrill
3 - Diary Excerpts of Heber J. Grant,
4 - Porter, Perry, A Chronology of Federal Legislation on Polygamy, http://www.ldshistory.net/pc/chron.htm
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