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Show 251 "about fifteen." When Cliton asked, "How many would abstain from getting drunk, and...taking the Lord's name in vain? He answered, he thought not any." To t h is the doctor replied, "These were the kind of men President Buchanan sent to put things right in Utah."9 In Washington the administration was flinching under scathing criticism from both Congress and the press for i t s handling of the Utah a f f a i r . This was what Mormon leaders had hoped for and worked toward. Anti-Mormon sentiment had been so universal in the United States that no one paid much attention to the frequent, fervent denials of wrong-doing produced by the Latter-day Saints. But after the skirmishes on the plains ended and the troops went into winter quarters, many began t o question the government's motives and objectives in the Utah campaign, as well as the handling of the contracts. On January 27 Senator Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, introduced a resolution in the Senate that would authorize a commission to investigate the Utah difficulties "with a view t o t h e i r adjustment." Although t h i s resolution died in the Committee on Military Affairs, it was well publicized in the press. The same day Congressman Felix Zollicoffer, of Tennessee, introduced another resolution in the House of Representatives. It would request the president to submit for examination to the Congress a l l information he possessed pertaining to the origins and prosecution of the Utah Expedition. Unlike the Wilson resolution, the Zollicoffer resolution was passed by a unanimous vote. These documents, laid before the House on February 26, became a source of frequent criticism to the administration for t h e i r lack of substance. The press, too, was experiencing an anti-administration backlash over the Mormon issue. Although there was no clear-cut concensus of opinion in the press, the pendulum was swinging away from the president's policies and gaining momentum as i t swung. The Utah Expedition was being referred to as "Buchan- |