[William Clayton Journal] Met the Council of Fifty at the Seventies Hall. Elders [Samuel] Bent [Alpheus] Cutler and [Reynolds] Cahoon presented their lists of families selected by them to go west. They have each got their companies nearly made up of one hundred families each. Pres. Young also appointed S[hadrach] Roundy, J[oseph] Fielding, C[ornelius] P. Lott, P[eter] Haws and Daniel Spencer to select and organize each a company. Isaac Morley has got his company about full. While in Council report was brought in that two officers had just rode into town and had come to the Mansion. President Young sent B. F. Johnson to find out what they were after. He soon returned and stated that they called for liquor but could get none. They then went to [John] Packs but could get none there. They finally got some at [Benjamin L.] Clapps and then went off in different directions. Word was brought in that an armed company were outside the City. President Young sent C[harles] C. Rich to se
e what they wanted. He soon returned and reported that Gen. [John J.] Hardin, Judge [Stephen A.] Douglas and the troops had arrived on the Square near the Temple, and that Douglas was at Elder Taylor's wanting to see the Twelve or the authorities of the place. The Council was immediately adjourned and the Twelve with one or two others went over to Elder Taylors...P.M. at the OfFice recording minutes of the Council of Fifty.
[source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
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