Show congressional items the senate on the uit ratified th the treaty made and entered into between mr seward and the british minister lord lyons for the suppression of the african me veve trade on the a resolution was adopted in in the house of representatives instructing inting ic ting the iha committee on judiciary to inquire iiii lre ire into the expediency e ency ercy ency of cf pu punishing contra contractors c found und guilty of defrauding the govern government menty the s age ame yme ime a as 11 persons are arc punished hd convicted of grani grant grand larceny larmy should a law of that kind be passed and carried into execution there would soon boon be a host of government convicts to be 1 iro ro eded for in ili some way other than by imprisonment as all he the prisons in the country would not be sufficient to bold them the same day abill abili to prevent and punish the practice 0 of polygamy and 1 to amend amena certain acts of the teri of utah 1 establishing the same 21 what statutes sta atutes were referred to ili in the bill which was the same as the one introduced during 0 the first slon of the thatty sixth congress by mr hir morrill of vermont no attorney nor lawmaker law lair maker in lri irl utah knows as no such acts have ever been passed by the legislative assembly mr morrill orrill the author of the bill had probably at some somme time read some portions of the statutes of noses moses and from lack of know ledge t had mistaken theda theja the bible hible ible in which those laws are contained for the statutes utes of the territory tf of utah and neither the committee on territories nor other members of congress had sufficient biblical lib lical learning to correct him some of the senators may per clance be better informed in relation to the matter and the blunder may be correct corrected etl ett by an amendment in the event action Js is taken in ill that bodron the is exceed exceedingly in ly problematical |