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Show UTAH CONTESTED ELECTION. Under the above caption the Washington Wash-ington Star, of tho 4th inst., publishes pub-lishes the following report of the closing clos-ing argument before the House Committee Com-mittee on Elections, on the Cannon-Maxwell Cannon-Maxwell contested case. Tho "ring" can now take up another subscription to bring the Giuend home: Gen. II. E. Taino r-Ioscd hn ar runient ycaU-rday before the House Cjininitteo on Elections in favor of .Mr. Cannon, the sit-t;UK sit-t;UK member. The points ho submitted for the cor-tideration of the committeo wen;; That lh miestion to bo deoded by tho committor was wM ch, if either, of tho claimants wue lawfully elected to, and at the saine time legally fiialilied far, the oflice of DclegHt" tbr tb'iTuriitnry of Utah to the House of RoprCFentntivcs of the -I'id - Congress. And tirst, h (showed that the contestant was not returned or elected. He received only 1,042 votes out of 22,91; volfs. Whatever might bo tin; rights, qualifications, or the tato of tho Bitting member, the claimant has no valid claim to tho sent in dispute. Ilia qualifications for the ollico are, there'oro, notmalcrinl to the controversy- .Second, tho Bitting member was lawfully circled. Tho vote wfl3 20,UG'J for George Q. Cannon and J ,042 for the contestant. Third, thy sit-, sit-, . ting member possesses the necessary cjiiftl-ilieulions. cjiiftl-ilieulions. Only two objections are raisi'd to his flualibcntiona lor tho ollico. It is alleged that lie is a polygamic and han taken the so-called endowment oath. lint l Gen. T. argued, polygnmy if proven or admitted, id not a disqualification to bo considered by tlio eonimUteo or tho Houi: in judging of Iho election returns, or qualification qual-ification of iU members. Whether it would or would not be it valid ground for an expulsion by a two-thirds vote, under the clause of the eon fitution relating to that subject, was not material to tiie pre.-cut inquiry. There is, however, no proof or admission of polygamy in the record of this :ne, even if ail trie dentil ions taken be admitted. In thin cowi'-clion tGen, j'liine argued thai polygamy is not a constitutional constitu-tional diniiiiilk'iil'oii ; that neither tho Stat" nor Territories can prescrilje or chriNgotho quulllieation&of representatives or delegates in ( ougn; that, of course, the legislature of L'tnli had not mailc polygamy po-lygamy a d :iquiiliiicntion to Uie ollico of delegate ki Oongrcsif; lhat if polygamy con d ho made u di-qiialilicntiou by Sf'ilulc, it could only b, Bu rnndu as a puii;fhiJient for criuie, upon trial, conviction con-viction nnd E'liteiico according to law: that no statute makes polygamy, whether wither without trial, conviction and nen-teiice.aditquulili. nen-teiice.aditquulili. uiioii for Iho ollico of , d'-l-gat mu L'oi.gre.-,, or for any other otliee; that l ie Uou-n alone eaimot pro-(cnbo pro-(cnbo a quliliealion tV,r meif,her.-,hir., its power being to judge of, not to create, such quahlicatioiis. A, lo tj, tu-a,ir-l J,ndowmeet oath even if talen y tho fit. v g member, of whieli I hem Is no proof tho trJiraoiiy clearly shows lhat ' it flo3 not diiqualily thojo who have taken it for ho dine olHcc; that there is ' nothing in it in the fca-t iiicotiif-lent with ' perfe-t loyalty to the Government of tho 1) fntcd blatej. Gnn.J'uino Kaid ho Imd argued this cHaf., n.ul referred to depo- Mtions taken hv tho crmtfthtnnL as if they I were admirable. Cut iiy W(jr0 uqL , ut a Mngleo'-posiuoii taken by tl() ,.OI1. t'stnnt in thii ca-e i compulent eviib'iieo. ' Thed"po-i(.ion he had tidien wltd Uikerl 1 without lawlnl notice, and objection M'as ' . duly made. All the contcslimt's ehajge,., i hei'ef'oi'", jM-,-o wholly uiqiroven. I |