Show w wTHE IAnO DLL 9 RrjirestnlatlTo JIaninr Discusses IU Injustice Washington April 2The debate de-bate on the Idaho bill today had the effect of filling the galleries wit crowds of Interested pcctatora who patiently through the four ilours1 debate occasionally punctuating the remarks of the different speak ers with hearty bursts of applause according as the latter sentiments found corresponding lolo in their own hearts In Die discussion Ibis afternoon the Democrats bore off the honors The Republican put forward none lof their firstclass talent and the affirmative side of tIle quttlloii was argued by such secondrate men as Darsey of Nebraska Dubob of Idaho and Filers of Kansas Tie Democrats on the other hand were such brilliant orators as Slansur of Mkmurl Chlpman of Michigan and Smith of Arizona Xo better evidence of the relative Interest frl In tho debate could be seen than iu the rapid thinning out of the gal Icrics while the republicans were sneaking and tho sncodliieea with which it filled up again when those giants of debate Mansur nnd Chip man took the floor Mr Mansur spoke for an hour Hen He-n by saying that white he had no sympathy nor did he believe that any person on that side of the House bad any sympathy with the institution of bigamy or polygamy yet 1 find in this bill there Isa mode of striking at these offenses that i in rlolution of all the beto our doctrines and tenet of liberty as we have universally understood and enforced them in all times fOISt t the present time Jlr Mnnsur then sketched at some length the injustice done to tile Mormons in Idaho cin the pending Hoit II Ii 1 stated that the reason the Mormons are to be disfranchised is because they vote the democratic ticket Continuing ho said Just pass across the line an imaginary one as that Into Wyoming territory which you admitted as a State thn other day and while there ore Dot so many Mormons tIlere a In Idaho Ida-ho yet they are nearly all repub licanx and because of the wellun derstood fact that every Mormon there votes the republican ticket you let them oto and not merely that but you provided tile other day that their wives should have the right to vote thus giving to every Mormou and wifoin Wyoming two vote while in Idaho you deny the right to vote even Jou Mormon men Let those thing b understood as we go along Let It Ix understood that fO notaqutctiono principle Inyssllcre but is In every i en instance a question of expediency alone for floe rcjxjbllcan party I tIt t-it be further understood from forty eight hours alter the republicans began be-gan to think that they had carried tile presidential election of ISIS the whole political 1 world of the United States was filled with rumors of the new programme t b inaugurated by that party One feature of the programme was the admission of the new states t strengthen the part in the Senate I was also pry and published I that there was to bo a V revolutionizing of the rules of parliamentary par-liamentary proceedings that there wag to be the unseating of divers members on the democratic side and that the republicans were to fortify themselves In this Congress and para such bills a they deemed from their standpoint necessary to be pa ecd and i new Territories were admitted a State the republican party being tllW strengthened in tbo Senate It I would be many years before under any circumstances the legislation v f this Congress could b repealed or done away with These are the clr cumstancvs that lead ut > to the admission ad-mission of the youngest Territories certainly the smallest in population i and not them best equipped In finan dIal ability to maintain statehood lithe MormonsMr Mansurraid were black they would be protected pro-tected under the fifteenth amendment amend-ment t the Constitution Buthe added Impressively they are while and democrats and 8 they are you victims Quoting Judge Wilson the speaker speak-er showed that out oi 6000 Mormon voters in Idaho not more than 2 j per cent were bigamists or olyga mists and thatof thu totalf25UOO mLt aDl 0 Mormons In the Territory bigamists and polygnmlsts were scarcely ODe half of one per cent Sir Mansur next quoted Judge Carlton of the Utah Commission l Dr Miller the editor of the Omilia Herald Rep rceentativc Strubble of Iowa Bay ant Taylor Chief b cl Waite nod others t show the thrift industry and general morality of the Ioron people lie then proceeded to ask the questions Why on account of the few men who are engaged In tile practice bigamy or polygamy whether the number bo one bund ret and twentyfive as Mr Wilson estimates esti-mates in tho wholeTerritoryof Itahp or whether I should h greater should reinsert the lnaly of die franchtscment upon every male adult of that ehurelimerely because ho is a Mormon And why should we refuse him even the poor pitiful right of purging himself pr an call lit which lie shall swear that he docs not thus believe For gentlemen gentle-men please observe that iu raid Section 3 which I it I IK sought to engraft en-graft Into the constitution of Idaho there are quito a number of provisions provis-ions whereby a man is declared to havo the right of trial by Jury and shall not suffer the penalty of tile franchiscment until after his conviction con-viction whereas odensui connected with the Mormon Church are taken outsIde of the list of ordinary of fenMsatid email cannot purge HImself him-self by his own oath that he docs not believe In bigamous or polygamous practices dees not countenance them and docs not assist in their perpetration When that is done cannot complain If hebcdeprivtt of his privileges if convicted ThaIs Tha-Is the universal law mall the States and I Is cornet I have been at the trouble of collecting the law from all the several btaUa and there I not t lo feund In one of the States of the Union any diffvren law than that they must be first convicted of crime before you cat degrade a rain or deprive him ol the Inestimable rights tho right toot to-ot the right to servo on a jury the right t hold an office In no State of tile Union can such rights tie taken from him without convlc then for crime nOt telng made I ask each and every gentleman on the other side I you TOt to strike down these men without parting you go homo and time men udh In tl district ask you bow you could deprive citizens of Idaho of these privileges without a hearing what would our nnnwer lie as hen you know the people universally In your owuState believe in a different done and decreed that It should become aart of the fundamental constitution of each and every one of your States IIou I repeat will you answer your own people when they put that question t you Mr Mansur Uicn referred to the recent creation in the city of B ton of the Committee of One Hun duaL The committee he said has issued a pamphlet reviewing the lost encyclical letter of the Pop and taking tbe position that according t the encyclical uo man an be an obedient and loyal Catho lie and a the same time be a lawful clUzen of the United States This pmple takes the position that he relation of Catholics towards our j government is similar to that of gnrmeDt Mormons who have ten the oath of the endowment house and then declares < Xo ballot for the man who takes his politics from till Vatican This is a lemarkablo length for sch an organization t g and it som the extent to which come citizens are aroused over the attitude of the Catholic authorities towards the public schools Mr Mansurquoted at length from he pamphlet one of the paragraphs King a follows We have no hesitation tation In affirming that the oat of allegiance t ourcavouuiuuii Uh n by Komanlsts il by which they have obtained the rights of the b lot of citizenship rght of office mounts to nothing if they are GOOd Romanists and has no binding g gation where the church of the ton tiff requires I It to be disregarded We do not hesitate to ayas a mess lira for the nations selfprotection I that no man who confesses nllcgi sums to the pontlffsbould be allowet to participate as a citizen in either holding an office or casting a ballot Tbo United States Su premo Court has decided that the law of one of our States disfranchising disfranchis-ing Mormons I constitutional on the theory that the titan who takes the oath the Mormons are jequlret I t take cannot b a good citizen Why should not this principle b applied to Uiote who confess IC glance to t the lapallilcrarcbj Continuing the speaker raid h 1 tile address now being I sued by a committee of 100 citizens Boston I think I cnn fairly fay to Uie Catholics I that If the Mormons I are stricken down If this bill Is t 0 carried Into eflect In this way thus I emboldening the dominant majority ft ld ity it rgro long before we I shall find certain denominations and certain classes of people in this i country inaugurating 1 crusade against the Catholic because he Is a I Catholic A vote will b reached on the bill at 3 oclock tomorrow afternoOH lltrald I |