Show trying try ing to disfranchise mormons cormons Mor mons fhe following is a despatch from washington dated january stewart of vermont today floday introduced in the house a bill declaring no mormon eligible to vote at any election or to hold any civil office in the territories of the united states or to be naturalized as a citizen of the united states or to settle upon any public lands voters are required to make oath they do not belong to the mormon church as preliminary to exercising the right of suf bundage Bun fhe rage the senate committee on territories this afternoon listened to statements of representatives of the mormon church declarative of the teachings leach ings of the church in support of their argument that the constitution adopted by the people of idaho fora for a new state should not be accepted by congress bishop budge of the mormon church in idaho said he had always been taught to obey the laws of the land and in forty two years experience with the mormons cormons he never knew any teachings to the contrary the mor mons he said were taught to believe li leve in the divine I 1 inspiration a of the constitution of the united n eted states and thus believing he said the mormons cormons had a higher reverence for it than other citizens the practice of polygamy was a thing of the past on the subject of blood atonement bud e said there was no such principle held or taught by the mormon church the delegate then presented the declaration of the officials of the church sent out from salt lake city december 1889 of the teachings and doctrines of the church governor shoup of idaho said the expenses of a state government for idaho will necessitate an increase in the tax rate from four mills to five and three quarter mills ex governor Steven stevenson sun odd ald if the mormon church did not teach p publicly u or privately the principles of plural marri agean official declaration to that effect from the church authorities iu ila salt lake city will settle the question of citizenship in idaho under the proposed constitution ution they have he said a remedy for the evils complained of in their own hands |