| Show HAS imanil HIS MARK Del debits deledith edita is a mr a ablong arao all parties Par lies EASTERN PAPERS FULL OF 01 I 1 HIM men of every political raith believe him hia to lo be the man for foi united stites states senator the following report of the statehood debate is taken from the washinton dashington Vas hington ton post of dec 13 the house and morse of mas were treated to a surprise party y yesterday cst erday in them the maiden aiden speech cf f delegate rawlinson Rawlin U utah tab who spoke ke in favor of the sisterhood of states mr rawlins had spoken once before on the silver bill but this was his first speech to attract all parties belore te r had been on his feet ten tell minutes he ge had drawn bi big 0 tom reed from his bis comfortable seat on the republican side over to the coign of vantage 0 amon among the democratic goats rawlins is clearly entitled to take up jim Bel fords cognomen of th the e redheaded roo rooster s ter of the ho he is a democrat demorat was born in in salt lake city in 1850 has been a college 0 professor professer is now a lawyer and was apostatized by the mornion mormon church itis it is said for lead mg n 0 a revolt agai against old is is that remarkable hierarchy but ho be led it just the same and it landed him into Cony congress 0 ress as the leader th mormon element in utah poi politics lipics and it was the fact that his hia fight against tho the old mormon element which made him mad imad when Mr Morse insinuated that there were sinister motives behind the support of the utah bill not ten people in the galleries and not over half of those on the floor knew who the speaker was when lie he rose to bin b in but they all knew who he be was soon con s after and they will know him the next time he be has as anything to eay THE DEBATE when mr wheeler of alabama chairman of the committee on territories ri called up the bill for the admission of utah mr kilgore spoke in its favor the territory had bad the requisite population and wealth or it had bad public schools in every country and community and the republican party was as aa thoroughly 0 lily organized t as tho the Democratic party MI kil kilgore 0 ore believed that poly polygamy gamy and the endowment house institutions inot tut ions were dead and the chief objections to the admi of the territory orv were thus removed ile he was followed by mr morse of massachusetts who opposed the erection of utah into a state lul lu if it must be admitted he was in favor of the amendment to the bill offered by the minority from what we could goirn the character of the population and the character and practices of the mormon church Cli to chih h a majority of its citizens belonged 3 and to which they owed their first allegiance unfitted that territory and its people to become omo membern of the federal union mr morse wai vai fill wed ly by delegate Itaw rawlins lins who t ia ad d that polygamy was dying from natural cars cansis 3 and in a bholi time would cease to lo exist the people were not as credulous now as in former years fears and while they believed forty or fifty years ago in in divine approval of polygamy and divino di rine protection 0 y for those who practiced practice it they were more enlightened now who were the men responsible for tile the establish ment of polygamy iu in utah aked mr rawlins they were the men iren who were born reared educated d and actuated by the sentiments of new england a sentiment which burned witches persecuted qu quakers a kei s drove gut cut roter loer Wil willicm Willi linnis nm and produced the gentleman from massachusetts great laugher laugh 0 tir tr and applause utah ba had d a sin aller pet percentage of foreign born citizens than massachusetts mas a chu 0 or now york mr rawlins pricked with his rapier of satire several members who were opposed to the bill but lie seemed to derive special cleasure yle asure in lunging 0 atler at mr morse of massachusetts massa chu there is s less polygamy in utah than in massachusetts said mr rawlins a genelen an g gets ets up here as did the gentleman pent leman from massachusetts and asserts that the people of utah are assassins Is thieves bigamists biga mists and makes assertion s without a syllable of evidence to back it u ap p and refuses to accept the testimony of reputable people of utah idaho and wyoming il in ill their defense I 1 say eay lie he ought to hang his head in shame applause mr lr morse not a syllable of evidence I 1 have reid read tile the book of brigham youn youns youngs s fifteenth wife I 1 and she ou ought ht i to know mr rawlins yes I 1 have no doubt you have read some fanciful bo book ol 01 1 mr morse 41 it t was no fanciful book it was the book of brigham youn youngs s fifteenth wife and she ought 6 to know mr rawlins the gentl gentleman eMILLI from massachusetts seems to forget that Brig brigham C harn young is dead LL laughter slaughter mr harter II arter of ohio followed briefly in opposition to the bill makin making conca haq against the te ad ii iris ision sion of any more small states claiming that the remarkable growth crowth which had si signalizes signalized the the careers of the earlier states stales on their admission ion to the union nonbeing not being borne out in the n naw nsw w S states tz itea of the extreme west at the conclusion of his remarks the house adjourned |
