Show U mm 1 RAUH 7 1 rut a key few england repa I 1 delca i rt great THE STATEHOOD BILL PASSES A after nr considerable rUila on tho the part of republicans various reports desports Es ports the following associated press dispatch mistaken from the thes landard Standard wa washington anshin r ton the house began the discussion of the admission 04 of utah to estat statehood chood the principal point at issue was wiLs whether the knablin enabling act should contain a provision imposing pains and penalties for poly polygamous t amous mari manages ages vie contention 0 on a one h hand and being tuat the state should come in on an equal footing with other states by such provisions on the other that as poly polygamy amy bed been stamped out by the federal federal statutes and as the admission of the territory would repeal the statute congress 0 should make it practically a part of enabling act murse morse of massachusetts opposed flie bill lie m made ade a vicious assault on utah and ism recalling ail the outrages of plural marriages marriages marri agen the mountain meadows massabro mas sacro the blood atonement and revelations of the endowment house tir mr rawlins the utah delegate replied to lo mr morse and worsted him very badly tie lie appo opposed ed and amendment proposed relative to polygamy aa too comp complex lex but cx expressed presed n willingness illila ness too accept a sik amendment prohibiting pt poly amous marriages forever learter ll arter democrat opposed the bit r 1 on the abe ground round it g gave ve a sparsely spar fely indu influence ini luence enee in the senate the general impression ion seemed to be his bis real object was to prevent the election of two more free currency democrats in the 6 senate enate 5 the debate will conclude tomorrow as most of the republicans 1 have bave withdrawn their opposition it is expected it will pass by an overwhelming majority in the cour course fe of further remarks harter referred to the conditions existing in kansas where governor llewellyn liewellyn bad called a convention of tramps the population of kansas will wiil be pretty large interjected reed when the new tariff bill 0 go 0 into effect act if it is to be the home borne of all the tramps in the country I 1 S simpson im aso 9 of kans kansas as smith of A aimola izona and pence of colorado interrupted harter to reply to his re elections on oil the west at the conclusion of Har barters speech the house adjourned to the above report the narrow standard adds another alleged 0 dispatch fe bowing a mean and contemptible temp tible spirit of parth partisanship aushin that even the Staw lard ought to be abeham ashamed ed of that organ cannot get over the fact that rawlins beat frankie last year our delegate is making a record in congress which causes call cannon no to look green with envy frank is now in ill washington telegraphing graphing tale 0 to thel Standard EE PUBLICAN PAPER tribune bureau fourteenth S st t N W washington D C dec 12 1893 delegate rawlins cohered himself with glory in his magnificent extemporaneous speech today in advocacy of the utah statehood bill ile he caught the attention of the house it in his ope opening sentences arid and before he had been speaking ten minutes the lobbies and cloak rooms were deserted and a large audience was gathered around the speaker lie ho had been provoked bv elijaki morse the crack congressman from massachusetts who gave a tirade against 0 the people of utah whom he denounced without exception as being r licentious brutal ignorant and largely of foreign parentage M mr r rawlins handled the massachusetts chu congressman without gloves and to the grea great t delight of the house T which broke horoke intire into repeated cheers as the codfish statesman went down under the the cloverly cleverly twined periods and sting ing cintr invective of the utah delegate aro frequently u e it ly almost constantly ginterr interrupted u p t Mr rawlins conducted the debate eo E ai as to win many friends on both fides of the chamber his speech was brilliant impassioned c candid in tone argei argumentative e menta tive and delivered with telling t e effect it created a decided sensation senai ion senators shoup and dubois were both on the floor of the house hard to prevent opposition they explained too loo many members that conditions had changed in utah and that the file former opposition to statehood had melted away and they were confident that both polygamy v and church domination in polities politics were things of the past there is little doubt that the state statehood bood bill will pass the house tomorrow to lo morrow by a good majority if a quorum is present THE chairman wheeler of the committee on oil territories called up the bill admitting utah to statehood at this afternoon the reading in 0 of the bill occupied twenty minutes at its conclusion ion a short de debate bate ensued as to the division of the time mr kil kilgore b ore dem spoke first in advocacy of the bill presenting the side of the committee of territories he said there were two questions which divided the committee the first wae on polygamy the second upon the concession of lands the main difference was whether the people of utah should be compelled to insert in their constitution ution a provision prohibiting polygamy p a my mr kilgore eulogized 0 the character of the population of the territory their thrift industry moral ily ly and americanism it had territory enough 0 population and wealth elou enough it to become a S slate late both political parties desired its a admission why not grunt grant it the rho only opposition seemed to be as to the details of the enabling act As an kilgore continued gye akio alie abbu ii scarcely fifty fifth members r remained en ho he portended con cor tended that if the mormons cormons had abandoned polygamy cs as they had no unjust restrictions should be made against them if they they ought 0 not to be admitted ad mit lie he jid did n not ot believe in imposing any condition upon utah which been imposed on ohio or of t giving ivin even the shadow of federal supervision to a sovereign state representatives van voorhis and blair participated in the debate both insisting M that provisions against polygamy ta should be inserted in in the organic act MORSE DENOUNCES THE elijah morse of massachusetts opposed the bill because of the character and practices of the peo ale lie he read a harangue denouncing the canites Da the mountain Moun Mount taip aill meadow massacre the endowment house and the priesthood and declared that until the gentiles were ili in a majority he would never vote for statehood he had no conal confidence in mormon professions he denounced the proposition to admit utah as a state denounced it it in the name of civilization arid and morality DELEGATE RAWLINS KAWLINS delegate rawlins followed mr morse henegan he began his speech at ile he said that under the constitution ution congress is is required to ad guarantee to each state a republican ca n form of government it is not required to guarantee a form of religion anything like a religious test lias has always been excluded in in questions q of statehood utah 8 shrinks from no test which even the most knost fastidious or exacting can prescribe ire ho would demonstrate the fitness of utah in all that was requisite for statehood mr rawlins then entered upon an ail eloquent eulogy of people his voice filled the hall ball and his earnestness attracted and held attention he gave a clear concise concise history of the struggle for admission the opposition i in n times past be he said had bad been due to two questions the practice of polygamy and church interference in political affairs in 1888 the case was tried before the house ouse committee on oil territories only polygamists were discovered to be living in that relation in 1885 and the number had bad for several years been dec decreasing reasin continued on math parle paris 5 SHE HE STATEHOOD BILL continued from first fag ile he paid his respects to mr morse and to his insinuation that he be mr rawlins had sonic gome sinister motive in urging this bill ile he himself in 1885 had stood almost alone among t his associates in ad advocating locating loca 0 the ce cessation s bation of poly polygamy arny and non inter ference by the church in politics ile he would compare records with mr morse aforge on other subjects that gentleman did not seem to know that the world moves that conditions change and that polygamy 1 had been abandoned tle the L gentleman asked him whether george Q cannon was not a polygamist t that was long ap ago c mr caine his own predel predecessor ess 0 r for ten years was nota not i poly 1 annist mr rawlins face grew lia palo le and his voice rose as lie ho dramatically declared that he be would tell the gentleman Z from massachusetts that the men who introduced poly polygamy M amy in utah were boru born and bred in the shadow of the new england hills polygamy was the outgrowth of that puritanical spirit which burned witches persecuted quakers drove out roger williams and produced the gentleman from massachusetts chu loud laughing and ID 0 hand clapping ca THE TRIBUNE QUOTED D mr morse had bad quoted the salt lake tribune an ablo able and widely influential journal on november it had published an editorial eagin let statehood come the writer was judge goodavin fio Goo odwin divin by this time most of the house had flocked around mr rawlins to listen licten to his speech he went on to speak of the americanism of the people of utah of the trials which they had been forced to undergo while polygamy was war being suppressed and aind of the church party parly I 1 which was the natural consequence for self protection the party went when polygamy went there is less poly polygamy b amy now in utah than in tho the state of massachusetts when the gentleman from massachusetts chu dares to stand up here and assail the people of utah as murderers thieves and licentious characters without one iota of proof to sustain his charge he ought to go outside the house and ban hang his hia head with shame loud applause mr rawlins then went on to discuss the bill ile ho said that so faras far as lie he was personally concerned be had no objection to having an all anti polygamy section as deserT described bed incorporated in the bill but the one suggested by the minority was crulo crude cumbersome cumbe reome and might work great reat i injury y in the future it would control and modify the existing statutes polygamy is gone fo forever rever and there is no need of further le legislation 0 isolation or any constitutional provision OP OF LANDS mr rawlins took up the question dionot of the public lauds lands proposed to lo lie be donated since 1867 he said acres of land had bad been taken up leaving acres of they are largely mountain or desert lauds lands which would not sell for ten cents an acre now even with the apparently large amount granted by the bill utah will get less land in value than any of the other states which have been admitted la in conclusion mr rawlins said the there re is a chan change e in utah how las has it been brought about possibly the enforcement of law by cen congress ress has had bad much to do with it fUt but external pressure has haa not door done as much toward the eradication of polygamy as the pressure from within the el lurch church itell tho the mormons cormons felt that they were in disrepute because of polygamy and the oie sentiment of the growing 0 generation condemned it they will never permit it to be restored the people of utah nican mean they say and they will stand by their pledge 0 though 0 the heavens fall I 1 we have one of the most beau ticul cities on the Aine continent said eaid mr rawlins in his brilliant peroration one of the tha best of citizenship equal in education and refinement to the best of the eastern states echolls and churches are everywhere ehritt and industry meet the eye on oil every hand we have the requisite population intelligence and americanism why should our request be any longer denied loud cheers on both sides of the chamber followed the eloquent address of the utah delegate and cries of vote ile he was surrounded by members shaking his hand and congratulating him on an all effort which for forca fluency and readiness in debate has rarely been surpassed in congress in the last d cade representative harter who followed hini him after the excitement had subsided felt obliged to compliment aliment nt mr rawlins in tho the highest terms ile he said in effect that any all y state might inight be proud to have such a representative in congress longres lie ile opposed the bill because bebau c it would give two more senators and what lie he believed to be disproportionate I 1 representation in congress cong ress to s 1 sparsely settled country he was vigorously catechised catechi sed during his remarks at the conclusion of which the house adjourned the bill will be further discussed tomorrow IN 1 X TUE THE SENATE republican members are fighting against the admission of utah and S senators e gators dubois of idaho and carey of wyoming were in the house a large portion of the time yesterday aate afternoon anoon laboring with the members on the republican side to get them to withdraw their opposition to the admission bills dingley I 1 a republican of maine made the fight t against ut utah ah and it was with him the western senators consulted the opposition which dingley urged was the peculiar theology i of the supposed dominant par party t y in utah ANOTHER Rt rorT A herald special says the utah statehood bill had the right of way in the house today and provoked one of the most animated discussions of tho the present congress the republicans were not as openly opposed as they were when the last weak attempt was made to take up the measure during 0 the morning hour still stil they had enough men ready to strike whan they licy t had a chance anti and it was evident they do io not want wani the new state admitted just yet some opposition also came from froin the democratic side but it does not amount to much and it wal wa plain to account for the opposition there the first objection was by tracy I 1 of new york he insisted on having baying the ti le bill read clear through before the discussion commenced that was for the purpose of killing time harter of ohio made a speech against r admitting 6 utah he based liis his opposition on its small population and said there were not enough 0 people in the territory to entitle it to admission both tracy and harter are pronounced gold advocates advocat ps and they have the rabies when it is even eye suggested that silver ought to havo have any place in the currency of the country countr they are looking a long way ahead and fear when admitted utah will have two senators favorable to silver filver hence their antics today everybody understood them they voted for the bill delegate rawlins wan wai the chief speaker in behalf of the bill and made a greater aliete speech li even then his maiden effort in ill the house during in 0 the extra session when lie he advocated the coinage of silver lor or more than two clours hours he held tile the closest attention of the house being thoroughly posted he was able to answer any and all questions put to him it was a grand appeal to congress to be bring into tile the union the terri tory which has the requisite lalion and resources lie howenton went into a discussion discue A sion of all tho the questions affecting utah past and present and the members gathered close around him anxious to hear all he had to say from the opposition mr rawlins was subjected to a firing of questions some of which were were contemptible and especially those put by i narrow minded morse of massachusetts lass achu sets who when ho he got a chance denounced tile tho people of utah in a shameful manner but when rawlins got back at him lie |