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Show A BILL AIMED AT UTAH'S DELEGATE. It is reported that, on Monday last, under a suspension of the rules, the following bill passed the House of Representatives-Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That no person hereafter shall be a delegate in the House of Representatives from any of the territories of the United States who shall not have attained the age of twenty-five years and been seven years a citizen of the United States and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of the territory in which he shall be chosen; and no such person who is guilty either of bigamy or of polygamy shall be eligible to a seat as such delegate. Before this measure becomes operative it must pass the Senate and be approved by the President. Even should it thus become a law, we do not think it would affect the position of Mr. Cannon during this Congress, as, to bar him under this law would be to make it retroactive, for his election took place before the bill was ever even introduced. Hence, even should it pass the Senate and receive the presidential approval, it would become a law subsequent to Mr. Cannon's election, hence too late to be applied to him. A tremendous pressure is being brought to bear on Congress to pass legislation aimed at Utah. No other question of equal importance is now pending in that body to attract its attention, and every possibility indicates that some measure or measures will be adopted this session for the suppression of the rights of the "Mormons." But they can stand as much of that kind of legislation as the rest of the country can. |