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Show SPARRING. . ' . Senators Edmunds and Hoar did some sparring yesterday over the new Edmunds Ed-munds bill. Senator Hoar moved --to strike out that section of the new bill which has for its object the disfranchisement disfranchise-ment of womenin Utah. The Senator from Massachusetts thought that female suffrage was a good thing, and cited the example of Wyoming and Washington Territories. The Senator made one remark re-mark that is important, and should be remembered and well-weighed by all. He said that when the right to vote was conferred it became a vested right as much as any right of property. Senator Blair supported sup-ported the motion of Hoar and seized the key to the whole question of disfranchisement disfranchise-ment of eveyrbody in Utah when he said that , the disfranchisement of the women of Utah, if justifiable, would apply equally - to the men. Here is where the trouble with complete disfranchisement dis-franchisement lies it puts the innocent in the same category with the guilty. This sparring - between the Senators clearly shows that Senate bill 10 is not going to pass undeeded and without with-out full discussion. Senator Hoar's reference to the prejudice which . formerly for-merly existed against Catholics " should cause people to fully and thoroughly canvass the situation in Utah. Every one in Utah will wait with interest to see the discussion over this new bill of the Vermont Senator. There is a great danger dan-ger that the innocent maybe made' to bear part of the punishment of the guilty in Utah, and this should be avoided, j We ghall revert to the matter again. |