Show Fon rur suppression OF POLYGAMY I Iriiiiiisiit lililiiliiniillnllioroli Mltillliin lleclurlnic IfillRitlll Ulllltuful s AKinsaToN Jlay I1hu Houso Committee Com-mittee on Judiciary lo day instructed Chairman Chair-man Incker to report fuvorabl nn amend mi nt to tho Constitution declaring polygamy unlawful i r Ihoro wis iel one member of tho 1 committee who did not to tho agree action of tho committed and ho oemi dc nired further limo to consider it The following in tho full text of the amendment ns H shall bo reported Itciotrnl I hat it is deemed necessiry by llio two Houses of Congress to propone nn amendment to the Constitullon which tlmll bu vnlld to all intents nnd purposes as a part of Iho Constitution when ratified na hereby proposed b I y tho Legislatures three fourths of the soercign States Till PROPOSED AMtSDMEM lo be numbered and to read ns follows lo wit iniicil XI Tirsl Tho mnrrioge relation rela-tion by contract or in oft by one person of either rci nnd moio than one person of the other cex shall ho deemed polygamy luilhir pognmy l n ji nllY iwlyLamoU3 association asso-ciation or cohabitation between Bexes shall i list m bo Kwful In any place within tho jurisdiction I I of the I ItII mted lY States or any of tho btatcs Second Iho Lulled SI itcsBhall not II or shall any blato mILO nr enforce any law which shall allow polygam or nnypolygn mons association between the sexes But tho United Wales and overj Slato shall prohibit pro-hibit tho sanio byhw within their respective jurisdiction itiiril iho judicial power of tho Unilcd ot itcs shall extend to the prosecution of polygitni and polgimous associations or cohabitation between tho sexes nndcr this uiliclc and Congress shall hao power lo declare by I law the punishment therefor limrth Nothing in tho Constitution nor in tlimnrtlclu shall bo conslrucd to dellY to any btnto cxclusivo power subject to the piovisions of this article lo mnko nnd cn forco nil laws concerning rnarriago and divorce di-vorce within its jurisdiction or to vest in tho United btnles > nny power respecling the same within allY Stale JUDOP TOCKEHH MEWS I Jiidio Tucker Chairman of tho Judiciary Committee said 1 to nn Uwciato 1ress le porter rho comraitlee will report the amendment onMondn rnd mil then prob nbl take up tho 1 dmunda Utah bill Iho sub committee htuo considered the Ld mU11l1 hill and will Mibmit their Mews lo the full committee which will meet there afler ns often as practicable Iho Ldrauiids bill will bo ery greatly modified but I am not prepared to say uulil nclion by Ihe full commilleo in what respect I will snj however Hint it will not in nuy way mate rinll chango the policy of the Government I in reference to polygamy but nn effort will bo mode while condemning the crime of poljgnm to do no in consistent with Con stitnlionnl law nnd with respect lo the lib I crlies of tho people W leetr amendment W ment I to tho C institution itself will bo offered so that no clement in the definition of llio offense would bo lift to Congressional action in rasupolye 1111 should continue or ho rovll ell m a new btnto when it censed to boa ierntoi Tho amendment gives cosoiiEil Tilt rowrr TO iirsisit CRIME Created In this oiticle and to tho courts of S nJ JlII I We h h tlu United States powcrlotry it Ihen in order lo priunt IIIIY infeicuco in favor of the power of Congress to inlerfcre in the general law f eiieliStale as lo marriage nnd imorcc tho amendment further provides Hint no const met ion shall bo given to it which would 1I0ny to rach Stnte exclusive power lo regulnte thai class of questions or to cio nllY such > poucr to Congress The amendment therefore while semng ns a remedy for Iho crime cen in Iho blales tinmnchcs is cntirti consenalno of the pounof J mcslio relalionsof l Iho blales tlm iner faiuilj tho importnnt Ihoamend do ment was framed for the purpose of throw ing tho weight of Till CONSTITUTION ITHII1 Aol Sr 1 OLIUAJT As Ihe present Constitution makes it essential essen-tial that ccr blato that comes into tho Union 1 ns well ns those already del it shall bo Itepuublicnn t in their form of Goiernmctit sollnsnincndment providesthntcverj btate in tho 1 Union shall bo nicriean in its tjiie mlt l1tff l1 of societ and not Asiatic Hint is the btato shall be Ilcpnblican as to their form of cm eminent nnd monogamists ns to their social lifi Julo Inclei Slid that lu had hell the nmindmi nt Uiorough aiulmntiiroconsidera I i ti in in sub cnninmtce and then I tho full eommitleo hnll agreed to it after full con bieleration ndithnliuct with eoncral np jKnalfron perhaps 11fy members of Con LrihS 10 wholll it had been shown and on I whosojudL K nl liu I could tIly HointiniUd I loinlrodiii and si i mo a speed considern tinfi il h l > CoiiMii |