Show THE ED3IUXDSTUCKER ACT The Herald has received inquiries in reference to the vote on the socalled EdmundsTucker bill We presume this is because of the misrepresentations misrepresenta-tions of Republicans on the stump One of our correspondents says it has been stated that the vote was unanimous unani-mous The truth is that it stood thus as reported in the Congressional Record In the Senate yeas 37 nays 13 not voting 26 In the House yeas 202 nays 40 not voting 75 Of the 13 nays in the Senate all were by Democrats with the exception of Mr Hoar who objected to the bill solely on account his woman suffrage proclivities the bill confining the right to vote to male citizens only in the territory of Utah Of the 40 nays In the House all were by Democrats but one Mr OHarra who was a colored Catholic Republican from the south The bill originated in the Senate being be-ing entitled S 10 that Is Senate bill No 10 It was introduced by Senator Edmunds as an amendment to the bill called by his name approved March 22 1SS2 which was itself an amendment to the antibigamy act of 1862 which provided for the escheat of the real property of churches in the territories over the value of 50000 The bill was amended greatly by the committee of the House of which Randolph Tucker was chairman much of what was inserted in the Senate bill being stricken out in the House bill A committee of conference was appointed which remodeled the bill on the basis of some provisions and modifications of both bills When completed it was signed by N J Hammond and E B Taylor for the House and by George T Edmunds John J Ingalls and James L Pugh on behalf of the Senate The bill became a law without the signature of the President after ten days had elapsed from the date of its receipt by the executive department He disapproved of some sections of the I bill notably the escheat portion but did not veto the bill as he could not i strike out parts and retain others and further the probability was that it I would be passed over his veto in the I then excited condition of the popular feeling on the Mormon question which i had much to do with its passage and i his veto would have been used as a club I against him and his party by the Republicans Re-publicans without affecting the result to this territory These are the facts in relation to the bill and no good purpose can be served by misrepresenting them on the stump or through the press or in any other way The truth in due time is bound to come uppermost I |