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Show Now the effect of the passage of Cullom's Bill would be to take away the vote of the people, so that they couldn't have a voice in the selection of the men to govern and control their loeal afiairand over-see the expenditure ex-penditure of the money collected from them. Kdmunds,by his bill.says this is wrong. It is an infringment of the Constitution. You would be depriving them of the franchise on account of their belief, and I cannot lend myself to any scheme that will for a moment violate that charter of human rights. I will remedy the evil. I am in sympathy with you in the result you want to accomplish and for this reason I will introduce my own measure. , That which Cullom wished to do directly, Edmunds does indirectly. He leaves the people their votes. That vote which is of account only at the ballot box for the purpose of saying who shall be their local otP.cer.s and lawmakers, but he leaves them nothing to do with it. He will not violate the constitution directly, but lawyer as he is he will do it indirectly, lie has a great deal of charity for this people when the constitution of his conntry is in question but it is of that kind of charity that "vultures show to lambs". Well doe3 he deserve the cognomen of the "Icicle". THE LETTER OFTHE LAW. Senator Edmonds in all his legislation legis-lation against the "Mormons" has always had an inclination to do what he aimed to do, in the way of anti-Mormon anti-Mormon legislation in a constitutional constitu-tional manner, and whatever rights he has sought to deprive them of he has first had to reconcile to his own mind was not in violation of any constitutional right, as this instrument in-strument he has a great reverence for, and prides himself upon the fact that he is what is called a constitutional con-stitutional lawyer. That he looks upon the Cullom Sill as an infringement of this right, there can be no question, from the fact that he has introduced a bill making all Count and Territorial offices in this Territory appointive. . , If he did not look upon the Cullom Bill as being unconstitutional what would be the use of introducing this Other, nil he would have to do would be to give his aid to the disfranchis-- ing bill and the people, at least a majority ma-jority -of them, would be robbed of a voice in their selection, and it would be left to those who would select such persons to fill those offices who would be in as much accord with the Sena-' Sena-' tor's views as those selected by one Ijnan would, either president or gover- |