| Show MW ft in a recent betler to tho now york senator edmunds rives his on anti polygamy measures anil ant want any budy to interfere avith his plans ho dayd the aitor a great many of abo good people of this country have fallen on the subject is I 1 think in their expecting the extirpation of polygamous mir 03 if by a miracle as tho consequence ol 01 any lap ielati n or other thin which law makers can devise it seems to me to bo one of those avis that are t bo by processes slow aud by means that wil gather into the opposition to it all that portion of tho mo mun people and it is considerable who ilo ut believe in the plural marriage business I 1 have bood reason to th t sinco the passage of tho last act polygamous marri ages iges entirely ceased that aud capable administration of the law they will not be revived tho difficulty with tho proposition to put tho mant of the territory aiuto tho hands of a commission is first that I 1 it to bo en unconstitutional if the corn ia to bif given any mak aug power and I 1 fear sc cond quite impracticable un k 6 3 i law mailing p shall be lodged third it is revolutionary and deprives the innocent as well as tho guilty of all voice in public nollan but tho direst could justify such a slop fourth it is quito clear to my mind eliat alio suppression of efly gamy will bo just as ajr off with the government if the territory in the hands of a commission as it is not further for it will solidify and intensify i clas feeling of the mor mons and lend to draw ti alio blip port of the liioi ai chiy and the whole body of iho mormon acu alc plc the lull that I 1 have introduced ia supplementary to the bill passed anil it was stated when we reported tho other act that wo expected to supplement it by further provisions these provisions arc directed to enforcing publicity to every species of marria 0 o ceremony legal md illegal to the facilitation of the ministration af justice by alic summary production of 1 papers records witnesses etc and to aiding the of tho territory to get its political power out of the hands of the hierarchy by suspending women suffrage there women suf frayo is one of the strongest props that i ho polygamous cormons mormons have for elections it ansa measure designed for that purpose although it was approved by the gc atilo governor on tho whole I 1 have alio best reason fur boli oving that if wo go calmly and steadily forward our scalf sion G shall cra dicato iho evil of polygamy in that territory |
