Show THE NEW YORK Times speaking of the adverse report of the House committee on Territories on the Cassidy bill says To harry the Mormons or polygaaaists by confiscating confis-cating their goods or destroying their rights as freeholders is unre publican it is subversive of tbe principles underlying our form of government It we were able to prove against individual Mormons the offenses alleged to committed by the body of Mormons whose property it is proposed to eacheat to the State wa might have some hope of being able to break up the practice of poJygamy It would be tyrannical even montrous to attempt at-tempt to break up a religious establishment estab-lishment or any other establishment for that matter for the sake of reaching offenses the commission of which no Congressional legislation has provided means to prove The Cassidy Dill it will be borne in mind proposed the governing of the Territory by a commission of fifteen jurors disfranchising all the voters andilacing the peoplvj with all their property and e ery interest under the legislative control of these fifteen in whose selection the people peo-ple would have no voice and wh would he responsible to only the appointing power and that res fjSdnsibility would be jlmplypoliti cl in character The committee properly denounced this as Cfa very highhanded measure and the Times approves the report as abovQ |