Show r Another AntlPolygainy Bill i Washington 11 Senator Garland reported I re-ported a bill from judiciary committee commit-tee today amendatory to the present laws relating to bigamy and polygamy It impoes a fine of not more than 500 and not more than five years Imprisonment pon every person who is the husband of 11 wife living and who hereafter marries r another and declares that any man who marries more than one woman is guilty ot bigamy This provision does not extend I tend to any person by reason of any former marriage whose husband or wife by such marriage is absent for five sue II cessie years and is not known to be living nor to any person whose lawful I marriage has been dissolved by the decree fa competent court It provides that I in any case of prosecution for bigamy any person drawn as a juryman mayo > may-o challenged if he is or has been living in the practice of bigamy or polygamy or if he believes it morally religiously or legally right for men to lavo more than one living and undivorced wife or to live in the practice of cohabiting cohabit-ing with more than one woman It also authorizes the President grant amnesty to offenders against the law for offenses committed before January 1 1879 on such condition and under such limitations limita-tions as ho shall think proper but no such amnesty shall have effect unless thb conditions thereof shall have been complied com-plied with The bill provides that the Issue of plural marriages before Npvem bar 11879 shall be considered legitimate and entitled to all the rights of heirs and next of kin of their parents |