Show GARLANDS BILL f The bill reported to the United Elites Senate on Wednesday from the judiciary committee a nendatory of the present law concerning polygamy polyg-amy has less vindictiveness running I J through it than the average anti Mormon bill It is true Senator 4 Garland proposes severe and effective meamrea for suppressing or onnish ing the practice in the future but he wants to smooth over the past and avoid doing the great harm that would result from the adoption of tome of tho proportions presented for dealing with the perplexing difficulty Tnere is one feature of Mr Garlinda bill however that will prove twoedged swordnamely that provision which excludes from the jury box in the trial of polygamic cases perrons who believe in the right of a man to have more than one living and un dsvorced wife or to live in the practice prac-tice of cohabiting with more than ono woman This provision will of course extend to grand and petit jt rors It is a notorious fact that a man of queer morals and careless virtuea male prostitute in plainer termsi8 more anxious to punish the polygamist than the person who has a higher regard for virtue and the requirements of the monogamic marriage mar-riage system Grand jurors most reckless as to their own morals have usually been foremost in the indictment indict-ment of polygamists If Mr Garlands Gar-lands bill shall pass while it will exclude form juries polygamists sympathizers with polygamists in the Mormon church as is now done under the triers provision in the local law it will also keep off the trial panel and out of tbe inquisitorial room avery a-very large per centage of those non Mormons who are and hare been so anxious to punish the believers in and practicers polygamy If the oilcan L oil-can be amended so as to make judge I who are guilty of adultery and prosecuting pro-secuting officers who are indiscriminate indiscrimi-nate and lawless with their caresses I 01 females ineligible t act in thE tral of polygamiste it would be more satisfactory |