Show I L AITER ALL the Edmunds bill may result in good During the de t I I I bate in the Senate some able arguments 1 1 argu-ments were made against the assumed t I I I I as-sumed right to punish citizens before I i j be-fore trial and conviction by disfranchisement I I J dis-franchisement and also against 1 j i j making religious belief an offense No senator who opposed the bill 1 t justified any offense against the law ii ii f committed in the name of religion p 1 but all wanted the Constitution to be followed in making the punishment j f punish-ment come after conviction properly i j I had in a court of justice Senator i I Call of Florida was among the j i most vigorous opponents to the i measure He saw danger to others I J1 1 than Mormons In establishing a1 tJ precedent that Congress could punish I i i pun-ish people without a hearing in a i 1 f j I I court of competent jurisdiction and Ii i I was able to look beyond the little I community out here in utan On i I Monday oth instant he introduced t a resolution which was no doubt 44 I called forth by the Edmunds billj p 1 The resolution was ordered to lie on the table and be printed We i print it in full as showing the feel feell I ings of at least one senator regard I to the interference with the rights of people by Congress Resolved That article VI of the Con j Etituuon declares that no religious test i 4 shall evr be required as a qualification 4 to any office or public trust under the United Stales Tblt any act or Congress which de prive or denies the right to vote or makes ineligible i t office or public trust i under the United States Iho members of I j I I err 7 590 = f 4 ftnyichurch or denomination or form of religion or those who do not believe or practice or profps the fith or ob rv ances or rite of any church society or form of religion it i not a law l in pursuance pursu-ance of the Constitution and ia i not the supreme law of he Und and the judgei are not bound thereby That section 9 of article 1 of the Constitution Con-stitution declare that no bill of nttain der It rball be passed and AI tide 5 declares that no person shall De bAld to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime unless on presentment or indictment a grnnd jury nor be deprived of life liberty or property prop-erty without due process of law and the fourteenth Vrticie section 1 of the I Constitution declares that all persons born or naturalized in the United States I and subject to thA jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United State < < and no state ehall rnnke or enforco any law which hall abridge the privilege or immunities ot ciir iii of tbi Unted States nor shall aiy Halt depr ve any pureon r lifts 1 hHI l ity or property without due proctv of Uw 1 ior deny to aoy person per-son within iU juridictiou the tqul l protection pro-tection of the laws That tbott provisions frbd oongrens from enacting any law by which any person shall be deprived of or denied any right privilege or immunity conferred bylaw by-law on other CIUTIS bejuse of my tJt1IJd criminal or other net without judicial xtcerainmtii t > y due pro ip of lit W and nil acts ot ConK es < having sucn fjrcH and Mfrc re not law in pursuance pur-suance of tb Con I tution and nr > flat tha fuprenv law 01 the land and the judge an not bound thereby I hat tht free rserciie of religion without with-out any law of Congress refpectn the same according to ech mans conscience con-science and freedom from responsibility unde the law for his acts until they are judicially ascertained by due urocrs of law whether such note are criminal and concern the states or are men ai concern individuals whether they are pnniihhle by taking lie Hrerly or property or by the denial l of some right priviiegHorim munity and tho right to hold office or public trust without being subject to any religious testas a qua ification corctituie that justice to esUb ish which and tithe ti-the fiubManca of that liberty to stc ro which the Constitution WH ordained an < 1 established and acts of Conjres deny ing or depriving any of ths people of them or of any pan of them are not in pursuance of the Constitution nnd are not binding on the judge |