Show THE UTAH MEMORIAL Its Introduction in the United 7 States Senate r n F f 11 ir 1S BEAD BY SENATOR CALL I j 4tro Tilt with theGentlernan Jrom Vermnfei Lruhlbitloii Confer I tncc Other News Notes FIFTIETH CONGRESS SE ArE WASHINGTON i C December 20 Messag s from the President were pre J ttnteJ in reference to the invitation to this government to appoint elegates to the international exposition of labor to bo held at Barcelona Spain in April 1883 and in reference to the iuvitation from Her Britanic Majesty to this government to participate in the international in-ternational exposition to be held in llelb iurne in 1888 The messages were i referred to the committee on foreign rerations Numerous petitions from various States were presented in favor of Blairs educational bill and also a petition from citizens of Pennsylvania protesting protest-ing against the hdmission of Utah as a state I Edmund asked that the postal telegraph tele-graph bill introduced by him be taken from the table and referred to the post office committee The bill was so referred re-ferred as well as the bill on the same subject introduced by Cullom The Senate baa removed the injunction injunc-tion of secrecy from the following nominations nomi-nations which were confirmed in secret session on the 15 h mat Charles S FairchiM to be Secretary of the Treas nry George L Rives to be assistant Secretary of citate Isaac H Maynard to be assistant Secretary of the Treas arj1 James W Hyatt to be United States Treasurer Dayles W Hanna to be Minister to the Argentine Republic Alexander L Lawton to be Mimsterto AustriaHungary James F Benedict of Colorado to be collector of internal i revenue for the District of Colorado The resolution offered by Call yesterday yes-terday to print in the Congressional flecorl tae memorial of the Constitutional Constitu-tional Convention of Utah was called up by that gentleman who asked that it be now adopted A Edmunds preferred that the resolution resolu-tion be referred to the committee on Territories which now had jurisdiction of the subject Call argued that it was due to com Inanity 200 000 people to have its views fairly presented Ho und stood that Irss than 3 per centof these people wsrd guilty of the practices on the assumption as-sumption of which the objection of the Senator was based He would now read the memorial to insure its publication in the Recqrd and to show there was nothing objec tidTiable in it He thereupon read the memorial Edmunds replied to Call with some asperity At 230 gm after considerable discussion dis-cussion Gill withdrew his resolution as he had attained its object in reading the Utah memorial himself < Blair then moved to take up his educational I edu-cational bill and th motion was agreed to Without further action the Senate proceeded to executive business The resolution offered by Mr Call yesterday to print in the Congressional Jttmrd the memorial of the constitutional constitu-tional convention Utah was called np by that gentleman who asked that it be adopted Edmunds preferred that the resolu be referred to the committee on Tern tories Call argued that it must be due to a community of people to have their views fairly presented He understood that less than 3 per cent of these people peo-ple were gnilty of the practices on the assumption of which the objection of the Senator from Vermont was based He would now read the memorial to insure its publication on record and to show there was nothing objectionable in it He thereupon read the memorial and said that the Senatorfrom Vermont knewthere was nothing in it disrespectful disrespect-ful < o Coiigross and no rtason in right orjustice why the Senate should refuse 1 to hear the petition of 200000 American citizens F Edmunds thanked the Senator from Florida or his gratifying allusions to him He certainly had not questioned the sincerity of the Senator from Florida for he Call had stood bebind this polygamist hierarchy every time that he had any interest to advance or any wholesome legislation to resist He had done so with a great deal ql ability and considerable zeal He could give the Senator the praise of being absolutely abso-lutely sincere in standing by this body 01 persons through thick and thin and expected that the Senator would continue to do so and if in tie Utah hould become a State and the United States Constitution should be changed so that one person might be a Senator from two States he bad no doubt the Senator from Florida would be the first Senator whom the Mormon hierarchy would select He Edmunds could produce and ask to have printed in the Rlcord statements showing the UfTer hypocrisy and gammon of the performance and that it was a mere trick to get out from under the hands Congress and from under laws of the United States Everybody Every-body understood that and fle Ed munds did not propose to vote for spending money in order to print i in theRe a the-Re lrd that sort of thing C1I sad the Senator from Vermont I was not mote sincere than correct in hie statement that he Call had stood I behind the Mormon hierarchy He had stood behind human lights when the Senator with exquisite cruelty sought tb punish innocent women and children I in Utah by legislation wnich he Call i regards as unconstitutional unfeeling and inhuman line Sanator had never heard him tdvocateCorruption and th < I i Jt Senator had never heard him advocate orupt judieiftj tri unfthj or packed fu A 1 4 r nits or the prostitution of courts of justice He Call had never expressed 1 an opinion as to how he should vote on tue admission of Utah That question was for future consideration He understood un-derstood by the statements of reliable 1 citizens Republicans aud Democrats that not more than 5 per cent of the papula ion of Utah favorel polygamy and tnat the young peopleof the Territory Terri-tory were unanimously opposed to it and submitted couscieutiou to the legislation of Congres The ofoj ctionn of the Senator from Vermont were vain and idle and were unworthy of that benator They were not reasonable asa as-a matter of logic and were nt true asa as-a matter of foci Stewart was opposed to printing the mem rial 1 in the Record as it might raise faKe hopes in Utah as beig an expression ot the opiuiouthar its admission ad-mission as a State was possible at present He feared very much that Utah was not in a condition to become a state She was governed by aclote corporation hierarchy and he did nut believe there was such a thing as freedom free-dom in Utah Jtree schools as understood under-stood elsewhere did not exist there Everything was subserv ent to the i political organization known as the Mormon church It was impossible for th Inited Statts citizns to live in iBypart otUtah OUtside OUt-side of towns whe uieie was DO military mili-tary protection Various modes wuicb the Mormons had of ridding uetnselvea of Gentiles were cruel unheard of unreasonable un-reasonable the details of which he would not relate at present He would 30 sorry to see a vote given in the Senate that would favor the admisson of Utah as a State until more people were ready and prepared to establish a government where citizens of all denominations might reside in pence and be protected He did not want to see Utah admitted with the weak promistt that she would abolish the organization which governd Mormons Mor-mons w th a rod of iron and exclude other citizens living among them He would think it a great calamity to have these people put in a position where they could change their Constitution at will and perpetuate an organization hostile to liberty and founded on a pretended religious hierarchy Platt argued that there wasno more reason why a memorial of a selfcon stituted c invention should be printed m the Record than the menioinl of any citizen or any number uf citizen PaddbcK denied that tUe memorial represented the wishes of 200000 people The whole population of Utah was only 200000 of which about 140OtO were Mormon As to the statement that not more than 3 par cent of the Mormons were polygamists he asserted that they were all polygamits sofaaaanen dorsimenf of the docrine is co cerned aid the belief that n was a divine revelation rev-elation Call statpd thai the memorial having been read by him it would ne essarily be printed in the R > coid as he did not desire to provoke any further contention in the matter 140 withdrew hi i resolution Blair moved that the Senate proceed to thj consideration of the educational bill Agreed toyeas 33 nays 15 The nay vote was as follows Butt Beck Butler Cockrell Coke < Faulkner Gorman Gor-man Gray Harris Hawlev Hearst I Morgan Reagan Salsbury Vest15 Butler offered resolution for the appointment I ap-pointment of a select committee of five to inquire into the relations of the five I civilized tribe of Indians and whether it is desirable and advisable to give citizenship i cit-izenship to members of the tribes Teller objected to immediate consideration I consid-eration of the resolution and it was i ordered to lie on tel a6Ie i resolution to iuorize the committee 1 com-mittee on Indian trifles to continue the I invpqfieation beualast Congress was reported back ami adopted After a I hn i executive session the Senate adjourned ad-journed tieuator Quay introduced a bill to increase i in-crease to 72 per month the pensions of I those who IO v received f50 per month under the law granting pensions soldiers and sailors of the late wr who are totally disabled Senator Plumb introdroed a bill to grant one months extra pay for each year of enlistment to all officers of the volunteer army in the lae war who served the fall term of the enlistment and was honorably discharged Senator Blair introduced a bill declaring de-claring that the act of June 4 1880 relative rela-tive to pansions ah 11 be construed to as to include all officers and enlisted men in the army their widows and minor children An amendment to Cnlloms postal telegraph bill was proposed by Ben tor George today It provdes for the construction of a telegraph line om Atlanta Georgia o El Paso Texasv a Birmingham Alabama Meridan Jackson and Vicksburg Mississippi Monroe and Sbreport Louisiana and Marshall Dallas and Fort Worth Texas HOUSE Propositions to increase the membership member-ship cf the committee on rules to seven and to provide for a committee on the American Isthmus were respectively utrodoced by Townsend and Bater of Illinois and referred to the committee on rules Mills of Texas motad an adjournment adjourn-ment stating that he did so in order to enable the committee on rules to meet and decide upon a report which would probably be submitted tomorrow THe motion was agreed to and the House at 1215 adjourned |