Salt Lake Herald | 1890-04-12 | Page 1 | The Mormon Question in Canada

I The Mormon Question i Canada I OTTAWA April HThe Mormon question was ventilated in parliament last entlated parlament night The r house took up the bill t amend the criminal law Polygamy is included in the list of offenses of-fenses Hon Edward Blake said Hon lake the Mormon settler in the Canadian northwest form a dangerous dan-gerous element and urged that their abominable practices be surpressed He had learned that the Mormons who had fled from Utah to Canada Can-ada had left wives at home and had brought young girls with them for companions Minister of the Interior Dewdncy said he personally per-sonally assured the Mormons they would never be permitted to practise polygamy in Canada The Mormons then gave him satisfactory assurance laws assur-ance and recently denied they were evading the Sir John McDonald said Canada would never allow the northwest to be the scene of polygamous polyga-mous practices The clause relating to polygamy poly-gamy was amended by raising the penalty from two to five years imprisonment