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Show - I ANOTHER BILL FOR UTAH, j Oa Tuesday wjek. April :M, eon- j grcssruan Wheeler, of New York, in-? trodjeed in the house of representa-i lives, and h id leferred to the commit-1 tee on elections, "a Mil to promote the purity of elections in the Territory of I'uL:" which the. New York World's Wash:n;t:'n correspondent briefly epi-j tomise thus : it provides that none but mile citi-1 zens of the United States shall vote, i nor shall they offer to vote more than I once tc the same candidate at any, election, or if any inspeotor or clerk J of election shall place any number or I other mark on any ballut east at any I election, he may be fined j'J" aiid ; bo imprisoned for one year. It au-. 1 Lhorizes the governor to tix the eleo-1 ; lion district and the polling places and appoint one of the inspectors of clee-1 ; lions. It requires the governor to ap-, ap-, point three registers in each election : district, who hhall make a li.-t of all 'Voters who produce satisfactory proof thirty days prior to each annual elec-' elec-' tion, and none others shall vote during I the enduing year unless they become I voters thereafter. Any person fraudu-1 fraudu-1 lenily causing a name to be roei-t'.-rcd J shall be pmii.-hed the same asli-r frau-j frau-j dulent voting. i it has yet lo bo seen whether congress, con-gress, in face of the progress of the 'aie, will take from the women of i Utah the right of suffrage granted them by the Territorial legislature, j Concerning this bill wc will relato a 'little incident said to have occurred in ' Washington, and which was furnished ' a gentleman of this city by private cor-! cor-! rcspondence. Said an M. (J. to representative Wheeler one of those profane gentlemen gentle-men who slip in expletives oftcnor than semi-occasionally : "I say, Wheeler, why the h 1 did you introduce such a d d bill as that on elections in Utah?" "Well, the fact is," said Wheeler, "I never read it, McKcan bored me to death to introduce it, and I did it to get rid of him, without looking at it." Comment is superfluous. |