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Show LATEST DISPATCHES. GENERAL. the i.i-K iive it nr. 1' tali's lel-enfe Arcaef in Opposition to It. Ladies Object io Iisirnthls-iuu Iisirnthls-iuu I'olj gauiiHlM. WashiuKtOD, 28. Hon. George Q. Cannon, Mormon delegate in congress, con-gress, hud a hearing before the house ub -commit tee on territories to day, in opposition to the Utah elective bill, giving the people of that territory terri-tory a sncret ballot and disfranchising disfranchis-ing polygamists and women. Cannon denied the existence of a union of church aud state. He declared the demand on congress for a Iree ballot to be without reason in fact, as those non-Mormons who are making suoh demand are simply carpetbagge and adventurers. Dr. Mary Walker protested against congreteional interference with Mormon Mor-mon polygamies, on the ground thai the Utah system of marriage, from a physiological standpoint, is an improvement im-provement on monogamy and the more enlightened phase of the social evil. Mrs. Spencer, a strong woman's rights advocate, bused her objection to the disfranchising of polynomials in Utah on the ground that it would be in bad laatc for the congress of tho Uuitfd 8tates, which she declared to bo composed in part of practical polygamists, to interfere with the Moi inona. It is UBderetond the committee will soon report tbe bill. |