Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1905-02-11 | Page 2 | Social Purity in Idaho is Probable

SOCIAL pURITY IN IDAHO IS PROBABLE Boise Ida Feb passed the two senate bills blUs known a athe as the purity or Mormon measures One is a bill against t polygamy making It 1 pun hable b by fine and imprisonment In Inthe Inthe the penItentiary The other Is aImed at adultery It carries caries a minimum pun 1 10 with ltha a maximum run running running ning up to a year in jail or three years in the penitentiary There Thore Is a gool deal of sentiment in favor faor of an measure to round out le leg on the subject since It is claimed a polygamy law cannot b be en cu because of the In lag the tho marr lage while the adultery bill ill carries a minimum dictated bytho by tho possibilities or of other oilier classes of case I the minimum being insufficient for a case of polygamy prosecuted on au an I adultery charge 1