Show CONGRESS WILL MAKE IT FELONY Cohabitation Is to Be Ef Effectually Stamped Out INTERVIEW WITH DUBOIS REVIEW or OF THE SITUATION IN IDAHO Special to The Tb Herald HeraldA A 1 ASHINGTON Fob Feb WASHINGTON vy Dubois authorized the following statement when asked today for Cor Coran an all opinion regarding legislation enacted in Idaho by the present af r I ant am not that the turi p Jaws which were Intended to be IneffectIve so far as polygamy nod nid polygamous are arC concerned It was made plain that the Republican Intended to do this when Mr Hunt Bunt a member of the Mormon church was elected speaker and given the ap aJ appointments of the varIous committees What Democrats Demanded n It from Idaho papers that n the tho Ineffectual laws which were passed ha have been amended somehow and an somewhere so that they wIll not bE b constitutional What the Democracy of Idaho demanded In the last campaign was vas the passage of laws against un awful cohabitation and for a change of Mr lIr Richards who Introduce bills providing for the punishment of thos living in unlawful cohabitation and for Cor a change hange of venue stated I un that it wu Waa not Intended to reach those now living In polygamous who entered Into those reI rola 0 lions prior to the manifesto of ISDO 1890 Mr of course meant by it waft as not the desire to disturb SUch uch cli 1 known as 1 Congress Will Pass Laws The congress of the United States I a belle believe Intends to provide laws Jaws under which the head of the Mormon organ Joseph F Smith can be cor In Utah President Smith I lied the senate committee that le had five wives and chil children dren and that each of his wives had borne born him children since the manifesto to Public sentiment In Utah Is such mid the power of this hierarchy is 15 so great that notwIthstanding that there H laws In Utah to pun punish President Smith the wIn will not be enforced The Th of Idaho that laws shall be passed which will punish those openly living in relations President Budge was appointed by one governor since state hoed regent of the state university He was elected to the state senate in nd h he testified over his own signature In Idaho In a written communication that he be had three wives s and he test d before the senate committee here that h he had three w wives es and that he vas YaR livIng with them In polygamous re and that they had borne him children since the manifesto The Gen Gentilc people of Idaho regardless or pol do not encourage and will not tolerate polygamous living and luring t hI last Jast campaign they made fr approval or of this tact fact so plaIn th that t the Republican leaders promised the people that the Republican party of dahow w necessary laws Jaws to put a to these practices Gentiles Are United 01 judgment is that the Democracy or of Idaho will continue the fight on the lines laid down donn in the last campaign and also wao that unless his legislature corrects Its mistake and passes laws which will be to correct these evils ils that the Gentiles of Idaho will hive give the Democrats power to enact such sueh legislation It lt IA known that pol polygamous mar are being contracted constantly and parties contracting them resIde in Idaho Used as Examples When hen I use the Illustration of Pres PresIdent Ident Budge I wish to point poin out the fact using him as an example that unless you ou can pass laws Jaws which eIll Ill rEach him a polY f ou cannot reach any other I mists new or old in Idaho S I use the illustration of Pres PresIdent Ident Smith I wish to point out the tart that unless congress can secure the passage of a la law under which he can be convicted no other polygamists new or old in Utah can b convIcted My I Impression Is that the Idaho ture and the Republican organization Is not fooling anyone any one in Idaho |