Show I DISTINCTION DRAWN BETWEEN AND POLYGAMY IN Bill Iff TIE THE lIE SENATE If I everybody knows you are arc ar married marrie and you marry mar again you ou are a polygamist polygamist mist JUI t and if the fact of your our marriage Is not generally known and you jou ou take unto yourself another an ther spouse you ou are ar a big bigamist bigamist bigamist This Is the distinction drawn bv by b Sena Senator Senator tor br William N Williams of Salt Lake in ina InI ina a bill bl defining bigamy and polygamy I and providing a punishment which was ws Introduced In the senate yes yesterday yesterday Regarding polygamy the bill bi says sal Every Ever man who has ha a wife wie living and andi i who is publicly known kno In the community l where he lie resides reside or where the offence is committed committe to be a married man who hereafter marries marrIe another woman whether married or single and any man JUan who hereafter simultaneously or on the same day marries more than one wo to woman wo toman man Is guilty of or polygamy and shall be bl punished by a fine Cne of or not more than and by imprisonment in the state prison for a term of or not more than five years Jers but this section shall not extend to any person by bv reason of any an former marriage marae whose wife by sucK such such marriage shall have I been absent for five fhe successive e years and I Is la not known know to such person to be liv livi mg i and is believed by such Buch person to lv be dead nor to any person by reason of or the fOmer marriage which shall have been dissolved by a valid vald decree of a com coui potent court curt nor to any person by reason of or any former marriage marage which shall have been pronounced void old by a valid vald decree of a competent court on the ground of or nullity nulty of or the marriage contract gund The provision In regard to bigamy fol lows Eer Every ners person n who no has ha a husband huband or wife wie living and who Is Js not publicly known In the community where he or she resides resides or where the offence Is commit ted to be a 3 married person parson peron who here hereafter hereafter after marries mares another anoter whether married maried or single is guilty of bigamy and shall be b punished by a fine of or not more than and by imprisonment In the state prison prison prison son for for a term of not more than five years year The last clause of or this tills section Is the same as a that of the thc preceding one The judiciary bill bi was referred to the committee c on |