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Show TO MAKE WAY FOR UTAH. A resolution I'ropnsin.; mi Anti-Polygamy Amendment to tlm V. H. Constitution. Washington, Feb. 3. The question of L'lah statehood ia likely to become one of the political issues of the present congress. A hill is now pending In the house for the admission of that territory as a state, and yesterday Representative Bushnell (Wis. eonsiu), introduced a resolution on the sub. jeet. The resolution declares that Utah has a larger population than the three adjoining states of Wyoming, Jldaho and Nevada com. bined; that the president in his last annual message recommended that Utah be kept out of statehood until there was satisfactory evidence that effective biws against polyga. my were made and maintained, because as a territory congress could reach and punish polygamy, while as a state it could not do so. "He said that if the United States eonstltu-tion eonstltu-tion were amended so aa to prohibit polyg. amy, then there would be no excuse for not admiting I'tah as a slate. There was to be submitted to the several states the follow, ing, to be known as Article XVI, of Ihe amendments thereto. Polygamy shall never exist In the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdic. tion. Congress shall have the power to make all needful law for the enfercment of Ihe article aud punishment of iu violation." . . -. |