Show ONLY FOR UTAH THE appellate court of the district of columbia has decided in the case of surgeon crawford charged with the seduction of a girl at washington and soon afterwards prosecuted for fornication ni under the edmunds tucker law that alic statute in question doea not apply to the district of columbia the decision liolis that the statute was clearly intended to meet the practices of the cormons mormons in alie territory of utah and that when congress passed laws for tho district it usually included a statement to eliat deflect according to this remarkable decision says HiG News ao apparent in its conflict alie language of the law the cormons mormons Mor mons in idaho arizona and outside of utah are not subject to alie operations of the statute if judge bingham is right in excluding the district of columbia on the ground stated by him by no known process of logic could any territory or other place over which the united states have exclusive jurisdiction bo included if lie be correct then the law is a delusion and a snare and one of alie most gross and inexcusable pieces of special and therefore unconstitutional legislative hypocrisy ever perpetrated in this or adv other nation |