| Show ta mums TUB till limi IS BILL A OF LW LAW A BID FOR FOIL PERJURY S sal nors ors of a big land steal washington feb 10 1886 special to tu ilia jackson Jacki ion tenn tena bladed in discuss ii the mormon question lit in the united states senate the senators seen to havo have lost last their haada in dealing daaling with the he great crest problem ir and ignored entirely the distinction between prosecution and persecution nothing since the foundation of tile the world has been ac by persecuting either in divi duala duals or communities when you oneo once arouse the old adorn adam in a 11 man by forra force you develop all that is bad in ili his nature all that la Is deh ant in lily his soul the laws palsied long since fur ilia suppression of polygamy poly eamy in utah ut ah and other territories by Cung Cun giess toas are full and ample for rif nil purposes they bey are clear and distinct in their features and when properly executed Is all that la Is required the trouble rouble Is ie under former administration ad min istra lion of hortia of utah both executive and judicial the laws have out lout been properly administered nor has this question been dealt with its conart 89 I 1 intended it 11 should be for a long line back the officers of the taw law claimed that they could riot not enforce the law for the ilia reason that it wan ina fro poya 1108 ibia tu to obtain evidence la in polygamy cases yet hardly had mr air clove ihna been inaugurated before these very same officers discovered disco derod that the he very evidence they had so BO long sought was waa lying around loep as it were and immell clely many arrests and convictions vict ions of leading member luem bera of the mormon cherchi and all this prior to iho puisne of edmunds bill by the senate I 1 am oot not to be understood as do de feodine polygamy or its practices practice but I 1 do insist that r ight Is right and wrongs wrong done u under n der coyer cover of law are unjust and nd cru cruel 1 and cowardly and uti becoming a great government like our own and that the prejudices of one man should not be allowed to sway gway the governments action in this question of dealing with the tha mormons cormons Mor mons it requires great moral courage to espouse the unpopular side alde jofs ool no matter what justlee t the a unpopular pol 1 ar side may possess but it must mufit be said to the credit of the tha U SS enate thero there were eight members who tho courage to vote against tile edmunds Edmu odi bill while ahila I 1 advocate measures to eradicate polygamy I 1 cannot endorse the ed mundil mundi dill bill for its prominent fea faa turca lures are in direct conflict with law and judgment founded upon the deepest and soundest principles pies of our nature mature the earn edmunds u ads bill in the first section provides that the husband or the wife of a person accused of polygamy bigamy or unlawful cohabitation shall be a eom politest pell poli tent witness and compelled com to 10 testify tastily without the ibe consent of the wife Rs aa the case may be now vry every indri of common intelligence knows this Is I 1 in n direct violation if well defined principles of law BUS aus talked over adrain by the ilia supreme court of the united states pirl principles net ples chien have constituted the base cfall of all domestic relations relation and the tha basis of civil society and to break down or impair the sacred rotation relation between husband and wife would soon destroy all that is good in ito human existence and openly opeal y bid for perjury of the worst order orde r would not lie he legal are wire even in these yeas casts teeing her husband liua band in danger deliberately forswear fora wear herself to save him from prison tho the second section provides that witnesses may be attached without a previous subpoena this ly a flagrant or the constitutional tut ional hinal guarantee or of por pors ional liberty or of the citizen which congress con grcia nor court has li a right to construe or alter without changing tion of the united unified states scalea mr E edmunds d ao an a lawyer knows this but he has allowed his personal perso aal feelings to blind him in this MO calls the third section of this bill makes poly gamy bigamy and unlawful cohabitation greater crimes than trea irenaea or other felony the fifth section authorizes the search for documentary evidence of mar inar fil fillice lige here Is another direct con filet with law and justice Juit lre arid and it gives elves the evil dispo ie officer of the law unlimited power for evilio in creany jure any citizen against whom he may joel feel a personal grudge although the cli citizen may not be accused of crime the officer may take this mode I 1 0 ratify his peronail pe ronal spite 1 01 6 by elliis suspicion silon hii upun theli e I 1 h lie this 1 Is abominable to say hay the lh least the esth and oth sections of mr edmunds hill bill exposes ills his gross gram ig K loranco of t the he ex sit it i lown af f utah territory there Is no lawin utah which provides for I 1 he numbering or identifying of ballots nor la Is there any criminal or civil jurisdiction exercised by tho lie probate courts such law havin been ovar tell years ago ne the he provides for debar debarrios illegitimate children of any share in thel their r ruthers thera fu estate this Is not only illiberal but it why visit the bius oft oaths he rattler father upon tho help tiel less leas children the section of tills this bill authorizing the appointment of fourteen trustees to talca take charge 0 of f tho ilia temporal affairs of tie the mormon eh church savors very much of the old lilue blue laws of the iha puritanical lays days of ilia past land and betrays ills his venom if nothing taking tile the bill its as a whole holo it 11 b Is very that it passed tile the senate semite and it if called up again would bo be defeated knowing mr air Edin BI as a t chuning legisla niela le tor lor I 1 just BLI suspect that some home snap judgment taken upon the senate to lo pass this bill in the tha hurry lie he fill did ll it bu I 1 there wore were bionto tomo who would not allow mr edmunds who to lend ead them hem bit blindly adly noto alo it hla Is inan 4 ures urea against their nv lct tell of if right anti teller of colorado had t the to moral courage to ta may euy this bill I 1 waa wrong and voted accordingly he tersely malt cald 1 I aaa fur taking nil ill legislative power alway from froin tile the cormons mormons Mor arid and venting it in congress and while I 1 undertake to defend the constitutional rights ar pf the poole people 1 I have no sympathy with their teach inge political or force begets force and if ifal t as esa peo p a are robbed rabbet of ty and rights brider tile hie provi provisions signs bill they ivill surely burly retaliate I 1 any if we or to have such law as ai he I 1 bill provides pru vitie let its provisions us senator meats intend appy to jonelle Jon tile and Mori mormon tion alike all ovir over our republic Kt RO public and I 1 do not hesitate heel tate to say eay this bill too loukia ks very much like alko a gigantic land steal of the utah ring which should have bean curved adrift froin frain office by mr cleveland long ago aeo 0 |
