Show 1KESS j COUMEvT ON THE IIMHO i CONsTITUTiON I r THE Xew York Tnhtinc has the following in reference to tire jnwa gc by the Home of the Idaho bill tuour friends tho enemvare by no means eo eager M they lately pro fese to be in regard to a judicial de iLsjon on the right of the Speaker or the House of Representatives to declare de-clare that members who am visibly I and nnmI < takaUy present are actually and gally present In faei it looks now as if their iwlratu Je in the matter I had completely ebbed away and that I particular their avowed detcrmlna tion to make a test of the vote on the I Idaho Mil was only a trick to conceal I their real friendship teethe Mormons The Republican a we have said b fore have nothing to Jose from an appeal ap-peal to the Supreme Court and evl deatiy the Dot n now con rfnced that they hae notbiog to ir in ezeept their own confusion and the rtdlenle of th people The malice accompanying the insinuation of Democratic friendship friend-ship for the Mormon is too pal paWetoe capeDotIcea Is thefuither fet that the insinuation is made for the purpose of serving ncHct upon Democratic members that If they oppose this Idaho bill affiliation with the Mormons will be charged as their motive however apparent may b the fact that they oljcct 10 the measure far constitutions 1 reasons reas-ons Such a method of intimidation intimida-tion l infamau The New York Jjrefi at p a similar strain in speaking of the minority reX > rtof the lou ommUte of which Mr Springer was oils of the signers ignoring the vital constitutional propositions upon which i a based The St Louis lieimVie shows Ulat it comprehends the situation and the force of some of the taints male oy ueiegaie uaice against the bill I says The tet < nih clause of the Idaho constItution for which every Itepnb lican In both lou of Congress will vote santalna a remarkable declaration declara-tion of absolute State abolnte Slo sovereignty Thcdaundisfranebiws sod jendeni civilly infamous Mormons and all who toeh or ad vlso that tho laws of this State prescribing rule of civil conduct are not the supreme law of the State The Intention of Ihn I merely to deny all right of ai rgbt private lodgment as against the action of the State legislature und t render impossibly im-possibly among citizens of the State vrlntii commonly called liberty of conscience bat the declaration I a o much a bar against loyalty t the Con Rlltutlon of the United fcutos as it I against loyalty to conscience In mat leI a of religion I makes the legRit ing majority supreme and absolute Uponother features of the matter the Memphis Ardtandie treats intlie following vigorous ftyle Tlie shamele sness of tho Repub RPDb lican majority in the House was Illos trale4 yesterday In its action on the = y bill admitting Jdaho Inlo the Union The Democratic minority offered an DeoUc mlnorly ofer amendmenfrequlring the submission of iho consntationof the candidate far cndte Statehoodfto a ior the people as bad been done in the cam of tliojwo Dakotas Montana and Wasbington It was rejected Why Idaho should bo osccpted from the rule was not stated by any member who voted that way but the reason was patent It was feared that the people of the Territory Ter-ritory would reject the constitution which had been fixed l bj a packed convention in the interest of tho Republican Re-publican party For brazen disregard of popular rights this I without p allelreven in therecord of Tom Reeds Rump Parliament The Democrats ref alned from voting on tho final passage of the bill thus breaking the quorum but iteei drew his utIle pencil I pen-cil nnd made out the majority he wanted anothcroutrage has been added to tho Speakers malodorous lst and Idaho becomes a State with anhinltTo her people staining the first page oIlier history Meanwhile New Mexico and Arizona superior to Idaho In populatlop and resource are refused admission bccarse they happen to be Democratic I TheSt Paul n praises the Idaho constitution and atrlbutes I political Instead of constitutional motives t the Democratic members of Congress their attitude on the Idaho bill The Pittsburgh Gal I expresses the game sentiments The New York HurW on the other 11nd lndTewbIefenInces shows the danger and corruption embodied In the proposed conrtitu Uota for Idaho significant feature feat-ure of the debate on tills question between the newspapers of tlie I fpetUve portico I the alienee of any attempt on the part of thaw which tsrouse Ui Idaho bill at argument from constitutional premise The organic law of the nation Is Ignored by them Their contempt for I makes their opponents oppon-ents position based r rolldly upon It aU the more striking It a |