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Show ;j V IS THIS nEPCBMCAXlSM! The bill Introduced in Ibe SeDale by Mr. Edmund for tiie jiurpe of making most of the local offices . ' whIdiaranoweleetIv-,tlM)pnjierty ' of the Governor aud the (Juh Com-. Com-. ; miaaiua, lo fill as iiity may Otter. :': J mine, was omewba. chanced in i i committee, ami u as rejortcl to the ;- Senate on Jane 12. as fuilou-s J .Be U tanned fy tW &aoe and . Hqum f RepruuOativa tf the Pmted f ? tato m Omagra tatcmbied. That the jj esadtrg election districts am appor- i : tionments of representatives ooooern- lag the members of the Legislative ' .Assembly of the Territory of Utah are : hereby abolubed; and u tjjall be the s Amy of the Covemor, Territorial : I Secretary and the Board of t'oaimis- ; aimer jusBtioned in section nine of Hsoaete ODcgresii approied March twenty -weand. eighteen bund rid and efclirr-uro, eiuuled "An act m amend retfon tifty-tbree hundred and fiftypTri.of liwKensedStainte-, of the United fitaiea in reference to bi- psiy, and for other purpose," in csid Temtnj.y. as soon as practicable ; afiertne result of the Cessna of said j Territory to l-e taken in the year ' eighteen hundred Mid ninety hall be ' made known, to reub-tric; a.d i Tan-torr, and apportion repre- lentstives in the Kune in sui-a ' nmniwr as to provide. as nearly as the name may be, f-jr an eeraal re- ' pressotatioa of the people, cxceplin;; Indian not taxed, being citizens J ' the Urdtcd StateH. accuniin to nam- bin. in said legislative assemblr, and ' to the numbers of members of the ' Hmafl and bouse of representative, : respectively, J nox esubli'hed by i la'.v; and a recorj of the easabliiih- ' Bt of a-tch new dlsuicts, and tbe ' ajtooaJoBmen' of ivpmcootion there- ' Jo. ebail be nude in the office of th Metsaryof aid Territory and such : oon-'isroa nnul Ouigrca fchaii otber-wtoe otber-wtoe provide. fttl Tna: the fBces nf territorial anditor, treasarer, omtnisiumis to . leeau university UuU, j.robil. Jadgea, eoamy rje aelectmen, as-teoraf as-teoraf recorders and nperintendent cf dfenctaenooN m the Territory .f Utah are hersby vacated: and ail sn-li officers shall hereaf .tr be appointed by tbe governor of aid Territ ry, by and with tbe advice and consent of the board of eainmfesioners nientioned in section nine of the act of Congress approved ap-proved March tsreiuy-second.eigbun hnndred and eighty-ttva, emitted "An actoamaiid ecado fiftv-threc bun-dred bun-dred and fifty-two of the Revised Siatotasof the United Sales, in refer smee to bigamy, ami for other purposes;" pur-poses;" Pmcidcd. That where any oUi-eer oUi-eer above named ball now hold his oSce by virtue of appjjntment or coauaiHton from the f resident of the "United Suites for a dtfiate frm the rtrorisfansof this iteetiun khall not apply ap-ply until the expiration f told tern. "Sec 2. Thai the board of com-miasioneiB com-miasioneiB mentioned in section nine of the act of C"impre, approved March tweniy-secoa, eighteen hundred hun-dred and enty-two,ecii(led 'An act! t emend seeli'Mi nliy-thrra hundred andfifiy-twouf the Itevisr-d Suutes of the Dniled Sjles in reference to bigamy, and f..r other purposes," is hereby anthozized and empowered m its discretion to cause nw registrations registra-tions of voters in said Territory of Utah, orany part tirct.f, to be maie instead of revisions of previons lb, as now required by tho laws of said Terruory; and said lard is also here, by amnarixed ad empowered to make and enforeo rules and regola-tiosii regola-tiosii not rncoEsetteot with the laws of the United State for the conduct of restorations and elections in raid Territory. If this b repuiiticankm it Is of a very peculiar sort. Nothing like it bas been known U-fon- in Uio-o United States. That is to say, when a body of people numbering scans of tboufaads have- been prg,ni2l as. an incipient cotnmoniVfaUh,to grow InSu the fall Uature and .powers of StateliooJ, there was iiever estab-lisbed estab-lisbed within it an authority so antagonistic an-tagonistic to every principle of American freedom a- litis now proposed pro-posed for Utah. Is U possible tliat any of our Gi-n- I tile citizens, outride thr little oiiqut-of oiiqut-of conspirators against the jvaeeaiid welfare of the majority, can kok spoDtUJs measure witbin any ax-groo ax-groo of cniiilacr-iM-? I), thrv want tbe tt.ivcrnor aud lTtaU Commi&itm, wboge bill thatSenator Edmuudd has fathered this is said to be, to hold the ait x-ratic to wer it fKvpuaeaio place iu Inetr uati'Js. Bo the noa-'-.Morruon" residents of Ctalt understand tbe purp.irt f this aatj-republiciu Ititi? D they renlixe that if tbinrc.:nna lair tfc-y vrjll be reducoU aim r.t to the con lition f poittit a elave-ry? tVeshouli think ths non--'.Mor-man citizens of Uub w.nilJ ruunt tbbencroBCbmentaionUieir libcr-ties, libcr-ties, this overthrow of tbe rights of Ejjf-Sjvernmeot, just as mu'.b as cay Hormon" is hkHy to do. If Hie bill should become a law, ve coufldently prAlict that they will becoioe sicker of the conditions that will remit Uian will any ot the "Mormon" peopV. That there is not the slightest reason for such a law, and that It baa nut tbe remotest connection with the polygamy question, murt be clesr to everybody wlio tinder-Etands tinder-Etands the situation. And yet it H made aa amendment to the Act of Congress in reference to bigamy. Like tbe other new Jvimunu bill, this attachment is made to thmu-Oaslin thmu-Oaslin tbe eyes of members who anaSected with llie antl-nolygamy mwBhL Well, it will have to go tlirbugh bofii bouses and then become- ib-"JeettothescrtiUny ib-"JeettothescrtiUny of toe Preiiient basoieit beeauaa law, and many tilings auy happen before that takis Itece. |