Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-03-22 | Page 9 | Today is the Anniversary of - Polygamy Act

POL POLYGAMY Y ACT ACTOn ACTOn ACTOn On March 22 2 1882 congress passed the time Edmunds s act excluding bigamists and polygamists In th the UH territory of or Utah from fm-cm lom voting or hoJ holding inS inS' office A board of or five O commissioners was appointed b by tho ho president to control the time territory By revising tho lie registration of or voters and amid appointing ap ap- ap pointing election officers the tho commissioners commissioners com com- missioners In fri supervised an election of or a territorial delegate to cun congress Although l O were WE're excluded ex u. clu eluded ed from rom rein voting because they practiced polygamy the tIme Mormon lormon delegate was elected over o his Gentile lentile Gen len tile tilo opponent li h. h by a n. vote yote o oC of to Following an important trial In which the time supreme court of or the United States Slates upheld the constitutionality congH of or tho time E Edmunds act tho tIm president ent of ot time the Church of or time the Latter LaUer lay day Saints known as the time Mormon church chulch issued a it manifesto declaring he lie would ur urge C the thc ce cessation of ot all plural marriages marriaS and submit to the laws Jaws of ot th the United States Tho The church indorsed this tills stand