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Show ANTI-POLYGAMY BILL IS PASSED IN IDAHO BOISE, Ida.. Feb. 11. The House passed the Senate administration anti-polygamy anti-polygamy measure." It also recommitted the Judge's change of venue bill. The vote on the polygamy bill follows: Ayes Allen, Ashley, Aulbach. Avery, Belcher. Bell, Bennion. Bush. Christensen, Fuld. Goodnight. Gorby. Hamlll. Jensen. Klrkpatiick, Logue, Magill, MacBratney, McKinlay, Moore. Mullaley. Nelson. P-r-ter. Richards of Bear Lake. Saee, Sehutt. Smith of Latah. Smith of Nez Perce, Spaulding, Stephens. Sweetzer, Thomaa, Tlmm. Turner, Webster. Wright 36. Nays Adkison, AIney, Anderson. Donaldson. Don-aldson. Foster, France, Johnson. Morgan. Powers. Richards of Ada, Richards of Canyon. Smith of Washington li Absent-Gray. Not voting Speaker Hunt. . , The vote on the aduitery bill was 4i to 1, Johnson casting the negative vote. The debate occupied the entire afternoon after-noon session. Judge Richards made nn extended speech. He concentrated hK efforts ef-forts to opposition to the anti-polygamy bill. He discussed it from both a political politi-cal and from a legal standpoint. Respecting Respect-ing the politics involved, he said the measure meas-ure did not carry out the promises maJe by the Republican party daring the campaign. cam-paign. He knew this, he said, because he was one of those who went all over the Slate voicing the Instructions of the State committee on the subject. The people had been told by the Republican Re-publican party that legislation would be enacted covering every phase of the nue.i-ticn nue.i-ticn of purity of the home in Idaho, on which the. Democrats had harped incessantly inces-santly during the campaign, it had not promised, however, to select any particular particu-lar class and make It the object of the stigma. The antl-po!ygamy bill, he deeiared. cast reproach upon a certain class, while an attempt was made to put the Republican party in the attitude of holding them guilty of the acts'churged against them. The Republican party did not, he continued, con-tinued, uclieve the Mormon people had violated the sacred pledges In connection with the manifesto, bat the enactment of any law containing the word polygamy, served notice that, after all. the partv believed be-lieved thnne people guiity of breaUing their promise and that the legislation was necessarv in c rder to discipline them. What he wanted, he said, was a law that placed all on the enme plane. Mormons, Mor-mons, Catholic. Baptist, Methodist, and all other church and non-church people. Ho was opposed to any enactment that wou d cast odium unnecessarily upon a class, when the desire of the people, and of th.! Republican party, was to make the corrective cor-rective legislation general both in letter and In spirit and to remove the questions at isue forever from political considera- 'lie declared that he did not believe the Legislature should give weight to the claims, made on b-half of the party, by one man, presumably referrins to li.e Governor, to the exclusion of the claims made on behalf rf the party by others who were as close to the party and who had ever stood for the highest standards. The Republican party, he said, had not demanded such a law as that under discussion, dis-cussion, but Dubois and the Democratic party had. and to enact it would be to follow the Democracy and make laughing stock of the Republican party. As to the legal aspects of the bill, the speaker said It would be Impossible to enforce it, because be-cause the marriage could not be proven. Fveryone understood this, he said, and everyone must understand the insincerity behind it. The Richards change of venue bill , would have been recommended for passage pas-sage by the committee, but for an op-polog op-polog speech by Spenker Hunt. Mormon. Mor-mon. It was recommitted to the Ju-diciarv Ju-diciarv committee hb a compromise. It Is believed It will yet be passed. |