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Show POLYGAMY SHOULD DE II ADZ FELONY Senator Dubois Proposes to Bar Froia OGce Any Man Who Belongs to Organization Organi-zation Countenancing It WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. Senator Dubois of Idaho introduced the follow-ing follow-ing anti-polygamy resolution:, ' j "Resolved, That the' Committee on Judiciary be, and is hereby, authorized and instructed- to prepare and report to the Senate, within thirty days after th beginning of the next session of Congress, a joint resolution of the two houses of Congress, proposing to the several States amendments to the Constitution Con-stitution of the United States, which shall provide, in substance, for the prohibition pro-hibition and punishment of polygamous marriages and plural cohabitation, contracted con-tracted or practiced within the United States and in every place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, and which shall, in substance, also require re-quire all persons taking office - under the Constitution or laws of the United States, or of any State, to take and" subscribe to an oath that he, or she, is not, and will not be, a member or adherent of any organization, whatever, what-ever, . the laws, rules or nature of which organization require him to disregard dis-regard his or her duty to support and maintain the Constitution of the United States and of the several States." . i |