| Show DEMO ORATIO sentiments in reply to the bitter barlang ceol mr perkins winch was frequently applauded appl a eded on tha Ite republican publican side bide of the house mr washington representing democracy arose and said mr speaker just one statement and then so far as ai this is concerned wo we are ready to vote ote 1 I was astonished to hear my illy colleague on oil tha committee com mitlee state that this bill changed tile condition of affairs in utah so as to turn the entire control of the territory over to the mornion mormon church there is nothing in 4 the I 1 to bi bill 11 t that licit can a accomplish c com that end this bill imply allows the people of the territory of utah in addition to otheir legislature and the officers who they now under the alic law la v elect to choose their executive officers andson le evan or eight judges e to comprise alie court these judges are to have control of such neail matters only as ae originate in the territory between citizens or of tile the territory orv there is to be a united states ji district strict judge over the territory of utah butali only on one instead of of four as at present but that one is to luve a e all the authority to enforce e tile the laws of tho united states arain against L st polygamy and nil all other 1 0 civil and arii criminal ninal that is is now possessed poss eted by the four the edmunds tucker buckar law will be in as full force and effect after the passage of this bill as it has been ever 0 since its enactment in issa this is ia simply a democratic measure to 0 give a community which lias has been unjustly branded for years the ri ca lit to control its local af affairs lairs and the opposition to this bill comes only from those who believe that these poor people who have gone thousands of miles into the deseret and made it to blossom as is as rose are democrats that is the reason the only reason of odthe the opposition no democrat came before the committee on oil territories to 0 o protest against this bill dot one one man mail appeared who claimed to be a democrat but he went to chicago and demanded admittance to the national convention ven tion As tho the demand was refused ho he called himself a liberal all democratic gentles of the territory endorse this law not because they do not believe that the people of utah are entitled to full fello fellowship in the union of states but because they know that by such men my friend from iowa mr air perkin 13 and others other 8 that harbor that passion and prejudice the boon of ignorance that utah is ig not believed to be lit fit for statehood and for that reason only they then I 1 ask this little 0 of f self govern ment if it is granted within the next two or four years they know that they can call giove piove to the satisfaction of the lie lj people olle of the forty f arty four other states they ire are lit fit to bo be trusted with all the afie powers of sovereign state in ill the lie union apala applause L that is what they ask the passa passage te t e of this bill for I 1 reserve the remainder of my illy time hut but for the limited time alloi allowed ed for debate a number of democratic 1 would have spoken in ill its support among these were mr of indiana mr cul boitson of texas and mr inith of arizona mr renia remarked ked to perkins that ihal it looked strange that republicans required proof from t lie mormon people that conditions have changed while they ire are at tile s mc till time io unwilling 1 to allow ali I 1 low that hi at people to conduct their own elections in older to demonstrate tile the fact |
