Deseret Evening News | 1901-12-09 | Page 3 | To Prohibit Polygamy

TO ill Womans n I Wants hl I iii Amended Washington hlll ton flee Dec a II h held M her 1111 today at HIP fbi First Congregational under the auspices of ot the Womans International union n it resolution ida tion was nn an amend maim inne to tl time the h constitution II lion prohibiting po polygamy within th time the domain of the time Unit Uniti ed fill i Amid anil urging time till passage by bythe bythe the prent engross Congress of ot a bill with that object in view vi viA A preamble expressed tho the belief hellet that l as Oil taught by Jy the time Church of or orIn In Saints faints Is still a It part hart of their theirl l ell f anti practice that thai the laws of ot nah ar are Inadequate Inn to suppress It and there Is no WilY way by hy which this offense ran Iun fin b bi be reached so en o satisfactorily us as through h the constitution of or the United State hot HI Dr nr a II member of ot the Presbyterian home mission board of New N ew w York city llY presided lre 1 Addresses were rl made by Hev ne Luther B U WI Wl son non of Washington Rt N 7 E g I Colemon Coleman Ron non pastor of ot tho the church St It Logan Logon Utah He Frederick D 1 Power pastor of the Vermont avenue church and Ilov UtI As lisa 11 8 S sho lIko all nil far tl oring time the proposed l amendment A 4 letter Willi rend read from Y YUi 1 ci Ui rlee of ot Washington In which he lie expressed time the earnest hope that the amendment could be ho curried carried unit add addIn In ft I is pimplY in line with nil all of ot our American traditions Hev It declared that poly polygamy gamy gain Is spreading In Utah