Show A dark dirk but truthful picture tie the following pointed article Is taken from the new york berald herald of march which no doubt is true to the letter and if congress wishes to purge away the sins of 0 the people and of the nation the commencement should unquestionably be made cade at the seat scat of government as suggested and not in the territories where the right of oe the national legislature to interfere with the acts ands ande ocial institutions eif ebi the people are as admitted to say the least of it extremely doubtful if the iniquities of the district of 0 columbia can be removed and inhibited by a law of con gress ress no time should be lost in introducing a moral omnibus bill for that purpose but it is to be feared that such a measure if proposed would not meet with much favor from such members as howl most piteously about tha the sins of utah and talk so long and loud about the twin relics 04 0 barbarism it is very refreshing to see that some of the members of the house of representatives have been brought to a realizing sense of the public bublic scandal which wab was created by the tha connet duct cf of a portion of the house during the early part of the session and being thoroughly ashamed of the conduct of the blackguards black guards and bullies in and out of the hall hail of th e bous kous e having initiated a course of moral legislation by reporting a bill to prohibit polygamy in the territories this is all very well in the rev mr noel who has introduced his bill prohibiting hi 1 biting polygamy in utah but it if congress argi begins with legislating egi egl slating for the territories it might wight as well go on and enforce penalties against other sins committed on the borders a and n d the plains there are stealing and horse stealing and emigrant swindling and a number of other territorial pec peculiars peculiarly ties that m might 11 i ht be looked into there are some somo doubts as to how far the bower rower of congress extends in the territories and it appears aphea r s to us that the house need not to have lave gone all the way to utah for its moral recreation there is tile the district of columbia directly under the nose of the house smelling rankton eaven congress owns the district or of columbia and has exclusive power to legislate for it we ask the house then to purge the district and fumigate washington the house should go toworu to work and prohibit pol poi polygamy y and concus concubinage a e in the district it should close all the diaming gambling hells bells and add shut shui up the poisonous hor bor rooms of the Avenue and else where in the district it should prevent all thi thieving P vi and stealing and cheating and swindling g and swart houting WOUt lilg ilig public and private in the district it should banish for ever from washington a all ali 11 those gangs of half halt starved country editors from the north and west who hang barig on the skirts of every new congress seeking to steal from the funds of both houses by means of the printing job we believe that there here is more poly polygamy t amy more bouchery d more stealing more rascality and villainy of all kinds in the ten mile square than in all the territories put t together and the immaculate individuals who are engineering the polygamy doiy goly gamy law will do well ti prohibit all the C crying sins bins ng of the Dj district strict ina moral omnibus sli bill 1 then having plucked a bea beam ri out of their own eye territorial motes will gome some duly dilly ia in order if congress does not cleanse its conscience by some comprehensive clean sweep like this they had better send a special P e ci a I 1 committee ommittee to the lower regions and b bring 1 g up beelzebub Bel bei to take charge of the government ern ment lie he has a great reat deal to say about now low |