Show washington N NOTES OTT S in the house howe today to day mr neck beek bec nee in in ini 1 produced trod a bill which was referred I 1 to means committee to authorize llie ilie commissioner of internal revenue to compromise cases arising under the internal revenue laws in which penalties and forfeitures may have been incurred without fraudulent intent the bill provides that whenever for an alleged violation of the internal revenue laws any any person who shall be charged with having incurred any fine penalty or forfeiture shall present his petition to the judge of the district in which the alleged violation occurred or in which the property is situated setting forth truly and particularly the facts and circumstances of the case and praying for relief such judge shall if the case in ills lils judgment requires proceed to inquire in in a summary manner into the circumstances of the case at such reasonable time as may be fixed by him for that purpose of which the district att attorney oriley orisey and internal revenue collector shall be notified by the petitioner in or der that they may attend and show cause why the petition pe should be refused section 2 1 provides that the summary investigation may be held before the judge to whom tile the petition is presented or if he shall so direct before any U S commis bloner stoner or internal revenue collector for such district and the facts appearing thereon shall be stated and annexed to the petition and to together with a cert certified if led copy of tid the evidence transmitted without cost or expense to the petitions r t tr the commissioner of internal revenue who shall thereupon have power to mitigate or remit such fine penalty or ir forfeiture or remove such disability or any part thereof ir if in his opinion the same shall have been increased without wilful negligence or any intention or of fraud in the person or persons incurring the same and to direct the prosecution if any shall have been instituted for the recovery thereof to cease and be discontinued discontinue d upon such terms or conditions a as he ma may y deem reasonable and just arasa in ington 9 ton con sta maj hav 11 1 3 congress and the twin nelc 11 WA T may uny 13 IS 74 for t twenty we nty years more or less congress has been tinkering and tampering with that public nuisance ranee ance known as mormon polygamy but tile the two houses have never honestly and resolutely grappled with it and hence it has continued to f flourish notwithstanding that tha famous maill maili manifesto fosto gosto of 1854 upon which the republican party parta was founded requiring tho the extirpation root and branch of those twin relics of barbarism slavery und and polygamy yesterday however ir hazelton brought the house to a direct vote on the question of polygamy which looks 11 like ilke e business elder cannon canno of thie the latter latier day saints hants as the the sitting delei delegate ate from utah no doubt supposed that there was an end of bf the cont copt controversy roversi as to bis title after the committee on elections ions had bad been sustained by a large majority of the house on their heir t resolution Iti tion declaring said sani cannon duly elected but the charges brought before the commatee com mUtee by the contestant ro nor for C cannons aurion s p place I 1 a ce tiie tile maxwell from sait gait lake lag city were here submitted to tc the nou hou house ej fi birst in the the form of a preamble in dElder sai sal deider can cau cannon cannou n on as a 4 pac PIC pae lical weal polygamist stilt li living and cohabiting ing with fiur women as aj his hii is under the p pre rd tended sanction of amx ary apy a system py etem af gamy a ay iy which sy system stelli steril tle ile notoriously in indorses endorses indor dor ses and upholds ag a statute of the united 81 tates state ap coved july 1 1839 1859 1852 which declares his polygamy ny to be a felony 11 ac c and secondly in n the norm hou bou form of a resolution anstr instructing the committee on election into gito to inquire into tile the truthfulness of said saig charges against thea theall theraid II to recommend such action on the tho pare part of the house as the iram tram committee cittee may deem meet and proper kroper proper and abid the resolution wa wal adopted yeas nays liapis 51 the fifty one members in the negative holding that it is not a duty daty of either house of aon congress to go into the private character terae of its members but hazelton against this mis plea piea submitted the facts that mormon polygamy is a C public sr scandal indal and anda a disgrace to the coull couii country try and the house was wa g bound to meet it ibb accordingly and bothe so the committee on elections is under instructions to inquire first Is E eider mider ider lder cannon the sitting delegate from utah a practical polygamist cohabiting with four women ug as his wives and in defiance of the act of Con congress gregs of 1882 1852 making mormon polygamy a felony second if the committee find that said elder cannon i is the tho p practical i rac polygamist as eha eba charged then they must recommend sueh such action on the part of the tho house as they think tile the enormity of lof the felony demands to say nothing of the oti original ginal platform of the rep republican publican p party a r ty j under these Instruct instructions ions iong there can be no doubt that the committee will report that the high crimes and misdemeanors of said elder cannon as a mormon polygamist disqualify him from holding adding the position of a territorial delegate in congress and that accordingly his election be declared vold void and his hh seat vacant that the committee will report some such resolution it is morally certain that it j will be adopted when brought to the vote no man can doubt but do not imagine that elder cannon will have no defence to make as a man of four or five wives now living under ills his patriarchal roof in salt lake city all awaiting impatiently his return home and praying for a speedy termination to this ion lon long iong session aslon of congress brother mac nac cannon will face the music and says that he will establish his defence on the rock of ages and the rock of the constitution he will plead first the divinity of the mormon yas established by jacob the father of r israel srael and as followed by david and solomon and as proclaimed in the divine law to the latter day Sain saints tsin in the revelations to their prophets joseph and Brig hamand second that by tile the constitution of the united states congress is de barred from making any law respecting an establishment of religion and anda consequently has no authority under the constitution to pass any law respecting or interfering with the religion of the mor mons which embraces this institution of polygamy this we understand will bo be the line iino of the mormon delegates defence incidentally however he will probably refer to to some examples of polygamy or adultery within the congressional calendar and outside th the I 1 mormon sanctuary erl eri entitled titled to some bome consideration ti on in view of evenhanded justl fusti justice 1 ce to 31 mormons cormons 0 rmon s and gentiles in the reminiscences suggested the black sheep of both houses bouses of congress before during and even since pince the war would woula formet is salda saida dreadful catalo cataio catalogue guo buethe but bub the mormon delegate for all that will not be kicked out of congress without giving a kick ortho or two iii hi return Y 7 aeral Ye Y rat tat |