Show the utah delegate in obedience to a resolution of the house passed on the of may 1874 instructing the committee eon on elections to investigate the charge that geo Q cannon delegate from the territory of utah was living in a state of practical polygamy in defiance of united states law having married a fourth wife subsequent to the date of the passage of the prohibitory law and report to the house the result result of such investigations and recommend such action on the part of the house as shall seem meet and proper in the premises 15 reports that it requested the ab above ve named george Q cannon to appear before the said committee and was informed by him that he be had no objections to the use of the testimony taken in the contest between george IR maxwell and himself and that be had no desire to submit any testimony or statement to the committee by way of contro averting the same the committee subsequently ie requested quested the tho said george Q cannon to appear before the comm committee attee on the occasion taking the te testimony stimon of miss misa belle kimball hereinafter set forth mr cannon appeared but declined to cross examine said witness and again indicated that he had no evidence or statement to submit the committee then submits the affidavits of numerous witnesses to prove cannons polygamous life among them mrs emeline smith sarah M pratt wife of orson pratt dr forman and many others the committee after this evidence recites the act of or prohibiting polygamy gamy and the following act which passed the at its last session june juno 10 1874 be it enacted by the senate an house TI ouse of representatives of ati iii united states of america in gross assembled no person ter shall be a delegate in the thedous of representatives from any of th territories of the united states shall not have attained the age twenty five years and been years a citizen of the united states and who shall not when elected bean be an inhabitant of the territory which he shall be chosen and such person who is guilty either bigamy or of polygamy shall be eligible to a seat as such delegate it then proceeds notwithstanding this fact the said delegate a candidate at the recent election and was actually elected for same territory in the forty i congress your committee think the evidence d e unchallenged as it is by U delegate 1 I gate establishes that at date of his election to wit on or th ath day of august an gust 1872 1972 and prior I 1 thereto the said delegate was st still is openly living and coha bitin with four women as his wives d the pretended sane bane sanction tion of a tern of polygamy which system h notoriously indorses endorses indor ses and upholds violation of the statute of united states approved july above quoted the committee les by recommendation that the be adopted resolved that george Q cannon delegate from utah being found upon due consideration the evidence submitted and contradicted by sai said ld cannon to b an actual polygamist and to married hla hia fourth wice wife three other wives then in the month of august 1865 open and notorious violation of th law of july 1 1862 forbidding marriage and declaring the to be a crime punishable both fine and imprisonment and it ap lie that lie he still maintains polygamous practices in den def of law is deemed unworthy to oc cupy a seat in the house of representatives senta tives as suh such delegate that lie he be expelled washington ashington lV national lra lna jan n 2 22 2 the sherl sheriff ins irs s of london rec ree applied for the privilege of or driving especially on state occasions through st SL jame joined il and parks in order to shorten the tiie dis tance between their private residences and the city the annive they tiley received was a polite s sio n of re regret ret that an of precedents by the of the home office had resulted the information that the rules 0 exclusion nad not relaxed in of the city officials speculations s upon the coming comin a begin to occupy tho female |