Show TI THE I 1 E ura uia 1113 1 LL iny INI TI THE IE S SENATE HN ATI a private dispatch we learn that the consideration of ilic utah bill 1111 was resumed in the senate yesterday it states estates that after a long iong discussion vests amendment was lost and the motion to strike out the tc first section rejected an amendment to the second section limiting detention to te ten da days asand and providing for recognize ance is now pending it is agreed to vae vote on the them bill and amendments at five tomorrow to morrow vests amendment it will be remembered was to modify the provision authorizing the arrest of a wife in order to compel her to testify against her husband it limited the cifes testimony to the fact that she had been lawfully married to the defendant it Is quite likely that the bill will be pushed through the senate but not probable that consideration of it will be reached in the house before adjournment journ ment the republicans want something in regard to ta utah to use in the presidential campaign and for this reason they are push pushing the measure championed by mr dir hoar hoping that the Democrats will win reject it in ake ane house so that the republican party may be able to show ghow what they would do with tile the mormons cormons Mor mons if they only had control of affairs the new now edmunds edmands bill with amendments by the judiciary committee still further amended by senator hoan contains several absurdities in addition tion to its harsh unjustifiable and un lin constitutional provisions among them are these asi reported byar fotr hoar and claimed as necessary in the interests of law and order in utah utah section el eight ellit hit lit provides pi ovidas that all laws of the legislative assembly of the territory of utah which provide for numbering or br identifying Identify in the votes of the electors at any election in said territory are hereby disapproved and annulled there is no such law in the territory of utah the re registration law whIch has been in force side since 1878 making makina it uni lawf lawful ul to place any I 1 ill Iii marks darks writing printing or device upon the envelopes containing tile the ballots and rendering render mg identification of the voter impossible impossibly senator hoar does not know this but he lip and his associate senators rs oi of the deceived into the belief that the votes are arc numbered and identified by law aw section eleven provides that all laws of the legislative assembly of the territory of utah which provide that prosecution for adultery can call only be commenced on the complaint of the husband or wife w jfe ife are hereby disapproved and annulled and all prosecutions for adultery may be hereafter instituted in the same way that prose cutigni for other crimes are there is no law in the statute book of utah which makes any such provision as that hereby sought to be annulled mr nir hoar informed the senate that A provision rov islon of the law of utah is Inte intended uSed to screen and promote and encourage this class of adultery in other words no man can cai be punished for adultery without the consent of his wife in iii licali no woman can be punished for adultery without the consent of her husband in uta utah h 1 this tills is entirely untrue there is no law intended to screen or promote or encourage any class of adultery Edul tery in utah 27 and nd no such provision as mr hoar names is incorporated in the territorial criminal lawand as proof of mr hoars haars consummate ignorance of the matter which he has undertaken to champion there is the edmunds law that he helped to pass and to which the present resent utah bill is designed as aa an ad provides a against dinst the cohabitation of a ulan man with any other lother woman than his bis wife and of a woman with a man married to another woman and prosecution Is not limited to the complaint complain t of the husband or the wife thus there is no local law such AS he says exists in utah but there is a ilaw of congress now enforce in force which makes kes the provision iov lov ision that he says gays does mot kot exist aw mr noar hoar says in support of the provision for tho appointment by the supreme pame courto court at a territorial j of j district schools tha that t as the law is now the person who is appoint ed must always be a mormon jormon a believer in polygamy my 4 he axe argues further in favor 0 of f this provision that books of a sectarian character will then be prohibited as text books bouks in fhe f the he schools and he says we find schools estable established shed where lie lle re the he textbooks text books ard selected wholly to instruct tho yo youth uth of that community in a doctrine inconsistent as we believe nol not only onla with christianity but with civilization itself ller here mr hoar is in error again th the law does not provide lovide that the superintendent of bistrica Bi district strict schools or any other school official in utah s shall shail h all ail be a mormon in polygamy ambor or in any tenet of any faith under t the e sun and the text books used in our district schools as we have shown many times are arc selected from the best that can be found in the united states and are not denominational but strictly secular and the same that are in use in many parts of the union own state included these few citations show that senator hoar does not know what he be is talking about they prove that the senate committee on judiciary have recommended something that they have not duly considered that the tile highest branch of the national legislature is engaged in passing laws for utah based on misinformation and I 1 ignorance of the situation what can be cc expected from such legislation can anything but confusion and failure be the result the controversy that has grown out of the discussion of this alif bill between senator brown broww and senators hoar and ingalls has taken ta ken a wide field A and nd the question arises what have the alleged immoralities of massachusetts or of georda georgia to do with the bill in relation to utah should congress fall fail to correct evils in a territory over which it claims supreme control because as great greater or worse evils exist in states over which it has no control the questions are pertinent and in one sense they indicate inconsistency on the part of those who wilo have en engaged a ed in the dispute buethe but the object 07 of senator brown in referring to the social disorders of massachusetts was quite roper proper in view of the facts ili in the case mr hoar has figured as the champion ch of morality and christian civilization in his ills zealous raid upon utah utai i rell reli religion I 1 law and social purity have have been fi his is watchwords in the tho arat irai fray utah he de dei 1 cia cla dares res is so d dreadfully read f I 1 corrupt that the national power must be used to cleanse her skirts and correct her bodily disorders A great deal of the senators energy is misdirected lie he is whacking away ut at imaginary evils and he has exhibited so much holy enthusiasm at alleged tiek ties and e exaggerated fax fag wrongs that senator brov Broi brown thought advis advisable able abie to hold up to ills his view some of the tile undoubted and undeniable lable labie corruptions corrupt ions and in f mies of his own state and ne nc h ham haa 11 proved that the source from which proceeds the greatest influence for the castigation of utah is vastly more foul and filthy than this distant territory is even alleged to be no wonder that the son of massachusetts chu quivers under the lash applied to him and being belne unable to dispute the facts cited endeavors to turn them off or twist them round to apply to georgia as much as massachusetts it is a very pretty quarrel and if it does not touch the main question it serves to show up the of those who have sprung it fallacy of the their I 1 i r pretence predence pre tence about regard for 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