| Show PLEA I 1 A washington special to the philadelphia press says they say the mor mons must so go said the mormon delegate to congress yesterday but I 1 say they lowi wont go and that fact might as aswell well weli be recognized in dealing with the question 11 mr calne caine looked as determined as though talking on a matter of life or death and emphasized the words as vigorously as though heyada he had a sympathetic salt lake city audience in front of him ho he has nothing of the typical mormon in his bearance pe arance medium in height rather slender in build with brown hair lightly threaded gitil with gray and mustache landside and side whiskers of the same color he looks rather like ilke a gentleman of studious habits than a member of the bitterly attacked hierarchy of the alleged prophet joseph smith he followed 16 wed mr cannon as the dele delegate ate of utah to con congress ress when that individuals rather extensive family arrangements caused his retirement and was returned at the first election after the edmunds law went into operation at a cost of to the united states el and with a larger majority than cannon had secured in washington mr vir caine lives quietly with his only wife at a pleasant place on fourteenth street and takes little part in the social gaieties gaie gale ties of the cal cai capital few speeches have been made by him and few bills introduced lie he has expressed his opinion however on anti antl mormon legislation and his own bill making utah a state is his bis contribution aution to the ille flood of proposed legislation j I 1 regarding it sitting in ane one of the rooms of the lobby while the patriots inside were all vainly trying to get a dron the mississippi appropriation ai bill mr I 1 caine talked at some length lengthen on the bills against polygamy and their results dont call cali the edmunds bill a fall fail tire are said he for it has done exactly what was expected preventing polygamist mormons cormons from botin voting the you young n m men en who did vote did nor not not sneer atthe at their i parents who could not vote and the mormons cormons were able to carry elections over the liberal ring of the territory laws like those which mr cullom favors and which the presidents message recommends commends Xe taking away the night right to vote irom everybody and placing a commission over the territory will only increase the evil by making guilty and innocent sufferers of the same punishment under the edmunds bill only poly roly polygamists amista are dis franchised but unter under mr Cul cui colloms proposed act monogamists are treated the same way under the former there would be some reason for remaining with a single wife but if everybody is to be punished for polygamy everybody might as well be guilty of it the fact is that these reformers want to break up the system and the church at once and that cant be done senator edmunds more sensible says that it is a matter of time mr edmunds is now trying to strengthen his old act by a number of most unconstitutional provisions and is remembered that they were suggested and will be construed and enforced by the people in the territory who are the most bitter enen ener enemies lles iles of the mormons cormons Mor mons it is evident that they take away even our rights as human beings the first section of the bill which makes a wife a competent witness and says that either husband or wife may ay be compelled to testify against the other is in direct opposition to the practice and the courts and the rules of evidence as followed everywhere in the second section an attachment for a witness is permitted without a previous which will allow witnesses to bo be arrested and thrown in jail for something they may know nothing about to hinder anyone of my enemies for instance in that ruling ring of utah from saying that I 1 know something about some case of polygamy and me locked up in jail to gratify gratia his spite to hinder any alentine gentile enemy of a mor mon from tearing him from his hii home homie and family legally 1 I remember a young woman and child bein being locked up for months because she would not say who las was the childs father would not testify mos mes L gally faily sally against her husband not so bad but ut still equal to the old french lettre lewe de cachet t is the section allowing a descent on a house and the reading and overturning of all private papers to discover a c certificate of marriage if some one happens to think there is one concealed there the most interesting experiment against the mormons cormons was that of woman suffrage you can remember bow how man it t wa was I 1 s u urged ged lears years ago that the women were h held hela e in bondage without the right to say their souls were ware their thoi rown own I 1 bilt if they got gota ii a chance toc to cometo din to the mhd polls regularly they would ildon soon get enough control of legislation to force their husbands hns bands and the mormon leaders to treat them fairly and finally to beat awn the system said to be beo heo 0 repugnant to them but in point of fact the women were as strong advocates of polygamy as the men then the reformers said they were driven to the polls in masses by their husbands and compelled to vote according to dictation and the edmunds edmunda bill in response to such su suggestion stion unjustly prohibited wives wires of polygamists from voting I 1 say unjustly because the dirst first wife of a poly hamist a mist was not responsible f for or her bands husbands ius lus f future marriages and should not have been punished for kr them she had every right to be on an equality with the wives of monogamists so far as punishment for crime Is s concerned and what was the result not the overwhelming oi of the mormon majority by any means the new act therefore proposes to do away with that injustice by one more sweeping act and abolish female suffrage altogether the new bill also provides for a reapportionment of the territory to enable the governor and his friends to stay in power and for a continuance of the well paid edmunds edmund commission by the innocent ending endina of the act which provides that no election laws or a appointments point ments of the legislature shall shail be ac in force until approved by congress the commission takes charge of elections and remains in office until the le legislature slature elected under their supervision vision makes provision for registration gi and election offices suppose they are sent le legislation arranged so that thai congress won wont t approve it or suppose congress is not in session or that the approval is delayed the commission naturally would have to hold ovar over with 1 vi th probable satisfaction to themselves I 1 dont thib thin think this bill will pass but it if the worst comes to the w worst arst we will have to bear whatever is put upon us we cant escape people fl e who talk about our in moving oving away from r om utah seem to think that P people ople opie with their homes and possessions can be transferred bodily from state to state it if utah were admitted as a state I 1 dont see why the statutes now existing would not be sufficient there are penty plenty of laws against bigamy and tind polygamy why make any new ones As to tile tite the most effective method of attacking polygamy mr caine was silent but as to whether the practice would woula ever be given up by the church he answered a decided no it was not thought necessary to salvation but requisite particularly on account of the doctrine of the incompleteness of 1 woman without marriage singularly enough hur hir caine and senator lapham the author of one of the most sweeping bills against mormonism agree regarding gov murrays Mur rays unfitness for the position he holds both think that mr thomas the secretary of the territory would be a better man though though he Is not a candidate for the he applin appointment L ment |
