Show DELEGATE CAINES SPEECH his discussion of present condition the following special dispatch to the herald gives a better idea of the speech made by hon john T calne caine in congress on saturday than was conveyed in the associated press dispatches washington D C aug 25 in the house today on the consideration of the substitute for delegate dubois resolution calling for the number of pardons granted persons convicted of polygamous practices in utah butak and fd idaho relegate caine of utah supported the substitute resolution saying that tha it was perfectly plain that the original resolution was for political 0 purposes poses he earnestly pay favored purposes mur the 0 adoption of the substitute report reported od by the committee which would bring forth information showing conclusively that the p pardoning boning power had been exercised only y in a few cases where the facts were such as to justify austif beeble leniency being the eases of old and feeble men he claimed also that the information called tor for would demonstrate under whose administration the laws had been most mast rigidly enforced he pointed out the fact act that when the law of I 1 1883 2 was considered b by Cp congress agress it was destined ad ne tun eretano ugly that persons who D had contracted polygamous relations ro lations before the law against polygamy was affirmed by the su supreme reme court should not be dis disturber disturbed and the sixth section of the i law 0 of 1882 gave the president the power to grant amnesty to a certain class of offenders but this had bad never been done NO AM AMNESTY HAD BEEN GRANTED and the law had bad been enforced in the most vi vigorous orous manner qa uner the applications I 1 for or pardon which which had been favorably considered by the president were in nearly nearl i all cases recommended U by the United tates I 1 dist district I 1 t attorney and bydon by non cormons mormons ie ai d declined to notice the it ah u upon P 11 tue tae presidents resi dent action or to f reply e y to the intemperate ine tem re remarks marts of the t the delegate bleg te from idaho he briefly Ift lefly re reviewed ie wed the he efforts efferth of ef the people of utah during the past two years to hotle the so called mormon question and bring that much abused territory into harmony with the rest of the nation la in doing this he be traced the history of the mor mons from nauvoo describing stat they had to endure in their migration to salt lake valley and sketched the growth of the territory of utah from the first settlement of the mormons cormons to the present time a community number ing people with material possessions worth at atlease least he said saidi it was a community with a less percentage of foreen born population than many other territories that the general morality industry sobriety and thrift of the people excite the admiration mi ration of every unprejudiced traveler there was not on the earth another community where so many owned their own ho homes tries where there were no alms houses and no necessity of any where there was practically no county municipal or territorial in debt edness he showed that it had been proven in judicial proceedings that the mormon church NO GAVE permission for plural marriages called attention to the fact that the territorial legislature had bad declared in favor ot of the just humane and impartial enforcement of the laws of the united states against polygamy and had bad enacted a most stringent marriage law dealing at some length with the constitution ution under which utah asked admission to the union mr caine cain e pointed out the provisions incorporated ther therein elu forever prohibiting polygamy and claimed that in adopting the work of the convention the great b body 0 ay iy of the moran mormon on deop people je of U utah t h put themselves squarely on record and that it was the merest claptrap clap trap to say that they were not sincere in so doing he showed what a very small percentage of the population those who had bad bean been in polygamy were and that this class were forever forever dis franchised by the laws 01 sere the united states that before any citizen could vote he had to swear that he be had bad not violated the laws of the united states against bigamy polygamy or unlawful cohabitation and that HE DID NOT MEAN TO he referred to the fact that their 0 opponents were reticent to abandon ta the cry against polygamy which had served them so we well in the past and were now insisting that the great danger was the union of church and state in controvert ing this mr caine quo quoted t not only from the preamble and constitution adopted by the mormons cormons Mor mons which declares there shall never be any union of church and state bat from the doctrine of the church as follows we do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges and the individual rights rights of its members as citizens it ih conclusion he be said 1 I admit that the mo mormon rm on people are united but I 1 deny th that at their unity is due to ecclesiastical a authority uth arity irishmen were united Is their th ei r unity due to the fact that they are roman catholics no sir it is i due to the fact that they are determined to regain the right of community self government which they were wera wrongly deprived of and aad which is unjustly denied them the mormon people are united because there has been and there is a settled purpose on the part of a emam amah but persistent minority to deprive them of the right of local community self government 1 I have endeavored thus ihus briefly to show what MORMONS of utah have done to place themselves and the territory in accord with the public sentiment ani solve the troublesome p problem entertaining as they do toe the highest veneration for the in of their jhc thc lr country as well as a due respect for the opinions of the majority they deliberately determined on a course they ought to pursue they put their hands bands to the plow they drew a furrow farrow broad aua and deep they will not drav draff back |