Show THE registrars DECIDE following is the decision of the deputy registrars as to those who have been polygamists but are not now before the elke board of registrars of salt sag lake my utah in the matter of the challenge of D webb vs B Y hampton et al these are cases in which the right of defendants to remain on the registry list of salt lake city is challed challenged d on the ground that they are 1 D 01 ga mists isto the evidence shows that each of the defendants has at some period since the passage of the anti polygamy law of 1862 entered into the relationship of bigamy or poly gaW section I 1 of the act of 1862 provides as ag follows every person having a husband or wife living who shall marry another person shall be adjudged guilty of bigamy 11 etc afan violates the law and the law fixes his status the act of the individual consists in the marrying the operation of the law in adjudging him a bigamist it is true the individual places himself by his own act in antagonism to the jaw but did the law not step in and fix his status no such result would follow in other words it is not the individual but the law that fixes his status section 8 of the edmunds law provides that no polygamist bigamist or any person coba cohabiting biting with more than one woman 0 ahu bo be to yote section the edmunds tucker act provides as follows no person who has haa been convicted of any crime under this act or who shall be a polygamist or who shall associate or cohabit polygamous lu ou I 1 with persons of the other sex khz shall be entitled to vote 12 in iii this section franchised disfranchised dis persons are classified first those who have been convicted etc second those who are jots third those who associate or cohabit with persons of the other sex now we that no one will for an instant contend that a person who has been convicted of the crimes enumerated could by any act on his own part restore his franchise not even a life of penitence and disavowal of his crime could change his condition when he was convicted the law stepped in and dis franchised him and nothing short of the froning hand of the president of the united states ean can restore him to civil rights this principle is too well established to admit of controversy let us next consider the second class to wit polygamists the law defines the term and makes those who commit the act guilty this class clas does not include those who have been tried and convicted but merely those hose who have committed the act only when the individual has done the act the law says he is a polygamist in what respect does the second claw class differ from the first other than that of intensity the status in both cases is fixed by one and the same law if therefore the act of disavowal will change the status in one case why not in the other if the proposition that once a convict always a convict until pardoned be true then why not the same fame rule in polygamy in one case the act leads to the disfranchisement in the other the conviction vic vict tion IOD in the ramsey case the supreme court of the united states say that a polygamist or bigamist can only cease to be such when he be has finally and fully dissolved in some effective manner which they were not called on to point out such relationship we have been unable to find any decision which points out that effective manner and are of the opinion that the point under consideration has never been adjudicated the statute has prescribed a way by which the status of a polygamist may be changed that of amnesty by the president sec 7 edmunds law which in our opinion is the only manner in which it can be done in the language of chief justice zane amnesty is the remission of the consequences of a crime and may be after as before there is a conviction bennett decision disfranchisement to is the consequence of the crime of polygamy and without amnesty the disability remains the crime of polygamy Is consummated and in fact wholly included in the act of marrying having a wife living and the after act of living with or separate from his wives does not in the least wept effect hi bip sta status tipe in the AZ language of the supreme court the catbe statute makes an express dis die between bigamists biga mists and polygamists on the one hand and those who cohabit with more than one woman on ohp the other the ramsay case was decided under the law of march 22 1882 the act of march 3 clarifies the disabilities and adds the class which we designate as class clan one to yit wit those who have been convicted etc franchise is a privilege not a right and one must comply with all the precedent conditions to entitle him to exercise that privilege to us ug the law of 1887 seems very specific under that act we are f the opinion that any person who has since the passage of the poly caa law of 1862 violated that taw law and and who ho has not been rades tied by the president of lof the united states is a polygamist or bigamist and is not entitled to vote the challenges against the following named persons person will be allowed and their names ordered stricken from the lists 0 o 13 Y hampton heary 7 1 borge F gibbs charles B faylor alor thomas F thomas william willes orson oraon F whitney william calder eilish 9 weiler wei I 1 er austin shipp david walker jeter clinton joseph D matthews alexander ledington francis armstrong Arm charles balmforth william i B preston done at salt lake city this ath day of february 1890 H 8 MCCALLUM B R D WINTERS JOSEPH B R board of registrars salt bait lake city utah thus the self styled board of registration have disregarded the law and the decisions of the courts ill ia order to accomplish their designs in n the fourth precinct the following list of 39 names has been stricken off the he registration lists by R D winters for various reasons editn cutler david christensen Chii stensen allen alien B R cutler wm win calder jgmes jamee B R blackham joseph christenson christensen george W bankhead moses Oar divell george andersen peter W nielsen Nl elsen alfred an anderson derson johng john G peterson christian jenson richard smythe eorge F gibbs hour henry thomas higham faaili ditrani stephenson B Y T hampton thomas A thorley r L ED 13 hampton ampton james P skelton john helquist hel alist charles charlea B taylor charles giles G 1 lea 1 thomas F thomas daniel K greene frank E thirkill Thir till charles ernest lyon lion henry J talbot nowell fewell Tf H bullock bulloc W W Woe raley reley franz F binggeli wm win willes alfred bezzant orson r F whitney abas has Chri david thomas the other precinct registrars did not report in time for publication this evening in the first precinct the names stricken off will exceed loo in number humber |