Show TIRE THE MEASURE IN 1 PROGRESS As there appears to by be a great lack ac of f correct information in regard to the provisions of the bill which passed the house of representatives ou on wednesday we print it acin in full fall today to day including the one amendment introduced by mr tucker extending the appointing power to municipal officers the tali lull text of the bill with a few I 1 unimportant exceptions was d some time a ao ago o in the dvoor D is 11 UK r as furnished by tile the JULI Juu iry committe through tile the Delea ii congress for utah it was waa alter waru dressed uv up a tittle little in ill phraseology but the differences between the docu heuts as printed then and now are verbal rather than essential the frantic reo rejoicings rejo icings of the clique engaged in the present effort to destroy local self government in utah areto say the least a little littie premature the phe bill is fa not a law it has now to so 90 to the senate where it may receive more rational consideration than was accorded to sit ac in the house and may there then be amended which would return it again to the house for coa concurrence currence and must go to the president tar his signature before it becomes a law of the united states comment upon it then either pro ro or con must not be made as if its enactment was k a settled fact prudence would suggest a little modesty ia in a assuming what whai is going to be done by the small email minority who ho hope pe through its means to rule over the majority of our citizens there are sume some provisions in the bill which would be of benefit to the people whose religion is assailed by Us its promoters the limit put upon the tes of the legal wite wi leand and the appeal allowed to the supreme court of the united Stat egin cases of unlawful cohabitation are of this nature but the appeal provision would be rendered more just and effective if bail were provided for pending appeal the section brov providing ding punishment for polygamous association is too vague for a legislative enactment tile the phrase is too loose and is open to the stupid vindictive and varied rulings which have been passed upon the term unlawful cohabitation the pen ally affixed too is extreme and out of all harmony wita that for the crime of adultery association which implies no moral wrong is made to bear a penalty twenty times as great real as that tor for adultery which is generally recognized as a crime against boul both morality and religion tile the pious aud and moral agitators against plural marriage should ponder upon this very virtuous inconsistency bathe proVi provisions sious away thu the ut of citizens huld hold iiii hig tue tile francaise tran franc chiau uise to elect cleet the local off officers leers who are to con duet duct their local affairs fairri af aud make appointive poin tive those positions which should choul d of right be elective in every community are in direct violation both of republican lican and democratic fundamentals and tue the test oath formulated with the special intent of preventing cormons mormons Mor mons from voting who have not violated any law is repugnant to every persons sense of right and liberty who is not afflicted with that uati mormon fever which obscures tu the e understanding and per perverts verts tile the judgment toe dower provisions are designed to work in an injustice against plural wives and their offspring but they will simply have the effect of com pupating transactions in real estate and the conveyance ot property property they will have no effect in the direction ti sought ought for NO just provisions can be made in regard to a mans property irrespective of all such complications the introduction cintr of those cumbersome common law arrangements Is oneff one of the many indications that the framers of the bill were working in the dark as to the main object sought to be achieved this is further farther exhibited in sections six ten and twenty two which repeal alleged utah laws that have no existence and as tor for the provisions concerning tile the corporations called the church of jesus christ of I 1 latter day saints Saint tae migra t fund company they will have about about as much effect in the direction 1 so sought as blowing blowin against a kale or stopping the flow of a scream with a penny squirt they might cause some uUnd annoyance yance by litigation and occasion the expenditure of some money to lawyers but neither tile the moemon Mo imon church nor mormon emigration would be mater materially lally affected by them in the remotest degree the summary disfranchisement of the women voters cannot be defended on any principle of I 1 ustice justice or propriety jf if there Is any reason why the women robbed of a vested right the same reason would apply to ti afie tle men it lt is simply an arbitrary exercise of assumed power for which there is no adeau ate excuse the not bear discussion but had to be forced through the house under the rule of the previous question is good evi donee of its vicious aud and indefensible eliar character acter A measure which pro doses a political revolution in a 9 territory with a hundred and eighty thousand inhabitants that creates new and imposes unheard of penalties that is a special scheme lor for a special purpose ought in reason t to 6 tie je examined section by ht loland and carefully del debited inthe in the of CAIM judgment but like all anti aati mormon legislation that has passed the house of representatives it wa bullied through with a who whoop aull anil a li halloo alloo in the style of a puren POI political awal caucus instead of a de deliberative body of lawmakers lor for a nation it was understood very well by byj thin thinking kill people here that if if the bill bili atrocious as it I 1 Is should ever vwe crue upon up its pa passage osage it would go through di the house in afi the same wild spirit dpn it as that when the bi ball ll 11 was passed men voting for it who were opposed to it and ashamed of their own cowardice and other knowing nothing of its provisions arid and caring bess less because alt t was against the 11 cormons mormons Mor mons scarcely any one daring to atrin the tide of popular feeling ec r i n bilica has its futi fountain nain in igia iga ignorance orance bratle and denis fed by unreasoning prejudice di e I 1 fai aroh abilities are that it will ill be e 1 h at t U liidi ki ni 11 inn senate euate 5 and we do not tion chic ea ahe self con tai t u sd A s isalt t willed twilled t president would ait I 1 u to iu lusu ills hia signature lo 10 L despise the measure mea suie iu vi ov ef cf mv ati popular DO pular demand what then win mormonism will go on all t abu the me gospel will be preached tw toi saints will be ga gathered therea persecution aud a sense of wrong will only bind the mormons cormons Mor mons P closer together and confirm their r convictions so 80 UD unjustly JUStly and V ea ausy opposed and the end sou sought ait to be gained by the enemies ene caie ot of truth will be further off than ever this is just as sure as that the sun shines although a storm is raging and that god lives though his glorious face is concealed from erring mortals if needs be we can suffer and we can wait |