| Show DELEGATE CAINE cagnes SPEECH WE give extracts below leading papers of the country which show the way delegate caines speech against the E edmunds tucker bill on january in the house was received they will be found arery very complimentary B by some it has been credited to judge george ticknor Tick flor curtis curti s and hon george S boutwell while this is perhaps as high a compliment as delegate caine could wish we are in a position to state that it is nevertheless untrue neither of the gentle gentlemen mV in question having seen a line af it until after its delivery new york world jan 13 the scenes in the house today to day were far more interesting and exciting than at any time d during u ring the session it etwas was the occasion of the discussion of the tucker mormon or Foly polygamy lamy bill which it passed by the senate will practically abolish and drive the twin relic of barbarism from the territory of utah the bill was called up at 2 as the special order of the day the first person to speak upon the question ws was ezra B taylor of ohio his remarks were brief iad and not interesting the next to take the floor was Delp delegate gate calne caine of utah the mormon lne member niber the galleries were very much crowded at no time during the present or the last sessi session orl were the galleries so packed ladies there was a great deal of interest manifested in delegate caine this bein ghis his maiden speech when mr caine caie arose to speak the entire membership of the house with some senators found seats seals on the democratic side in the vicinity of where the delegate stood new york tribune jan after an interesting debate which lasted four hours and held the close attention of the house from beginning to end the bill to amend the anti polygamy Boly gamy law was vas passed without a division the speeches on oh both sides were unusually good the men who spoke in opposition iod were deeply in ernest earnest and delegate ipp calne ine who surprised the house with his Ms forcible rhetoric and eloquent peri periods odd which were delivered with ranch much effect was pathetic theLic as welt well as earnest the debate was p opened pe med by judge E B BTaylor taylor of ohio who wao gave a brief hut graphic account of the origin of T mormonism until its culmination in a hierarchy which virtually deded the Nat national iongi authority like mr reed and others who spoke later ater judge taylor declared his opposition to the section in the bill which destroys woman suffrage in ia utah lie he would sup support ort l the bill despite that provision 1 which ich he believed to be unjust and unwise delegate calne then took up the cudgel for lais his people he H is a member of the mormon church but bat is not a practical polygamist although of con course sit a believer in the doctrine his speech had been carefully prepared andaas read from manuscript nobody had suspected that caine was the possessor 01 of oratorical accomplish ments and his bis success today to day was all the greater for that reason the za galleries I 1 were well wall tilled filled with ladies for notice of the debate had bad been circulated and they paid close attention to the utah delegate as he described the virtues the sacrifices and the achieve menta of ef the chosen people peaple in whose behalf he b pleaded with so much earnestness and real pathos mr caine stood far back on the democratic side and the republicans went wens over in a body to hear him new york times jan 1311 13 to the i areat reat astonishment of fal al most everybody Fody who had bad attended the session of the house this afternoon to hear the discussion upon the bill that measure the house substitute for the senate bill w wa passed without a division and without mont so much as a demand for a roll call tae speeches for the bill were short while those in opposition tion to it were long and were all made from rom the democratic side after mr tay lorod ohio had opened the debate mr caine the delegate from utah spoke at length in praise of the patriotism piety and thrift of his people who had made a desert to blossom as a gar jen den of flowers and denounced the bill as an oppressive and enslaving one directed against a law abidin abiding band and peace loving people sir mr Ben bennett lett of north carolina woo wao opposed he bill is a loud voiced vehement sometimes flun flung his books about to the imminent imm ineat peril of his neighbors and who wao considered the bill as unnecessary upon the assurances of the interior department and the utah commission ision that the edmunds Edmun PS law was successfully enforced and art an extraordinary percentage e of convictions obtained under it national washington J mr caine of utah car earnestly nestlY opposed ed the measure as undemocratic un A marioan american Mr ioan and wantonly destructive of human right and lecause it set at naught the immutably principles upon which the common rights of men were bottomed and turned the mor mons and their church over to insatiable spoilers mr caine as the representative senta tive of the mormons cormons Mor mons was attentively dively listened listen pd to during durina the delivery of his somewhat lengthy a summary of which follows he sketched the settlement of utah by the mormons cormons Mor mons depicted the perse cautions to which they fiad bid been and highly highl eulogized the mormon people for their their industry intelligence and hu honesty nesty passing on to a constitutional discussion of the provisions of the bill he declared that the prescription of a lest oath as a prerequisite to a man exercising the right of au suffrage was not only ocious odious to every american but a clear violation of the letter jester and spirit of the constitution it I 1 t might be said that the right of suffrage rage was not expressly secured by the constitution ution but he contended that while a legislature might declare the right of suffrage forfeited by reason of a commission of a crime it could not inflict a 6 punishment punish mant on a man because he would not swear that he would never ahert after ter be guilty of a certain offense he appealed to the house to consider well before it assed assented ted to the monstrous propositions contained in the bill he knew too well the influences that were at work to accomplish the passage of the measure ile he realized that the air had been made aut anja with tile the beless baseless calumnies calum nies the slander the innumerable and gated gatea falsehoods ceaselessly concocted and persistently disseminated religious bigotry and influences were arrayed against his people political necessity hypocrisy ind and all kindred joined in the hue and cry the platform the pulpit the press were mighty engines for the manufacture of public sentiment their batteries were directed constantly and with full f ull force upon the mormons cormons Mor mons if congress wai wa ted our own people and the nations of the world to respect our boast of justice and our right to govern if I 1 it t would havo have them love the principles of freedom it must begin b by manifesting some respect jor for justice fla tidy i and some love iove for free and liberal principles his constituents had bad suffered iniquities insults and ostracism for years almost uncomplainingly n gly they had ben been despoiled spoiled dp of character by paid assassins mad aad by assassins he meant those that were vilest who robbed women and children childr tu of what alone gave value to life and his po people o had asked in vain for j ustice justice he asserted sole solemnly that in the whole world there was no people mare loyal to the eternal truths of liberty as expressed in the constitution of this country than his constituents he pledged his word and his character tuat tue tae statements upon which anis legislation was based were without foundation in fact time the corrector of all evils would right this wrong it if such it were and add the flat fiat of the eternal had already declared that tha the last vestige of mormonism shall be swept away by the peaceful progress progress of events if it is not that which god in HN HIS wisdom has appointed ahill ahall survive as the tit attest test the gentlemen who aad ad freed from tion bondage dage thecae the negro ro slaves glaves who loved liberty and cherished the institutions of our country wao would bequeath bequer th them unsullied to their children lie be pleaded that they would not consign his bis people to such inhuman slavery applause i mr begnett of north carolina opposed the bill every maia maa he said however humble jew or gentile should have a lull full measure of justice at the hands bands of thi this great government preserve the terribly terribly effee effective twe machinery already in donot cause the cheek cheek of the american people to man tte tie with shame by sacrificing principles as dear as life itself the mormon p problem would resolve itself it would d yield to patient treat treatment mt at the hands of the Ameri american caA people if this bill should pass the man who entered into a polygamous marriage thirty years ago would be liable to prosecution loseca in the courts whereas tte the decisions of the supreme court held that it was his status at theotime the time of trial that must be regarded every line of the section did violence to the basic principles of american government |
