| Show 0 COMMENTS ON THE STATEHOOD 1 QUESTION the new york times says W we remarked some days ago that it would be useless for the mormons cormons of utah to make a constitution unless it s should cain contain an article absolutely forbidding polygamy within the boundaries of t the he proposed state that seems to have been the opinion of a committee of the convention which W reported ported yesterday an article embodying in g the suggested g g ested prohibition fixing i penalties p enal for f 0 the violation of it and t providing ro viding that the article shall never be changed without the approval 1 of congress the nation will with some curiosity await the conventions action upon this proposition the convention is com composed posed entire entirely y of delegates representing the mormon party residents of che territory who were not mormons cormons were cordially in alte to take part in the movement laut but the they stood alof 11 I 1 on the same subject the Cliar charleston leston west virginia off the following the mormons cormons of utah are holding a convention to formulate a constitution preparatory to becoming a state the most important and advanced move ment ebent is the adoption of an article which reads 6 bigamy and polygamy bei being ng con 81 dered incompatible with a republican form of of them is hereby forbidden and declared a any person who shall i violate this section shall on condic tiou tion thereof be punished by a flue fine of not more than 1000 and by imprison went ment for a term not less than six months nor more than three years in r the discretion of the court this see sec F tiou shall iball be construed as operative without the aid of legislation and the I 1 of fences prohibited by this section i shall not be barred by any statute ol of limitation within three years after the commission of the offense nor the power of pardon extend there to until such pardon shall have be been en ay approved proved by the president of the t he dated cited states with such a provision in the constitution ution we do not see how congress can refuse to embody utah in the great states of the nation |
