Show I Tim I I G 01 OK I Toronto Can Globo Globe January S 8 8 According Ac- Ac cor cording to Mr 1 Reed flood Smoot moot United States senator from the state of or Utah there Is 18 little danger that the sanctity sanctity sanc sanc- tit and efficiency of or the family as a sociological 1 In Institution will Ill be permanently permanently per per- or for nn any an- lon long lone time Impaired Im Im- lm- lm paired b by the practice of or In Iu an article contributed t L him to tu the North American Review low he explains ox- ox plains the thc grounds ground on which this con elusion Is based and as there are arc man many Mormons In western Canada his statements statements state state- ments are likely to be he interesting toa toa to toa a rpt many C Canadian I I Under pr pressure sA rc-crom rc from within as well as ns from without says sn's Senator Smoot the Mormon ormon church adopted In 1890 I a church manifesto ordering the discontinuance dis lIs- lIs continuance of pol polygamy In 1896 Utah was admitted Into the Union as asa asa If a state on condition that polygamous or plural marriages should forever fore be bp prohibited In compliance with this stipulation the state constitution pro pre for each ench case of poly polygamy the tho penalty of five Ilvo years years' Imprisonment and a 0 fine of live five hundred dollars In 1903 Mr Ir Smoot who Is a prominent and enterprising capitalist of or Salt SnIt Lake Lako City was elected to the United States senate mate A protest was flied filed against Iris title to the position and the tile sens t tos to's committee on privileges e and elections went exhaustively Into the tho whole question flues ques tion Uon with the result that he lie was confirmed confirmed con con- firmed in his seat scat b by an overwhelming overwhelming- rna maJority of the senate From the extracts furnished b by Mr Smoot from tile tue report of ot this committee commit commit- tee lec It appears that In 1890 there were were about lOO L'-lOO i lJ families In ln Utah In 1905 this number had been reduced to h by deaths of the heads of or these families The number Is supposed sup sup- posed to be at present not creator reater than and Is known to he be rapidly dimin dimin- ibiS Is quite quito probable because there thero havo have been no poly polygamous amous marriages marriages marriages mar mar- for 16 years ears and those who were heads R of families prior to 1890 1190 arc now old mon men Apparently there them would not by this time have been any question of or polygamy hut but for Cor the fact that b by common consent of or both Mormons Mor Mor- or- or mons anti and non non Mormons in Utah poly amous cohabitation has been tolerated since 1890 because conviction and penalization pen pen- of or heals heads of or families would lavo havo hail had a n disastrous effect on th the 7 mid children children- kin t Rood good on to believe that tl toleration atlon was connived U it t It n not siJ suggested l. l by congress ss because lIse Us Its statute of ot 1894 ornit au all mention of or poly polygamous cohabitation It while It required as a a. condition of oC Utah's admission to the Union the perpetual prohibition of ot otI poly polygamous amous or plural marriages marrIne-es I Whether deliberately adopted or 01 not tho policy of toleration seems likely to be effective In securing the discontinuance discontinuance discon discon- of polygamy as ns an tion The occasion of ot Mr l Smoots Smoot's article Is the thc advocacy ac acy h by Senator Burrows of ot a constitutional amendment forbidding both polygamy and polygamous tation within the United States Mr Smoot objects to an nn amendment aimed at a single state abolished the tho practice of ot polygamous marriage o 16 is years cars ago Adopting President sue sue- suggestion he hc proposes as a constitutional constitutional con con- J amendment that Congress shall shaH have exclusive Jurisdiction over o marriage and anti divorce and all matters relating thereto Wore hl his proposal carried Into Inlo effect the United d States would ho bo placed as to marriage e and anti divorce orce Just where the dominion of Canada has lias been since 1167 Such an amendment would at least leant secure uniformity uni uni- of or legislation with respect to toone toone toone one of or the lie greatest of or our social socia respect inter Inter- ests the tho maintenance of tho the family as asan r n Institution |