Show r gaw i i N UTAH IN CONGRESS the eastern pressage Pres sare eager over our interviewing is indulged ia in incontinently ey ly NY U TeleZ MPh to the NEW YORK jan II 11 the Grap graphics hies washington correspondent says A son of the late orson pratt oho one or 01 the original mormon apostles is ia this city ho ile is an ardent antl mormon today to day ho he said wo have hayo been wa waiting it twenty years thial thinking ing that each succeed me cons congress gress would do something thin for utah but atit it has never been done when the poland bill wa passed wo we hoped something from it but the ital vital parts were taken from it so that it rea anted to nothing you ask me how it happens that I am not riot a I mormon lormon A ill tell you I am the son of my fathers flint first w ife and had a inot mother h er who taught me tb the evil of the system there are many such persons in utah and the tendency lenhof of heir their education is opposed to mormonism or monism they grow up hostile to the institution and more than half appear to be diV disgusted isted wit with I i all forms of religion some of alip older and more have an idea that the government cannot deal with them they think they are more powerful than tho United States of course this is not true of tile more intelligent class euch such as cannon for example they know better what we want is a blow struck at polygamy we want it wiped out I don dont care a straw tor the simple un seating of cannon on a technicality if f bothin nothing is to be dono done to put down n polygamy I would as soon have annon cannon an in con congress rc s as campbell and perhaps rattier rather it Is not cannon we are fighting but polygamy spratt pratt waa was asked what would bo be the result in utah of the un seating of cannon provided the committee on elections reported against him he ile replied athe case in that event would I suppose suppose be referred back to the people and the mormons Mor Wor mons would elect another man the vote in this case shows about the proportion prop of the cormons mormons Mor mons and gentiles ais over ten to one in favor of the mormon in I population and of course they can always always carry an election as long as they have live the tile right to vote governor murray of utah 11 day a y I am m not in favor of dividing Uv iding the ic territory erria or y of utah as they have propof proposed td and attaching a portion dit of it to colorado and nevada tirs would accomplish no good it would simply inaura insure nevada to the democrats and almost likely turn colorado into a i democratic state the mormons cormons Mor mons aro arc democratic I am in favor of abolishing the present form of territorial government and administer the affairs of the terr territory atory by a council appointed by b the resident Pes P ident what we e are cA riving for is an agitation of the subject and to arouse congress to action wo we want cannon dethroned dethroner forthe for the moral monal effect it will have on the poly cam ests j Congre congressman asman reed of main remarked today to day that the great dig culty in n tho the way of an effective legislation against yin his opinion was eliat under alio system the enforcement of the laws lains depended upon the local sentiment of tho community to which it applied congress might enact statutes but if tile weight of public sentiment was a against ainest it it would ba inoperative this was the tile case in in the south and it had become so apparent that it was useless to attempt to force a law upon a corn com whose weight of public opinion was hostile to it that position had to bo be practically abandoned this was tile trouble in utah NEW YORK jan II 11 the evening post poat s washington special says representative burrows inep of michigan intends today to day to take the democrats at their word in their abhorrence of polygamy and will introduce a bill providing that bigamy or polygamy shall be a disqualification for any delegate from any territory he ile to have this passed by unanimous in ons consent th tho e opponents of mormonism will undoubtedly adopt some such scheme as this and have their bill become a law before the mail case is referred back to the people in the hope of striking a successful besst ul blow at mormonism in this way |