Show EDMUNDS EFFORTS the virtuous vermont senator with the blasted presidential hopes is is still trying to make the country talk of hita in default of other popular subjects be he still direct directs his eff efforts lorts to legislation for utah and with what success is pungently pointed out by th the e new york world senator edmands has ha discovered tl that at hie his outrageous anti polygamy bill will not network work unless it is made still more outrageous ebous he ile has accordingly introduced reduced Int a new bill of three sections each i remo vini from any person charged with poly poll panay garny one of the safe of civil liberty which are integral parts of tho tle common law and for which men of anglo saxon linea lineage the w orld rid over are prepared to figat feht rather than surrender them the first provides r avides that a mans lawful wife if shall be a competent witness against t him the second provides that personal service of a subpoena shall not be necessary before the issue of an attachment to compel the attendance of the person named in the served nn subpoena the third pro vides that no statute of limitations t rhall be pleaded against a prosecution fo for r bigamy or tonly polygamy gamy and so makes the edmunds bill an ex facto law the new bill is so outrageous indeed that senator edmunds who has at least ast some rome reputation as a lawyer to lose has has disavowed disavow d it and announces that he introduced it by request who whether he lie occupies a more dignified attitude by avowing himself the tool of another for the introduction of a scandalous tyrannical and unconstitutional tut ional bill into the senate of the united states than by assuming for himself the responsibility of the maa u sure is a question for senator edmunds to settle with himself and his constituents but he ought not pot to bo allowed in this way to shirk his responsibility as a senator if this bill should pas severy defense of personal liberty which has been won by english irien nien and americans from mede mide to yorktown would bo be taken from the cormons mormons Mor mons of and tha tho ai cormons mormons Mor mons of utah would deserve tho the cout contempt enit of nian mankind Kind if they did not fight rather than submit to the tyranny to which senator edmunds proposes to subject them |