| Show unconstitutional senator geo F edmunds is by no means sanguine of the success of the new method suggested by GOV arnor E II 11 murray for the future government of the people of utah neither is he in favor of the knife heroic policy of tho the rev dr J P newman mr edmunds is entirely opposed to putting the government u af f this territory into t the be hands of a legislative council the honorable gentleman says that a great many odthe of the people of this country have fallen into a gro gross mistake by supposing sing and expecting to see plural marriage in utah extirpated as if by a miracle he does not consider this to be possible under any kind of legislation that the lawmakers law makers can devise mr edmunds considers that the last law enacted on the subject of polygamy and of which everybody knows he was the father has lias worked admirably mir ably and that under a continuation ofa of a fresh and capable ad ministration odthe of the tame law of marriage ria e system of the 1 cormons mormons Mor mons in utah will soon be eradicated he prefers to see the edmunds law with any supplements that may be made thereto fairly and thoroughly tried the senator is opposed he lie says to undue excitement in the matter and he believes if the friends of his law go calmly and steadily forward preserving their self possession that law will result in eradicating 0 plural marri marriage agg in utah senator edmunds has embodied his reasons for his opposition to placing tho the government of this territory in the hands of a commission in an all article written in the senate chimber Chiu iber at the national capital and published in the christmas number number of the new york independent an anti mormon lormon religious journal his reasons are thus stated afi F ir arf st that I 1 believe it to be entirely unconstitutional if t the he commission is to be given any lawmaking power and I 1 fear second quito unless a local lawmaking law making power shall bo be lodged somewhere third it is revolutionary and deprived deprives the innocent as well as the guilty of all voice in public affair nothing hut but the direst need could justify such a step fourth it is quite clear to my mind that th the e suppression of polygamy will be just as far off with the government of tho the territory in in the hands bands of a commission as it is now if not further for it will solidify and intensify a class feeling of the cormons mormons Mor mons and tend to draw to the support of the hierarchy and p ts the whole body of the mormon people it is very cry safe to pres presume urne that the proposition for such a commis eion sion will not meet with support but ir instead istead with opposition in the senate from senator edmunds senator E edmunds proposes ha as one measure to get the political power out of the hands odthe of the bie rachy by suspending woman suffrage he ile considers the elective franchise in the hands of the females is one of the strongest props that polygamist cormons mormons have for controlling cont roling elections in this 9 however the senator is deceived for if female suf frage were entirely abolished in this territory the legal electors of the mormon population would st fitful I 1 ell be largely in the majority and they would of course still be able then as now to control the elections they would as a matter of justice to themselves be sure to vote for their friends for official po bilious the independent indorses endorses indor ses mr edmunds views and affects to believe in a peaceable policy as opposed to violent measures although we kooff that religious journal to be radical in its opposition to the IN mormon formon people the independent says the people of utah easily nullify acts of congress and effectually resist courts 49 and at fighting christian m ministers ini stera they are adepts but forth for the e yankee school mam main their most trusty weapons are no match hence it advocates education as the best beat moth od to regulate us let the sp ellina book do its perfect work and utah is redeemed we think the present views of both edmunds and the Ine Incle pacific and preferable to roost most others and we are willing that they shall be thoroughly tested |
