Show G WEST AND HIS i I 1 I 1 YS I 1 A sa 1 nearly everybody know s thai that caleb W west governor of utah territory la is in washington he left utah 9 4 few week weeks ago for the capital and just about the hie hiir Se departure a petition was gotten ap up in iasah salt lake city and signed by a num berof of american gentlemen asking wili h ird to go to washington and anda the busy be Bs in securing S 3 legislation egi inimical tot to the hebest best interests te of the greater portion of his w eats when governor westi left for washington how ever wd did not think he hi would take a hand in any such proceed inga and the was inclined to look upon the action of the american gentlemen in gettine up the petition in question as an insult cithia excellency but governor lusthas now expressed his opinion kopini 0 on no the edmunds tucker monstrosity I 1 ty it wae was given to a representative y bopf athe new york herald on the ff 0 thirteenth instant As it will be of great interest to the whole of bf the community we reproduce the aho niter fuler i a aileo kiev eel or of kentucky lien tucky governor of utah territory who hae has been in washington for about leu ten day days was vias present yesterday in the during inythe the deb debate ateon on chetuck the tucker anu anti polygamy bill he was asked if ee he had considered the provisions of the bill and what was hia his opinion pillion 1 J as t to a its effectIve effectiveness i less when d in suppressing Bup pressing the evil governor west replied it is calculated to effect great rood good in the prop proper r battlement of the morl mon question it is absolutely necessary sat y to that end and I 1 are not the present laws very sc se vere and since they have failed on what dirou aou base your hope hopes of the a IL Tucker bill reach reaching ing the desired desire end f I 1 the present laws a as against the ti e persona P er was upon whom they have been be en enforced have hive not accomplished the end Inteli intended ded in securing their obe didace and respect for 1 4 aj deot at and nd its lawe laws these people are animated by a religious belief that it is their duty to practise polygamy they look to the husher higher jaw aw rather lei than the civil law to td regulate their action because aix six months imprison many can and will stand when qa t period was longer na as a the dav newbill new bill say three years many of them would promise obedience to he law upon which condition the een sen t tence has always always been suspended ed aind hn d they were allowed a 0 ed to go free has not the great preponderance derance of f mormons in abe territory been the kreit g re obstacle to the enforcement of the law and will it not continue to b be to bot i rt least four of the population are mormons cormons Mor mons under the present sen t law of nearly all all the municipal and county bate badges sheriffs and belet inen are cormons mormons Mor mons who are ate interested in protecting their people from the eni cn Fol or cement lement of the laws upon polygamy polay imy all this will be changed by the present fv law lav and all the territorial ter ya officers will be as the federal officers r now are arg interested in lo enforcing en forcin the laws doea does this bill really prescribe a test te Lott thas a condition of citizen 7 the re bill does not entrench upon 1 i the be religious belief of any matatall ma man natall at all it only requires require of the Moru Alor ious obedience to the laws as all other citizens are required to do he ile cju call believe what he lie ea the en 1 of the present lawe laws have madean impression upon ibo the alor mons latterly a greater number of mormons have been more willing to promise romise obedience to ilia tila law than heretofore aa As to abe abw law the people will ee that the government covern ment and fad tle the people of the united states i are determined that polygamy shall f not longer be tolerated when mien they 0 tift illy understand that I 1 am sin satisfied that there are great numbers and ana abhat s sibly now there is a party patty in the rh Church who will insist upon the abandonment of polygamy and if it Is i not dene done there willyce willbe will be a split between poly 1 mists and mono afi ga gamasta mists and those 0 ie in favor of r po polygamy lit y may see that polygamy will be no longer tolerated and to escape the of punishment they will leave the territory wherein lies lie the strength of W 1 polygamy P 0 1 agamy V 7 it Is in fa religious fanaticism the th mormon women are sincere in their religious belief that UT is a divine institution and that tha t itla itis their duty to practise it tb ey ae ceat it in same spirit that pie e binol As of past aes ages practiced practised the mor of the flesh in putting on oil a hair shirt or scourging themselves I 1 believe the only a t aby fy find in it Is that louv ent enthusiasm busl wilch enables vier i add L A endure un the idea tha ft elo and purifiers their spiritual wing X A 1 this lda win ali en overcome inherent jealousy of womankind IN yes es air I 1 iney hev are tault to believe lb Y can do 0 t heir bus husbands bands is to tiare have him tak take other eother wives beca atif n hance his glory iu in the th e U stute 9 dom ji i 11 1 I it not neceA rily a mill cult matter to enforce a I 1 ato t abi i kind e yes for the therea reasons onel I 1 have hav 14 L and the difficulty which has been in the en force in the states where J 4 has been adopted illustrates the trouble of enforcing the law against polygamy alib dds bill meele meets your app yes yea si air r IN iwillie willit I pa pass s s the senate senat e 1 I believe it will ill it woul woula ba huas Z i i Z vey sanate to attach any ad r amendment to it oi olinto to ho fild brief brier tahe na w or of tnt this session and considering it of and OR ion alf i pie of ahe other in for e peen een waiting ani aal pro pica f for ir it and nd 1 ae 1 buy auy amendment in the Sena tIg 1 it probably degreat the bill 1 I trust irwill s speedily pass tbt house s adopt eol |