Show GONE ASTRAY AGAIN A careful review of the new de par turell of federal prosecutors Prose cutora prosecutor dickson and commissioner stoner mckay bavo have commenced a new line of segregation I 1 see by another erroneous construction of the 1 recently enacted edmunds tucker law after the rebuke received by the federal officials 0 of thia this territory from tho the united states supreme court it might have been expected that these F P 0 s would be cautious how they attempted to fialli inflict ct additional penalties to the penalties au sed by congress but from recent indications this would appear fallacious fal lacius for withstand not ing ling congress was urged to increase the penalties for illegal cohabitation and as the bill as it passed by bythe the lower house of congress did increase the imprisonment from six months as before to four years and the fine from to yet the conference committee struck this out leaving the old bid law intact as to this offense but it will be remembered bow how the moral sense of both thedor mon men and gentile communities were shocked when judge zane decided that there was no law here to punish a man rain for the seduction of a yo young ung eirl the sister of his wife with whom she was living and what unfavorable ca comments were made by the of the states which led con 9 grese ress to enact penalties in relation to such uch of Tenses and prop properly orly appreciating the great moral turpitude thereof to make the penalties much severer than the living with plural wife j besides Bes idee the gentile press of the territory Terri territory kept up such a howl because territorial the ic legislature did not enact penalties against the social evil backed by their governor E H 11 K X 11 who dwelt lengthily in his messages on the subject that congress was impressed with the belief that they were in earnest and that sections Sec tiona 3 and 5 of the late enactment against adultery and fornication would be popular with them dut in this congress was mista mis iten as is already apps apparent arent and unless they can get tho the courts by judicial legislation to construe those sections as applying to mormons only this dislike will become more and more intensified and arid it is to this end that prosecutor dickson and commissioner mckay have started out on the line to abandon the cohabitation claim of the stat statute tite of 1882 and so far sections under the law of 1887 ff theto were any doubts as to the erroneousness erroneous nees of illis construction constructions conclusive evidence would be bd found on the original tucker bill as it passed ass ed the house home for in it both illegal cohabitation and the social cries of adultery and fornication were provided for but the conference committee struck out the cob cobee abita ita tion a section leaving it to be prosecuted under t the e act of 1882 and left the adultery and fornication clauses untouched so I 1 guells the gentiles will ill have to receive those birds of w their own re rearing aring home to roost with them then however un unpalatable palata ble it may be this boomerang may strike them a little severe but all religious a and it d moral people will say amen to it whether mormon or gentile |