Show THE BILL at this writing it seems likely that will not reach the tile tucker edmunds bill during tho the present session of that body which will terminate by adjournment on the instant the reasons for a postponement of the consideration of this bill until congress can give it tho the time and et attention which h it it deserves arc are many if the hill bill goes over as we think it will for the cp consideration of congress at its next session it may never be reached A correspondent wr writing it ing to the boston post from washing ton says it is understood that the democratic caucus calicos b held eld on thursday evening a appointed carlisle mor neon rison and randall Ra fidall a committee to select such measures measure 4 as they deem most necessary to to ber bypassed passed at the present session there Is now on the house calendar a very elaborate bill 11 reported by the judiciary cornee comee mit matteo of the house as a substitute for senator edmunds bill on the subject of the mormon church and other matters matter in utah this bill as well aa as senator Edmund ss is open to the objection that it more or less touches on very debatable ground because it lt involves involved serious constitutional questions of religious rights there can scarce scarcely y be time for its so rions consideration at this r session and it ought not to be taken op and passed without ae ample 1 and anu careful examination it will hardly do to treat the passage of this bill as a political necessity for the tile fall campaign and probably there will be no suc such h purpose A race between the democrats and republicans to gain I 1 popular favor on the subject of polygamy would end in a noressa necessary protest e st within the ranks of the demo is ia that t tile supreme court of the tile united states should be empowered to give a final construction to them so that the thol mormon lormon husbands of plural wives who married before there was any federal statute against poly eamy camy may know how to govern their lives and to dispose of their fa families rallies in accordance with what tile supreme court shall eay say the law requires the territorial courts have so construed the act which punishes cohabitation with more than one oman woman that there are now many of the beat best men in utah in the penitentiary under conviction for unlawful cohabitation although the law went into operation they have dwelt only with one wife but have continued to support and care cate for theophers the others and their children if these constructions of the tile law cannot be revised and corrected by the supreme court the greatest hard chip shil continue to be inflicted without any necessity As to the church of the latter day saints it cannot be attacked in its property rights without putting e very other denomination that holds property in tile territories for zelik religions tolls purposes spa in ilie same peril |