| Show JUDGE he says the pardon is for unlawful cohabitation BUT NOT FOR THE OTHER CRIMES under the edmunds and tucker laws the pardon restores the franchise to the pardoned much has lina been said as to the scope se 0 1 0 of president harrisons amnesty proclamation ma it being claimed that Us its whole tendency is but immunity from prosecution judge zane yesterday ay gave his views on the subject to the public through the medium of tile deseret new now lie ile says the amnesty proclamation as it appeared eared in the papers concludes 1 I benjamin te benjamin njamin harrison president of the united states do hereby declare and grant fall dl and pardon vardon to all persons liable to the penalties of said act by leasot of unlawful cohabit ion under the coor color of polygamous or plural mamaie marriage who since amous november ovelia ber 1 1890 have abstain el from froin such unlawful cohabitation but upon the hc express condition that they shall in in future faithfully obey the laws of the tile united states hereinbefore named etc from this it appears that the pardon and amnesty is confined to the crime of unlawful cohabitation and it extends to all who committed the offense prior to november 1 18 1890 and who have havo obeyed the law since and have not been convicted as well as those convicted of that offense if the offense was committed before that date the amnesty and ardo pardon applies lis thou though 11 convicted aate afterwards r wards tt all alio ll 11 penalties and di disabilities S a biliti cs of such offense are removed and the person so amnestied and p pardoned boned int may hold office vote and sit on juries 11 alio lie amnesty and pardon does not reach or angly apply to persons convicted of polygamy ayt bigamy agamy incest adultery or I 1 fornication the statute of limit limitations actions of three years applies to these offenses not affected by the amnesty or pardon A person convicted of unlawful co habitation babi tation committed before nov 1 1890 and who afterwards obeys the law may sit on a jury hold office or vote the oath prescribed for jurors w was changed so as to permit persona persons pardoned and amnestied to take it it still requires jurors to state on oath that they have not been convicted of polygamy bigamy incest adultery or fornication ni instead of requiring the juror to state that ho lie Is not a polygamist and that lie does not associate or cohabit wi with h persona carsons of tho the other sex he lie is requires required in in the oath to state the legal effect of those terms viz that he does not claim recognize or associate with more than one woman as wife if a man inan separates from his polygamous wife and does not claim rec recognize or ox as with her as his ilia wife ho lie is ia not a JO polygamist lyga mist in a legal legai senad he ile cannot be de unless he lie at the same time intends to torener renew such polygamous association I 1 A man cannot obtain a divorce irom his polygamous there is no marriage contract nor ever was to dissolve such a contract is utterly void the law condemns it and when the parties separate with the intention of living ee EC parate and apart and with the intent not to associate as man and wife and continue such separation with such intention tho the p polygamous oly a relation is ended that is the the only effectual wa way that such a relation can be terminated teT if a divorce could be granted it would not sunder the relation without such separation nor would amnesty and pardon terminate it without such separation it is not necessary that any formal agreement in writing or otherwise should be entered into if there is such an understanding in the mind of the party and ho he ceases to associate PO I 1 ya with his plural wife in jaw law he lie is not a polygamist and after such separation as long as such intent continues lie may furnish lier her support if ho chooses as lie may any other woman or any man mail or child in society an individual assumes many relations usually they aro are lawful ones once bu but t some soine people assume unlawful ones the polygamous relation belongs to the latter and a lawful marriage belongs to the former |
