Show THAT PARDON president Pre eident cleveland in hie amnesty proclaims abat all those ned by president barrison are pardoned it bownds ridiculous when it is said that the democratic leaders in utah did not know that president amnesty proclamation pardoned the people 0 utah who bad violated the law they insisted that it did not put grover cleveland says 11 president proclamation is not plain enough he will proclaim re the proclamation and the utah commission finally decides that the people of utah who practiced polygamy are pardoned why did the utah commission require a second proclamation was it for the purpose of makine new cam thunder president barnson issued the now famous amnesty proclamation all the leadlie democratic attorneys and said eliat the president pre eident did not the power to restore to the peo 1 the richt to vote the herld to prove that II arrison exceeded his pow powers asked certain question which were answered by the leading democrats of atah we herewith republish the entire questions and answers as published in the salt lake herald amnesty not detore the right to vote nor to hold office nor to lire with more one wife after the amnesty is g ann toil testimonial the Ke publican oratory bare nizile euch a bowl about what advantage would accrue 10 the mormon peonie if should grant them general amnesty that the belt lake herald has taken pains to secure from a carpe number of the leading lahme of the utah bar a written opinion allowing what benefit such an act coald be to the people the opinion 1 a follows and should be read carefully halt lake cita utah nov to the editor 0 the herald you aek to aneser me following questions 1 can the president of the united states by amnesty restore the right to vote or bold office 10 pere ons dis by the edmunds law receiving arona ty froni the president pre eident of the united states have the right to cohabit with their plural would be the effect of if ff ranted to the first we answer no the of voters and eligibility to hold office determined by act of uon and cannot be changed by the lent the edmunds law provided pro videe that no ies bigamist or any i person cohabiting with more then one women shall be entitled to vote at any election or be eligible for ele lion or appointment to or be entitled to hold any or place of public trust hobor or emolument 1 compiled laws of utah p the edmunda thicker law provides that no gereon who shall have been any crime under that act or under the edmunds law or woo shall be a mafit shall associate or cohabit with persons of the other nail be entitled to vote at any election in said terrt or be capable of jury service to hold adv office of trust or emolument in said territory 1 compiled of utah p the supreme court of the united state in the case of murphy has defined or bigamist as follows in conr opinion any man is a in the sense of this section of the act who baulne married one wife still living and having another at alie time he cresente himself to claim registration as voter still maintain nth at relation wives although from the date of the passage of the abiol until he to register and to vote be may not in fact have cohabited mure than one woman he might in fact abstain from actual with all and be frolli a much alevera he can only cease to be uch when he hai finally and fully dissolved in some effective manner which we are not called upon here to point out the very relation 01 husband to several kivee which constitutes the tor bidden he has previously as murphy vs U S ap pp 1 42 from the foregoing it will be een that so long as a man has more than one wife he maintains the status of a and is not a qualified voter nor elf giblo to hold office whether be cohabits with bis plural nives or not and this status cannot be changed by amnesty we answer the second question in the negative cohabitation with more than one woman is an offense against the law and the president of the united states can not authorize a violation of law by amnesty or otherwise in answer to the third question we say that amnesty would be in f fleet a pardon for past violations of the law it might relieve ite recipients criminal prosecution but it could not restore any civil or political rights SAMUEL A P L WILLIAMS V B lt GRAND A K W H W II 11 P J W 1 W H KINO JAMES H MOYLE VAN OTT wl L it will be noticed that as president cleveland does the same thing harrison did the question is if president barnson had no power to pardon the people where does cleveland get his power from if the president had the power why was not harrisons proclamation good and all that was needed |