| Show IDEN y CHURCH one of the legislators gets wroth he demands that church petitions should not be read to the legis gators of utah what next the following from bom the intermountain i republican is of interest as it shows there is a strain of batti ness 11 running through the mind of one of the legislators of the present session declaring in loud tones that he w was EI opposed 1 to the reading of church bearing on the prohibition que representative hugh huda A mcmillin Me Millin of salt lake attempted to stop the practice e that va mas as begun in the heue of representatives yesterday afternoon other petitions for the moct part hane hae been read by title but the church petitions presented yesterday were read in lull and ir iopa me bilins wrath rath 11 11 1 I object to the reading oc 0 a petition frum from any church shouted 1 I am a church man myself and dm am proud of it but I 1 dont think that any church should enter politics I 1 would like to know how many democrats and republicans have their names attached these petitions were brought here for political effect the outburst did not occur until after the last petition had been read the ones referred to were nere from the scandinavian Seand anavian residents dents of the thirteenth ward and signed by president hugo D E peterson and from the pioneer stake quarterly conference and signed by william S mclaughlin and charles H hyde representing tile the presidency both petitions recommended tile the passage of the prohibition bill presented by representative J J cannon chis man mcmillin should go wa waa back and bit down one is remind ed of the words of the immortal and is constrained to ask upon what meat does this mcmillin feed that he has grown so great mcmillin would deny the right of petition does anyone remember any clause in the constitution regarding the right of petition that bars any religious body from exercising that righta that was a play to the galleries Is ii mcmillin one of the precious bunch that is alleged to have sold to the liquor interests on the temperance legislation question and cant stand to have those petitions lome come from all directions 7 that is the question which arises when that insane proposition is given out that churches have no right to petition the august body of the present utah legislature |
