Show TilE NIW KMIUNDS niu C Tlio Judiciary Oommitlco of the House nro expected to favorably report hack toilny the IMmunds Utah bill with nnincroiii and Rome mo t radical ntncnil I inonU It U liardly probable wo think I that both bouse of Congress will give their sanction to the bill I > us it will bo returned re-turned to them but If It Bliould bo accepted ac-cepted mid pissed In anything like its present shape It will work the complete anil sudden collapso of polygamy mid a dosirablo roursil of the present politIcal situation In the Territory The most important ot lie amendments amend-ments In It political House Is the ono requiring re-quiring nil persons who register voters to take nn oath befoie their iriinc is placed on tho list to support tile Constitution Consti-tution ot the United Stales and to olioy tIle law and the bins previously passed nualnet polygamy If this amendment shall become a put of the how Us effect will 10 itislaiilancoiH atul sleeping as who of the thousands of unrepentant Mormons can take such an oath The natural result will bo that tho Gentile minority will como to tIle front and here nfler hnv something OH win shaping Ibo ttlTalrs of his Territory The section which gives the 1reBident the Senate concurring the power of aI Huntingthirteen men who shall constitute II consti-tute the Council of the Territory of Utah is fraught with groat promise lo tho despised de-spised and unrepresented irnlilcs in that tho President would naturally appoint nonMormons and Democrats and asunder as-under another section fIts Council will b ivo a concurrent voice with the lover nor in appointing all Territorial county and district olliccrs it naturally follows thata clean sweep will bo the result ill I Aon and thoro will be weeping and wailing and gnashing ot teeth in consequence conse-quence among Ibo Mormon ollico holders hold-ers who have learned look upon oflico as a birth right and who seem to huc never dreamed of the possible or prob iblo fact of a Gentile stopping in and ousting them Tho provision which makes It impossible impossi-ble for any religious society to own more than ten acies of land and buildings < etc of the value of more than 50000 will pill n quietus on thin construction of the great temple and relieve Ibo Mormon people of tho constant strain on their ro Sources which that building has caused The most sweeping amendment and the ono most to bo feared by those who will be liable under it Is the ono declaring declar-ing polygamy and all polygamous prac liccs and cohabitation to bo a felony und iiKikltif it umu fellable uUli 11 vn Beam Imprisonment i i The fact that such l an amendment has been framed and concurred con-curred in by thIn full Judiciary Committee Commit-tee is tantamount to its passage or adoption adop-tion as every member of the commillco C ma lawyer of f the first standing whilo many ot them luuo national loputations as jurists The construction placed upon this amendment is similar to that now enforced by the Territorial courts ie all acts of tho kind committed after n conviction has I been bad shall form sulll ll I cient cause for another I indictment and trial und can be so continued indefinitely indefi-nitely ut Thin whole of the proposed amendments savor strongly of a determination among Congressmen lo effectually bar the practice prac-tice of this odious custom in this Territory Terri-tory and though tho aid of u pan erf nl and monejed lobby has been given to defeat that end it now looks as if the flat Ins gone forth pronouncing tho doom of polygamy and Iho end of Mormon temporal Ii tem-poral rule Tho beneficial effects of such a consummation on the welfaru of Utah ran hardly bo estimated Instead of her 0 beautiful valleys being looked upon as curiosities by tourists they would swarm with the money and metal of now blood from tho East and a fen years would Htidlco to place her in the front rank of growing commercial centers The cankerworm canker-worm of religious fanaticism once removed a re-moved from her borders and them is no ountry under the sun so wire ot a dazzling future as is Utah |