Show JUDGE BASKiN RETURNS A Warm Welcome Extended to Him at His Home Last Evening by Loyal Friends He Talks to a Democrat Reporter About the Probable Effect of the New Law His Tribute to Governor West Mr Bennett and Mr Tucker He is Glad to be Home Again As was expected yesterday Judge Baskin who has been in Washington all winter fighting for the cause of loyal Utah arrived home last evening and I was greeted at his residence on First North street by a large number of friends Among those who enjoyed the pleasure of shaking the Judges hand were Governor West ExGovernor Murray Marshal Dyer Judge Zane Prof L E Holden J M Zane Dr Fowler James Glendenning W C Duval Chas Read N Treweek Judge Bennett H G McMillan W C Hall John C Young G S Erb J S Scott James Anderson Hugh Anderson Dr Hamilton R C Chambers Richard McIntosh Bolivar Roberts and C S Varian After some time had been spent in pleasant converse an adjournment was taken to the dining room and a little later the party broke up wishing the Judge a pleasant sojourn at home after lice hard winters labor Jilt 1IASKIX TALKS This morning a DEMOCRAT reporter found Mr Baskin enjoying a fragrant Havana in the pleasant parlors at his home and after the usual preliminaries the Judge consented to talk about the new law What part did Mr Edmunds take in knocking the Tucker amendments out of the bill was the first question put The Senate confereesEdmunds In galls and Pughstood as a unit against the Tucker bill and with Collins from the House they had a majority and fixed the thing to suit themselvea Dont you think that Edmunds influenced influ-enced the other members of the committee commit-tee into rejecting the Tucker substitute Well of course I cant tell what was done in the committee but I know that the Senate conferees were all opposed to the provisions of the substitute The material changes were made after Tucker was called away The clause making the punishment for cohabitation the same as that polygamy and also the one conferring con-ferring the appointive power upon the Governor were both stricken out after Tucker left Irs TUCKER IS PERFECTLY STRAIGHT lIe understands the situation and being an honest man he has worked faithfully for the good of Utah In all my work in Washington I met no man who was so zealous as Mr Tucker He saw that an early settlement of this Question would be a crreat thin for the Territory and he was anxious to have the trouble ended at once Let me ask you said the reporter do you think that Edmunds is really a friend of Utah Yes I do He has his own ideas about the way this matter should be settled set-tled and he is working to carry out his plans but it is just as sure as that you and I are sitting here that he is sincere in his work You know and I know that he has the wrong idea about it but he is a firm man and he carries out his own plans He is always very positive and aggressive and nothing can turn him from his course TilE NEW LAW Do you think the new law will be of any great benefit to us Yes sir I think it is a very good law It is not of course nearly so sweeping as the Tucker measure but it is a big advance upon the past The restoration of the adultery and incest laws the right to attack witnesses the registration of marriages the disincorporation of the Church the abolition of the emmigration fund the restoration of the riirht of dower the illegitimization of polygamous po-lygamous children the appointment appoint-ment of Gentiles as probate judges and the repeal of the womens suffrage act will be found to be a great boon to loyal Utah Taking away suffrage from the women will doubtless greatly increase our majority ma-jority but will it give us any practical advantage I Yes with the redistricting of the Territory i think we will have representatives repre-sentatives in both houses of the Legislature Legisla-ture from Weber Tooele Beaver Summit Sum-mit and Salt Lake county and that will be a great thing for us Do you think that this question will ever be settled except by legislation taking tak-ing the political power directly and absolutely abso-lutely out of the hands of the Mormon church Well the new law will reduce the Mormon majority greatly and with a few new railroads running in here and a boom for the town I think we would soon attain the majority I Then you think that this law will settle set-tle the question in time Not in this generation unless there is a great influx of Gentile population Returning to the passage of the new measure the Judge said that the Tucker bill had more friends in the House and in the Senate than had the Edmunds bill and had it ever come to a vote in the upper House it would have gone through with a bounce HIS TRIBUTE During the conversation Mr Baskin said that he could not say too much for r Governor West and the gallant stand he took As for Mr Bennett he did all that any man could do under the circumstances cir-cumstances and worked faithfully to the end and Tucker was the noblest Roman 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