Show WlinitH Mil HDMUNDS STANDS In the Jqngrcttional 1ccord of tho Uth inst appears a full report of the debate in the Semite on tho antiwoman sufTmKO amendment moved by Mr Kuslis of Lou isiini I to the bill providing for tile admission ad-mission of Washington Territory as n Stale The DIMOUIVT yesterday icfeirpil lo I this labile and said that no good ground existed for charging Mr Idmunds with inconsistency incon-sistency because while opposed to uoman BiiITrago In Utah ho advocated tho right of tlio gentler sex to vote ill Washington Territory and oted against Mr Kuslis proposal to restrict the fmfTrugc in lila proposed new Stale to qualified male electors only The DIMOCHU attributed Mr IMmnnds opposition to woman suffrage in Utah to Site fact that lie is fully cognizant of the purpose for which tlio franchise was extended ex-tended to the women of this Territory and is also fully advised of the manner in which tIle Church controls nil tho votes cast by Mormon electors of both Boxes And since it is nppircnt to him and to everybody else who his any knowledge at all of tho workings of tho politico lesiastieil despotism holding sway here thai the bllllot I was placed in tho hands of tile Mormon women and by them has ulnuB been and now is i being used solely for Iho purpose ot perpetuating the rule of a lawdefying priesthood in this Territory whoso aim is to build up nn independent in-dependent Kingdom ilhin the lines of this free Uepublic who can see any inconsistency in-consistency in opposing woman suirnige in Utah oven while advoaling tlic right of women to vote in a neighboring Territory Terri-tory Dining thu debate on Iho amendment above referred to Mr Jdmumls fully defined his position on the woman siif frico question in tho following language which wo tiKo from his speech as reported report-ed in Iho lleconl Now what is I tho point By the law as it now stands mill has stood m every Territory Hint line been established in this Union I think I run snfo in saying it line boon provided pro-vided thnt llio people of Iho Territory thesis r f ofl selves after their first organization nero to determine who should bo the people entitled to tho elective franchise Hint is tho law of Congiess ns applied to every Territory I believe Now then tho people of Washing ton Territory have chosen in rcgnlntinR their on n affairs under this authority of an express law is Congress to provide thnt females ns well ns mules bav ing other similar simi-lar QimhilcntioMS should bo entitled to vote Thoso Indies therefore in Washington rer ritory comprise n part nt this moment under tho authority of Congress of tho political autonomy that Territory You lire about to submit to tho political autonomy that Ten itoryn question huonld you not submit sub-mit it to whatever is that politioil autouoim without making changes or distinctions1 Nobody can deny that and jet my distinguished distin-guished friend from Louisiana sajs thuS we have sassed n Utnli bill and in that wo have provided that this omen of Utah shall not hereafter I bo entitled to exercise political i power and that wo one therefore committed to tho idea that no woman in any Territory or IB any place where Congress has junsdic1 I lion 1 shall bo entitled to exorcise i that function func-tion I deny the proposition t altogether > Nobody knows better tlmn the Senator I from Louisiana whoso intelligence and BCOJJO nnd Etiitcsmnnship I HO gladly recoo1 I nlze that there call bo 110 tetrailel tin coiIlOi dence Inlhe oilullllon of affairs III Glob nnd in any other territory in the United States I or in any State lute Terntorj of Utah from its beginning hRs gradually grown up I to bo n mere political hierarchy that depends de-pends upon tho will substantially of ono man nn autocrat and that devoted to the promulgation of polygamous I practices t Vb t dJ lm tnhI When wo catno to deal with Utah not us n Territory to bo admitted into tho United States as ono of its members but as dealing with its condition ns a Territory and in order or-der to relieve it from thia enormous crime which as my friend from Massachusetts has stated is against all social and religion notions of every civilized government on the face of tho globe wo provided that women should not vote hi Utah for tho tlmo being It was asked by my friend from Louisiana why did you not deepS lbs Gentile tceE dctrhoIh cIliA women who are not under this sin very Tor tho simple reason that when you undertook to nmku such nn exception yes hove Cot to provide merely for questions of upmiou nnd you have got to draw a lino that under tho theory of this Government and under the theory of tlio gg m i ttl Constitution you can not draw and that in that tho riahl to vole id to bo mado dependent depend-ent upon the opinion political religious or moral or whatever uf tlio person who is to vote Bo then if n o reliev these slnv es under tho control of tho Mormon Church hero I I from tile obligation to vote ns their mnstirs said wo must at this sates time leave out their fellowwomen who did not think ns t they fjlo nt all IIII because otherwise von must I draw the line upon tho question of opinion tituS belief And I am clad to say that fihO eIII J IIIIIWejllfl te among I nil l the women m tho United Stales n greet man of whom linvo written i me vln eg mog g IAI nt with objurgations j there him never come to mo from Utah from liny of Ohio Guitilo women ns they ire called any complaint of tJCltonc r ljir 10 i grlterl tho fact that tlioj wero among tho disfrau chised but on the contrary nmong commendations commen-dations of this circumstance that we had passed the bill ns we did Iho case of Utah is unique lIlt separate it cast Itave no pirullcl or relation to nnj il Ir rl aN Iltt other question that can engage the attention 1 of the Congress of this United Mates and therefore had I been like my friend from Massachusetts tho most intense advocate woman suffrage everywhere I should linvo felt thutl was doing my best for truo woman suffrage everywhere and nil thotimo ns my G r f tre Gentile t fellowciticus women of Utah feel i as I believe and am ndvmed I should have felt that I was doing Iho best thing for true womanhood and true woman sufTrago every where in doing exactly what I did in voting for tho bill thnt passed tho hciiate |