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Show EDMUXDS' BILL IN THE SENATE. Its Final Passage Yesterday by a . - Vote of 38 to T. . ; Washington, January 8. The Utah bill came up in the Senate for consideration. - Morgan again called attention - to the twelfth section, which provides for fourteen trustees to administer the property," business busi-ness affairs and operations of the corporation corpora-tion known as the "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." He wanted to know what their duties and pay were, as the bill was silent as to their salaries. He demanded an answer from his fellow-members of the judiciary committee. Edmunds replied that Morgan should have an answer. Morgan saw no authority in Congress to appoint trustees to manage a church business. busi-ness. He characterized such trustees as Mugwump Mormons. They would be occupied occu-pied necessarily, he said, in promoting Mor-monism, Mor-monism, as he interpreted the bill under consideration, for the trustees had to exercise exer-cise all the' powers granted by the Territorial Territo-rial laws creating the corporation. Edmunds replied that they had nothing whatever to do with church matters or matters mat-ters of faith, but only with the property; to see that the church moneys, whieh were enormous, were not applied to the propagation propaga-tion of polygamy. Not one-quarter of the Mormons, as Edmunds understood it, believed be-lieved in polygamy. . - - Teller inquired if the Mormon church moneys were applied illegally, that is, in violation of the charter of that church? Edmunds replied he believed they were. Teller asked how. Edmunds answered: "They are used for the purpose of inducing and securing immigration immi-gration that may contribute to the lusts of these vagabonds." Maxey supported the bill. He held that Mormonism was A MEEK OOVEB FOB LICENTIOUSNESS. He thought the judiciary committee had discriminated with great skill between religious re-ligious liberty and secular license. Call said we owed our liberties to the freedom free-dom of speech and worship. We were departing de-parting from that ground when we passed such a bill as that under consideration. A Mormon has as muefcxight to proclaim his faith as "the distinguished man who denies the divinity of Christ." The reason why Mormonism had become so successful, he thought, was because of its great activity as a secular organization.- It had gone abroad over the earth and drawn people from misery and poverty and brought them to a land of plenty. It was no wonder that under such circumstances it had become successful. But these people could now be brought under the influence of the Christian religion. The ministrations of that religion were sufficient to conquer the Mormons, and would do so more completely and happily than the bill before the Senate could. Some amendments offered by Call were voted down. As the bill was about to be brought to a vote Morgan said its friends seemed determined deter-mined to press it without giving its opponents oppo-nents a chance to study it. He again inquired in-quired as to THB SALARIES WHICH THE COMMISSIONERS WERE TO HAVE. - He did not want to send fourteen men out to Utah to loot the Mormon church. He had announced his determination to wipe this church out and leave nothing of it but a name and an unholy memory, but had been met by a proposition in this bill to perpetuate perpetu-ate the church. While the bill was on final passage, Yan Wyck endeavored to fix the duties of the proposed fourteen trustees upon the members mem-bers of the " present Utah Commission, but was ruled out of order. He asked Edmunds whether he had any objection to such an amendment, to which the Senator answered that he had. The bill having been brought to a vote, was passed Yeas 38, nays 7, as follows: Yeas Allison, Beck, Berry, Chace, Cock-rell, Cock-rell, Coke, Conger, Cullom, Dawes, Dolph, Edmunds. Eustis, - Evarts, Frye, George, Harris, Harrison, Hawley, Ingalls, Jaokson, Logan, McMillan, Manderson, Maxey, Mitohell of Pennsylvania, Morrill, Palmer, Payne, Piatt, Pugh, Sawyer, Sherman, Srjooner. Van Wyck. Walthall. Wilson of Iowa, and Wilson of Maryland 38. Nays Blair of New Hampshire, Call of Florida, Gibson of Louisiana, Hampton of South Carolina, Hoar of Massachusetts, Morgan of Alabama, and Vance of North Carolina. Hoar, explaining his vote, said he voted against the bill only because of the section disfranchising women, but even with that section in, he would have voted for the bill had his vote been necessary to its passage. |