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Show DECIDED. The long-expected decision in the case of Angus M. Cannon vs. United States has been rendered. The decision sustains the local courts in their construction of the cohabitation clause of the Edmunds law. This has teen a vexed question, and many hopes have been built upon it; these hopes are now as a house built upon the. sands and have been washed away. This of course settles all question as to the validity of the cohabitation clause as it has been construed here, and makes the cases for unlawful cohabitation much easier to prosecute. The plan which will be adopted by those liable to be prosecuted will probably be to make no acknowledgments whatever as to their polygamous families, and to be so secretive in their attentions to those families that it will be next to impossible to obtain evidence to convict under the law as now construed. This decision will be a complete refutation refuta-tion of the charges of Delegate Caine against Jtfdge Zane for his interpretation of this clause. Delegate Caine in his letter to the President said that "it mattered not that in the entire history of civil and criminal judicature no English or American court had ever held that cohabitation meant other than sexual intercourse," and here the Supreme Court of the United States has done the same thing. The letter of Mr. Caine contains a number of assertions to which we cannot subscribe, and whatever may have been the representations of Governor Murray and Marshal Ireland they could not have been much more incorrect t han the representations repre-sentations of Delegate Caine. Mr. Caine says that the "Mormons understand perfectly per-fectly that every effort has been and is being made by characterless Federal officials of-ficials to provoke an outbreak."- We doubt this just as much as we doubt the rumors, that the Mormons sent armed posses into this city on the Sunday Sun-day night succeeding the McMurrin-Collin McMurrin-Collin shooting scrape. We think that some of the Federal officials here are very anxious to retain their places, and would be willing to do almost anything to aid them in keeping them, but we don't believe they would incite a rebellion even for that, purpose. Mr. Caine tells the President that he has been imposed upon by the Governor and Marshal. It may be so ; but if he accepts Mr. Caine's statements absolutely the imposition is increased. We should dislike dis-like very much to say of Mr. Caine's representations as he said ot those of the Governor and Marshal, that these "representations "rep-resentations are maliciously false-," but the justification for such an assertion is as good in the one case as in the other. |