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Show j BEHOLD THE RESULT! According to the Washington coires-j coires-j pondent of the Chicago Times, Senator j Edmunds has arrived at the conclusion j that his Utah bill which passed the Senate on the 8th ult., does not contain provisions stringent enough to cure the evils from J which this Territory has so long suffered. ; He therefore has formulated an amend- ment, which it is said he will ask the j House Judiciary Committee to attach to I the bill. The amendment embodies the following provisions, which everybody interested should read and well digest : It is proposed to exolude every person from participating in the Territorial govern-. govern-. ment unless he is registered hereafter; and ; to entitle him to be registered he most take an oath in writing that he is sincerely at-; at-; tached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States; that he regards the Constitution, the acts of Congress, and of Territorial Legislature as interpreted by the courts as the supreme law of the land; that he declares allegiance to the government of the United States, and renounces all alle-'gianoe alle-'gianoe to any other power, civil-or ecclesiastical; ecclesias-tical; that he has no sympathy with the po- j litical aims or intentions of the - Mormon '.XT' Church, and is opposed to any interference by that church with the exercise of the elective franchise by dictating to or counseling a voter how he shall not vote or how he shall perform official duties; that he denounces as pernicious and holds not binding bind-ing upon him any such counsel or dictation; that he is separated from the political party of the church, and solemnly promises and swears that he will not act or be in concert with any political party acting or whiohmay hereafter act to carry out the politioal will of the church or of any Mormon political party. The amendment further provides that if persons shall swear falsely in any particular of the prescribed oath, whether it relates to a present fact or a future act, he shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and on conviction, in addition toother punishment, shall be stricken from the list of voters. It provides that the board of commissioners now existing in Utah by appointment of the President of the United States shall appoint sub-boards to hear complaints from electors for the purpose of cancelling their registration, registra-tion, and upon proof that they have registered regis-tered by fraud, or have not kept their promise prom-ise and oath, they shall be stricken off the registration list, but the right is given to appeal ap-peal to the board of commissioners. Power is given to the board of commissioners to make regulations for practice before the sub-boards. sub-boards. " . Naturally enough, this proposed legislation legis-lation arouses the ire of the Church scribes, and they lay to their souls the flattering hope that "the bill in its present pres-ent state cannot get through the House, and the proposed amendment will , kill it outright." We shall see. In vain has the Government for years pleaded with the people of Utah to coma within the laws t in vain has it extended the hand of friendship, and asked the Mormon people to accept it and become like other citizens of the Union.. Its entreaties and its friendly advances, and the merciful provisions of its laws have alike been uuheeded, refused and scorned, and now, behold the result ! If the people of Utah persist in deriding the laws of the country, and continue in their stiff-necked assertion of allegiance to a "higher power," it begins to look as though that "power" would shortly be the only one whose aid they can invoke to help them in their extremity. |