The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-04-04

xxXVI CONGRESS--First Session
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+ WASHINGTON, April -HoUsE.-The
! House resumed the consideration of the
| polygamy bill. a.,
/ Mr.. McClernand proceeded to address the
/ House on the pOlygamy bill.
! SENATE-Mr. Brown, from the territorial
committee, reported bills organizing Arizo-
MIA and Colorado. lie also offered pre-
/ amble and resolution setting forth that VIM.
| Medill, Comptroller of the Treasury, had Vio-
/ lated the practice OF the Department in set
! tling the Post Office accounts, and also the
laws, and had therefore justly incurred
the disapprobation OF Congress, and that his
/ conduct renders it improper for him longer
TO continue in office.
Mr. Mason, from the committee on foreign
affairs, reported bill defraying the expenses
| of the japanese embassy on their arrival in
the country
The following is a bill for the pun
ishment and suppression of polygamy
now under Consideration by the House.
Bill TO punish the practice of polygamy in
the territories of the United States and 9TH
er places, and disappearing and annnlling
certain acts of the legislative assembly OF the
territory OF Utah, which set, forth-Where-
as it is admitted, polygamy is permitted by
the municipal regulations of one OF the ter
justified on the ground that this abomina
tion ia Christian country is a religious
rite 10y the inhabitants of said territories;
and whereas no principleof self government
or citizen sovereignty can require or justi-
fy practice of such moral pollution; there.
fore resolved, that if any person or persons,
being married and an inhabitant Of any
territory of the United States or any other
place over which the United States possess
exclusive jurisdiction shall intermarry with
any person or persons, or live with any per-
son or persons as partners acknowledging
conjugal relations the former husband or
wife being alive, he, she, or they So Of
tending, shall on conviction thereof, pay
fine not exceeding $500 and be imprisoned
not less than two years nor more than five
years; provided nevertheless, that this
section nor anything therein contained shall
not extead to any person or persons whose
husband or wife shall absent himself or her
self from the other for the space of five years,
the one of them not knowing the other to
be living within that time, nor to any per-
sons who shall be at the time fsuch mar
riage divorced by competent authority, or to
any persons whose former marriage by SEN
tence OF competent authority shall have
been declared void.
SECTION Q. Belt further enacted that the fol-
lowing ordinance of the provisional govern
men4 of Desert 80 called, namely an ordinance
incorssorating the Church of Jesus Christ of
latter days saints, passed Feb. s, 1871, and
.adonted Hss-enaeted and made vaIiu by the
government and legislative assembly of the
territory of Utah, by an act passed, Jan. 10,
in the year of 1855, entitled an act in rela-
toa TO the compilation and revision of the
laws, and all other acts and parts of acts
H., ~ oasl lao Iafs
sembly of The territory of Utah, which es-
tabish, support, maintain, shield or counte-
nance polygamy, be and the same, hereby
are disapproved and annnlled; provided that
the act shall be so limited aud construed as
not to interfere with or affect the rights of
property legally acquired under the ordi-
nance heretofore mentioned nor with the
right to worship God according To the die
tates of conscience but only to annull all
acts and laws which establish, maintain, or
protect the principle of polygamy or spirit
nal marriage however disguised by legal or
ecclesiastical solemnities, sacraments cere-
monies, conscientious or other contrvances.
Branchs substitute
Be it enacted that the third and fourth sec
tions OF tue act, entitled an act To establish
n territorial government of Utah, approved
Sept. @ 1850, he, and the same are here
DJ ltDtditua Dc IL luItiiot SHdStcu. Attdh
hereafter the legislative power as defined and
limited in said act shall be vested in Gov
ernor and fourteen of the most fit and dis
Greet persons in the territory 10 be called the
legislative council, who shall be appointed
bienbiaIly by the President of the q. s.,
with the advice and consent of the Senate,
from among the citizens of the territory.
SENATE.-0n motion of Mr.. Mason, the
bill providing for the adjudication of the
claims of the Rhode Island Company
against Paraguay, by the appointment of a
Commissioner by each Government, to sit
in Washington for three months, in accord
ance with treaty stipuIations, was taken up
and passed.
Mr.. johnson, of Tennessee, wanted the
Homestead bill taken up and pressed to a
final Vote. 1t was very Important meas
ure.
The Indian appropriation bill came up,
and the amendments of the Senate adhered
to, after which the hill was postponed till
Thursday.
The House Homestead bill WAS taken up,
and the pending amendment being the Sen
ate bill, Mr. Fitch offered an amendment
that all land thai came under the provisions
of this bill should be only those subject to
private entry at the passage of the laws.
Mr.. Wilkinson made speech in favor of
the House bill.
NEW ORLEANS, April 3.--Two subordinate
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