Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-04-04
Last Nights EepOrt.
xXxIVlh CONGRRss--I r SESSION
W4smNGIvN AfTiI 3.
HOUSE.


WAsaINGIvS pTil ,.
HOUSE.
The House resumed the consideration Of the
Anti-Polygamy bill.
Mr. McClemand proceeded to sustain his
assertion made yesterday, that there was no
instance in which Congress had enacted a spe-
eial penal code 10 operate in the original Ter
rItOries. The act OF 1890 was general in its
opperatiOn and extended to treason and other
offences against tne United States. Congress,
by erecting Territorial governmet, had dele
gated certain powers, so that the criminal be-
came amsnable to the local law.
During q colloquy between FsInsworlh and
CLARK, Of Mo, the former said John Wesley
spoke Of slavery as the som Of all yillanies.
jenkins inquiI sd DO you say so z"
FarnswOrth was very much Of the opinion.
Jenkins Then you declare lie =
FGrnsworh--"I am not in the habit of des
cending into cess pools 10 throw dirt at black,
guards"
jenkins lin his seat was understood to say
IL can't receive that as an insult"
The bill TO suppress POlygamy in Utah was
debated at length.
Mr.. McClsrnand advanced the proposition to
divide Utah between Pike's Peak and Nevada.
No vote was taken.
Adjourned.
SENATE.
Nj. Green, from tho Territorial Committee,
reported bills organizing Arizona an I COLORADO.
/ He also offered preamble and resolution, set
ting forth that William Medill. Comptroller Of
| the Treasury, had violated the practice Of the
Department in settling the Post Office accounts,
and also the laws, and had therefore Justly in
CURED the disapprobstion of Congress. and that
his conduct renders it improper for him longer
to continue in Office.
Mr.. NJ son, frUm the Committee on Foreign
Affairs, reported bill defTaying the expenses
Of the Japanese Embassy on their arrival in the
country.
The following is the bill for the punishment
aud suppression OF polgamy. now under con-
sideratIon by the House at Washington. Bill
10 punish aud prevent the practice Of poyea-
! my in the Territories Of the U. 5. and other
places, and disaPproving and annullng certain
acts ofthe Legislative Assenib ' OF Utah, which
sets forth, whereas: Il is admitted that poly
RamYis permitted by he municipal regulations
/ OF one OF the territories of this Union. aud is
sought to be justified on the ground that this
abonin stion IN q Christian country, is reli~
qious rite by the inhabitants of said territeFy
and whereas. No principle OF self-gOvernment
or citizen sovereignty esn require Of justify
the practice Of such moral pollution there.
ReSolred, That any person or persons being
manied and an inhabilant or any Territory Of
the United States, or any other place over which
the United States Possesses exclusive jurisdio>
ton shall iutermaTry with any person or per-
sons, or cohabit with any person or persons, or
1 live with auy persons or persons as par
acknowledging conjugal relations, the former
4 husband or wife being alive, he, she, or the
person so offending shall, on conviction there
or paw a fine not exceeding FIVE hundred dollars,
| and he imprisonsd not less than two yers; nor
more than i've years; Provided neyeTtheless,
that this section, foF anything therein contained
shall not extend to any person or persons whose
husband or, wi le shall yOluntonly absent him
self or herself one from the for the space Of
five years. The one Of them not ;he other 10
be living with in that time, not TO any person
| or peTSons who shall be at the time Of such
marriage divorced by competent authority or
70 any person or persons whose former marriage
by sentence Of competent authority shall have
been de:laIed void.
Sec. %. Ba it further enabted that the FOL
lowing ordinance Of the Provisional Cover
ment Of the State Of Deseret, so CALLED, viz:
An Ordnance incorporating the Church Of
| Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints passed Feb.
& IS4l, and adopted re-enacted and made valid
by ne GoNefneF anu LeglalAtAe Abseunolg "
the T,DTritory Of Utah, by an act passed Janu-
arv 18th, in the year 1855, entitled an act in
relation TO the compilation and revision Of the
laws and reso lutions in force in Utah Territory,
their publication and distribution and all other
acts and parts Of acts heretofore passed by the
aid legislative Assembly Of the Territory Of
Utah, which establish support, maintain,
shield, or cOuntenanee polyFlmy, be, aud
the same are here disapproved and an
Lulled and provided, that the act shall
be 90 limited and constructed as not to eff C.
or interfere with the rights o property legally
acquired under the ordinance heretofore men.
toned, nor with the rights to worship God
eeeouliRQ 10 the dictates Of conscience. but only
10 annui all acts and which establish,
MAINTAIN, protect or countenance the practice OF
poiyRany, evssively called Spiritual Marriage,
however disguised By legal Or ecclesiastical
solemnities, sacransnts cersInenies, eonseers.
tons or other eOutrivance.