The New York herald., 1870-03-23
Nays-110.

Mr.. BLAIR rep.l or Mich described the general
one power IN Utah. ana that was IN Lne hands OF
single mnn-Br,gnam Young. II he SAID TO a Grand
there would be none; If he said there should be
Indictment, there would be one; II he said that q
criminal might be punished, he would be punished,
and II ne SAID criminal would not be punished, he
certainly would not be. He secuted the idea thar
there would be any serious resistance on the part OF
the Mormons, and offered the report that Brigham
Young is now selecting a new locality In Arizona.
Mr.. HOOPER, trep.l the delegate from Utah, ex-
planned Brigham Young's trip to Arizona as having
no such object In view bat as being SIMPLY the usual
trip that he makes 10 outlying settlements. Brig
permanent citizen OF Salt Lake City.
Mr.. DAWES, trep} OF Mass. objected to the section
providing Tor the selection OF jurors which gave AL
the control OF the matter to the United States Mar
shal, ano subsequently offered amendments TO that
section, and which were adopted. which require the
Marshal to summon 100 jurors instead of thirty.
nine, and OUT OF the number TO select thrty-nine,
who are TO serve as grand and petty jurors.
bl and In reference objections made rs to the
difficulty OF providing for the extra wives VINO
would be left unprovided for when the haremis are
broken up. He expressed the opinion that Crom-
we'll had had the right view in breaking up the con-
vents. He stamped mis- foot on the threshold and
Mr. NIBLACK tdein.l OF Ind, suggested, jocular,y,
that the Freedmens Bureau might be sent down
there.
Mr. BLAIR knew that the gentleman from Indiana
loved the bureau very much and would be glad to
extend It; but he thought 1t would require some
notifications to make 1t applicable. As to the aIlu-
sion made IN Mr.. Fitchs speech to the gded
harems Of New York and Boston and TO the painted
Jezebe!s all over the country, ne tMr Blair could
see very wide difference between thing that hides
Itself In holes ana corners ana Keeps out OF sight.
deiyng all law and decency, without setting itself
up as rule FOR people to follow, and the conduct OF
q community that organizes iechery INTO law. Wheu
that gentleman tMr. Fitch was apoloslzing for
Deiilah and p,Jying the yonng man VINO fell IN
with her he tsfr Biar) had thought to himself that
1t was painfully evident that tae gentleman from
Nevada never would make much headway himself
against Derlah and that the country should have
look elsewhere than TO him 10 hight that crea-
ture (IIaugnter.) The trouble with polygamy in
utah was tnat IL set sei up for admiration, that
the MormOnS were the Latter Day SalnLSN that
they were the hottest or all me people, tnat tnelr
Church was to swallow up all otner churches and
this they proposed to do by establishing the lnstltu-
iion OF polygatny Could members look upon 1t ana
allow II TO live any longerY Were gentlemen ready
by their votes, or tner conduct III any way even to
| apologize for itY
Mr. Cox explained that the vote of himself and
otner members to ay the Oil on the taDle not
Intended as an apology I0r polYgamy but because
they believed, or at least he DID, tnat all measures
| OF persecution always defeated their object. He
believed that If the motion TO postpone had been
persisted in the bill would have been postponed,
and would by that chiOroform process nave been
sufocated He preferred To strangle poygamy by
| another process, not Oy this measure.
! Mr. BLAIR hoped that the gentleman from New
York would not attempt TO strange t by embraces.
uangnter.l
sage Of the bill, which was designed TO violate the
dearest rights OF the people or Utan and was frauYht
with evil Here for l9e nrst time IN the history OF
the American government was q piopos!tiQg y
punish citizens their belief disbelief The bill
declared that the social system which Moses taught.
which God allowed and from which Christ had
sprung was q crime, and that any one, not simply
practising it, but believing IN it, was TO be, not
tried out convicted, his wife turned out on the
world and property conscated Tor the benefit OF
the moral reformers who were the nstgators OF the
bill.
without concluding his remarks, the House, aI
aii-past four adjourned.