Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-12
GENERAL News.
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD
UNION.
THE RULINGS OF JUDGE COX.
What the Lawyers on Both Sides
Think of Them.
THE STAR ROUTE GASES IN COURT.
The Deadlock in the New York Legisla-
YESTERDAYS CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
General Crusade Against the Disgrace Of
Polygamy.
DOMESTIC.
United States Senate.

| United States Senate.
| WASHINGTON, January 11th. = Nearl,
every Senator present having suhmitte'
1 petitions for Commission on the alcoholic
| liquor traffic, Blair said it was evidence O
| the universal demand for legislation on th
| subject
| Morgan offered resolution directing tn.
| Woman Suffrage Committee to inquire int
suffrage in Utah. and report bill to annu
any existing law comforting suffrage upor
| Utah women. The resolution went over.
Vest spoke on the Sherman ,efunding bill
| The Democratic bill of last year would have
saved the country 100000.
The President pro tenn. announced the spe
cial committee on the rights of women, as
| follows: Lapham, Anthony, Ferry, Blair
| George, jackson and Fair.
Anthony introduced bill providing fol
| the retirement of any person who had served
| fifty years or upwards in either house oi
| Congress.
The minutes of the General Assembly Of
| the Presbyterian Church of the United
States, in session in Buffalo last May, con.
demning polygamy, were submitted.
Morgan offered resolution, which was
| laid over to be printed, directing the special
| Committee on Woman's Suffrage to inquire
| into the matter of suffrage in Utah, and re-
port bill to set aside any existing laws
conferring suffrage upon the women of that
| Territory.
Brown offered resolution, which was laid
over, supplying each Senator not Chairman
of o committee with a clerk.
Adjourned.
House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON, January 11th.-Orth Offered
resolution instructing the Civil Service
Committee to inquire into the expediency ol
proceeding differently from the present fol
the appointment of committees of the House
with leave to report at any time.
The Speaker said it would be referred tc
the Committee on Rules.
Orth objected, and moved to refer to the
Civil Service Committee.
The motion was lost-S7 to Is.
The resolution was then referred to the
Committee on Rules.
Haskell rose to a question of privilege, and
sent to the Clerks desk and had read the
resolution which he wanted to have consid.
cred yesterday, declaring it to be the fixed
and final determination Of the Forty-seventh
Congress that no person maintaining polyga-
nous marital relations, or teaching or incit-
ing others so to do, is entitled to be admitted
to the House of Representatives as . delegate
from any Territory.
Randall did not think the resolution came
within the rules as a question of privilege.
If it ever had on such question, it was not
SO now. The House had referred the Utah
contested case to the Committee on Elections
and SO far as the House is concerned this
question must be considered as res adjudicato
THE PoLYGAMY QUESTION.
Haskell contended that the resolution pre-
sented question Of the highest privilege, in-
asmuch as it affected the dignity of the
House. 1t has been charged by the public
press that Gentle polygamists were in jail,
but that Mormon polygamists were seated on
the floor of Congress. That was the charge
made affecting the dignity Of this House.
and of all houses of Congress. This question
should not be delayed, or attempted to be
lodged by points Of order. The gentlemen
had said yesterday that they were opposed
to polygamy. Let them not put themselves
in the position of the men who were in favor
of law, but were not in favor of enforcing it.
Reagan of Texas opposed the resolution
OF the ground that it excluded persons from
membership on a presumed state of facts
without examination or investigation.
Speer argued that the resolution did not
present question of privilege. If the gen.
tleman proposed to fix new qualifications to
membership, his resolution must go to the
COMMITTEES on Judiciary. The fact that Cam
non was not member took the question out
of the purview of privileged question.
Mills csntended that as there was mem
Der of the House charged with polygamy,
the resolution could not present question of
privilege.
Cannon took the ground that the question
was not one of privilege, inasmuch as
whether adopted or rejected it could have no
effect upon any one.
propose law. Itsimply asked the House to
m of
amy.
The Speaker submitted the question whether
the resolution presented privileged question.
By vote Of yeas 100, nays 139, the House
determined that no question of privilege was
evolved in the resolution.
Burrows asked leave to introduce and put
on its passage bill defining the qualifications
of Territorial delegates. 1t provides that no
person shall be delegate from any Territory
under % years and seven years citizen of
the United States, and no person living in
bigamy or polygamy will be eligible
Armfeld and Singleton objected, and Bur
rows stated that he had mistaken the senti.
ments of the other side, and gave notice that
he would introduce the bill again Monday.
The Mormon Question.
New YORK, January 11th.-The Graphic
Washington correspondent says: A son of
the late Orson Pratt, one OF the original Nor
mon Apostles, is in the city. He is an ardent
anti. Mormon. To day he said: "We have
been waiting twenty years, thinking that each
succeeding Congress would do something for
Utah, but it has never been done. When the
Poland bill was passed we hoped something
from it, but the vital parts were taken from
it. SO that it really amounted to nothing.
You ask me how it happens that am not a
Mormon. will tell you. / am the son of
my fathers first wife, and had mother
who taught me the evil OF the system.
There are many such persons in
Utah, and the tendency of their education is
opposed to Mormonism. They grow up hos
tile to the institution, and more than half ap-
pear to be disguised with all forms of religion.
Some of the older and more fanatical Nor.
mons have an idea that the Government can
not deal with them. They think they are
more powerful than the United States. OF
course it is not true of the more intelligent
class, such as Cannon, for example. They
know better. What wa want is blow struck
at polygamy. We want it wiped out. I
don't care straw for the simple unseatipg of
Cannon on q technicality If nothing is to be
done to put down polygamy. 1 would as
soon have Cannon in Congress as Campbell,
and perhaps rather 1t il not Cannon we lr.
fighting, but polygamy." Pratt was asked
what would be the result in Utah of the uI-
seatlng OF cannon, provided the Committee
on Elections report against him. He replied
"The case in that event would, I suppose, be
referred back to the people, aud the Mormons
would elect another man. The vote in this
case shows about the proportion of MormoHs
and Gentiles. 1t is over ten to one in favor
OF the Mormon population, and of course they
can always carry the election as long as they
have right to vote"
Governor Murray. of Utah, said 81 am
not in favor Of dividing the Territory of Utah,
as they have proposed, and attaching por-
ton of it to Colorado and Nevada. This
would accoEplish no good. 1t would simply
insure Nevcov.to the Democrats, and also,
most likely, tE1n Colorado into Democratic
State. The Mormons are Democrats. / am
in favor of abolishing the present form Of
Territorial Government, and administer the
affairs Of the Territory by Council ap-
pointed by the President. What we are
striving for is an agitation Of the subject. and
to arouse Congress to action. We want
Cannon dethroned for the moral effect it will