Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-01-30
THE WAR ON POLYGAMY.

The anti-polygamy bill reported by
Mr.. Edmunds from the senate judi
ciary committee provides at the out
set that the first part of section 1852
of the revised statutes shall be
amended so as to read as follows
Every person who has husband or
a wife living who, in a territory or
other place over which the United
States have exclusive jurisdiction,
hereafter marries another, whether
married or single, and any man who
hereafter simultaneously or on the
same day marries more than one
woman in territory or other place
over which the United States have
exclusive jurisdiction, is guilty of
polygamy, and shall be punished by
fine of not more than $500 and by
imprisonment for term of not more
than five years.
The second and third sections of
the bill are as follows: Section 2.
That if any male person in territory
or other place over which the United
States have exclusive Jurisdiction
hereafter cohabits with more than one
woman he shall be deemed guilty Of
a misdemeanor, and On conviction
thereof shall be punished by fine of
not more than $500 or by imprison-
ment for not more than six months,
or by both said punishments in the
discretion of the court.
The fourth section provides in sub
stance that any prosecution for biga-
my, polygamy or unlawful cohabita-
ton, under any statute of the United
States, it shall be a sufficient cause
of challenge to any person drawn or
summoned as juryman or talesman,
that he has been living in any such
practices or relations, or that he be-
lieves it right for man to have more
than one living and undivorced wife
at the same time, or to live in the
practice of cohabiting with more than
one woman.
The next three sections of the bill
are as follows: Section 5. That the
president is hereby authorized tC
grant amnesty to such classes Of
offenders as were guilty before the
passage of this act of bigamy, polyg
amy or unlawful cohabitation, OF
such conditions and under such limi
tations as he shall think proper; blu
no such amnesty shall have effec
, unless the conditions thereof shall b.
complied with.
, Section 6. That the issue of biga
nous or polygamous marriages
: known as Mormon marriages, i
2 cases in which such marriages hav
been solemnized according to th
ceremonies of the Mormon sect, i
: any territory of the United States
4 and such issue shall have been Dor
q. before the first day of January, A
: D. 1888, are hereby legitimatized,
e Section Z. That no polygamis
t bigamist or any person cohabitin
n with more than one woman, and Il
/ woman cohabiting with any of I'll
d persons described as aforesaid in th
/ section, in any territory or other plat
$ in which the United States have e,
a elusive jurisdiction, shall be entitle
t. to vote at any election held in al
: such territory or other place, or
Z, eligible for election or appointmel
L to or be entitled to hold any office
h place of public trust, honor, or emo
N ument in, under or for any such te
y ritory or place, or under the Unit,
r. States.
rs The eighth and last section of t
TO bill yaeates all the registration al
e. election offices of every descripti'
10 in the territory of Utah, and deyoly
ne upon board of five persons Ito
appointed by the president and co