Daily globe., 1882-04-20
House of Representatives.

WASHINGTON, April 19.-Taylor, chairman
| illness and death of President Garfield, sub.
mitted bill and reports
Blackburn presented report of the minority
Both were referred to the committee of the
| whole. The bill approprlates for the relief OF
Lucretia r. Garfield $4,000, less any sum
paid to the late President Garfield on account
of his salary as president. 1t pays DR.. Bliss
| $685. 600. Doctors Agnew and Hamilton
$4,000 each, Doctors Reyburn and
Boynton $4,000 each, Doctor Susan
Edison, $4,000; William j. Crump, 5000;
| the secretary of the navy, $40 1882; William r.
Speare, undertaken, 81 1856; to G. N. Jones,
Eberon, 81 ,092, aud to various merchants, and
| other sums ranging from so cents to $1,000.
1t provides that when Surveyor GeneralJ, K.
Barnes is retired from active service he shall
| be placed on the retired list with the rank and
pay of major general. It further provides
| there shall be added to the medical corps of
| the army a surgeon with the rank, pay and
emoluments of lieutenant colonel, and au.
| thorizes the president to promote J. H. Wood
son to that position.
| The house resumed consideration of the
| Utah contested election case.
| The discussion lasted until 4 o'clock, when
| an hour was accorded Geo. @. Cannon to pre-
| sent his claims. He commented on the fact
| that the Christianity which had been SO much
vaunted On this floor, and which had been
held up in contradistinction to that system in
which he was supposed to believe had been
| itself prosecuted religion and its founder had
| been crucified between two thieves. From
! that day until to-day, every man who had
| stood out among his fellow men to declare
frIn W in
popular ideas, had in almost every instance to
lay down his life as a proof of the sincerity of
his conviction. If one twentieth part of
what had been said in debate relative to the
people of Utah were true, their representative
! would deserve to be driven from the halls of
congress, but while the food of false state
ments had been pouring over the country con-
| corning Utah, not a voice had been heard in
defence of her people. He gave brief statistics
| in Utah, and then coming down
to the statement of the last election, he
asserted the governor of Utah, having views
which he thought would make him popular,
had entered into conspiracy with others to
precipitate upon the country the question as
to whether the people of Utah should be rep
resented in congress. If he had his rights, he
should have come here with certificate from
the territory of Utah, signed by the governor.
That would have been his position If he had
not been defrauded OF his rights. He had
been kept out OF his seat, bound hand and
foot, until the recent action of congress had
been passed, and it was now proposed to make
it operative as to him and expel him, not by
two-thirds vote, but by a majority vot9.
He did not envy the feelings of any member
who could do such injustice because the
popular clamor was raised against Utah. He
asked those gentlemen who said the people of
Utah violated the law whether they would set
the example of shifting down law, justice and
right because of the alleged bad character of
that people. He would want his hand to lose
its cunning and his tongue to cleaye to
the roof of his mouth before he
would in that manner tear out the corner
stone of liberty-the right of the people to
representation. He denied he was here to
represent any church or any sect, but as a
representative of the people of Utah. He
then proceeded with an argument in defense
of the institution of polygamy, denying that
the institution was attributable to the licen-
tiousness of the people. 1t was not necessary
that he should have four wives in order to be
lecherous. Mormons believed God had given
a command, the object of which was to re-
deem the human family. How to make mar
riage honorable, to uplifs it, to lift it out of
its present condition, to cut off opportunity