The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-01-26

The anti polygamy bill reported by
Edmunds from the senate Judiciary
committee provides at the outset
that a part of section 532 of the re-
vised statutes shall be amended so as to
read as follows. Every person who
has a husband or wife living who in a
territory or other place over which the
United States has exclusive jurisdiction,
hereafter marrlcs another, whether
married or single, and any man who
hereafter simultaneously or OF the same
day marries more than II wOma in a
territory or other place or over which
the United States has exclusive juris-
diction is guilty of ~polygamy, and shall
be punished by a fine of not more than
$500 and for imprisonment for term
of not more than five years." The re-
mainder of the section of the revised
statutes excerpts divorced persons and
such who have married again believing
| that their former husband or wife, after
an absence of five years, is dead.
TIE second and third sections Of the
bill are as follows: ''Section two: That
il any male person in territory or
| other place over which the United States
have exclusive jurisdiction hereafter
cohabits with more than n woman,
SHALL be deemed guilty Il mis- !emeanor,
and oil conviction thereof, shall be
punished by a hue OF not more than
$500 or by imprisonment for not more
than six months, or by both said pun
ishments, in the discretion of the court.
Section three: That counts for any or
all offences named in sections II and
two of the act may be Joined in the
same information or Indictment. The
fourth section provides in substance
that in any prosecution for bigamy poly
gamy or any unlawful cohabitation I'M
der n statute of the United States 1t
shall be sufficient cause OF challenge to
any person drawn or as a
juryman or talesman, that he has been
living in such practices or relations or
that he believes it right for man to
have more than oneliving and undivorc-
ed wife at same time or to live in prac-
tice of cohabiting with more than IL
woman. The next three sections of the
bill are as follows: "Section five, That
the president is hereby authorized to
grant amnesty TO such classes of offend
ers as we're guilty before the passage of
this act of bigamy, polygamy, or un-
lawful cohabitation on such conditions,
and under such limitations as he shall
think proper, but no such amnesty shall
have effect unless the conditions there
of shall be complied with. Section sin;
That the issue of bigamous or pOlygam-
GUS marriages, known as mormon mar
riages have been solemnized according
to ceremonies OF mormon section any
territory of United States and such is
sue shall have been born before first day
Of January, A. D., 1888, are hereby de
clared legitimate. Section seven; That
no polygamist, bigamist or any person
cohabiting with more than one woman,
and no woman, cOhabiting with any of
persons described as a foresail in this
section, in any territory or other place
in which the United States have exclu-
sIve jurisdiction shall be entitled to vote
at any election held on any such terri
tory or other place or be eligible for cleo
tion or appointment to or be entitled to
hold any ofice or place of public trust,
honor or emolument in and under, or
for any such territory or place or under
the United States, The eighth and
last section of the bill yacutes all regis
t~ratiOn and election offices Of every de-
sCriptiOn in the territory of Utah, and
devolYes upon a board of FIVE persons,
to be appointed by the president and
confirmed by the senate, each and every
duty relating to the registration Of vot-
ers, the conduct of elections, the receiv-
ing or objection of votes, the canvass
ing Of the same and the issuance Of
certificates OF election until Il new terri.
toTial legislature shall have beer elect
ed, and in conclusion, its provided that
at or after FIRST meeting of said legisla-
tiNo asSelhul9 Nuusc HleihotIs SNAIL nave
been elected and returned according to
the provisions of this act, said legis-
lative assembly may make such laws
couformable TIC the organic act of said
territory and not inconsistent with 9th
er laws Of United States, as it shall
deem proper concerning the filling OF
Offices in said territory declared vacant
by this act.