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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-01-27
Senator Edmunhss Aati-POIyEamy
MILL

The anti-polygamy bill reported by Mr. Ed
munds from the Senate Judiciary committee
on Tuesday provides at the outset that the
first part of section $3.50 of the Revised Stat
utes shall be amended so as to read as fol-
lows: Every person who has husband or
wife living who, in territory or other place
over which the United States have exclusive
jurisdiction, hereafter marries another, wheth-
or married or single, and any man who here
after simultaneously or on the same day mar
ries more than one woman in a territory or
other place over which the United States
have exclusive jurisdiction, is guilty of polyq-
amy and shall be punished by q fne of not
more than $500 and by imprisonment for a
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 WON.
an, he shall be deemed guilty of q msde
meanor, and on conviction thereof shall be
punished by a ine of not more than $500 or
by imprisonment for not more than six
months, or by both, said punishments in the
discretion of the Court.
The fourth section provides in substance
that in any prosecution for bigamy polyga.
my or unlawful cohabitation, under apy stat
- NAN pAANNA Dtnt1ni ~ bhhiA D6 u SUM
oient cause of challenge to any person drawn
or summoned as a juryman or talesman, that
he has been living in any such practices or
relations, or that he believes it right for
man to have more than one living and undi-
vorced 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 3. That the President is hereby
authorized to grant amnesty 10 such classes
OF offenders as were guilty before the passage
OF this act of bigamy, polygamy or unlawful
oohabitaton, on such conditions and under
such limitations as he shall think proper; but
no such amnesty shall have effect unless the
conditions thereof shall be complied with.
Section 6. That the issue of bigamous or
polygamous marriages, known as Mormon
marriages, in cases in which such marriages
have been solemnized according 10 the eere-
monies OF the Mormon sect, in any territory
OF tbs United States. and such issue shall
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-01-27


Several of the papers up the State, espe.
cially the Argus, Burlington Free Press and
Rutland Herald have allowed themselves to
be caught in the trap set by the Windham
County Defdmer in its article slandering the
Supreme Court and Gov. Farnham, two
weeks ago, and have been advertising that
sheet by refuting its charges. The Argus
sees the point this week and acknowledges
the folly of laying the observations of an ''in-
conspicuous" sheet like the Defamer before
people who would otherwise not know of its
existence. Our neighbors up the state should
learn, what the people of Windham county
long since learned that Davenport defama-
ton counts for nothing with intelligent men,
except to create strong sentiment in favor
of the party attacked.
The attack on Gov Farnham and Judge
Royce is easily answered, and the Rutland
Herald very completely performs the task in
an article the main portion of which is else
where copied. We know, as positively as we
can know of any act which we did not our
selves perform, that the charge of any trade
on Gov. Farnhams part to secure his nomi-
nation for the governorship is utterly false
That the charge is equally false as regards
Judge Royce no honest man doubts. Next
to the dead Chief Justice, no man on our state
bench has more fully enjoyed the complete
confidence of his associates, of the legal fra
ternity of the State, and of all the people,
than has Judge Royce.
The Free Press puts the whole matter in a
nutshell when it says eve can only account
for it (the SANDER in question: by the circum-
stance that the remainder of the Reformer's
article is devoted to the old TRADE against
Judge Royce and the Supreme Court of YER
mont because their decisions in the Vermont
Central and Vermont and Canada railroad lit
igations have not been such as to suit Mr..
F. A. Brooks of Boston and his lawyers. Had
the court decided in favor of the side on
which Lawyer Charles N. Davenport of Brat
tleboro was engaged the Reformer would
undoubtedly have considered the Judges com
posing the bench to be models of personal
honor and judicial integrity" Here, as we
have said is the whole of it. The reason
able presumption is that c. N Davenport is
angry with the court for defeating him as
counsel against the Central Vermont railroad,
and that he is willing the reputation of the
highest judicial tribunal of the State shall
suffer, so far as he can make it do SO, in or
der that he may vent his spleen and show his
spite through the nondescript sheet which he
owns and controls, with his son for a figure
head.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-01-27

"Perley" writes to the Boston Journal
that Gen. Hancock has been at Washington
for week or so in consultation with leading
Democrats in regard to the prospeots for
1884, and that Senator Pendleton and ex.
Senator Thurman of Ohio, and Representa-
tive Morrison Of Illinois are each straininp
every nerve to compass the Democratic Presi.
dental nomination. He also says that the
friends OF ex-Secretaries Blaine, Sherman
ana Wlndom are by no means idle, and that
some bold moves on the political chess hoard
may soon be expected.
Joyce of the First district is accused of
making bid for reelection in his recent in.
PRODUCTION of bill to add to the pension list
of the soldiers of 1912 all those who took
part in the raid on Plattsburgh, which oc-
CURED during that war.
The signature of the late Park Valentine on
the American House register Troy, N. Y. is
the last that he ever made and the only one
which was written Park Valentine and wife. u
student friend of the young man offered
the proprietor of the hotel $40 for the priyi-
lege OF cutting the signature out of the regis
ter as memento. The latter. however ont
out the page and presented it to Major Val
entine, the father of the Inflated bridegroom.
The elevated railroad scheme comes before
the Massachusetts legislature in the shane of
petition for 1.-THE right to build, maintain
and operate an elevated railroad between Cam.
orldge and Boston, and such other cities and
towns in the neighborhood thereof as the pub.
lie good may seem to require"
Hon. Edmund Burke, member of Con-
gress from New Hampshire from 1889 to l845.
commissioner of patents under Polk, after
ward editor of the Washington Union, and
since then one of New Hampshires most
prominent lawyers and politicians, died at his
residence in Newport, N. H., on Wednesday,
aged 70.
Col: Fred Grant is president of the newly.
organized American electric light company of
Massachusetts,. Among the directors are Hon.
bradley Barlow and Col. Geo. w. Hooker.
Alexander II. Stephens, who has lust CON-
pleted his history of the United States, ia re-
ported to have said to friend, the other dav.
that, after careful estimate and Comparison
OF the several administrations from Washing
ton to Garfield, he believed that of President
Hayes had been in every respect equal 10
any preceding it, and far superior 10 most Of
them" ~
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-01-27

How is this? The story is current that
just prior to the Yorktown celebration Gov.
Farnham appointed his son, about 16 years
old, on his staff and at Bradford he is now
Familiarity addressed as Colonel" Also
that he made his brother-in-law, who lives in
Pennsylvania, one of his staff, and that they
both went to Yorktown with him at the ex-
pense of the State. What does Gov. Farm
ham say to this ARGUS.
epresume Gov. Farnham will say moth
ing. For ourselves we can say that Gov.
Farnham's son, Charles G. Farnham, did
wear colonel's uniform at Yorktown, but we
very much doubt if the state was anything
out on that account, for we have been posi-
lively assured that Gov. Farnham's staff bore
their individual expenses to a man on the oc-
casion in question. If Gov Farnham had
brother-in-law along this fact did not come to
the knowledge of the other members of the
Vermont delegation, and he certainly did not
appear in colonels gold lace AMI trappings.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-01-27

1t is impossible, of course, to arrive at an
exact estimate of the number of tons of
freight actually handled, but it must be prac-
tically correct to take the amount forwarded
to represent this, because for stations above
Brattleboro, the freight forwarded nearly all
comes south to Bratteboro, while that for
warded from Brattleboro all goes up the line.
1t is safe, therefore, to set down 5000 tons as
the amount of freight moved over the road in
the period named. The amount of freight
received at Brattleboro is not given, but it
will be very nearly correct to take the sum of
freight forwarded from stations above to rep
resent this item. 1t will be seen that West
Townshend is the only station up the line
where the freight received exceeds that for
warded, That West Townshend is singular
in this respect is owing to the large amount
OF logs brought down from Jamaica to be
worked up in the steam mill at West Towns
bend.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-01-27
5NIx AND RECORD AND FARMER FRIDAY, JANUARY o.

have been born before the first day Of Janua-
ry, A. D. 1888, are hereby legitimatized.
Section 7. That no polygamist, bigamist
or any person cohabiting with more than one
woman, and no woman cohabiting with any
of the persons described as aforesaid in this
section, in any territory or other place in
which the United States have exclusive juris-
dicton, shall be entitled to vote at any cleo
ton held in any such territory or other place,
or be eligible for election or appointment to
or be entitled to hold any Office or place Of
public trust, honor, or omolument in, under
or for any such territory or place, or under
the United States
The eighth and last section of the bill va
Gates all the registration and election offices
Of every description in the Territory Of Utah,
and devolves upon a board Of five persons
TO be appointed by the President and con-
hrmed by the SenAte) each and every duty
relating to the registration of voters, the con-
duct Of elections, the receiving or rejection
Of votes, the canvassing of the same and the
issuance Of the certificates Of election, until a
new territorial legislature shall have been
elected; and, in conclusion, IL is provided
that, "at or after the FIRST meeting of said
legislative assembly whose members shall
have been elected and returned according to
the provisions Of this act, said legislative as
sembly may make such laws comfortable TO
the organic act Of said territory and not in
consistent with other laws of the United
States, as it shall deem proper concerning the
filling Of the Offices in said territory declared
vacant by this act
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-01-27
The Gulteau TRIAL Ended.

The country was hardly prepared for the
abrupt termination of the Guiteau trial which
took place on Wednesday afternoon. From the
pace at which the trial was progressing it had
come to be supposed that the end of the week
would hardly more than suffice to see il
brought to a close. The verdict is one which
is hailed with satisfaction throughout the civ
ilized world 1t would be vastly more agree
able to us, as Americans, if we could believe
that it was Enthusiastically mailman who
struck down our Chief Executive 1t would
relieve us from a certain feeling of disgrace,
as well as OF sense of apprehension of what
may lie before us in the future. But, unfor-
tunately for this feeling, as the trial progress.
ed and the evidence on both sides developed,
there was no room 10 doubt the assassin's SAN
ity up to the point where he well knew the
difference between right and wrong. Ill
balanced, depraved, enormously conceited,
brutal, deVilish, he may be and is; but the
cool way in which he planned and executed
his crime, reasoned about it, defended it, and,
as last resort, put the responsibility for it
upon 'the Deity" showed, beyond a possible
doubt, that his own responsibility was unim-
paired.
The trial has been marked by many aggra-
waiting and disgusting features. The peoples
sense of propriety, dignity and decorum has
been constantly shocked by the exhibition
which the prisoner made of himself, no less
than by the accounts of the way in which the
trequenters of the courtroom have laughed
at his antics and seemingly enjoyed his out
rageous and villainous demonstrations. The
final verdict upon Judge Coxs management
of the trial will, however, we firmly believe.
be favorable one. Probably no Judge in
TINS country has ever before been placed in a
position so trying. 1t must have required a
constant and determined effort at self. control
during oil these ten weeks, for the Judge to sit
quietly upon the bench and endure, unmoyed
the volume of abuse INCREASINGLY poured out
by the miserable wretch on trial. His pur.
pose has unquestionably been to give the pris-
oner every possible chance for defence. and
to grant him such wide latitude of privilege
and behavior as to remove all possible ground
Tor new hial. For his reward, now that the
trial is over, Judge Cox unquestionably has
the approval of good conscience, as he car
tainiy has that of all candid and thoughtful
men.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-01-27
The History Of ths GuIteau Trial in
Brief

lfHom Inc Boston Journal.l
This remarkable trial began Monday, Nov.
IA, and concluded with the verdict of guilty
Jan. 25-a period of seventy three days.
From the first the prisoner was insolent. and
when he learned that the court would not un-
dertake TO check his interruptions he became
more and more violent. The counsel for the
government were District Attorney Corkhill
and Messrs. Dayidge and Porter. Mr.. SEQ.
vile was the chief counsel for the defence,
but was assisted by Mr.. Reed of Chicago.
The first act of the defense was TO get rid of
Mr.. Robinson, who had been assigned to the
case by Judge Cox. Nearly four days were
taken in securing a jury. The case was
opened the fourth day by District Attorney
Corkhin. The prosecution called witnesses
to prove the fact Of murder, Mr.. Blaine be-
ing the first witness. Saturday, November
10, an attempt was made to shoot the prison.
er while being taken from the court house to
the jail. November 81 (Monday), the gov
eminent closed its case and Mr.. Scoyille
opened the defense, continuing until late
Wednesday. He attempted to prove the
prisoner to be insane, calling a number of
witnesses who knew the career of the man
Nov. 20, Guiteau was put upon the stand TO
tell his story, after which Judge Porter cross
examined him two days. December-6 the
testimony of the defense Eas concluded. and
the next day the rebuttal of the government
began, its design being to show that the
claim of insanity was groundless. A large
number of experts were examined, and other
witnesses, to prove the vicious character of
the accused. December 20, Mr.. Reed was
admitted TO participate in the defence. De-
cember %, Guiteau was placed in the dock
on the demand of the prosecution. January
4, the governments testimony was finished
The defence asked permission to introduce
evidence in sur.rebuttal but was refused,
The same day the government asked the
Judge to decide certain points respecting the
responsibility of the prisoner, and the de-
fence raised the question of the jurisdiction
OF the Court. These questions were argued
at length and January IL, Judge Cox render
ed a decision claiming jurisdiction and favor
able to the government on the questions
raised relative to the responsibility Of the ac-
cused January -, Mr.. Davidge began his
argument for the prosecution, and occupied
two-and-a-half days Mr. Svovile followed.
taking nearly Ave days. Guiteau was per
mitted to address the jury last Saturday.
Judge Porter spoke for the prosecution Mon
day, Tuesday and a part of Wednesday.
Judge Cox delivered his charge to the Jury,
occupying an hour and q half The Jury was
out about an hour, and brought in a verdict
OF guilty 1t agreed upon verdict in ten
minutes.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-01-27

The people of Cook and LaSalle counties
ILL.,, are in strange and uncomfortable fix
under a recent decision of the state supreme
court that the law regarding the probate courts
of those counties was special legislation and
therefore unconstitutional, and that those
courts are illegal and empty. This decision
is more far-reaching in its scope than appears
on the surface. The Cook county probate
court has been in operation four years. By
this decision all the wills it has passed on are
void property that has come in review be-
fore it is without title eastern and other cap
italists and insurance companies that have
loaned money on it are utterly without secur-
ity; titles are clouded divorces obtained
there are illegal, and persons married after
being divorced are bigamists The decision
creates intolerable confusion, and lawyers ex-
press grave doubts as to whether the legisla-
ture can remedy the evil, or whether con-
stitutional amendment can be drawn which
will be valid and settle the difficulties that now
arise
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-01-27

Upward of month ago, when we publish
lished statement showing the passenger
business of the Brattleboro q Whitehall rail
road for the year and two weeks from the
opening of the road to Dec. l, 1881, we
promisedtoalso givea statement of the freight
business of the road for the same period. We
havefcrsome time had the figures for all stations
above Brattleboro in our possession, but owing
toillness of clerks anda pressure of work in the
Brattleboro freight office we have not until
now been able to give the freight business for
the Brattleboro station. The figures for all
the stations on the road are as follows, the
period covered being, as we have said from
Nov. IS, 1880, to Dec. l, 1881. The amounts are
given in even tons, fractions of tons being
discarded.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-01-27

A PANIC IN FRANcE.-A gigantic specula-
tive movement in France, which began in
1873 and has continued with increasing vol
ume ever since, has eliminated in panic, the
Immediate cause being trouble in the Union
Generate" financial company extensively
endorsed by the Catholics. 1t had a capital
of 1OO, 900, 900 francs originally and its shares,
of par value of 500 francs, at one time sold
as high as 1920 francs. On news of the
trouble the stock in one day dropped from
1880 francs to 1900; and the institution final
ly closed its doors. Gable dispatches say
that thousands of people have been ruined by
the panic, and it is yet question whether a
prolonged prostration of industry and trade
can be ayerted
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-01-27
The war ON MormonI.m

The Republicans of this Congress seem to
be very much in earnest on the Mormon
question, and are determined, il possible, to
destroy the twin relic of barbarism. There
is possible danger to the movement in the
multiplicity Of bills which are being intro
duced upon the question. Judge Payson
OF Illinois last week introduced a new bill.
which cures the defects in some of the other
bills which have been introduced. 1t makes
the crime of bgamy punishable with $500
hne aud hve years maximum imprisonment
The bill is particularly simple as to the meth
cd of proof of marriage. 1t provides that
no certificate of marriage, or any proof of
any formal rite in any church or endowment
house, is necessary, but that marriage shall
be presumed from the fact of Capitalization.
from admissions of either party. from the
exercise of marital authority, or from any
external fact by which marriage can be
proved. The bill also allows a challenge
against any person who is a bigamist or a
poygamist, and permits any Juror on a panel
to be excused as juror who says that he is
a polygamist without requiring him, how.
ever, to testify 10 his own crime. gentle
man who has been devoting special attention
TO educational subjects says that one impor-
tant step that should be taken TO help check
polygamy is with relation to education in
Utah. 1t is within the power of the general
government TO amend the territorial laws 80
that education shall not be exclusively under
the control of the Mormons Polygamy is
now taught in the schools of Utah, which are
sustained by grants of government lands.
This gentleman suggests that the govern
ment should provide in some way to destroy
Mormonism at the fountain head, namely
in the schools of the territory.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-01-27
Local Intelligence.
Announcements.

AmmOumCem rents
Cheney Clapp still offer fair assortment Of Dia'
ries.
WV Nowcomb, having fulfilled his engagement
with A. u. Clapp Co., will continue the watch re-
pairing and engraving business at the bookstore Of
Geddis Newcomh. Mr.. Neweomb IL thorough and
reliable workman, and people entrusing work to his
will be Of its being done promptly and we'll
Satisfaction or no charge at ~ Main street, New
Bank Block. oysters cooked in every style Meals at
all hours. quart Of those nice Fairhayen oysters
for 35 cents. large stock Of whips and lashes Give
me cell G. A. BLISS, AZ Main-st., Brattleboro, w.
Regular communication Of Brattleboro Lodge, No.
1O2 r. A. NJ will be held at Masonic hall nextMon-
day evening Jan. 80 AZ 71-2 O'Clock. Work: Third
degree All Master Masons in good standing are cor
daily invited. by order Of the W. NJ
J. L. sIMONDs, secy.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-01-27

The President has of late been so overrun
by delegations from Cincinnati and still more
by delegations from Maryland, who want to
impress him with the great public peril which
will ensue unless he makes this or that man
postmaster or collector, that he has at last
found himself obliged to refuse such delega-
tions admittance. This action of the Execu-
tive is very proper, but its first effect will be
to increase the pressure on the heads of de-
partments; and this fact illustrates anew the
necessity of having some system of appoint
ments which will do away with ofice.seekers'
delegations and personal solicitators of all
kinds by rendering all such pressure" of no
possible USE
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-01-27

Commander Cheyne of the British navy is
in Boston enthusiastically talking up his bal
loon scheme for arctic exploration. He pro-
poses to start next June for st. Patrick's bay
and winter over an enormous surface bed of
coal described by Mares, and there to generate
gas for his exploring balloons. He expects
to cover the 800 miles of distance between
these winter quarters and the pole in "a hours
and to return either by balloon or sedge.
He will lecture on the project next week and
hopes to get up enthusiasm enough to raise
him the $50, 900 requisite to insure the trial
of the scheme
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-01-27

Only % below zero Tuesday morning.
The lyceum Monday evening was quite
lively. The question, after sharp discussion,
was decided in the negative, or that the Yer
mont legislature should not be entirely COM
posed of farmers. The Cambridgeport News
Is one of the best features of the lyceum.
Notwithstanding the storm, Saturday, 10
couples participated in the sleighride to Town
shend, and had very pleasant time, stopping
at the West River House, where irst-class en-
tertainment was provided by the genial host,
o. F. Coombs.
Question for discussion at the lyceum next
week: Resolved, That the press exercises a
greater power for good than the clergy. Dis
Putants- affirmative, A. A. Wyman, l. Bolles;
negative, Rev. w. R. Davenport, Rev. Ira D.
BuIWell