Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-31
Report OF The Utah Commissioners.

DOMESTIC NEWS.
Report OF The Utah Commissioners.
WASHINGTON, October 30sh.-The Board
of Utah Commissioners have submitted their
second annual report to the Secretary of the
Interior. After making a statement of the
former legislation of Congress in relation to
bigsmy or polygsmy, they say IKE duties of
the Commission appertain only to matters of
registration, election and eligibility to Office,
while the punishment of the crime of polyg-
amy is left, as under the former law, to the
Courts of justice under the anti polygamy
Act The Commission had good puecess at
the general election in August, 1883, ia ex-
Guiding poly2amists from the polls, and, as far
as advised very few, if any, illegal votes had
been cast in Utah since the Commission took
charge of the registration and elections in
August, 1888 The enforcement of the pres
ent law against II, COO polygsmists, who have
been excluded from the polls shows that the
Act has been fully and successfully executed.
1t is thought that discrimination against
those Mormons who practice polygsmy and
those who do not, while not likely to have
much effect upon elderly men who have al
ready a plurality Of wives and several
wives, must have great weight with
the young men of the Territory, many of
whom are ambitious and aspiring, and would
not like to voluntarily embrace political
ostracism. The very existence of law dis
franchising polygemists must tend to destroy
their influence, whenever it is understood
that it is to be permanent discrimination.
Tie fact, also, that it will be necessary to
the preservation of the political influence of
the - Peoples party ," las the Mormons style
themselves) to have large body Of their
members who are not polygamists, must
Eay,A 70 fhn nfta ok
for every Mormon who takes but one plural
wife loses three votes for his psrty-his own
and those of his two wives, woman suf-
frage" being established by law in Utah.
Concerning the plurality of wives. the report
says: That doctrine and practice 80 odious
throughout Christendem should have been
upheld so many years against the laws of
Congress and the sentiment of the civilized
world, is one of the marvels of the nineteenth
century, and can be scarcely appreciated,
even by those familiar with the worlds his
tory in relation to the governmental control
or the suppression of religious fsnaticism.
Certainly no Government can permit a viola
tion of the laws under the guise Of religious
freedom, and while Congress may not legis.
late as to a mere matter of opinion, vet it
may denouuce and punish as crimes those &C.
tions which are in violation of social duties
or subversive of good order The right of
Congress to suppress this great evil is un-
doubted. 1t is equally plain that the dignity
and good name of this great nation among the
nations of the earth demand such Congress
sional action as shall effeetually eliminate
this national disgrace.
The VermiIyea Divorce Case.
ST. PAUL. October 30sh.-David 3. Yer
milyes, who has brought suit for divorce
against his wife, makes long specific state
ment of the relations of General Meyers with
his family in ST. Paul, and afterwards in
New York and in Europe. He says: About
August l, 1882, [ began TO hear rumors of an
intimacy existing between General Movers
and Mrs. Vermilyea. When my wife re.
turned, l told her that General Meyers was a
bad man and that his intentions towards her
were evil. 1 wound up by saying he could
not stay In my house. whereupon she became
very indignant, and said if he could not
remain neither would she, and 1 was
overruled." Soon after, he alleges,
his wife pretended to leave town in
his absence, and did leave immediately
upon his return without his consent.
"The next thing l heard" he continues,
twas that Meyers had secured six-months
leave aud was boarding at the Clarendon in
| New York city-the same hotel in which
Mrs. Vermilyea was boarding. Soon after.
wards the two went abroad together. Next ]
received cablegram from friend abroad
saying that Meyers and my wife and child
were at the Grand Hotel in Paris [ made
up my mind that would make an effort to
secure my son, especially as l was assured
that the French law would give him to me.
l found Meyers and his wife and Mrs. Yer.
milyea and my son in Lausanne, Switzerland
| There was a dramatic scene on q Sunday
morning in the latter part of June at the no.
tel where the party was stopping. The Chief
of Police, with several eendarmes, called on
Mr5. Vermilyes in the name of the Minister
of Justice of the Canton for my
boy. She cried, begged and entreat
ed, wrung her hands, had Mysteries,
finally tainted, and when she came
to said that the boy was too i'll to be taken
away. So weakened, and compromised on
her so!emnly agreeing that she would sail for
America on July 18th, and Immediately or
her arrival in the United States would deliver
the child to my mother, in Orange, n. J
General Meyers signed this agreement and
gave bis word OF honor as an officer of the
U United States army to see that it was carried
into effect. | left within ten days for Amer
! ica, and Meyers came almost immediately
afterwards. But Mrs. Vermilyes deferred
her departure for a month beyond the tint
specified in the agreement, and did nothing
| bOWaCus Oub lbS tetules w U6D BQt
came back had been advised not to file
suit for divorce until obtained possession oi
the child, which accounts for my delay il
beginning proceedings"
The Irish Question.
New YORK, October 30th.-M. P. Burt
Liberal member of Parliament, in an inter
view here to-day, said: "The bitterness be
tween the Orapgemen and Catholics ha
added to the difficulties of treating the Irisf
question, but l hope better judgment viii
prevail, and it certainly will if Psrnell'
voice is as powerful as it used to be. Psrnel
is gaining strength, and it is estimated tina
he will be able to command 20 to so votes il
Parliament, which means that Parnell vii
control the Government, and may, by hold
ing the balance of power. which that numbe
would give him, dictate his own and his coun
try's terms" Burt favors home rule for Ire
land to the fullest extent, but deprecste
assisted emigration to America.
0'DenReIrs Case.
CHICAGO, October 30sh.-It was announces
that Judge Fullerton and Roger A. Pryo
had already gone to London to be present o
the trial, as counsel for O'Donnell, and tina
a csblegram had been sent from Chicago Il
ascertain whether w. J. Hynes and W. w
O'Brien would be allowed to take part in th
trial, and make pleas for O'Donnell, provided
they went to England fortified with recon-
mendations from the Secretary of State o
the United States. 1t is expected an answe
will be received to-day. 1t is also stated th
expenses of the trial would probably reacl
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