The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-02-22
XLVII. CONGRESS.
SECOND SESSION.
SENATE.

Washington, 21.-Gariand offered
a resolution for the appointment of
a committee of seven senators to
examine into the work now IN pro-
gress for the Improvement of the
Mississippi River below Cairo. Laid
over.
Van Wyck offered resolution
calling on the President for informa-
ton touching the alleged joint
agreement between the ministers
of the United States, Great Britain,
France and Italy at Lima, Peru, to
make q joint effect to bring about
peace betWee Chill and Peru, and
whether the minister of the United
States had been instructed to invite
or accept the mediation of European
powers in the settlement of purely
American question. Laid on the
table.
The bill passed appropriating
$4,000 for the erection of a monu-
ment at Washington's headquarters,
Newburgh, New York, and the
Senate went into executive session.
When the doors we're reopened,
the Senate proceeded to considera,
ton of the army appropriation bill.
Edmunds called up the joint resol-
ution to provide for the tern ina
ton of the Treaty of Washington in
relation to the fisheries.
Window asked EdmundS whether
the question of the joint resolution
repeating the act to carry into effect
the provisions of the treaty relation
to fisheries would repeal the law
under which goods are permitted to
be transported in bond through
American territory?
Edmunds said, to avoid all posi-
BILE misconstruction on this point,
he would move to limit the appli-
cation of this section of the resOlu
ton by inserting the words $50 fan
as it claims to be articles of said
treaty so to be terminated" Thi;
amendment was agreed to. The joint
resolution then passed.
Edmunds moved to take up the
Utah bill. The call was opposed
On motion the Senate, by vote Of
% ayes to II noes, decided to take
up the bill.
Hoar moved to strike ous the sew
enth section, which provides /
shall not be lawful for any female t.
vote at any election hereafter hell
in the Territory of Utah for an!
public purpose whatever.
Edmunds defended the provision
The votes of Mormon women Wer
controlled by men who desired tx
keep up the political power of thu
polygamoHs Mormon church. HI
thought the Importance Of breaking
up the Mormon system could fully
justify the suspension of female
voting in Utah without any refer
ence at all to the general question o
woman suffrage.
Hoar said Edmunds proposed tt
deprive all the women of Utah O.
the right of suffrage because he be
lieved a certain class of them would
not vote as he thought they should
vote.
Edwards said the question of SUI
frage was a political question
within the control of the politica
power, and what Hoar said abou
| the opinions Of Mormon women
entirely apart from this bill. If tn
real opinions of those women coul
find expression, he would wish t
| have them vote, because the nRtur
of every virtuous woman revolte
against polygamy and all its influ
enccs. 1t would not be cOnstitU
tionai to undertake to disfranchis
any man or any woman on aeeoun
of opinion, but everybody, excep
} perhaps Judge Black, would agre
that in point Of law, Congress c0ul
regulate suffrage in the District {
Columbia, or in any territory, an
could confins it to property holder
of 100000, to pauPeIs, or to an
. other class.
Blair moved the amendment {
the seventh section of the bill, so &
to make this provision apply to pc
! sons, instead of females, only; an
only to persons lawfully conVicte
| of the crime of bigamy or polygam,
The bill and amendments were sti
pending when the Senate al
ijourned.