Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-05-28
CONGRESSIONAL
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, May Ex-senator Cam
eron of Pennsylvania appe ,red in the
Senate this morning. and Sen ators are
congraiulating him on his return and
the recovery of his he 18th.
Slater, from che Committee on Public
Lands, reported favor .oly tue bill to
forfeit the grant along the uncomp'eted
portion Of the Northern Pacific Rail
road.
Hill submitted report from the
COMMITTEE on POST Offices and Post
Roads on the saoject of postal tele
graph.
Lsthsm submitted a report from the
Committee on Privileges aud Elections
on the Daaviile Investigation.
Vance il preparing minority report.
Salisbury submitted IN u brity report
on the Copiah county investigation.
lngersoll introduced bill 70 provide
for the sale of lands belonging to the
prairie band of Pott1wattamie Indians
The Senate trok mp the hill to grant
the C,nuahar and Cltrke's Fork X ali
| raad Company right of way through a
portion of Yellowstone Park.
Conger submitted an amendment to
limit tue control to 100 feet width. and
prohibiting the company from erecti NJ
buildings, excepting for station pur-
poses.
Logan oppo.ed the bill. There is,''
he said, "a disposition to eobbls I'D
everything in connection with the park
by railroads and hotel companies
Vest gave details of the management
| Of the park, and said every word stated
by Logan Was true. Although Congress
had absolutely forbidden monopoly, IL
had been permitted, and the park vas
under the control Of private corpor-
alton.
The matter then went over, and the
Utah bill Was taken up.
Brown said the z imunds bill Vas a
shameful violation of she constitution.
He contrastsd what he termed "polyp-
AMY in New England" and the picture
he drew. he said. Vas drawn more in
sorrow than in anger" There have
been more than 1900 divorces granted
m New England within the last twenty
years, destroying 1900 families AID
turning loose $1,000 persons to marry
again, all legally except thi,se whs we're
divorced for adultery or fornicatisn.
Assuming that one-third Of them had
bseu divorced for adultery. it would
leave 5000 divorced and married again
sno we're practising polygsmy in New
England. Wnile tbs commission ac,-
ing under the Edmunds bill. after hav
ing searched Utah with the test oath.
cru d fni bot l20 men aud women
who would not swear they had never in
their lives been guilty of polyqsmy.
Prostitution vss practical IN Now Fog
land 20 an alarming extent, aud infau.
sicide to an extent thai II continued
would, in less than 4 century, depopu-
late New England of les puritan stock.
A nation of Mormons VS. impossible.
Not 50 q nation of iibertines in Massa
chasetts within the next twenty years,
The popnistlon had increas~d "a Der
Q NJ and marriages 81 PER cent, With
divorces bad increased la DR.
ces4s Il bshosvss Caristiaa al d
| patriotic cItsxsns 20 ponder up d
tss conseQa-nce thai must fo.-
| log from such state of society,
@ iurche- denounced polycamy and de-
nanded its suppression. and the
churches sere rigat; bat hoe then could
they wink al Illegal divorce; how, vita
ont ceasnre, s-e their ministers oficisf-
i ing for pssty fee at sdalt4roos mar
RIGGS. II the ministers II the churches
! d d their Whole daty. public sentiment
uoald sooa sweep from our statute
books wicked and immoral divorce
lava
| Brown claimed no right 10 lecture
either ChristiAu churches or thsir min
listers. bas A. . citizen and Sen4sor he
felt 10 isdasy 10 express his eonvlctios {
vt. rsgsrd &, this great evil. which
was undertaking socseky. the family
and the exfssencs Of the Stsfe. Many
persons advocated puitirg MarmDrs %
/ "a .vori. IL would b al Outrage N
morality and d~csacy TO Afsssnps "a
alan ht - 81 ilsss p<opis Who emit rtain-
ID vtswson noras qssssiona. 10 hich tie
world eoaid nos sabscxihs- u wAs ab.