Morning journal and courier., 1884-05-28
FOrty-Eighth Consress---First Session.
wAsH1NsroN, May 2

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 SENATE.-Senator Cameron, of Pennsyl- vania, appeared in his place this morning and groups of Senators congratulated him on his safe return and improved health.
 Several petitions were presented opposing government assumption of telegraphic func- tions and several praying that all systems of medical practice may have recognition in the public service. All were appropriately re- fsrred.
 The bill granting the right of way through the Yello ustoRe park to, the Cinnabar and Clark's Fork railroad was taken up on motion of MT. Sawyer. MT. Garland offered an ad- dition to the amendment giving Congress the the act.
 Mir. Logan entered a vigorous protest against any railroad corporation being al- lowed to enter the park to destroy it's beauty or subvert it from the purposes for which it was created 'sI have been lobbied more in behalf of this biIl,'' continued MT. Logan, P by an official of this government getting $5, ,OO0 year, than ever was before in my life. think 1t is extremely bad taste for an officer of the department entrusted with the care and management of the park to become lobbyist for it's destruction. Whatever this gentleman may think about my remarks is immaterial to me: have been friendly with him, but I must say in great measure I lose my respect for any man who, being an officer of the government, be- comes Q lobbyist for 8 corporation. That has been done persistently in the Senate and in the House day after day. Probably enough Senators have been buttonholed to pass the bill to destroy the park, but wish to put myself on record against such ae- tion."
 Mr Vest said the Secretary of the Interior had issued an order prohibiting transporta- tion through the park except by the Rufus Hatch Improvement company. The park | .t.oa k11., Al, company as if it was their private property.
 Do I understand" asked Mr. Ingalls,, tthat no person can go into the park except by means of horses or vehicles of the con- pany2"
 s'This was the order" said Mr. Vest, ''in spite of the fact that we declared by act of Congress there should be no monopoly
 After further debate the bill went over. The Utah bill then came up as unfinished business. Mir. Brown delivered Q prepared speech in support of bis amendment maxim 2 adultery the sole cause for divorce in the Dis trict of Columbia and territories of the United States. The speech was somewhat remarkable in differing from the popular opinions in regard to Mormonigm. Mir. Brown recognized polygamy as immoral and vicious, but said an immense amount of cant and hypocrisy was brought to it's con- sideration. People abhorred it in Utah, but vinked ct it in other sections under different
 
 Utah in regard to monogamy properly so- called. The Mormons he said supported their wives and offspring The libartines of New England denied all responsibility for the results of their vice and immortality. A na ton of Mormons was impossible, but hosts of libertinss were springing np everywhere. Prostitution was rampant aud the crime of foeticide alarmingly on the increase. He was ready to sanction all constisutiond ieeisiation for the suppression of polygsmy and to suppress illegal divorce, prosti- tution and foeticide in New England and elsewhere, but he was not willing to violate the oath he had taken to support the constitution to grstify New England sem tinent or suppress any sect or denomination however unpopular. Hs could see no difference between the polygamist of Utah and the adulterer of New England, and it was unjust to pass laws to punish the one and let the other go scot free.
 Mr. Hoar replied to the strictuFes Of Mr. Brown, which he declared seemed to intlm- ate that the Senator from Georgia believed Mermonism was right aHd that polygamy Was better than the lawful marriage of one husband to one wife-that Mormonism was better than Christianity as the governing principles of 8 nation. That at any rate was the logical result of the speech As to the attack on New England he had little to say. The facts and figures relating to marriage and divorce in that section were open ta all, but he protested against 6 strained contrast which represented that section in . worse condition than Utah. There were some peculiar conditions in Georeia, or how else could the presence of large numbers of mulattoes in that State be ac-