, 1884-01-29
Bill Against PoIygamy and
Unlawful Capitalization.
The Right of Woman Suffrage
To Be Taken Away.
No Help bythe Government for
The Mormons.
xlvlll. CONGRESS.
The Senate.

Washington, January Ex-senator
Hoar reported to-day from the commit
tee on the judiciary an anti-polygamy
bill, which embraces the principal fea-
lures of the Edmunds bill introduced
during the present session, and adds
other provisions originating with the
committee.
Section l provides that in any prose-
cution for bigamy, %polygamy OF unlaw-
full c~ohabitation under any statute of
the United States, the lawful husband
or wife of the person accused shall be a
competent witness, and may be called
and compelled to testify in such pro-
ceedings.
Section 2 provides that in any such
proceedings an attachment may be
issued for any witness, and his or her
immediate attendance compelled with
out previous subpoena, when there is
reasonable ground for believing that he
or she will unlawfully fail to obey a
subpoena issued in usual course.
Section 3 provides that prosecution
for bigamy, polygamy or unlawful CO.
habitation may be commenced any time
within five years after the commission
of the ~offense. This provision, how
ever, is not to apply to any offense al
ready barren by statute limitation.
Section 4 provides for the certilca-
ton of marriages in territories and
penalties for the vialation of its provi-
sions.
Section 5 provides for the record of
marriages or anything In the nature of
a marriage ceremony OF any kind made
or kept by any officer, clergyman,
priest or person performing civil or
ecclesiastical functions, whether law
full or not, in any territory in the Uni
ted States, shall be subjects for inspec-
ton al all reasonable times by any
judge, magistrate or officer of justice
under the authority of the United
States, under penalty of a fine not to
exceed 81, 200 and Imprisonment not to
exceed two years, or both, such fine
and Imprisonment.
Section 7 provides for the annulment
of all laws providing for or allowing
registration or voting by females in the
territory of Utah, aad makes it unlaw-
full for any female to vote at any cleo
tion hereafter held in the territory of
Utah for any public purpose whatso-
ever.
Sections 8, 8 and 10 provide for the
annulment of all avs of the territory
of Utah which provide for the identih-
cation of voters at elections, and for
the recognition Of the capacity of ille-
Ultimate children to inherit, and which
confer the Jurisdiction of probate courts,
except in respect to deceased persons
and the guardianship of infants and in
sane persons.
Section IL provides for the annul-
ment Of all laws which provide that
prosecution for adultery car only be
commenced by complaint of husband or
wife. 1t also provides that such prose-
c~utions may hereafter be instituted in
the same wal as prosecutions for other
crimes.
Section II provides that all laws in
cooperating, continuing Or providing
for the corporation known as the NOR
mon church, as far as the same may
preclude the appointment of certain
trustees to said corporation, as herein
after provided, shall be annulled. 1t
also directs that the president, with the
consent of the senate, shall appoint
fourteen trustees who shall exercise the
functions prescribed for the trustees of
such corporation and shall hold office
two years, and shall report annually to
the secretary of the interior as to the
property, business affairs and opera
tions of said corporation.
Section Ii provides that it shall be
the duty of the attorney general of thu
United States to institute and prose-
cute proceedings to forfeit and escheat
, to the United States property of cor
r porations obtained or held IN violation
> of section 8, an act of congress approx
ed on July l, 1892. All property SO
l forfeited to be disposed of by the secre-
8 tary of the interior, and the proceeds to
be applied for the use and benefit of the
common schools in the territory in
: which such property may be.
Section IA provides hat in all pro-
8 ceedings for the enforcement of the
law against corporations holding prop,
erty in excess of the amount limited by
Y law, the court to nave the power to
compel the production of books or pa
Q pers from the persons managing the
property in which such corporations
may have any rights or interests.
Section 10 provides for the annul
ii ment of all laws creating or containing
y an association or corporation called tn,
Perpetual Emigrating Fluid com.
y pany.
Section 10 directs that the a%ttorne,
general of the United States take step
d to dissolve that corporation. and pro
vides that the assets in excess of th,