The Red Cloud chief., 1884-02-08
THE noRMoN QUESTION.

Suppression Of POlygamy.
WASHINGTON. d. c.. jar. n
Senator Hoar reported to-day from tne
Committee on Judiciary an anti-polygamy
bill, which embraces the principal features
of the Edmunds bill introduced at the pres
emit session, and adds other provisions orig
mating with the committee.
The first section provides, in any prose.
cution for bigamy, pOlygamy or a
eohabitation, under any statute 9th United
States, the lawful husband or wife OF the
person accused shall be q competent wit
ness. and may be called and compelled To
testify in such proceedings.
The second section provides in any sucn
prosecution an attachment may be issued
for any witness and his or her immediate
attendance compelled without previous
subpoena when there is reasonable ground
for believing he or she viii unlawfully fail
to obey the subpoena issued in the usual
course.
The third section provides that proseeu'
ton for bigamy, ~polygamy or unlawful CO
habitation may be commenced at any time
within five years after commission of the
offense. This provision however, does moi
apply to any offense already barred by the
statute of limitations,
Section 4 provides for the certification OF
marriages in the Territories and penalties
for the violation of its provisions.
Section B provides that the records OF
marriages or anything in the nature OF
marriage ceremony of any kind, made or
kept by any officer, clergyman, priest OF
person performing civil or ecclesiastical
functions, whether lawful or not, in any
Territory of the United States, shall be
subject to inspection at all reasonable times
by any judge, magistrate or officer OF JUS
tice appointed under the authority OF the
United States, under penalty not to exceed
81 900, and imprisonment not to exceed two
years, or both such fine and imprisonment.
Section : provides for the annulment Of
all laws providing for or allowing registra.
ton or voting by females in the Territory
of Utah, and makes it unlawful for any fe-
male to vote at any election hereafter held
in the Territory of Utah for any publicpur'
pose whatever.
Sections 8. 8 and 10 provide for the an
nulment of all laws Of the Territory of Utah
which provide for the Identification of vo
tiers at elections and for recognition Of the
capacity of illegitimate children to inherit
and which confer jurisdiction o. Probats
Courts, except in respect to deceased per
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insane persons.
Section II provides for the annulment Of
all laws which provide that such prosecu-
ions may hereafter be instituted in the
same way as prosecutions for other crimes
Section IL provides that all laws incor.
porating: continuing or providing for the
corporation knowna as the Mormon Church
as far as the same may preclude the ap
pointment of certain trustees of said cor
poration, as hereinafter provided, shall be
annuled. 1t also directs the President
with the consent of the Senate, TO appoint
fourteen trustees, who shall exercise the
functions prescribed for such corporations.
and shall hold office two years., and shall
report annually to the Secretary of the In
terror as to the property, business affairs
and operations of said corporation.
Section Is provides that it shall be the
duty of the Acknowledgement of the United
States to institute and prosecute proceed.
ings, to forfeit and escheat to the United
States property OF corporations obtained
or held in violation of section 8 of the act
of Congress, approved the 1st of July, 1882
All property so forfeited to be disposed OF
by the Secretary of the Interior, and the
proceeds applied to the use and benefit OF
the common schools in the Territory in
which such property may be.
Section IA provides that in all proceed.
ings for the enforcement of the law against
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of the amount limited by law the court
shall have power to compel the productions
of books and papers from persons manag>
ing the property in which such corpora
tiOns have any rights or interests.
Section 10 provides for the annulment o.
all laws creating or continuing the associ.
alton or corporation called the Perpetual
Emigrating Fund Company.
Section IL directs the Attorney-General
of the United States to take steps to dis.
solve that corporation and provide that the
assets in excess of the debts shall escheat
to the United States and be invested by
the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit
of the common schools of Utah.
Section II provides for the adjustment
of the existing election districts n ap
~portionment of representation concerning
members of the Legislative Assembly OF
the Territory of Utah, and it shall be the
duty of the Governor, Territorial Sec-eta,
~ and United States Judges Of said Ter
ritory to redistrict the Territory and ap-
portion the representation so as to assure
equal representation to citizens of the
United States according to numbers in said
Legislative Assembly, such establishment
of districts and representation to continue
until Congress shall otherwise provide.
Section IS provides that all registration
aid election offices of every description in
tne Territory of Utah shall upon the enact
.nent of the bill into q law be declared va.
can't; that all duties relating to registrar
ton of voters, conduct Of elections, receiv.
ing or rejection of votes, canvassing and
returning the same and issuing certificates
or other evidence of election in said Terri.
tory shall for the present be performed un
der the existing Law Of the Territory and
the United States by persons who shall be
selected to perform that duty by the board
specially provided for by this bill. 1t pro- |
vides this board shall consist OF five per-
sons to be appointed by tho President with
the advics and consent Of the Senate. not
more than three of them to be members of
one political party and each to receive q
salary of $1,000 per annum; that this board
shall continue in Office until the Legislative
Assembly of the Territory shall make a
provision for filling the registry and election
Offices in the Territory, and that the Secre. |
tary of the Territory shall be Secretary ot
the board, keep a Journal of the proceed
ings and attest its action. 1t provides for
. canva of all returns of elections by this
board and the issuance by it Of all certi6. |
Gates of election Of members of the Assem-.
bly,. such certificate to be the only evidences
Of the right of such persons to sit in such
Assembly. 1t provides, however, that the |
board shall not exclude from the polls or
to count the vote of any person ota.
eligible to vote IN account of any |
such person may entertain ON the
subject OF bigamy or polygamy.
The New Code Of Senate Roles.
w~AsHISGON. d. c., Jan. a
The new code of Senate rules creates two
new standing committees and enlarees
several old ones. A committee of the Sen.
ate Republican caucus Is en9aged in NAB.