The Dillon tribune., 1885-11-07

Senate Bill No. 1883, which failed of pass.
age in the House Of Representatives during
the last session and in their report Of last
year, and submit the following additional
recommendations: That the term Of i'm
prisonment for unlawful cohabitation be
extended to at least two years for the first
and three years for the second offense;
that all persons be excluded by law from
making location or settlement upon anv
part Of land OF the United States, who
shall refuse on demand to take oath be-
fore the proper officer of the land Office
that he (if man) does not cohabit with
more than one woman in marriage rela.
tons, and will support the laws Of the
United States, or if woman, that she
does not cohabit with man having more
than one living and unwidowed wife; that
the laws with reference to the immigra.
ton Of Chinese and the importation Of
contract laborers, paupers and criminals be
SO amended as to prevent the immigration
OF persons claiming that their religion
teaches and justifes the crime Of polyg.
amy, as this would cut off the chief source
OF supply to the Mormon church. The
Commission say they have felt it to be
their duty to resist the general demand Of
non -Mormons in the Territory that they
should recommend legislation that would
place the exercises of all civil power in the
hands of legislative commission, ap-
pointed by the President, until the Ed.
m"nds act had been fairly tested. The
hope had been fairly indulged in that the
Mormon people would finally see their
line Of duty in yielding willing acquies.
cence to the law, but the result has been a
a disappointment SO far as the leaders Of
the church, and the principal part Of :heir
following are concerned in the declaration
often repeated during the past year by the
chief officers Of the church, that it is their
settled determination to refuse obedience
to the law. Their persistent use Of their
great power and influence to defeat all ef-
forts from within as well.as from without
: the church to put an end to polygamy and
their persecution Of those persons who de-
sire to obey the law, have convinced the
T Commission that some more decisive plan
. to reduce the polygamous element and to
correspondingly increase that OF the Fed.
eral authority in the civil government Of
n Utah, should be presented to Congress at
this time for lis action. In addition to the
/. legislative commission above referred to,
4 two others have been suggested, the ap.
, pointment plan, making appointable all
i. offices now filled by elections, and the
t Idaho plan dsfranchising all contributors
: to the support Of polygamic church.
n There are objections to all these plans and
y to any that could be devised. 1t may be
S said for the Legislative commission plan,
!, that it is simple and direct; Of the appoint.
2 ,nent plan, that all the officers, including
= those by the Legislative Assembly, re-
J. main undisturbed; that they are all to be
:. filled from the body Of the people, as now,
y by agencies under control Of the Federal
:. Government and that the influence of the
e same would be potential; Of the Idaho
# plan, although more extrerAe and more
= severe remedy than either Of the others,
n that il reaches to the very root Of the sys.
t. tenn. In conclusion says the Commission,
al whatever may be thought Of these sug-
'e gestions, Congress would certainly rem
v der service of incalculabc value to Utah
,r and indeed to the whole country, if i,
n. would devise some measure whereby these
S, misguided people could be brought on,
g from under the thraldom which has sc
c. warped their minds and their conscicnc,
y, that crime committed in the name o.
" religion is considered by them duty ane
p a blessing equally to those who commit i
Id and those who aid or abet its commission
"a CANON FARRAR.
: He Ohiciates ut IL CI,ristening-l> Hlcssc.
J" by John Is. Cough.
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q. Fields grandson on Oct. goth. Later h.
4. attended a reception by temperance advo
Or Gates In Il speech he said, Of all bodie
- in the world, Parliament was the Gaines
&c and least likely to be swayed by emotion
Twice he had seen its members mani
oe festly thrilled, once when Gladstone mad