Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-12

tCOuACACuSC.
The appointment OF Mr.. Mathews, 70
Register OF Dec DIS OF the District Of Colum
bia, he wished, he said, to bring out tn
latent power Of the House to supervise al
the branches OF the Government, as it pro
posed to supervise the conduct of the Civi
Service Commission amendment. havin
been ruled on in the point OF order. Mr.
Taylor thanked the Chair for his decision
Having finished the consi ~Ieration of min
OF LOG pages of the bill, the COMMITTEE
rose and the House adjourned.
General Warrington Notes.
The Senate IN secret session has the re
lection Of Posey s.. Wilson, to be Assayel
OF the Mint at Denver, Colorado.
captain JACK APPOINTED.
Land Commissioner Sparks has appointed
Captain Jack" Crawford, OF New Mexico,
custodian OF the abandoned Fort Crais
military reservation in New Mexico. It is
understood that Capt. Crawford will soon
join Gen. Miles as chief OF scouts in the
campaign against the Apaches.
ENTITLED TO REDlr.
Acting Second Comptroller Mcmahon has
rendered a decision to the effect that every
volunteer soldier who vas mustered out
and discharged With a regiment or other
o4SSAkAAaVASAy va Ala ANtbk
together under discipline and did not re-
ceive their discharges until they were paid
of, should be regarded as continuing in the
service until the day Of payment, and are
| accordingly entitled to credit for that
period in computing their rights to bounty.
ANTI-POLYGAMY.
The report OF the House Judiciary Com
mittee on the Edmund's Anti-Polygamy
bill, which was presented to the House to-
day, is a very long document. After a de-
tailed statement OF the changes made by
the committee, (a;ready, published) and
the reasons therefor, the report says:
Your committee has no disposition to
recommend any measure to the House
VIII oh will involve the sancity Of any re-
ligious faith, however wrong in their opin-
ion it may be, but q distinction between
overt acts resulting from a belief which the
law makes criminal, and the right OF the
opinion and OF worshipping God according
to the dictates OF their conscience was SO
fully stated in the report on the Constitu-
tionalAmendment as need no repetition.'
The committee does not hesitate to ex-
press their dissent from the twel:tn section
Of the Senate bill, the effect vi
which would be hal the conduct OF the
corporate-"Church OF Jesus Christ OF
Latter Day SAINTS would be controlled by
trustees OF the church in conjunction with
trustees appointed by the President. This
union OF trustees Of the church and those
Of the Government cannnt be distinguished
flon a union of Church and State and the
law respecting the establishment of relig.
ion," nor can it be other than a limitation
OF the free exercise OF religion where the
majority who control in the matters of
faith and discipline are appointed by the
President. This section would resemble, il
- n ~~% -, Han% nv An$n1ls1l .--A -
Mormon church by law, to be controlled
by the Government. Your commit
tee recommend al annual dissolution
OF the corporation. This is clearly
a public policy, if it can vonstitu-
~tional!y be done, but can Congress take
away this charter? 1t il asked several
reasons to make it plain that it can be done
without any strained construction OF au-
Says the report: Both the charter
OF the church and the Emigration Fund
Company were null for lack OF power. The
acts coAfirming these charters were void for
the same reason. 1t is s. matter of grave
doubt whether the Organic act authorized
the original grant OF such charters as these
were. The Emigration Fund Company act
trenches upon the power OF Congress as to
emigration and assume to regulate
u matter neither delegated to it nor within
its authority, but both these laws are I'M
constitutional, for it ia obvious that they |
give preference to this form of religion over /
every other. The law which this discrimin- |
ates in favor Of one form Of religion over
is in the prope sense n law re- |
the establishment OF religion
Congress, which possesses all the original
power over the Territories, ha ! the right to |
avoid the acts of it's subordinate agencies |
asserts it's own policy. With this
view OF the power OF Congress-, your COM
nittee recommends to cut out by the roots
his church establishment and Emigration
Fund Company and it's attachments, and
he Attorney General for dealing with the
rights according to law and
In fact, the Emigration Fund
company is defendant for it's being q part
" the church. Its officers are all appointed
~ the church corporation, and if the
is dissolved it's parasite cannot sur
i've. The duty OF Congress is to prevent
uch an institution being established in a
'oung State al a means OF promoting it's
to that statute at which admission
y, the Union viii be desirable to the coun-
ry cannot be doubted.
On the section OF the bill requiring voters
take an path to support the law, the re-
,ort says none of those who will do things
prescribed in the oath should vote, for they
lre not good citizens, and none but those
Who will do these things should esteem the
'ath hardship as a prerequisite to taking
,art in the affairs Of the Government which
must conform to the Constitution and
AVIS of the United States. In conclusion
he report says while the bill, as amended,
leals with public questions with firmness,
nd with the real purpose, curing existing
wills, it does not do 80 in the entire con-
with the constitutional liberties Of
people and with their free right to ex-
rcise their religious beliefs according to
heir conscience and only under the re-
possibility Of each man to his Supreme
Being.
THE PRESIDENT AND BRIDE.
President and Mrs. Cleveland this after
DON drove out to Pretty Prospect" a
residence recently purchased by
ir. Cleveland. They passed an hour or
wo strolling about the grounds and then
to the White House.
Vitriol Poure in q sleeper's Ear.
BALTIMORE, June 4.-.Jacob Rosenthal
attempted to murder Louis Goldstein yes
erday morning by pouring vitriol in his