The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-07

had but limited use, and were limited
in number within the limit of public
need, but the Gresham law still held
good. after three centuries of obserya-
ton, namely, that bad money drives
! out good money. All history
taught that, with a currency or
huctuating value, as ours was
tending 10 become. speculation
was encouraged and monetary ruin
fastened. The loss would always +, IL
on the producers of our country. as Il e
Referring to the effect of silver in India,
Mcpherson exclaimed: "God forbid
that the American laborer should come
to condition like that of the laborer If
India" The blow aimed by the silver
men at the "bloated bondholder," Nc
| Pherson insisted, would strike with ter
fold force on the head of the laborer.
Government had permitted its financial
agent, Jay Cooke, to advertise that the
interest on bonds was payable in golf.
(McPherson produced such advertise
ments.)
Beck inquired how much the pur-
chasers of bonds had paid for them.
Mcpherson replied that made no
difference. Government, having held
out such representations. could not now
ignore them, could not play fast and
loose with its creditors. A reference by
Mcpherson to an understanding that
the bonds were to be paid in gold,
brought from Morgan, Harris and Beck
simultaneous and energetic insistance
that the Payment in COIN and
not "gold" was the understanding and
agreement. To show that the business
was already becoming alarmed at our
course with regard to silver, Mcpherson
read a letter from the manager of the
Company, stating that the company, in
with regard to the, coinage.
had decided to make no further terms
except or the specific agreement OF
their repayment in gold coin.
On the conclusion of MePherson's re-
marks, Brown gave notice that to-
morrow he would ask to be heard on
the resolution of Beck: %,
Roar called attention to the anom-
"alouS condition OF business in the Sen
ate, there being several bills already TT
ported from the committees, which
bills were being delayed by a silver de-
bate, which would have to be repeated
when the finance committees should
come toreport bill dealing with the
coinage. -rts -
THE UTAH QUESTION.
On motion of Edmunds, the Senate
then took up the Utah bill, the pending
question being on Hoar's motion to
strike out the section that would dis
franchise the women of Utah.
Brown expressed himself as opposed
to woman suffrage, and said that If the
question was in his own State he would
vote against it, but as the question be-
fore the Senate was one affecting the
right already given to the women of
Utah by the laws of that Territory, he
BROWN would vote for Hoar's motion.
The vote having been reached on the
amendment, it was rejected-yeas IL,
nays 81. The Senators voting yea were
Aldrich, Blair, Brown, Call, Dawes,
Dolph Hoar, Mitchell (of Oregon,
Palmer. Stanford and Teller. The sec
ton disfranchising the women remains,
therefore, part of the bill.
The amendment proposed by Ed
MINDS was agreed to, providing that
marriages within, but not including, the
fourth consanguinity, should be termed
incestuous and punished by imprison-
mant.
Van Wyck offered an amendment,
dispensing with the Utah Commission.
The so-called duties of that body, could,
he said, be just as well performed by
army officers, at no extra expense to
the government, and his amendment
provided that a board of three officers
of the army should perform the duties
now vested IN the Commission. He de-
ha Of ha
mission, and insisted that it has been
OF no use to Utah or to the United
States. The Commission, he said had
half dozen clerks.
VOORHEES, denied this, and challenged
Van Wyck to prove his statement. 4
Van Wyck, in reply, read from list
in his hands the names of seven clerks
and janitor. a.oe aI-
Voorhees, remarked those were not
regularly employed clerks, but had
been employed only temporarily to
meet an emergency. He thought he
knew the reason for Van Wyck's attack
on the Utah commission. sf-
Van Wyck thought VOORHEES, had
better understand himself on the sub
iect before taking his seat. (Laughter).
VOORHEES, did not wish 10 speak on
the time of the Senator from Nebraska.
Van Wyck was willing he should. IL
seemed to make difference, Van Wyck
said, whose friend was attacked" 4
Van Wyck's amendmentwa rejected.
Morgan opposed the provision for the
trustees to administer the affairs OF the
Mormon Church. He characterized
polygamy as an offense that "stinks in
the nostrils of civilization. He thought,
if anything was to be done about 1t, II
should be torn up root and branch.
Edmunds replied that those trustees
would deal only. with the property OF
the Church. The committee had feared
to abolish the right to do and had con-
fined the work of the trustees to the
temporal affairs of the Church. The
committee had not wished to make
precedent for legislative interference.
With religion, apart from the feature OF
polygamY, Edmunds did not think the
belief of the Mormons greatly different
from the belief of the other sects.
Teller thought the Mormons had very
little property, except their temples.
Edmunds had been INFORMED that
they had.
Teller said the Temple was one OF the !
most wonderful buildings in the void,
and had cost a great deal. But these
trustees would have to deal with Nor
monism in every way. He did not be-
-: b,f he W0uld COW