The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-08
The Little Dispatch of Com
missioner A. s. Paddock.
EDMUNDs' QUIET REMARK
Van Wyck's Reply to the Dispatch
From Salt Lake-No Vote
Reached Yet.
SENATE

WASHINGTON, January I.-Ine Cnar
aid before the Senate letter from the
secretary of War, transmitting petit
tion from West Point students who are
+o he graduated in June, 1886, praying
that a provision may be made for their
sppointment to the army. Referred to
the committee on military affairs.
A resolution, offered by Henderson,
was agreed to, calling on the Secretary
of the Interior for information as to
been made within the last two years in
Nebraska; whether there are any I'M
SURVEYED public lands IN that state:
what recommendations had been made
within the last three years by the Sur
yevOr-General of that district as to the
continuance of said Office, and whether
it is advisable to discontinue the office
Of the surveyor general.
Dolph, from the committee on COM
merce. reported favorably bill extend
ing 70 the city of Portland, Oregon, pro-
visions of the law of 1880, relating to
the immediate transportation of dutia-
bic goods.
Also similar bills relating to ON aha,
Nebraska and Port Townsend, Oregon.
The bills on Dolph's motion were at
once passed.
Voorhees, offered as a substitute for the
resolution recently offered by MS col
league, one reciting in its preamble that
the Commissioner of Pensions, IN his
annual report. had stated that at one
time the pension bureau was all but
ayowedly q political machine, filled
with the uncompr0miSlng adheTents OF
a single organization (meanlng the
Republican party, and that the claim
ants were after required to support the
Republican party as q consideration
upon which pensions should issue. The
resolution instructS the committee on
expenditures of public money to in
quire into the truth of these allegations
and Confers the power to send for
persons and papers.
Logan mad nothing to say against the
Commissioner of Pensions, whom he res
pected highly; but he wished the reso-
luton enlarged so as to include the in
Yestigation Ofthe present administration
OF the offices He said that Col. Fred
Stevenson, the gallant wounded soldier,
had been removed from the position at
the head of division of the Office at the
Congress. No charge had been made
against him and the only reason known
Tor his removal was that he had sup
ported the Independent Democratic can
didate for Congress in opposition to the
man who had him removed.
Voorhees, accepted the amendment
offered by Logan.
The resolution went oyer for one
day.
THE UTAH ILL.
At o'clock the Utah bill came up
and Senator Morgan addressed the
Senate upon it.
He spoke in support of an amend
ment offered by hlm providing for the
disposal of the property of the Nor
mon church according to the rules and
principles of common law, as in the
case of the dissolution of the corpora
ton he felt, he said, that we ought to
strike Mormon church organizations
out OF existence. 1t was shrewd tenn
poral organization that had gained so
much power, its emigrant arrangement
It's tithing capacity, its money power
and generally its organizing vigor.
1t had been the wonder of our
time. Instead of appointing trustees
for the management of temporal mat
tiers, Congress should cut up the organ
izatiOn root and branch.
Mr.. Call did not believe that Congress
had the right to destroy the religious
establishment of Mormon practice,
POlygamy, unholy though it was, did
not authorize US to violate the
Constitution of the United States
BY legislating in regard to
an establishment of religion or
take private property for public
use. Referring to Edmunds' point
that it was not the religious but the
temporal concerns of the church that
we're 10 be administered by the trustees
4svided by the bill, Mr.. Call inquired,
What would be the right of Congress if
Il should undertake 10 administer, by
tIustees or otherwise, the property and
S5nporal affairs of, for example, the
F5qman Catholic Church. He read from
He early Puritan laws to show that in
We seventeenth century, the Quakers
1efe denominated ''damnable sect"
ana that all persons who encouraged
;.lelr entry into the colonies were sub
!ect 70 inc of $500 as welllas imprison-
-ueAt. The Christian sentiment of the
SyCouhtry and the ordinary law enforced
we're amply sufficient for dealing with
bETT ygamy. He, therefore, opposed the
f.d E.dmunds said the bill would not af
mon me religious affairs of the Nor
poraI' II would only affect the tenn