The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-06

acted of men and boys In w
employ of the street car ana
other corporations in the DlstrlJI
of Columbia and to report whether sucn
number of hours were unreasonaDte
and inconsistent with the former acts
of Congress, and if so, what remedy was
necessary in the premises. rL
Edmunds then called up the Juan
bill, reported by him for the comhIt'ee
on judiciary.
Hoar moved to strike out the seventh
section. prohibiting the exercise of SUI
frage by women in Utah. Hoar said ne
approved the purpose of the bill and
the method by which that purpose was
sought to be effected, with the exception
of the Acknowledgement of the women
of Utah. Woman suffrage existed IN
the Territories of Wyoming ana
Washington, and the most care
full and thoughtful observers ties.
tify to the excellent effect Oh
that suffrage in those Territories.
To deprive such of the women OF Utah
who were not plural wives of the night
which they already had to exercise the
suffrage was undertaking to place them
in the same category with what the law
regarded as criminal, and was in viola
ton of sound principles of legislation.
Edmunds replied that whenever
majority of the women of the United
States, or any State, desired to have
suffrage, they would have. his Ed
munds) vote in favor of that desire;
whenever our wives, sisters and sweet
hearts come to believe they could better
serve society and themselves by eXer
clsing suffrage and going into political
fields, instead of combining themselves
to the field on which they were
now employed, they should have
his aid in attaining their object.
He deried that the women of
Utah had now, in the sense of a final
and complete law, lawful right to
vote. The laws of Utah were passed
subject to the approval of Congress.
The law, too, was intended to relieve
Utah women of the condition of slavery
in which they were held by their
hierarchy.
Hoar thought this point not apple
able. A similar remark would have
with regard to the women protesting
the Roman Catholic faith, and debates
in the English parliament of the past
fifty years showed that many English
men asserted that the political move
ments of the Irish people were due to
their submission to their priesthood.
The right to vote once conferred was as
much a vested right as any right of
property.
Edmunds replied that the position in
Utah was unique. These plural wives and
persons under the influence of the hier-
srchy of u tab, were under an influence
entirely different from that which could
be said of the men and women profess
ing the Roman Catholic, Episcopalian,
Methodist or any similar religion. 1t
came nearer to a state of serfdom.
Blair supported Hoar's motion. If
the reason given by Ednunds for the |
of the women of Utah |
we're sound, it was equally applicable, /
Blair thought, to the men of Utah, and |
anne. II uhe wUnen who believe IN 1
were to be disfranchised, why /
lot men who believed in it?
Vest hoped the bill would go over one
lay, and it went over accordingly.
A message was received from the
President, transmitting the draft of
I'll to provide for the allotment of
andS in severalty to the Indians. 1t
vas read and referred.
Wilson, of Iowa, called up the reso-
ution heretofore offered by him, calling
N the Secretary of the Interior for
opy of each report made by the gov
rnment directors of the Union
Pacific Railroad, from the first APP
continent of such directors to the
resent time. Wilson reviewed, at
ength the action of the government
directors, of whom he had himself
zen one. with a view to showing that
lad the government paid attention to
he information conveyed and the
made by the direc-
ors. the relations of the government to
Dads would, to-day, be a better one.
Wilson favored the bill reported from
he judiciary committees of the Senate
f the Forty-Eighth Congress, because
nder such a law, there would be a
disability of the government owner
hip of the entire system. Not that he
oped the government ownership would
e necessary, for he did not take kindly
, measures looking to the government
of business that might be
by citizens, but with the con-
ngency of the government o ownership
them all, the companies
lcluded in the Pacific system would
1T thousands about devislng means to
void any impending possession of their =
pads by the government. Indeed, i
very road in the United States would
Ike lively interest in preventing the C
overnment ownership of the Pacific i
Dads, for their managers well know i
lat with those roads in the hands OF t
overnment, the problem of regulating t
ter-state commerce would be speedily t
~ perfectly solved. In Wilson's S
oinion. we had the case in our own l
lnds and should not consent. He, c
r one, would not consent to any v
ttlement of the Pacific roads question a
at did not embrace the feature a
possible redemption by the govern
ent of the present paramount
ms on the Pacific roads,so thegovern-
ent might protect itself against the
faults of the companies. L
Upon the conclusion of Wilson'S b
the Judicial salary bill was. on p
orion of Hoar. placed before the
nate. Without further action, how
er. the Senate went into executive
ssion, and when the doors opened, Al
journed. s.