The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-10-03
Shelter Needed for Fugi.
tives from Mormonism.
senator Hale Thinks the saIs Lake
Saints Have Undue Influence Over
the House Homestead Law
amendmenss-NatioaaI Aid To YELL
low Fever saaerers.

sion of congress additional legislation
TO prevent the importation OF con
tagious or infectious disease from for
eign countries on the coast aud
boundaries of the United States, was
taken up, and Cali spoke on il. Pasco
offered an amendment directing the
committee 10 inquire further into the
introduction OF yellow fever into Flor
ida and other states during the pres
ent year. In the course of his remarks
Call read letter from Dr. Reed, sug-
gesting spirits Of ammonia as a method
Of cure and prevention, and recon-
mending that some action be taken TO
test that method.
A big discussion followed. Morgan
said there were eight states in the
South which had been heretofore sub
iected to the ravages OF yellow fever.
He proposed that each one of these
state should vote $4,000, making a
fund OF $4,000; that the governor OF
each OF these states shonid appoint
commissioner, that the board should
select a president and fern a j0int
commission composed OF men selected
for their skill, and that this commits
sion should have access to the fund
and use any part Of it where yellow
fever might appear.
After further discussion the resolE-
ton and amendment were referred 10
the committee on epidemic disease
The conference report on the deii-
cheney bill was presented by Hale and
explained by him. The larger portion
of the disagreeing votes had. he said,
been arranged by the confereeS. There
were four matters on which an agree
ment had not been reached. One was
the item to pay the widow OF Chief
Justice Waite the balance of the wears
salary. the house conferees insisting
that there was no precedent for it,
Another was the item TO pay the years
salary of an internal revenue officer
who remained at his post in Florida
and died there of yellow fever. An
other was the proposition 10 extend
the land laws TO No Mans Land, and
another was the appropriation for an
Industrial Christian Home i'm Utah
territory.
Hale proceeded t0 state the argu-
ments on behalf of this latter item.
The association was regularly organ
lied and was composed of many of
the leading business men of Salt Lake
City. Its purpose was 10 relieve, pro-
feet and care for dependent women
and children seeking 10 escape from
the polygainous relation the scheme
had excited the profound hostility OF
the Mormon church and its leader,
who saw IN il great peril 10 their in-
Stitutions But 50 numerous were the
applications for rcliet that the benc-
factions received were entirely made
quate. and the application for aid
had been made TO congress, and i'm
the deficiency bill OF iSs6 the
senate had inserted an item
of $4,000 in aid OF the objects
of the association. Ii remained in
the bill, and thus congress embarked
in the work and declared that home
should be created and maintained for
the benefit OF women and their de-
pendent children who should renounce
pOlygamy. Difficulty had been
thrown in the way Of the good work,
however, by the narrow construction
given to the law by the governor OF
Utah, to the effect that first wife was
not entitled TO advantages in the in
stitution, inasmuch as she was not a
polygamous wife. Congress had
adopted this Industrial Christian
Home of Utah as its agency in a good
work. The work was going steadily
on, The association had gone for
ward and purchased land and made
contracts for the erection OF perma-
nent home Without the appropFia-
ton in the deficiency bill voted
by the senate but resisted by the house,
the work would be turned aside and
crippled. He admitted that the sum
ptoposes, $50. 600. was large, but the
work was great one. He could see
in il, properly sustained by congress
and properly managed and carried
out. more of menace TO polygamy
than anything that had occurred in
wears; that congress had been ell
deavoring 20 deal with that great
question. but one branch OF congress
had set themselves early and late
against the amendment. He COM
planned that a legislative branch OF
the government had been so impressed
hv the opposition OF the Mormon
church that it ventured TO set itself in
the way marked out by congress The
house conferees would not agree to
the substantial parts of the propo-
sition in any respect They said that
the sum was too large, and that they
would not agree to any amount except
on condition OF the work of the build |
ING being turned over to the superyis-
ing architect oi the treasury. lie APP
pealed % the senate to insist on the
amendment.
Cockreil, one of the senate conferees,
stated his conviction that no influence |
ef the Mormon church had been
brought 30 bear in any way in the dis
cussion of the question. The principal
ground Of difference between the sen
ate conferees ami house eonferees was
that the former wished 70 have the
money expended by a charitable insti- |
tuition, while the latter insi-ted that
the money should be placed ia the
hands OF the secretary OF the trea ury. |
Teller favored the amendment as a
measure that supplemenie. other leg I
islaiiou against poiygasiy in such q !
way as 10 he effective and at the same
time merciiui and night. other ma
tions that had dealt with the question
of poly gamy had made provision Tor
women and children, bat the United
states had made none. IL had insist
ed that the relations hould be severed. }
Ii had made poiygamy a crime. not
only for men, bat women, bat had
made no provision by which women
could break those connections without
meeting want and starvation. He
should prefer to see the words "wh0
de sire to sever their allegiance 10 the
Mormon church" omitted from the
amendment.
Hale remarked that The change OF
expression could be allowed by the
confrrees.
Call favored the appropriation aua
said he had protested against legisla-
tive vsrstsu ion OF the Mormons.
That legislation not only violated the
constitution. but the privilege OF !ib-
erty He approved the principle os
the amendment, that il the Mormons
were 70 be converted il wofla have 10
be done by the most persuasive efforts
and not by force.
Blair argsled against the i3e4 ot
Welding 70 the arguments os the house
conferecs. on the ground that the
transfer 90 lie tFeasgsFy department
would delay IL for years, aud thas pro
mote the policy o. ,he Aormon iead-
eg-
Hale declared there was bgst one oh
jrct ia diycrtsng the approp. iAii0n.
and ihst was delay. II ~as not
cl@;used that there sas any scandal ia