Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-01-29

man must actually have n plurality
OF wives to beia polygamist. The
fact OF cohabitalion is not feature
in determining the meaning Of the
term. A man ceases to be a
polygamist when he fully and
finally terminates the relationship.
Pardon and amnesty are not in
tended as a means Of terminating n
polygamOus relation. Pardon Is the
remission of the consequences OF an
offense after the parties have been
convicted. Amnesty Is the rernis-
sion Of the consequences OF a crime,
and may be after or before a convic-
ton. Though pardoned, the de-
PENDANT might be guilty Of main
tanning and recognizing the polyga-
NOUS relation"
The DECISION Of the Supreme Court
Of the tinted Stats, which the
registrar overrides, says, Ia tlte ssse
Of Murphy against the Utah Com
mission:
at is not therefore beoause the person
has committed the offense OF bisAmy or
poiygamy a. come previous time in violation
Of some existing statute and az an addi-
tionAl puuishmcnt for It's commission, that
he is disfranchised by the act OF Congress
Of March =. ls-2, nor because ne " saiiy
OF the oTense a. defined and punished BY
The terrr- q that act; but because az some
tune having entered INTO biganous or pn-
iseamous relation by ] marriage with
Second or third wife Thiie the srst vas
living. he still maintains y and ma nos
diss6lsed IL, although for the time
faiue Re restricts actual cohahitatfon 10
but one. &c fuirat m fact abstain
from actual cohabisatscr rlit Az ana pc
SIN as much as ever a bisamist q polyr,a5,
mist He can only cease 10 be sues ~
no has finally dissolved In some ereotiye
manner, which we are not called here 10
point out, the very relation OF husband 10
several wives which constitutes the forbid
den s,aiHs he has previously as.unea:
The acknowledgements operates upon the
and not urCn 4 past odense- IL Is therefore
not retrospective lie alone Is deprive Of
he yGte rfo, when he Ofe-s 10 register. IS
then in the state or eondition gt bigamist
6r polygamist or is tiien actually eohahitins
with more Than one wo'nan'
Thus Che matter goes - smile Of
derision niee!A tiie law in the case.
A long list of new Challenges are
now being served. Among Tire
number cited to appear Is Record
or II. NJ. Wells, whose ueat-
ment by Registrar Winters, on n
former occasion, will be remembered.
Another enc that would seem
ver- ike a joke were it not for the
fact that the infaihy Of the LIB
erai,' proceedings is so well known,
z tte summoning Of Spencer Clas-
son. thE Pe5bleis candidate for
MAYOR, to appear hefore Registrar
Winters and show cause snip his
name should not be stricken from
the registry list on tue ground that
he IL ''polygamist. D."
Many Of those challenged have
failed to appear and default has been
entered against them. Investigation
elbows that tl,e return j. ''substi-
tute seFVice." The law requires n
personal service and in this 'substi- |
tute, business il is likely that the /
petsors clialleIiged and who failed TO |
appear have fever fee@ivsd noties
at all.
There is one noticeable Occuf- I
renee which challenged parties
should take cognizance Of, and that |
is that the registrars have no right |
to ask questions that do not relate
10 the matter of the challenge. |
That is, II a man is challenged on
the ground Of non-residence, he /
cannot be required to answer
injuries about some one else, who
lives In certain houses, or anything |
except as to his residence and inten-
ton relating thereto.
The plan adopted by challenger
I'D. Webb,v Of the 'Liberal' COM
mittee makes its purpose plain.
Directing 10 such men as ;. b.
Clawson, W. F. Neslen, II. Matthews,
w. G. Mcdonald, John Walsh, and |
hundreds Of others on the ground Of I
not being bona flde residents, when
some Of them were born and have
lived in Salt Lake City their whole
lives, and Others have resided here
twenty to forty years, and have
been before the public, indicates n
purpose entirely foreign to that
which the law cOnlsmplates in al
lowing challenges.
The plot thirkens rs new features
develop, and everything points TO
the fact that no means viii lie left
unused TO Obstruct the Peoples
Party voters on the day Of election,
as we'll as subject them to annOyance
and lndlgniis Pfior thereto.