Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-21
Want More Offices.
Seven Bills Introduced fer this Purpose
Set Back to the MormOns. The
4 Telegraph to be Controlled, ETC., Etc.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

ment o1fices is indicated by the fact that
already bills have been introduced provid-
Ing for the creation OF seven new bureaus
for prisons, tariT statistics, appoint
meuts, public documents, inform alton, har-
bors and water ways and the fine arts.
The function OF the prison bureau would
be TO collect criminal statistics, examine
penal institutions, ascertain their various
methods, gather information relating TO
crime and criminals and establish central
Office for the identification OF criminals. In
the tarlli statistical bureau tarin laws will
be kept on lilo, and II summary OF their ef-
feet on the prosperity OF the countries
which have adopted them, receive and con-
slider propositions for tho amendment OF
the tariff laws, and report the same 10 the
secretary OF the treasury To do this work
will require according 10 this bill chief
and four assistants, 1T TN aggregate cost
annually of $4,000, and corps OF clerks
costing rs much more. The bureau of APP
pointmcHts Is TO classify the Clerks IN the
numerous departments, apportion them
among the congressional districts of the
states, and through this bureau all appoint
meuts are 10 be made. In the BRAIN of
Senator Blair was conceived the idea Of
bureaus of information, and the bill pro-
Vides Tor one TO each two million inhabi.
tants. It will be simply government
intelligence office, and persons wanting
employment or relief can apply to this
bureaus and IL will be the duty OF those in
charge TO keep thoroughly posted on all in
formation as to the cost OF living, condition
of trade and similar matters, as well as TO
publish in newspapers instances of extreme
poverty and distress, the needs of the des-
titute, from Maine TO California and from
the lakes to the Gulf Mexico, as as a means
of calling the attention thereto of the
benevolent and charltably disposed.
bureau OF public documents would relieve
congressman of the labor OF distributing
10 their constituents books aud pamphlets
which the government so abundantly sup
plies; the bureau OF harbors and water
ways Will report necessary improvements
and their cost and will, in fact, be sim
ply consolidation of the several branches
sof the government now in charge of this
work, and lastly, the proposed bureau of
fine arts will work for the development OF
the artistic talent now lying dormant all
over the land, and as Iueaus to this end,
will prepare and distribute plans for build
iings, casts Of statuary, and other articles
for the use OF schools and academies.
In the event of all these schemes car
rying, the number OF Office holders would
be increased from one To two thousand,
and Uncle sam 5 pay roll be from one TO
two million dollars more each year. II is
not at all probable that any one of them
will pass, but the fact OF their introluc
ton ind Gates a strong tendency to have
the government assume duties and re.
sponsibilties utterly foreign TO its legiti-
mate functions. The absurdity of these
bills leads one TO wonder TO what ex-
tremes of imbecility our statesmen CO will
go, IL they are unchecked by 'popu ar
opinion, because the people are indlner-
ent to their wild schemes and eXtravagant
pro ects.
The whole OF Mormondom has waited
with anxiety the decision of the supreme
court on the Edmunds- Tucker Idaho test
oath, the object OF which is TO prevent
Mormons from voting and now that the
highest tribunal declares the oath constitu-
tional their anxiety is changed TO rage.
and malignant invectives, instead of boast
ing words, are heard. The case came up
on an application for writ of habeas cor
pus, made by Samuel Il. Davis, who is in
jail in Idaho, having been sentenced for
unlawiuliy taking the test oath when he
was member OF the Mormon church. The
court denies the application for writ of
habe corpus, holding that polygamy is a
crime, and that the constitutional provision
guaranteeing freedom OF religion is not in
v tended 10 prevent punishment of a person
who, in the name OF religion, commits a
crime In the eyes Of the law. After declar-
ing polygamy and bigamy TO be crimes, the
opinion says They tend to destroy the
marriage relations, TO disturb the peace OF
families degrade woman and debase man,
and are more pernicious to the best inter
ests of society than any other crimes. 10
call tncm tenets OF religion is an Insult to
the intelligence OF mankind, and to txempt
such crimes from punishment, wrong to
the moral judgment of the people The
defense built great hope on the amendment
Z TO the constitution declaring that no mode
of religion can be established by law, or
religious tenets enforced in this country
therefore, any form of religion may be fol
lowed, and any tenets, however Gestruc.
tive OF society, may be held and advocated,
III asserted to be q part OF the religious
those n n Dra ffoi,,
them On this point the court says: But
nothing Is further from the truth. While
Legislation for the establishment of relig-
ion is forbidden, and its free exercise per.
mitted, II does not follow that everything
that may be socalled can be tolerated.
Crime is not the less an excuse because
sanctioned by what any particular sect may
designate as religion.
The sen te commerce committee has re-
ported favorably the bill 10 regulate inter.
state commerce carried on by telegraph.
The bill provides that it Shall be unlawful
TO make unreasonable charges for the ser
vice, to give any unreasonable preference
. or advantage to any person or firm co en-
ter into any pool for the division of re.
ceipls, to give any rebate or reduction In
price TO any person, firm or corporation.
not given 10 others. Another provision OF
the bill is similar to the long and short
haul clause OF the interstate commerce
law, making it unlawful for telegraph
company 10 "charge any more for a short
or than for longer distance over the
same line" In the sect on forbidding
special rates. rebates or drawbacks this
proviso occurs "But nothing in this act
shall be construed as prohibiting any tele.
graph company from receiving, transmit
ting and delivering messages for the
United StItes, or for any state or mum.
cipal corporation, or for the press n-
> tended Tor publication as news, at lower
rates than are at the same time CHARGED
for social business and other messages
but no company shall discriminate be.
tween the publishers of newspapers by al
lowing terms or advantages TO one or more
newspapers which are not allowed TO all. -
From the fact that bill has been in
PRODUCED in both houses for the relief of
brewers it would seem that there is not so
much profit as is popularity supposed in
glasses one third beer and two. third froth
at hve cents "a glass. At present the law
requires bottling establishments connected
with breweries TO be located some distance
from the latter, and there must be pub
lie highway Intervening between the two
buildings. This is done to make the cin-
collation. OF stamps more certain, and TO
prevent collision between the brewing and
bottling business. by the terms of the bill
introduced few days ago, bottling cstab-
lishments may be connected with the