The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-31
POLYGAMOUS UTAH
oxs,TIoNAL CHARGES MADE IN
HOUSE.
S THE LAW ENFoRcED7
QUESTION ARoUsEs WARM DE.
BATE.

rf,sEI
r,.., officers and Teachers of Utah
9oIleae Are Living i'm POlygamus
DoIotions-IIing of Utah Retaliates
u,,+t Lynching Amendment.
Inter the Matter Was Dropped and
r.ab,s College Will Get Its Share
as Usual.
u-ashineton, Jan. S0.-The anti-polyg
.,,y crusade which resulted in driving
Az Roberts, Utah's representative, from
NJ scat at the last session, had an echo
., tbo House to-day during the consid-
,rot,on of the agricultural appropriation
LII When the section making the APP
.-oDriations for agricultural colleges of
.ho several states was reached, Mr.. Lam
ale of Indiana offered an amendment pro-
,tding that no money should be paid to
tho college in Utah until the Secretary
~ Agriculture was satisfied that no trus-
tee officer, teacher or employe in the in
stitution practiced polygamy.
Mr.. King, who succeeded Mr.. Roberts.
tried in vain to head it off. The House
King retalated by offering an amend
ment providing that none of the money
should go to agricultural colleges in any
state whose instructors or trustees have
engaged in lynching or been guilty of
adukery or fornication. lie afterwards
modified it so as to apply only to the
agricultural college of Indiana. 1t was
overwhelmingly defeated. Subsequently
when the bill was reported to the House
the lands amendment was stricken out
BY a vote of 69-19. The friends OF the
farmer" were very much in evidence dur
ing the day.
Mr.. Taylor of Ohio, chairman of the
COMMITTEE on Elections No. 1, submit
ted the report on the contested election
case of Walker VS.. Rhea from the Ninth
Virginia District. The committee found
that while gross frauds and irregularities
occurred in the election they fell every
far short of changing the result. The
committee, therefore, recommended that
Mr.. Rhea the sitting member, who is
Democrat, should retain his seat.
Messrs. Linney of North Carolina and
Davenport of Pennsylvania dissented
from the conclusion of the majority and
were given leave to file their views. The
report will be called up in the near fu-
ture.
The House then resumed the considera-
ton of the agricultural appropriation bill.
The sections of the present law relat-
ing to the scientific bureaus of the de-
parments were substituted for the pro-
visions in the BILL which went out yester-
day on a point of order made by Mr.. Ma
non Of Pennsylvania.
Mr.. Latmer of South Carolina offered
an amendment to increase the appropri-
ations for farmers bulletins to $4,000
Mr.. MahOn of Pennsylvania declared
that the increased dissemination of farm
ers' bulletins would not do the farmers
any good. He dec AIRED that members de-
sired to distribute these bulletins to make
themselves popular with farmers.
Mr. Talbert of South Carolina and Mr.
Shaek.eford Of Missouri supported the
amendment.
Mr.. Mahon inveighed against the al
legged friends of the farmers who were
always bowling against railroads and
praung of their friendship for the farm
ers. He represented the farmers, and he
declared they did not desire extravagant
appropriations for the agricultural de-
partment or the indiscriminate distribu-
uon OF the stuff printed about agricult-
ure' by the department
are you in favor of appropriating $780,
wv Tor eXperiments?" asked Mr., Iatimer
no"
Why don't you fight it, then?'
have been doing so.'
! am with YOU" observed Mr.. Latimer
MI Shackleford referred sarcastically to
MI. Mahon's economical ideas as to APP
preparations for the Agricultural Depart
heht While he pleaded for the payment
Vi Dig claims for the down-trodden Cramp
Shipbuiding Company.
Mr. Latimer's amendment was adopted
81 to S.
Mt Lands of Indiana then offered Ills
ahu-poiygamy amendment to the section
leges.
MI AlnS of Utah made a point of order
against the amendment He declared that
ne would not oppose it If it was offered
"a good faith, but that he considered it
SIMPLY an aftermath of what had been
accumulated the crusade against his pre-
reoessor' Mr.. Roberts" No polygamous
marriages were now solemnized in Utah
a lew Of those who had entered into such
marriages prior to 1890 might still be Sc
VleIly preserving polygamous relations,
out they were very few in number.
MI Lands in reply, said he was cred
io'y informed that one of the professors
III the agricultural college had three wives
aiiu one two, and that one of the trustees
uau seven wives who had blessed him
WIN tnirty-nine children. These state
.iehts' he said, had been made by one Of
s"e reading papers of Salt Lake City, and
- lar as he knew the official organ of
re mormon Church had not denied it.
the chair ruled that the amendment was
20 to A. ''"'
MI King, taken by surprise, offered his
Juror
75 MI Grosvenor of Ohio, was recognized
lis sald he desired to raise a point of or
against the amendment, not one but
80 Dozen in fact. He argued that
- amendment was an attempt to legis-
r. upon an appropriation bill. He
- SEQ mat the amendment was an as
l,,iti upon the teachers In all the agri-
tr -'euiai colleges. He became engaged
go, "a "ordy duel with Mr.. King, in the
,t1 use s OF which, Mr.. King declared that
scold. ii"u Oecoile conunhon
VI Al the law against common scolds
c. sun in force" flashed back Mr..
f. door' you would have been ducked
~ ueath long ago."
and you would have been duclxea an
error to that" retorted Mr.. King
me chair intimated that the amend
n Meht as drawn was not in order. when
+ Ii' King changed it so as TO place II in
me-, NE exact language Of the Lands amend
~ ,, ana making it apply only to Indiana
1tll Utah and later 20 Tnd,a,a oto,,r r,L