The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-26
CONGRESS WILL
MAKE 1T FELONY
Unlawful Cohabitation Is to Be Eff
fectually Stamped Out.
INTERVIEW WITH DUBOIS
REVIEW OF THE SITUATION IN
IDAHO.
(spcciaI 70 u HeraId.)

NAf ASHINGTON, Feb. Ex-senator
wv Dubois authorized the following
statement when asked today for
an opinion regarding Legislation enacted
IN Idaho by the present legislature af-
fecting MomOnism:
Il am not surprised that the legisla-
tUre passed laws which were intended
TO be ineffective, so far as polygamy
and polygamous living are concerned
II was made plain that the Republican
leaders intended to do this when Mr..
Hunt member of the Mormon church.
was elected speaker and given the APP
pOintments of the various committees
What Democrats Demanded.
1T seems from Idaho papers that
even the Intellectual laws which were
passed have been amended somehow
and somewhere so that they will not be
constitutional. What the Democracy OF
Idaho demanded in the last campaign
was the passage Of laws against un-
lawful cOhabitation and for change of
venue. Mr. Richards, who introduced
bills providing for the punishment of
those living in unlawful Capitalization
and for a change of venue stated, I un-
deTstand. that il was not intended TO
reach those now living in polygamous
relations who entered into those rela-
fiOns prior to the manifesto of 1890. Mr.
Richards, of course. meant by this that
Il was not the desire to disturb such
well known polyse mists as President
Bulge.
Congress Will Pass Laws.
The congress of the United States,
believe. intends TO provide laws under
which the head of the Mormon organ
victed i'm Utah. President Smith testi-
fed before the senate committee that
he had five wives and forty-two chill
dren. and that each of his wives had
borne him children since the manifes-
to. Public sentiment in Utah is such
and the power of this hierarchy is so
great that Notwithstanding that there
are laws in Utah TO punish President
Smith. they viii not be enforced.
Case of President Bulge.
The Democracy of Idaho intends
that laws shall be passed which Will
punish those openly living in polyEa-
nous relations. President Bulge was
appointed by one governor since state
hood regent of the state university. He
was elected TO the state senate in 1898
and he testified over his own signature,
In Idaho. in a written cOmmunica ton.
that he had three wives and he testi-
fed before the senate committee here
that he had three wives, and that he
was living with them in polygamOus re-
latiOns, and that they had borne him
children since the manifesto. The Cen
tile people of Idaho. regardless of pol
lNltSs 10 llOL encourage anu VIII loL
tolerate pOlyganlOus living. and during
the last campaign they made their dis
approval OF this fact so plain that the
Republican leaders promised the people
that the Republican party of Idaho
would pass the necessary laws to put a
stop to these practices
Gentiles Are United.
My judgment is that the Democracy
of Idaho will continue the fight on the
lines laid down in the last campaign,
and also that unless this legislature
cOrTects its mistake and passes laws
which Will be effective to correct these
evils. that the Gentiles of Idaho will
give the Democrats power to enact such
legislation.
1t is known that polygamOus mar
1iages are being contracted constantly.
and parties contracting them reside in
Idaho
Used as Examples.
When I use the illustration of Pres
fdent Bulge 1 wish to point out the
fact using him as an example that
unless you can pass laws which will
reach him, a self-cOnfessed polygamist.
4 you cannot reach any other pOlyga-
nists. new or old. in Idaho.
When I use the illustration of Pres
ident Smith 1 wish to point out the
fact that unless congress can secure the
passage of a law under which he car
he convicted. no other polygamists, new
or old, in Utah can be convicted. Nv
impression is that the Idaho legisIa-
ture and the Republican organization is
not fOOling any one in Idaho