The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-10

! Tor the Denent or the Mexican pOpula-
: ton was passing and arguing that very
little attention should be given to the
pledge for statehood given when the
/ territory of Arizona was created be-
cCuse it had been given as the result
/ of fraudulent representations.
/ Mr.. Beveridge was literally applaud
ed by the galleries when he concluded.
/ The legislative session of Thursday
came TO an end at u O'clock and the
/ session today was commenced at once.
Laugh Was on Beveridge.
Under the head of morning business
Mr.. Beverage undertook to have read
/ a number of kilograms in support of
! the statehood bill. but Mr.. Teller OBJ
/ jected on the ground that they should
/ come I'm properly as a part of the dis
cussion of the statehood bill.
Mr. Beverage then stated that he
/ had received hundreds of messages,
most of them from Arizona, urging
/ joint admission.
L. too. have received hundreds of
messages on the subject of statehood, .
/ responded Mr.. Foraker. zone of them
/ from a gentleman who gives his name
and address says that a telegram
/ signed by the senator from Indiana is
/ being circulated in Arizona urging 500
/ kilograms be sent to the senate from
/ Arizona in favor of statehood"
| The announcement created a laugh
at Mr.. Beveridge's expense, and in
which he joined. He said he knew
/ nothing about the telegram. The tel
/ eeTams were not read.
/ A communication from Secretary
/ Hitchcock recommending an extension
of the time for opening the Shoshone
Indian reservation in Wyoming from
June Is to August 10 was read.
A bill appropriatIng 100000 for the
/ Improvement of the mouth of the Co
| lumbia river was passed.
Ten-Minute Speeches.
Consideration of the statehood bill
was then resumed and Mr.. Foraker
made the first speech under the ten
mirUte rule. He pointed out that Ari-
IONA was not asking admission and
said there never had been an effort to
force statehood on an unwilling ter
ritoriaI constituency.
| Mr.. Dubois followed in support of an
amendment offered by him prohibiting
AIormons and polygamists from voting
in the proposed state of Arizona, as
was originally provided in the Idaho
state test He said he had seen list
of some fifty to q hundred polyga-
mists living in Arizona and there also
| were many in New Mexico. There
was, he said, no power in Utah to pun
ish polygamy and MOrmonism was SO
strong in his own state of Idaho that,
notwithstanding the leader of the sect
in that state had testified that he was
/ the husband of three wives, there was
no possibility of bringing him to &C
| count because of the political power of
the church.
Wherever there is Mormonism,
there is polygamy,' he said, and added
that the only way to prevent polyga-
my was to strike at the organization
that encourages it.
For and Against.
Speeches were made by other mem
hers as follows: Mr.. SpooneT, saying
that Mr.. Beverages speech was at
variance with the former representa-
[ tives of the committee on territories;
Mr.. Nelson, advocating the union of
Arizona and New Mexico as the best
plan for the Americanization of New
/ Mexico; Mr.. Teller, Mr.. Hopkins. Mr.
/ Hansbrough. Mr.. GallingeT, Mr.. Hep
burn, Mr.. Clark Cwyo), Mr.. DiIling-
ham and Mr.. Carter, who said that he
was unalterably opposed to the coer-
cion Of any body of American citizens
much as he would like to vote for q bill
supported by the president and a re-
publican house of representatives.
Brief speeches were also made by
Messrs. Newlands, McCumber, Fulton
Smoot and Burrows. The Utah SEN
ator introduced an amendment annex
ing to his state all that part of Ari-
IONA lying north of the Colorado river
and spoke in support of it. He said the
strip was unwatered and without
value.
Burrows Attacks Mormonism.
Mr. Burrows advocated the elimina-
ton of Arizona and New Mexico from
the bill, and presented an amendment
to that end. He based his opposition or
the ground that there were many po-
lygamists in the two territories, and
spoke of polygamy as an "offenst
against the civilization of the age II,
said the real OffenSe was not in Dlur3
marriages. but in pofygamous cOhabi
tatiOn practiced after marriage else
where. He quoted from letters to show
that there were many MormOns living
in polygamy in Arizona and New Mex.
leo. and said that notwithstanding the
difficulty of getting testimony there
had been some convictions for polyg-
amy.
In this conpection he read a letter
from the attorney general of the Unit
ed States stating that recently there
had been thirty-one convictions under
1 the Edmunds act. a majority of which
/ were for unlawful cohabitation. The
senator therefore said that he should
oppose tie admission of these terrific
ries until they should purge themselves
of this lawless element. He also quoted
from testimony i'm the Smoot case tC
show that polygamy existed in the ter
ritoTies.
BeVeridge VS.. Foraker.
Toward the close of the debate, Mr.
/ Beveridge and Mr.. Foraker engaged IN
a sharp colloquy over the number and
contents of kilograms received by them
respectively. Among the messages reaC
by the Ohio senator was one saying
that Mr. Beverage had wired to Ari
IONA asking that kilograms be sent him
Mr. Beveridge, in reply, spoke of Dele
gate Smith of Arizona as Mr.. Foraker;
Democratic helper
why should the heather rage?
asked Mr.. Foraker.
why should the wicked flee wheI
no man pursues?'' responded Mr.. Bev
eridge. He repeated the declaration
that he had not made an appeal 70
testimonials from Arizona.