Original sentence: Aside from his duties as District Attorney Van Zile succeeded in getting Congress to enact some laws, the first being a law disfranchising every polygamist in the Territory of Utah.Cannon who had been a delegate in congress for ten years.He also prosecuted and convicted John Miles, in  United States vs.He also succeeded in securing the passage of a law regulating marriages  making it a public ceremony, where records can be made of it.Judge Van Zile also secured the passage of another law, punishing  co-habitation.Supreme Court.This law secured for the territory a legislature none of whom were polygamists
Edited sentence: Aside from his duties as District Attorney Van Zile succeeded in getting Congress to enact some laws that broke the back of the oligarchy, the first being a law disfranchising every polygamist in the Territory of Utah.Cannon who had been a delegate in congress for ten years, and secured in his place a man who was not a polygamist.He also prosecuted and convicted John Miles, in the celebrated case of the United States vs.He also succeeded in securing the passage of a law regulating marriages thus taking it from those secret and unenterable halls of the Endowment House, and making it a public ceremony, where records can be made of it.It was a time when a man risked his very life if he performed his duty.It was one of the laws which has made it possible for the dawn of a new civilization to shine in upon that benighted and priest ridden country.Judge Van Zile also secured the passage of another law, punishing lewd and lascivious co-habitation which struck at the very vitals of the old outlawed polygamist marriage, thus making it possible to break up that relation among the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Supreme Court where his contention was sustained, namely, that a Mormon who believed in the prophecies of Joseph Smith upon this question was not qualified to sit as a juror.The Mormon Oligarchy had set up a rival government to that of the United States.These men had treason in their hearts and their hands were red with the blood of murdered men and women in their determination to carry out their religious and fanatical views.This law secured for the territory a legislature none of whom were polygamists whereas hitherto ninety-five percent of that body had been polygamists