The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-05-25 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

NOTES OF THE WEEK.  --.0- TUE SUPPLEMENTAL TUEATT.  The Philadelphia correspondent of the Pieces has telegraphed to the effect that the Foreign Committee have reported in favour of the supplemental article of the Treaty of Washington an amended form, which aces not, however, materially change its substance. Four senators, forming the majority, are said to recommend the ratification of the article; we proposes some verbal amendments; and the two who form the minority oppose the ratification. With the report of tho committee before them, it now lies with the Senate to decide if the recommendation of Senators Cameron, Harlan, Morton, and Hamlin is to he carried out. A long debate was anticipated, with Yr. Sumner leading the Opposition; but it was considerecl probable that a two-thirds vote in favour of the ratification would be obtained by adopting certain suggested amendments, which were intended to make the supplemental article more palatable to the United States. The Tribune and the New York Herold, by no means satisfied with the aspect of affairs, continue to denounce in Arong terms what they call the contemplated surrender of the Government, and try haril to induce the Senate to reject the proposed addition to the treaty. By the former paper the "firm and imperious attitude of Earl Granville, the nervous, excited despatches of General Schenck, and the clamour of frightened merchants" are assigned as Use causes which here induced President Grant to yield in the matter of the indirect claims. By the latter paper it is indignantly declared that the ratification of the article would be the culmination of the national disgrace, and that instead of settling longstanding differences between the two countries, it would intensify heart-burnings, and leave behind seeds of aggravated jealousy and discontent. Happily, these are not the sentiments which are shared in by the groat body of the intelligent people of the United States, and wo have good ground for confidence that the Senate, without allowing themselves to be either bullied or cajoled, will give a decision in consonance with the wishes of all right-thinking men in both countries.  From America we have the somewhat extraordinary iniclligence that all the Mormon prisoners under arrest and indictment in Utah have been discharged, and that the Supremo Court of that territory has accepted the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, declaring its proceedings in criminal business since Sept.,lB7o,to have been unconstitutional. Of these Mormons some have been ander arrest for more than a your; two dozen have been indicted for murder, and several are not, serving out their sentences upon convictions for ether offences. The Chicago paper, which mentions these facts, states that all the prosecutims were Instituted for t!le purpose of breaking up polygamy, and that the only effect of theta has been to strengthen the institution, on account of the martyrdem of the Saints who have been peraecnted. Reference to this sz-called persecution was made by one of the speakers at the Me, mon Conference which was hold at Glasgow en Sunday. In alluding to the recent trials of Mormon leadera, he averred that the Latterday Saints lived above the constitutional laws of the 'United States, that the persecutions to which they were subjected were in reality proofs of the soundness of their belief, and that they were determined at all hazards, happen what might, to maintain the principles and practices of their religion. Various weakens expressed indignation at the treatment bestowed upon their leaders, who might not be perfect men, but who, they averred, lived as near God as any men on the face of the earth. From the statement made in the statistical report of the conference at Glasgow, it does not appear that the peraecntMn in America kept back fresh converts, as an emigration of two hundred " Saints " tzok place in the course of the year.