Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1901 — POLYGAMY BILL KILLED. [ARTICLE]

POLYGAMY BILL KILLED.

Utah Senate on Reconsideration Support) Governor’s Veto. The Utah Senate, by a vote of 9 to 9, stood by Gov. Wells in his veto of the Evans polygamy bilk The original vote on the passage of nte measure was 11 to 7. When the questionable up again on the veto of the bill two Mormons who voted for the bill before stood by the Governor in his action and the sponsor for the bill himself. President Evans, was obliged to read the death warrant in the announcement of the vote. The action of Gov. Heber M. Wells of Utah iu vetoing the polygamy bill passed by tbe Legislature of that State seems cause, a Salt Lake dispatch says, for widespread gratification. It spares the country from a threatened disgrace and

from the consideration of a' decidedly unsavory issue. The bill in question provides that no person may bring a charge of polygamy except the alleged plural wife of the accused or one of his blood relations. It was represented, (in behalf of the bill, that it would put a atop to malicious prosecutions growing out of political or sectarian controversies. As a matter of fact, the whole effect of the bill would be to give the polygamist exemption from the nation's laws and usages respecting marriage. So Jong as he kept on good terms with his wives and his relatives he would be free to practice polygamy without restraint. The enactment of such a law inevitably must have brought before the country sooner or later a most distasteful issue.