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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1873)
T. S. ttf&XM Ptwr for rrjf:i. FRJOAY, FKBBPARY 2s. 1878, Stonnoas Cl'it-.-d. The proposition to send a Com- j mission to Utah to investigate the ! Mormon question lias wonderfully : Hated the Faints and correspond- j ingly depressed the Gentiles, The priesthood are inspired with a new j confidence in their ability to yet! circumvent the Government and ! maintain Mormon power. At least it will give them time to gather up their energies and prepare the way j for stronger and more effectual re- sistance. It is already conjectured j that no more legislation, as asked j by the President relative to the jurisdiction of Federal and Terri-. torial authorities, will be granted by the present Congress. Laws should be enacted pointing out j c.early the jurisdiction of courts j appointed by Federal authority, defining also the extent of Legisla tive authority in 7'erritories; for it is well known that the Leg islature of Utah has superseded its authority by creating juris dictions of its own. Then, too, iti selecting grand and petit jurors, the interests of Mormondom, as against acts of Congress obnoxious to them, have guided in their se lection. They have thus ignored and treated with contempt and put at defiance the Federal authority, and legislation was necessary in order to bring these things to a definite issue. The government policy towards the Mormons has len strangely weak, inconsistent a-id vacillating -311 along. In ef. feet, they have been more highly favored than any other class of criminals against Federal authority. They have committed all sorts of crimes, from treason to murder, and while these offenses have been pun ished promptly in other places, here they have gone unpunished. This is not because the people do not wish the laws against polygamy enforced in Utah the moral sense of the nation condemns the leteher ons iniquity, and desires its suppres sion ; but there have always beeu just enough men in Congress to de feat any effort in that direction. They begin to cry out, "Religions persecution !" and so tender are we as a people in this direction, that a plea from that quarter seems to disarm us. "Religious persecu tion ! why, our fathers fled from it ;" and this thought subsides us. We forget that that religion whieh inculcates sentiments and enforces rites which are condemned by the enlightened moral sense of Chris tendom, is paganism, and an enemy to civilized government The In dian upon the reservation must sub mit his grievances to the law estab lished tor his government, and not take judgment into his own hands, and, as his religion would dictate, render Wood for blood. If tlie Hindoo were here, or the cannibal, their barberous rites of murder would not be tolerated by the Gov ernment for a moment The cry of religious persecution would not stay the hand of prevention. Now what is polygamy but a barbarous inst' tution, opposed in its nature, and in its inhumanities, to all ideas of enlightened civilization? It is a relic of the dark ages, opposed to chastity, k the great Babylon of American civilization. Like the Arabof Asia, to rob and murder is i n violation of its creed, if per formed upon an enemy ; for its hand is against every man. Polyg amy should be suppressed. The Government owes it to the people to suppress it. Tf the laws aganst bigamy are enforced in other places, so should they be in Utah. Tf the Government compe's men to obey the laws in other Territories, so should men be compelled to obey the laws in Utah. If legislation is necessary to crush out the barbar ous institution, Congress should have backbone to make it, and the Executive courage to enforce it. Honolulu dates to January 25th, report King Lnnallis as having pro. posed several important amend ments to the constitution. The first is to separate the Legislature into two branches NoWes and Repre sentatives. He proposed free suf frage, and asks that the Attorney General shall no longer be a mem ber of the Cabinet. The Commer cial Advertiser suggests that the King 6honld visit the United States in person, for the purpose of nego tiating a treaty of reciprocity with our Government. Official corres pondence is published showing that our Secretary of the Navy ordered the fagship California to Honolulu to convey the late King to the United States. The political cauldron at Quebec, Canada, has been allowed to get too hot At the nomination of a member for Quebec, on the 24th inst., for the Provincial House of Assembly, it bubbled out into a fierce riot between the Conserva tives and the adherent of the can didate of the National party. Pis tols, knives and clnbs were freely used. About 3,000 persons took a hand in it. The riot lasted an hour and a half, resulting in the killing of two and wounding of many. It was thought many of the latter would die. The National party were whipped. It is said that prominent firms in Chicago and New York hold more than a million dollars of the paper of the Zion's Co-operative Institu tion, and influenced by that interest have become lobbyists in behalf of the polygamous church. Over $400,000 of the tithing fund of the Church, too, is reported on reliable authority to have been remitted to Mormon agents at Washington during the late agitation. Bogy, the newly-elected United States Senator from Missouri, was one of the dignitaries of the Board of Aldermen, of St. Louis, at the tinft of his election. He could not very well fill both positions, and so, after mature deliberation, doubt less, ventured to resign the position of Alderman. At a preachers' meeting in New York, not long since, one of them expressed great concern because hell was not heard about as much as iu former times. We think he could hear enough about it out this way. It is used with many where morals and brains fail to supply better language. A memorial is being signed ask ing the Government to turn the waters of the Colorado river into the Colorado Desert and make it an inland sea. It remains to be seen whether the Government will so s(ea)ee it Tlse MMte Tvinp -'rani'P Alllnee. The Temperance Aliiance, Whieh met a! Salem last week, to say the best or it. acted mi a very foolish and intemperate manner. It seems to have accomplished nothing more effect unllv than the sacrifice of its own respectability. Though it, pos- j sessed a large body, it lacked the more important essential of a well organized, harmoniously developed mind. In other words, the tests f qualification of admission to tlie ' Alliance, were apparently not clear-1 ly defined, if defined at all, and the objects of the Alliance were not j clearly pointed out and understood. The result was confusion, wrang- ling and shameful discord when the Committee on Credentials came to make its report. The Alliance would have probably organized without lnharmoiiy, however, had not a delegation ot 'Woman Suffra gists, headed by Mrs. Duniway whose connection with the Alliance of last year was vividly remember edpresented themselves for ad- j mission. They were regarded asj coming to the Alliance more for the purpose of rendering it subservient to the promotion of the .Suffrage cause, than for the gwd of temper ance : and those who had become dissrusted with the efforts ot Mrs Duniway and her allies in the Alliance ot last year in this direc tion, were determined the Woman Suffrage delegation should not be; admitted. The fault of the Alliance was in not having the test of mem bership qualification determined lietbrehand, and presented in the call tor the Alliance. This would have prevented, possibly, the scene that now ensued ; but this was not done, and so when the Committee nn YoiliMit ink VPDOltPU OI) 1 IHll'S- ; ... .wvw.. . , day afternoon, they reported against admitting the Wornan Suffrage delegation. If the scene that then transpired is correctly reported by the tfalem and Portland ,. papers, it was in a high degree both lud icrous and shameful. Mrs. Duniway and Judge Thornton were the most con spicuous actors in the row of words and jestures and grimmaces that then transpired, Mrs, Duniway with along pencd, ,and a flexible mouth doing much more than her share, so much so that the Sear-"eant-at-Arms was instructed to put her out; but happily that al ternative was not resorted to Con fusion and disorder reigned in the session tor some time, but the report of the committee was adopted, and the Suffragists excluded. The next j day, Friday, Mrs. Duniway was admitted into the Alliance as a delegate at large, by resolution. This was followed by the formal withdrawal of a large number of delegates, who repaired to the Cap ital Lodge Hall in that city and or ganized themselves into a State Temperance Union. We hardly deem it worth while to follow these two bodies through their proceed ings any farther. No doubt they were good enough, but they were not the result of the harmonious action and cooperation, and single- j ness of purpose, which should char-1 acterize the workings of the tern- ' perauce element. It is reported that two of Wis-1 cousin's ex-Congressmen are in the ! wood, chopping logs at $30 per: month. Doubtless they do more good there than they ever did in j Congress. At any rate, nobody j will complain it they "grind their own axes," now. I Letters from Madrid to the 24th, state that an A 1 Consist rising is an ticipated. There vns great anxiety in conscqneuce, I ton Carlos at last accounts was at Vera, in Navarre. Me issued a proclamation on the 17th inst , calling on the national troops to come to theii k;ng. In Madrid, on the 23d inst., ex citement was increasing among the Insurrectionist Red Republicans were urging extreme measures. The Carlists were very active. Minister Sickles gave a reception last Saturday evening in Madrid, which was attended by Castelor and leading diplomats and men of letters in the city. Several repre sentatives of the Spanish nobility were present. In commenting on the Pomeroy Senatorial case, the London Tek graph says, "so long as America can boast ot a free press and find Yorks iu each State, we shall not despair ot American institutions." Families were leaving Madrid, Spain, on the 20th, in anticipation of disturbances in the city. A statue of Washington has been placed in the facade of the Hall in Barcelona, Spain. The people generally, of Havana favor the Republic ot Spain. KAKTKKM NKWN. The Senate has directed the Sec retary of the Treasury to report upon the expediency of erecting a lighthouse at the mouth of the Umpqua river in this State. At various points in New Eng land on last Monday the thermom eter ranged from 20 to 30 degrees below zero. Two murders were reported at New York last Monday. The first occurred at Bumside, Conn. An old man, Ira Bliss, aged 72, station agent, was murdered while on his way home by two youths, aged 18 and 19 years respectively. They lieat him to death and robliod him of $24 and a watch. The other was a wealthy resident of Bethle hem, Penn., named Monroe Snyder. A villain had followed him on the train from New York and when he left the train at Bethlehem follow ed him and killed him with a sand hag, throwing the body into Mono cay creek. The assassin had not lieen apprehended. Two brothers, Tom and Henry Wagner, were burned to death on the 20th, by falling into a sugar vat in Jersey City. A s)ecial from Washington on the 21st inst, says President (.rant has sent a confidential document to the Senate, showing the necessity for ratifying the treaty extending stipulations of the treaty with Mex ico, and its reference to tho Joint Claim Commissioners. A Kentucky man has been mar ried in the same house, and by tho same minister, to four sisters. One hundred square miles of land have been bought in Iowa by George Grant, a London merchant, for a colony of emigrants. Theodore Brown was convicted at Indianapolis, Ind., for the mur der of his wife in December last, and sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty years. The Indiana Senate on the 20th inst, passed the temperance bill, by a vote of 30 to 19. It previously passed the House, and now awaits the Governor's signature. It is sim ilar to the Ohio law. At Montgomery, Ala , Speaker Parsons and Representative Wil liams, both colored Republicans, have been arrested oh a charge ol conspiracy to prevent the election of a United States Senator on the sec ond Tuesday after the organization of the Legislature. They gave bail. Mrs. K. O. G Willard, an advo cate of Woman's Rights, died at her residence in Chicago on Satur day last of heart disease. It is reported that on Saturday last four thousand dollars worth of bonds and coupons were stolen from the house of Vice President Colfax in Washington. Butler was to defend Ames before the House. Oakes Ames is preparing a state ment giving what is declared his whole connection with the Credit Mobilier job. At Savanah, Ga., on the 21st inst., a fire destroyed six buildings and two stables. Falling Walls killed one fireman and wounded another. The Dent homestead, owned by President Grant, six miles from St. Louis, was burned on the 21st The entire business portion ot St. Petersburg, Pa , was consumed on the night of the 21st. Loss, about $100,000. Explosion of a kerosene lamp caused the fire. Washington's birthday was gen erally observed in New York City, business being suspended. Tlie United Order of American Mechan ics paraded the streets, some 5,000 being in the procession. Tlie day was observed also in Boston and Philadelphia. S'ome 4,000 people witnessed the hanging of Robert Champion, (col ored) for the murder of his wife, at Fayette, Mo., on the 21st. A terrible double murder and suicide was committed near Wan seca, Minn., on the 17th inst. A man named Ruff, having supplant ed one Buser in the affections of his wife, and having lived with her for some time, was, with the woman indicted for adultery. On the 17th, the two decided upon a bloody escape from the law, and Ruff cut the throat of the woman, hung the child and then killed himself. All were found dead bathed iu blood. It is rejiorted that subscriptions public and private in ''eniisylvania towards the Centennial Commission, will amount to $4,000,000. The River and Harbor Appro priation bill iu Congress, among other items appropriates $20,000 for Lower Willamette, and $8,000 tor Upper Willamette. Washington's birthday was oil served in Washington- The President has called an extra session of the Senate for .March 4th, At Bethlehem, Pa., on the night of the 21st, Monroe Snyder was murdered and his body thrown into the rivet His money, the object. On the 28d inst. it was thought that not even a majority of the members of the House of Repre seutatives would vote tor the ex pulsion of Ames, much less a two thirds vote. Some members were in favor ot a general resolution ot censure applying to all members who had been interested in the Mo bilier. It is thought no further serious effort is contemplated for this ses sion of Congress in behalf of the postal telegraph scheme, all the efforts having collapsed. Exteusive preparations are mak ing for inauguration, ceremoniesn