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Title: Conditions in Utah
Speech of Hon. Thomas Kearns of Utah, in the Senate of the United States

Author: Thomas Kearns

Release Date: January 10, 2005 [EBook #14661]

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CONDITIONS IN UTAH.

SPEECH
OF
HON. THOMAS KEARNS,
OF UTAH,

IN THE
SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,

Tuesday, February 28, 1905.

WASHINGTON.
1905.

SPEECH OF HON. THOMAS KEARNS.

* * * * *

POLYGAMOUS MARRIAGES AND PLURAL COHABITATION.

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair lays before the Senate the
resolution submitted by the Senator from Idaho [Mr. DUBOIS],
which will be read.

The Secretary read the resolution submitted yesterday by Mr.
DUBOIS, as follows:

_Resolved_, That the Committee on the Judiciary be, and it is
hereby, authorized and instructed to prepare and report to the
Senate within thirty days after the beginning of the next
session of Congress a joint resolution of the two Houses of
Congress proposing to the several States amendments to the
Constitution of the United States which shall provide, in
substance, for the prohibition and punishment of polygamous
marriages and plural cohabitation contracted or practiced
within the United States and in every place subject to the
jurisdiction of the United States; and which shall, in
substance, also require all persons taking office under the
Constitution or laws of the United States, or of any State, to
take and subscribe an oath that he or she is not, and will not
be, a member or adherent of any organization whatever the laws,
rules, or nature of which organization require him or her to
disregard his or her duty to support and maintain the
Constitution and laws of the United States and of the several
States.

Mr. KEARNS. Mr. President, I will not permit this occasion to pass
without saying, with