THE MORMONS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2925, 15 March 1886, Page 3

THE MORMONS.

The Mormons are likely, says an exchange, soon to be removed off the face of the earth, at any rate so far as the United States are concerned. The Senate of the United States has passed a Mormon Suppression Bill hy the decisive majority of 38 to 7 votes. The Bill places the entire property of the Mormon Church in the hands of trustees, who are to nominated by Ihe President of the United States; it forbids the practice of polygamy, and it takes away the female population of Utah their right to vote. It was on this last clause ot the Bill that the minority stood out. The Bill must come next before the House of Representatives, and if it is there approved, as it probably will be, and if it escapes the Presidential veto, ns it certainly will, it will then become law. The next step will he to put the new law in force. 'Phis is by no means the first occasion on which the Legislature of the United States has made an attack upon the Mormons. Bills have been again and again passed pronouncing against their peculiar practices. Various attempts have been made to bring the saints under the control of the civil power, but with incomplete result as yet. The saints have stood out doggedly, and have defied interference, at one time with passive persistence aud another with force of arms. It remains to be seen whether Senator Edmonds will have any better success than his predecessors have had in the long anti-Mormon campaign.