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STATESMAN.
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VOL. XV.
AUSTIN TEXAS THURSDAY DECEMBER 17 1885.
NO. 13
POLYGAMY. -
A TEST CASK DECIDED BE-
FORE THE UXITED STATES
SUPREME CO CJRT.
THE WHOLE SUBJECT IS CLEARLY
SIIOWM Uiy N ALL OF ITS
LEGAL ASPECTS.
Washington December 14. The supreme court
to-day affirmed the judgement of the supreme court
of Utah in the case of Anpus M. Cannon plaintiff
in error against the United States. Cannon was
indicted nnd'r the Edmonds law for unlawful co-
habitation with more than one woman. Defendant
objected to the givinc of any evidence on the ground
that the indictment did not allege that he was a
male person nor that the cohabitation was with
women as wives. The objection was overruled and
a verdict of guilty was returned and the defeudant
t sentenced to pay a fine of 100 and to be imprison-
ed for six months and to be further imprisoned
till the payment of the fine. Justice Miller dis-
sented from the opinion of the court.
The principal ajiestion was as to the proper con-
struction of section 8depending on the meaning of
the word cohabit as used in it and Judge Blatch-
fordin hia opinion says: "The court properly
charged the jury that the defendant was to be found
guilty if be lived in the same house with two wo-
men and ate at their respective tables one-third of
his time or thereabouts and held them out to the
! world by his language or conduct or both as his
wives and that it was not necessary it should be
shown that he and the two women or either of
tnem occupied the same bed or slept in ttie same
room or that he had sexual intercourse with
either of them.
It ie the practice of unlawful cohabitation with
more than one woman that is aimed at a cohabi-
tation clasped with polygamy and having its out-
ward semblance. It is not on the one hand mere
vicious unmarital intercourse with more than one
woman (general legislation as to lewd practices is
left to the territorial government) nor on the other
hund does the statute pry into the intimacies of the
marriage relation but it seeks not only to punish
bigamy and polygamy when dirct proof of the ex-
istence of those relations can be made but to pre-
vent a man from flaunting in the face of the world
.'' the ostentation and opportunities of a bigamous
honshold with all the outward appearance of the
continuance of the same relations which existed
lefore the act was passed and without reference to
what may occur ia the privacy of these relations.
; And again it is the spirit 6t the interpretation
' that a mau cohabits with more than one voins.n in
the sections 8 5 and 8 of the act when holding out
to the world two women as his wives by his lan-
guage or conduct' or both if he lives in the house
with them and eats at the table of each a portion
' of the time although he does not occupy the same
bed or sleep in the same room with either of them
or actually have sexual intercourse with either of
them. lie holds two women out to the world as
f his wives by his conduct w hen he maintains the
two wives and children of each all in the same
house with himself aid regularly eats at the table
of each as the head of the two families.
. The opinion give Webster"s definition of the
"cohabit" and says that section 3 of the act was
' . intended to reach the exhibition of all the indecia of
marriage a household and a family twice repeated.
The objections to the indictment is because it
does not lalege that the defendant was a male
person nor that he cohabited with the two wo-
men as wives or as persons neld out as wives is
..: overruled under the criminal proceedure act of
which the defendant having pleaded and
not demurred and being held t; have understood
distinctly the charge was against a male person
and wa3 cohabiting with the woman as wives and
not having been prejudiced by the failure to so
allege. m
The opinion concludes with the statement 'that a
strong appeal was made in the argument not to
uphold the rulings of the trial court because that
- - would require a polygamous hnsband not only to
cease living with his plural wives but also to
abandon the women themselves and the supreme
court of the United States was asked to indicate
. what the conduct of the husband toward them must
be in order to conform to the requirements of the
law. The court says that no court can eav in advance
what particular state of things will be lawful fur
ther than that a man must not' cohabit with more
tuanyme woman in the ee r-he word cohabit
as aermed. While mnr i n .--tlmtj
ed to his resolution because it was propos-ed to re-
fr tho Viilla t" fliiTiriirtriato nimmittppa u'hpn an- l
pointed. Further discussion was cut short by a
motion to adjourn which at 12:25 o'clock was car-
ried. AVASIIIXGTOX NOTES.
MIIS. GUAM.
Washington December 15. Monday next un-
der a call of states Gen. Neill of New" York will
introduce a bill placing the name of Mrs. Julia
Dent Grant widow of U. S. Grant on the pension
roll and to pay her a pension of j(XX) per an-
num from and after the 23d of July.
NATIONAL GUARD.
NOMINATIONS.
The president sent the following nominations to
the senate to-day :
To be postmasters:
Isaac M. Kelly -Ravenna Ohio.
Borden Bingham Mishamak Colorado.
John Ward. Modesto Colorado.
John C. Bell Astoria Oregon.
Horatio N. Cronkeyte Clinton Wisconsin.
John D. Stevens Cartnage Illinois.
Ambrose M. Miller Lincoln Illinois.
Henry II. Porter Dowagiac Michigan.
REPORTED AMENDMENT.
The joint resolution introduced by Senator
Jackson to-day proposes an amendment to the
constitution of the L nited States providing that the
president and vice-president shall hereafter le
elected for the term of six years and that they
shall be ineligible to re-election and the vice-president
shall be "ineligible to the olHce of president
after be shall have filled the same in case there is a
vacancy therein.
THE LATEST FRAUD.
FOURTH AXXUAL C OXVEXTIOX OF
THE ASSOCIATION.
Washington. December 15. The fourth annual
convention of the National Guard association of
the United States met thi6 morning. Eighteen
states were represented at the meeting. President
Wingate of New York called the meeting to or-
der and in the opening address he said the objects
of the association had been thwarted in the past bv
objections that it was the intention to deprive the
states of their authority over the militia and then
on the other hand that it was the desire to take
money out of the treasury of the geueral govern-
ment for purely state organizations without per
mitting proper supervision by the war department
but the greatest obstacle thev had to encounter was
apathy among the people the militia and in con-
gressj in regard to the entire question which the
association had at heart though now that the situ
ation was more favorable and hills before congress
would deserve favorable considerations.
Gen." Taylor of Colorado was elected recording
secretary in place of Gen. Alexander of Iowa
who was unaole to attend. Col. Charles E. Bargee
of New York was elected corresponding secretary.
MINE ACCIDENT.
wing persons are now booked for execution here:
Sadie Hays and Chas. Wilson both netrroes for
January 15: Daniel Jewell January 2if and John
O llara on February 5. All these cases will prob-
ably go to the supreme court.
A NEW JERSEY FIRM: MANUFAC-
TURING ARTIFICIAL EGGS.
Newark N. J.. Deceml)er 15. A number of
dealers in eggs and produce in Patterson was
called on Saturday last by a man named Garrett
Onderdonk of Kockland county New York. He
sold each a load of fresh country eggs at remark-
ably low figures. When he called for his money
he was arrested under an act prohibiting the sale
of adulterated food plead guilty and was fined
and costs. This he naid promoilv and left the city.
without attempting to collect for the eggs. He ad
mitted to several dealers the egsrs were artificial.
and manufactured by a firm In Newark whose
names he declined to disclose The shells were
made of a transparent composition and the shane
was perfectly modeled. A portion of the surround-
ing yolk was made of albumen and the yolk itself
of ground carrot and saffron.
DAKOTA.
ted the
Ti
FIRST SESSION" OF THE LEGIST URE
OF THE STATE.
Huron Dak. December 15. The first legisla
ture of the state of Dakota a-iaeuD.ea at iiiuo..
yesterday morning. Under the constitution it was
made tne duty ot juugn d. uauipoeJi ciiairman of
the state executive committee to call the house to
order and swear in members. Ninety out of nine-
nine members of tlie house were present. Mr.
urner ol Mars nail county was nominated for
temporary speaker and unanimously elected. A
joint resolution was a& p:ed fix In four o'clock as
the hour for receiving m.j senaLe and state oHicerb
and for administering the oath of otlice to the lat
ter. At that hour these ofiicers and the senate
took seats in the house when Judge Campbell
gave them the oath. The joint session was then
terminated and the senate returned. A joint reso-
lution was adopted that they meet in joint session
Tuesday noon to select senators. The house ad-
journed at 12:40. The senate met in their hall and
took the oath of office from Judge Campbell.
PLUCKY AXTI-UOYCOTTELtS.
New York December 14. The Printers' Pro-
gressive Union reported to the Central Labor
Union yesterday tnat they had sent three of its
boycotting Fifth avenue Uotel circulars to John
Sherman of Ohio Secretary of War iiiidicott and
Senator Warner Miller and that these citizens per-
sist in putting up at the hotel. Committees tnen
sent cards to each of the three at the hoUl. but
the cards were returned with word that the citizens
did not know the gentlemen signing the cards.
A GAS EXPLOSION INJURES MAXY
PERSOXS.
Wilkesbarke Pa. December 14. A frightfull
explosion of gas occurred at the Mill Creek mines
this morning. About one hundred men were at
I work in the mine when the explosion occurred.
The Mill Creek raiue was operate . by the Delaware
and Hudson coal company. The news spread rap-
idly and the whole population semed to have gath-
ered about the colliery. The explosion occurred in
No 2 lift located at the extreme end of the open-
ing of the slope 4000 feet from the mouth and
therefore its ventilation was difficult. It is prob-
able the gas had ignited in a portion of the mine
where a miner named Coffy was at work. An ex-
ploring paity of some twenty miners entered the
slope as soon as the news reached the surface. It
was soon discovered that many had been burned
and they at once began to remove them. Among
those seriously injured are Ge. Martin miner ;
John Cleasley laborer: Nicholas Gray driver and
Peter Stone laborer. Since writing tiie a' ove Mar-
in has died. Many others were: injured more or
less from flyin piecos of coal and wood.
Joseph Cleasy was badly burned his skull is
fractured and he cannot live. Pete Coffy seriously
burned on tiie face and arms internally injured
was brought to the top in a nude condition his
clothing having been burned from the body. Re-
recovery is considered doubtful.
Nicholas Gray driver boy had his right eye torn
from the socket.
FIRE AT YVILMIXGTOX.
Wm.mivcton. Llei. December 15. A tire bn'ce
out at S o'clock this morning in the taiee-aiury
brick building of Arlington cotton mills and speed-
ily spread destroying the building and valuable
machinery. The "proprietors estimate the loss at
from 575000 to 100000: insured.
ALL QUIET.
Pitsburo Dece uber 14. Nodistu b ace at Sal-
isbury this afternfton as reported. Brown & Co.'s
mines have been in operation two weeks ana as
numerous st.ikers were seen in the ne'ghborhood
to-day trouble is foarM and the sherirt wa3 tele-
graphed to come up. He found everything quiet
and returned to the city at once. ;
VETERAN NEWSPAPER MAN DEAD
New York December 14. Patrick O'Rourke
who has been connected with the Tribune for forty
years died of heart disease yesterday morning
aged 1 1 years. He became associated with Horace
Greeley on the Log Cabin in 1840 and assisted in is-
suing the first number of the Tribune in 1841.
BOOKED TO SWING. '
St. Louis December 15. John CTHara who was
convicted a day or two ago for the murder of Mrs.
Mary McCooler oa October 12 1884 ' by breaking
her skull with a bejr glass was sentenced to-day
to be hanged on the stn f Fphrnarv. The follow-
COAL MINE COXVEXTIOX.
Pittsburg December 15. The national conven-
tion of coal ojirritfors and miners called tor the
purpose of arbitrating difficulties between employ-
ers and employes and to establish a national scale
of wagestogether with the cost of miners snpplies
which shall govern operators and men in every
mine in the L nited States opened here this morn-
ing. Fifty delegates were present from Ohio
Pennsylvania Indiana. Illinois Missouri Tenue-
see Virginia and West Virginia. Addresses were
made by Coionel llend and David Parsons both
advocating arbitration. Colonel Rend recom-
mended a general advance of 25 per cent in wages
of mining and added that operators could then get
better prices for coal.
GONE FOR ROBERTS.
New York December 15. At the request of
Governor Hill the United States supreme cwurt ex-
pedited the hearing of the case of William S. Rob-
erts president of the defunct bank of Augusta
Ga. The state of New York demanded his extra-
dition on a charge of stealing a deposit of $145000
and depositing it to his own account in the Mer-
cantile National bank of this city. Yesterday a
telegram was received from Washington announc-
ing that the supreme court had removed the last
obstacle to the extradition of Roberts. Detective
lieilly set out for Augusta last evening for Rob-
erts. EDWARDS TIIE BURGLAR.
Chicago December 15. George Edwards alias
Elliot arrested last Thursday has been induced to
confess that he was one of the burglars who went
through pawn broker Mark's vauit last week and
got away with X000 worth of jewelry. The
plunder "had been shipped to New York where it
was received yesterday. It is believed that the en-
tire amount stated will be recovered. The police
have strong hopes of catching Elliot's partner in
the robbery.
MANDAMUS.
Columbus O. December 15. The supreme coart
this morning on application of the attorney-general
granted a peremptory writ of mandamus to
compel Clerk Daiton. of Hamilton county to make
return of election abstract. A apecial messenger
was appointed by the court to serve the writ this
evening.
ENGLAND.
BRITISH CONSOLS.
London. December 14. Consols closed P!) 7-16
tor money; .. for account.
ENGLISH CONSOLS.
London December 15. Consols closed 9G 5 16
for money; 99 9-lti for account.
PARLIAMENT FOR IRELAND.
London December 15. Mr. Gladstone as privy
counsellor has written to the qneen on the subject
of a parliament for Ireland.
MEMORIAL SERVICES
London December 11. The queen and mem-
lers of the royal family attended memorial s.'i-
vicee at the royal residence at Fragmore to-dav. for
the late prince consort. The prince consort died
December 14 1861.
IIARD ON 8ERVIA.
London December 15. Prince Alexander in re-
plying to the powers says that the Servians must
evacnate iddin and that he is willing to disarm if
Servia will indemnify Bulgaria for losses sustained
by the war.
tue sacred white elephant.
Loxdok December 14. Advices from Mandalav
state mat the sacred whit; elephant is dead. The
custonmry ceremony of keeping the body lving in
state three days was prevented bv British officials
owing to sanitary reasons. The" funeral was at-
tended by an enormous crowd. The elephant oc-
cupied a magnificent palace of its own near Kijg
Thebaw's palace. A correspondent of the London
Standard recently visited the white elephant. Hp
I says the only white about him was in two small
dirty spots which were almost imperceptible.
REPORT DISCREDITED.
London December 14. The report in a dispatch
from Belgrade Saturday that a bloody engagement
had occurred at Veliki Isvor between the liulga-
rians and Servians in which the former were scat-
tered lacks confirmation and is generally discred
ited.
DEATH OF GENERAL TOOMBS.
Augusta Ga. December 15. General Toombs
had been unconscious for several days and sur-
rounded by his family and friends he" qaietiy and
painlessly passed away.
JOHN W.DANIEL.
Richmond Va. December 15. jiotii branches ol
tbv general imsUbuiUJ! iui-1 in aiuiv .i-sc.un to
day and nominated John W. Daniel ior United
States senat(5r. The joint session takes place to-
morrow. .
SERVIA.
RUMORS OP FIGilTINO.
Belgrade December 15. Rumors are Current
of hard fighting between Pierrot and Bela Palanka.
and of Bulgarian attacks on the Servian forces at
SViddin and the retiring of Gen. Lesbjanim.
EUSSO-MONTE NEGRIN PLOT.
Seklix December 15. A rumor is current that
the vocatic secretary of the supreme courr of Monte
Negro has informed an intimate friend that a
iiusso Monte Negrian plot existed to form a Servian
state to consist of tervia Bosnia Herzovinia and
.Monte Negro and that an assasin was hired for
4000) roubles to kill King Milan and that an accom-
plice divulged the piot. it is rumored that Vuko-
tek is now a volunteer in the Servian camp.
i'itAXCE.
MINING TROUBLES.
PirrsnuRfJ Pa. December ii. Trouble
ported at tne mines of Brown te Co. at Saltsbur
The sheriif vvas telegraphed for and left for
scene of disturbance immediately with a. pose.
CUBA.
is re-
tue
HAVANA SUGAR MARKET.
Havana December 15. Sugar fb :n ; at Carendas
20000 bags of centrifugal polarising !); degrees
sold at 7 4J-100 reals in gold per quintal.
SPAIN.
REPORTED MARRIAGE DENIED.
Madrid oeeemoer 15.- The quetn Regent has
pardoned the conspirators who were condemned to
deatn at CaFthagena. Don Carlos announces that
ihe reports referring to tas marriage ot his son .nd
the infanta Mercedes are premature and declares
tnat be will never seek to benefit his caiite by an
alliance which would be regarded as la itamount -lcmmuL.Lg
his rights or oy recognizing another's
.- -
Paris December 15. General DeCourcy com-
mander of the French forces in Tonqnin tele-
graphed tne war ollice to-day that General DeGriei
nas cleaned Aiarble mountains north of liairDu
ong. of the Black Flags and pirates capturing a
number of fortified caverns and a large quantity ol
aruib and. ammunition. One cavern was desperately
uetendeu. Fully one hundred pirates weie Kilied
before it was taken and numerous war junks sunk
between the rapidn and the Lamboo eanil. The
country has been pacified.
A PAPAL PROTEST.
Paris December 15. The pope has protested to
the Freiicn government against the action of M.
Gablet minister of public instruction for stopping
the stipends of thirty-nine priests for alleged in-
tervention in the recent elections for members of
tae chamber of deputies.
PERU.
THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.
Lima December 15. The provisional govern-
ment has appointed a new legation to Bolivia with
Dr. Belvalie as minister. Doctor Rossas and
Doctor Gaicia Calderon have been appointed niui-
isfprn to Frflnce and Spain respectively. The con
st. tutional party repieser.ted bv Senor Elias has
officially offered Gen. Caceres "the candidi.t ire of
the constitutionalists for the presidency. The pub-
lic use of passports hitherto required bv persona
leaving the country has been abolished. The mer-
chants of the city held a public meeting yesterday
and named a committee to consider the necessary
steps to revive commerce and re-establish Peruvian
credit.
NOTES.
An English correspondent expresses the
opinion that the e2ect of the American
air is to excite nervous sensibility. It is
he state? partly an effect of dryness and
partly electrical and is more marked in
New York than in any other place. The
ultimate effect would be to evolve a new
type of mind and possibly a new physic-
al type. After noticing an increasing de-
velopment of insanity among our
native born population the writer infers
that two prominent questions suggest
themselves viz.: "Are we becoming a na-
tion of madmen" or " Are we developing
a specialized race from those who can en-
dure the pressure and who by the sur-
vival of the fittest will form the future
American stock while the feeble intellect-
ual nature will become tramps and luna-
tics?'' The English sparrow has a fresh indict-
ment against him; that of wrntonly nip-
ping o' the blossoms from the trees in
Louisiana and Florida whre the growers
are complaining that a. short crop will
result from this destruction. '
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Yiiied. While conj
uaryl. lim
vara tue polygamous wife to be regulated by con
eiuerauons wnicn outside of section 3 are not
covered by the statute and which must be d-jalt
. with judicially when properly presented.
From the decision of the court Justices Miller
and Field dissented. : -
MwJf-V'0 Jimer in hi dissenting opinion says:
1 tfiink that the act of congress when prohibiting
cohabitation with more than one woman meant
unlawful habitual sexual intercourse. It is in my
opvnion a strained construction of a highly penal
statute without the accompaniement of actual sex-
ual connection. I know of no instance in which
the word 'cohabitation' has been used to describe a
criminal offense when it did not imply sexual in-
tercourse."
COXGltSSIOXATj.
SENATE.
Washington December 14. The chair laid be-
- fore the senate the joint resolution of the legisla-
ture of Connecticut urging congress to pass with-
out necessary delay the bill to provide for the pres-
idential count.
Mr. Piatt briefly called attention to the import-
ance of the subject covered by the joint resolution
saying that the people of his state requested him to
bring these matters to the attention of the senate.
Mr. Hoar was of the opinion that Mr. Piatt's
state was responsible for tne failure in the house of
the bill already three times passed in the senate to
meet the difficulty at least a distinguished repre-
sentative of that state had been chairman of the
house conference committee on the bill in the last
congress and the conference report was not made
to the house till so late in the session that owing to
the pressure of other business nothing was done by
the house. The senate Mr. Hoar said had done
everything possible in the premises and was not
responsible for the failure of the bill to become a
law.
The chair laid before the senate a memorial from
the state executive committee appointed by the
constitutional convention of Dakota praying for
the admission of southern Dakota as a state and
transmitting the draft of a constitution for the ap-
proval ot congress.
Mr. HaniHou said he had only waited the receipt
of hif memorial in order to introduce a bill pro-
fTi?ui""ri?r tn' admission of the territory named and
that be vtr211 introduce 6tich a bill at an early op-
portunity. .
Mr. Hoar frlJiJ1 "ie committee on privileges and
elections reported favorably a bill providing for
the performaur-e out108 f president in case of
the death resignation inability of both presi-
dent and vice president. Hesaidi it was substan-
tially the same bill that had been acred on last year
by the senUe and gave notice that heAvould call it
up to-morrow for consideration.
M r. Edmnnds expressed the hope that its consid-
eration would be delayed for a day in order that
he rai'jht have an opportunity to attach to it as an
amendment a bill already introduced by him reg-
ulating the count of the presidential vote.
Mr.lloar was willing that the bill should lie
over one day.
This was satisfactory to Mr. Edmunds. The bill
vas placed on the calendar.
' A resolution offered by Mr. Morgan was agreed
to requesting the president if not incompatible
with tue public interests to communicate to the
senate a report of the actual instrumental survey
of the line for a ship railway across the Isthmus of
Tehuantepec and of any canal or canals designed
to connect such ship railways with the Gulf of
Mexico.- ' ' "
Mr. Frye from the committee on rules reported
favorably joint resolution providing a code of
joint rules for the two houses which were placed
on the calendar. Mr. Frye gave notice that he
would call it np to-morrow. It is identical with
the code reported last session by Mr. Frye except
the proposed joint rule 13 relating to intoxicating
minors was struct: out.
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when the doors re-opened atljourned.
At noon the senate went into executive session
and at 2.55) the doors opened and a message was re-
ceived from the president transmitting the Keiley
correspondence recently called for by Mr. Vest's
resolution. It was ordered printed ana to lie on
the table. The senate adjourned at 2:25.
' ' ' HOfSK.
Mr. Morrison of 111. from the committee on
rules submitted the report of the committee on
he proposed revision or the rules and it was or-
dered printed and laid over until to-morrow. Per-
mission leing given to Mr. Randall to submit a
minority report
M r. Weaver of Iowa offered a resolution vro-
tdding for a call of states to-day for the introduc-
tion ot bills. Considerable antagonism was made
to this proposition. Mr. Hammond of Georgia
and McMillan.of Tennessee asserting that the in-
troduction of hills before the house determined the
"iurisdiction of the various committees would lead.
to ereat confusion.
Air. Sorinirer. of Illinois took the same view of
tne matter and pointed out various sections in the
new c de which would be violated if the resolution
wa ad noted.
Mr. Weaver saw no weight in the objection rais-
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