| 381 you Now if you Want to Live and Enjoy Good health you had better leave this Place before you Preach Wee Just Simple Give you this as afair Warning and also as anotice that the People of this Neighborhood Dont Want any Mormon Preaching and More than that Wee are not Going to have it if Mild Meanes Will not Do Wee Shall Resort to Ruffer Ones.
Elder Hyde in writing of this says: "They had 'Mormon preaching' that night, and I still 'live and enjoy good health.' The house was locked against me the next night."
January 31, 1882, Elder J. M. Harvey, of the High Priests' Quorum, died at his home in Magnolia, Iowa.
The Edmunds Bill passed the United States Senate, February 16, 1882, and on March 14 it passed the House of Representatives, and was signed by President C. A. Arthur, March 22, 1882. 1 This caused some
1 Be it enacted, etc., That section 5352 of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows, namely:
"Every person who has a husband or wife living who, in a Territory or other place over which the United States have exclusive jurisdiction, hereafter marries another, whether married or single, and any man who hereafter simultaneously, or on the same day, marries more than one woman, in a Territory or other place over which the United States have exclusive jurisdiction, to guilty of polygamy, and shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500 and by imprisonment for a term of not more than five years; but this section shall not extend to any person by reason of any former marriage whose husband or wife by such marriage shall have been absent for five successive years, and is not known to such person to be living, and is believed by such person to be dead, nor to any person by reason of any former marriage which shall have been dissolved by a valid decree of a competent court, nor to any person by reason of any former marriage which shall have been pronounced void by a valid decree of a competent court, on the ground of nullity of the marriage contract."
Sec. 2. That the foregoing provisions shall not affect the prosecution or punishment of any offense already committed against the section amended by the first section of this act.
Sec. 3. That if any male person, in a Territory or other place over which the United States have exclusive jurisdiction, hereafter cohabits with more than one woman, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than $300, or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.
See. 4. That counts for any or all of the offenses named in sections 1 and 3 of this act may be joined in the same information or indictment.
Sec. 5. That in any prosecution for bigamy, polygamy, or unlawful cohabitation under any statute of the United States, it shall be sufficient cause of challenge to any person drawn or summoned as a juryman or talesman [talisman], first, that he is or has been living in the practice of bigamy, polygamy, or unlawful cohabitation with more than one woman, or that he is or has been guilty of an offense punishable by either of the foregoing sections or by section 5352 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, or the act of July 1, 1862, entitled "An act to punish and prevent the practice of polygamy in the Territories of the United States and other places, and disapproving and annulling certain acts of the Legislative Assembly of the territory of Utah;" or, second, that he believes it right for a man
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