Joseph Conway Hemingray

THE UTAH ELECTION BILL.

EFFORTS OF THE MORMONS TO DISFRANCHISE

ALL GENTILES AND OTHERS NOT OF

THEIR FAITH - A SALT LAKE DISPATCH

TO A DELEGATE IN CONGRESS.

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.

WASHINGTON, Feb 23. - The Mormon Legislature, in collusion with Gov. Emery, of Utah, have completed their efforts to defeat the passage by Congress of the Utah Election bill now before the House Committee on Territories. A Salt Lake dispatch received to-day by Judge Hemmingray [sic] Hemingray, a Gentile Delegate now in Washington, says: "The Gentiles, apostate Mormons, and miners are highly indignant at the approval by Gov. Emery of the so-called 'Secret Ballot Act' just passed by the polygamous Legislature. The bill virtually disfranchises nearly the entire Gentile population of Utah, and places the elections irrevocably in the hands of the Mormon priests. An indignation meeting has been called to meet at the Liberal Institute on Tuesday night. A copy of the bill, which is entirely different from the one shown by Mr. Cannon to the House Sub-committee on Territories, has been sent you." Gov. Emery has always been regarded in Utah as unfriendly to Gentile interests, but members of the House Committee on Territories, to whom the above dispatch has been shown, say that this subterfuge resorted to by the Mormons and the Governor will not defeat a favorable report on the Utah Election Bill which they are now considering. The only point on which they are not agreed is the clause in the bill disfranchising Mormon women.