Edmunds Act passed: plural marriage a felony, cohabitation a misdemeanor.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
April 20, 1882 ~ Thursday
20
we received a telegram this Morning from G Q Cannon
saying that a vote was taken on his case and there was
123 vote cast against him & 79 for him & 90 did not vote as
there is 292 members of the House of Representatives & 202
voted the delegate seat from Utah is declaired vacant I
think the time has come when the Nation is getting ripened
in iniquity and is getting prepared to be cut off I think Br
Cannon will now come home
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Cannon, George Quayle
11 Jan 1827 - 12 Apr 1901
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First Presidency counsels men to live with "only one wife under the same roof."
Sixth Constitutional Convention for Utah held; Congress rejects petition for statehood on February 23, 1883.