The propriety of Congress passing an enabling act authorizing the Territorial legislature of Utah to legitimize all children born prior to a time fixed in the act might be justified by its humanity to these innocent children.
Grant proposed that Congress might justify legitimizing children born to plural wives out of humanitarian concerns.
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