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Show THE UTAH COMMISSION-WHAT THE PRESS SAYS ABOUT IT. (Chicago Tribune.) The Utah Commission is a good average working body, though it is not suspected of transcendant [transcendent] ability. It is deemed extremely doubtful whether Mr. Ramsey will accept. After being Senator and Secretary of War he may not care to be one-fifth of an election board in Utah. Mr. Paddock, it is known, is extremely anxious for an office of some kind, and he will be chairman, if Ramsey declines. Godfrey has been Assistant United States District Attorney at Des Moines, Iowa, and is said to be a third-term stalwart. ?? Carleton, of Indiana, is a Democrat, and was formerly Senator Voorhees' law-partner. Senator Harrison is deeply aggrieved by the selection of a Democrat, from so close a State as Indiana, when he had put a good Republican in nomination for the place, and had been partly promised the appointment. Indiana has been badly treated by the Administration, partly because Senator Harrison was opposed to the third term and John C. New was not. The other member of the Commission is Pettigrew, of Arkansas, a Democrat who has been Journal Clerk of the Senate. (St. Louis Republican.) The central figures in the Mormon Commission are ex-Senators Paddock of Nebraska and Ramsey of Minnesota. They are not remarkable men in any respect and the Commission affords no special promise in its composition. Messrs. G. F. Godfrey of Iowa, Ambrose B. Carleton of Indiana and Jas. R. Pettigrew of Arkansas are not much known to fame. Mr. Pettigrew is editor of the Fayetteville Democrat and is well known in his State. |