Show me inn of tho sapt 27 the annual repart of the commission has been by secretary ble the report davs the november ard 3rd 1883 appointed a can kaising biard of five cm th ce ot ahn wens gentiles and att 0 mo moneth is board made returns ot alie votes ast for delegate to congress on the ath it wai found that john 1 aaice mormon lud received vote R N votes and H 11 man cainie was given the certificate fot election with but one exception the r port states there was no charge of erard in hie conduct on duct if the election the has continued the report f 1 iwed in tto footsteps of the first butali which lecog need ilia fact bat congreso Con gresi in creating it desired it to use its best er levore t wipe out ard sh roly gainy anil as tar as all i olega nigua and with chis purro e in view in appointing registrants regi 0 election when oie iha non mormon clement and always appoint arg a majority of ilia judges of celecion ele cion two oat of three thoai alie clas in femc places however there were no Genii leg to fill the positions this courpet the report state liaa had the effect of decreasing the mormon voc touching the question of polygamy the report says polygamy ia not at the kiei bot time openly practiced in a few remote and conof he way but thenon M clearnt insists that plural marriana mar are solemnized clander dinely and practiced secretly in the larger centre and the territory ali s may cr may not be rue the commission Commis fion neither af faima nor denies it iu the absence of p eudore doubtless daiy members of alie mormon chuch never have and never intend to practice polygamy and perhaps miny of them per ee do not believe in the practice but from the standpoint of their faith and creed they accept it ai a revel aion from god their prophet seer and rev elator jos ph amith ratified and approved by great fres dent cirigliani liani and that whoever to do eo can have the right to comp y with this ordinance of the church all laws forbidding forbid the practice of polygamy the report continues i ha cormons mormons declare nil n il there a e brounda f rabe belief it ia that p is still taught taug ht by ilio as a saving aud that who practice it are assured ft a lumber exaltation al in who content themselves one wife extracts are from mormon pap rs ing that they s ill openly ad polygamy that ilia and preaching of polygamy have not by some ia report says by tha there have been in the of attali ans fir polygamy adultery and c d only to for bi caroy if plural marriages are now celebrated SH a the rap art it is done in the secret ali of temples if polygamy is practiced it is aith he with chii lithe burgar guards wa house breaking and the his larcenies larce nies those who are convicted of polygamy regard and are re gardel by their frenis ai and think it nr disgrace to be sent to the penitentiary the courts are commended commend id for their vigilance and also for the mercy n etli their mandates are tempered the in vic of the present condition of alie territory as re pardi polygamy does not think utah should to admitted as a state it be trie commission aay it woud not be long before the Gei itile element aielli its al vancel civilization its trade and traelic would bal driven from the territory Terri tiry and the mormon be mide supreme the males a number of recommendations among thieun that the of all polygamous and sexual of lences without reg rd tollie place committed within the territory be confer rM on the courts that the term of it f run lawful co habitat on be extended to at least too leira for the airet yeara for te emond that it be mide a penal for any n broan to en tor into the nage relation vieb any man knowing him to have a wife living coupled hero ever with the provision that sn caes w here the polygamous wife is called as a witnel s agnost her him baad her testimony coald not be ue 1 in any future against her and a like provision as to the husband that a person who refuses to take an cah that he or aha is not co hab tine ith more than one or wife in the marriage relation as alie caie may be shall be excluded from making location and the public lands that the laws with reference to the 0 the chinche Chi nehe and tie importation of contrail and criminals be eo amended ai to prevent the immigration of persons claiming that their religion justifies the crime of polygamy that the con be ameni led so s to further prohibit polygamy that a law be enacted creating a inard to of the gov anor the utah commission Com and the bweta ry of ho territory to salt like city into and coun d it adso ream mindi that lie in its discretion canse to he made an nealy a new instead of revisions siona of the lists that congress pass laws fur the gotch amit aad concoct of public schools in the territory ot utah that as awn as the result f the eleventh can ansis Terri re districted for purposes the Commissi in beli pies the limitation for polygamy aud bigamy should be and to hard labor should be added that their confinement may not be preot in idleness and glorification of their supposed martyrdom the has no doubt that the punishment of the woman for eute rius into alie polygamous relation would do much to ie sen her aral for the peculiar and thus tend to remote ne of ils bulwarks bulwa in ipg ml to tho of mir nn the report rays while we prohibit the em migration of the non p peace loimoc bodle chinaman China mn from ilia cumre while we f abid lie camling oil our of contract caboor because they cheapen the wadea of americ n born citizens cili zens and haupers paupers they a burden there is far reason tor ilof bior our doirs as a eatn and forbidding citizenship to the who arc brought hera to swell the ranks of ao body w teaches them in advance to hate our guiT ament de nominates is executive law finals judges and as into every mind lie constant bog eliat their pretended revelations ar more binding than the highest and best lawe of the and and that re ci lance to f uch law s is a virtue and the rendering of to god chort of thase teachings are we leave to those who can aubier in the commission bays congress should ak no baika aej or even w aver ng step in abo enforcement of the laws polygamy |