Show UTAH commissioners REP OUT sait lucu y novla 1883 1 henry U teller Secie lary of the inlet lor canington Wan ington J C sir I 1 he election foi delegate to having apen held n utah on uie ath ember under the luper vision ot this we deem it proper to to our department the discharge of our fiust bince our list dated august we appointed a registration legi offices for each voting precinct of countie coun tip and cst ib libed some additional polling ditl a to proper facility foi all legal otari ot in 01 lei to contone the local law as far as pos bilile to the of the act of congress we were obliged to gae ilal s and STu deST of election e next appointed judges of election abreo for each poll ing place about in rhe local law re quites thai judges be selected fiona both political parties if tible accordingly we selected heinan general from both parties but in some in we obliged to appoint allot them bioni the liberal Libe ial part or atom the people s pait because wera no eligible and qualified persona so fir as we were in in auch precinct belonging to the other baity join missions were sens to each of the copies ot which together with the iule and herewith enclosed in cordei to such at welcomed useful to the government we dadie sad to the regis tiari and from their re sponges we le ain that total number of aegis feied is of wl om 1377 iro males and aie female arom it appeals that aboin maja and oman aie ex eluded ahon by reason of polygamy of the counties of tin aie quite lare in abea aiea ome ot ov i a bundled i ab nb long spars cl and difficult of acce s by mail or otherwise this has delay and antia in orple cdon and tha the an i inalou condition of this country and it people with the inherent dini cult of rida listing the local laws to the acts of congress ire auch that the imposed upon us cire and era aeration tion b st on the one hand we po beyond the limits of the law or on the hand ill choit of a nd of our duties in the of or jai ja i dacial decisions to did us m the inter piet of the law conr duties we obliged to consider it foi and in dome so ored to confer to the well known canons for of statutes isaid or the evident iti of in chii act con with other acts of connie s w pan motena Po samist ind mitty and pe ferons rons cohabiting with gioie one woman aceb 3 to aiom outing and holdine offlie immediately apon our selves 0 o the dichiro of 0 ir butic ive acio obliged to consider th and client ot this exclusion did congress inna thit those should he excluded who at the deiy or ice 1101 were then v in with more thin th in one woman it so a construction len dei a perfect nullity nul liti ohp means ot casion are patent to the dullest we therefore concluded th it neither alip the spirit ot the statute required such a narrow and in auf and e give the exclusion a wider scope and application 0 found chit the local a boim of oath to be taken bj to be as we adopted this odeli addens A alduse in re raid to polygamy and biagini bi aini and unlawful cohabitation which wo considered at proper to do in order to make the local law conform as ajr as practicable 0 o the principles and 10 of s in chort we charged by the act ot congress with the dut of excluding from the poll and fraai eligibility to on a certain class of persons how this was to be done was not defined in the act jero we to exclude only aboe who had been convicted of imy in the courts tins construction would have been bended in this ten atory ve concluded that it was the intention ot congress to leave it largely to tle dis ci eption of the commission to determine the mens of di criminating be tween the legal and illegal ibis we endeavored to do in the ditl winch set forth the various qualifications ot a laffal voter those in repard to ase residence bation and picc doro from alio llio disqualifications qualifications dis impend bp ho act of dalf ittel the week before the noem bercio tion the commission Com made an fidei dp pointing fie of character and standing as a board ot cenvas seis of the of the elec t on lor delegate to the forty eighth congress a cop of bibich older is iff beilin on the ibah da of november No rember the wa board of can met at the rooms of this rois sion and canvassed the election ie turns from which it appeared atiat john T came had leap ived otes and philip 1 van zile had re 1 votes john T C aine luv ing a in onty of all th legal votes be was declared duly elected and abc certificate given accordingly s L having leaton to believe that it is by the executive hat this commission wil make as to an additional legislation that mav needed to cai ly out the pi inci ples of law under which he commission was organized we would state that in oui judgment A MArttIA Cr tv enacted by congress would bo a sull chent in the of poll gamy it 13 assorted and generally believed by in this ler antory eliat plural is prati eed ff here in secret e would that coneless Con eress enact a law al future man lages null and oid dunles thea aie contracted and euden ced n the manner provided in the act to simple that all marriages shall bi solemnized in certain designated pub lie places and witnessed lj such pei sons and an fn such public of aa the proof of carnag certain provided also that th person officiating an fn the nw ridge caie mout together with the patties anc witnesses shall mako then affidavits against poh gann and set foith th time ind place and other particular relating to the marange or alow marriages 0 o be so edmed in pi avate but with the like guarantees guiran tees of regis tra tion witnesses etc and in either cae providing of he act by an of alie persons concerned in making this bug we omit the detail winch can readily bo supplied by reference to alio acts ot most of the WOMA SUFFRAGE in our former leport we to thel idof this the liht of 1 his law was enacted by he territorial legislature tome years ago ot course it 13 to di annul this lavy without expressing any opinion on the question ot woman suffrage in general we aie satisfied owing to the state of affairs in utah this law is an obstruction t alie speed solution of the vexed question LEGAL WITE in the prosecution of polygamy cases ceic it is difficult to the first or legal marriage we would suggest ai a remedy the first or fag tl wife be bv act ot con gress a competent atness it ness in such pros cautions cut ions UTAH LE under the act ot congress by tuc of choso whoso tins commis sion was appointed the people of utah appear to be put uon uncil i legislative assemble elected under the provision of ahe act and pigs the requisite las concern nig registration and election ahe election for members of illative assembly shall be held next august and thit body will hoid its next session in janu ay iy 1885 ita to bo hoped ih it it will comprise a will be di po ed to bang this territory into with tha sentiments of the of othni of the countey THE ACT A SUCCESS wo been engaged in the dis our trust only a few month not long enough to lull test the operation ot the law us to ultimate it results chit fo far has been a de aided success in excluding irom ohp exco ie ot suffrage and v are of thu opinion blut the steady and continued cement ot the law wll pi ico polygamy poly jamy in a condition of gradual extinction and that the bonu nation that is complained ot by non in utah and elsewhere will at no distant di ditl in fiust committed to us it was cot expected by the commission ani we supposed not anticipated by congress nor the executive dehait mant of the lint the je ned results at anfe n r in the brief space of a months but there la reison to believe thit the operation ot chiat thiat law and influences aro setting strongly str onely in the direction ot and that dominant domin int aution will be by young in the control of 1 discussion f is no doubt thit the enact i ment of the law of under winch this commission ans appointed liis agitated the public mind in this to a remarkable kable degree Uither tn there has been very little public discussion of questions and in general the people have not attended political meetings in large numbers in the preceding the no vember election for delegate to con gies abo people of all clas have manifested a lively interest in public affairs and have attended the political meetings in large numbers many of these tings ime been held by both in parts of rhe rein jorj and able add icse i have been de b speakers on both sides it is an aging feign that many of the liberal acel ings have been largely attended by morans and in man in they have composed the chief part of tho audiences it is proper to add bat so far as we lave these meetings have been by exceptional good older good humor on saturday day fore the election both held large mass meetings in sail lake cit and aed with each other in the dis play of national lags and music our attention has been called to ahe prop nety of OKI recommending congressional legislation of a radical ch fracter lint 0 ai e ast mczined to advise inch measure mea suie upon observation and experience the wi idoni and necessity of amli legislation shall be abe area of this is miles the population 1 about about being nan mor mons many ot buom are so called apostates from the mormon chuich the people are engaged in pursuit enoi to thu completion of alio union and central pacifier laili oads very few non stormon residents in the leantory lern tory arfi minea rince 1869 the business of become an important int fret and aiom that time the teofll output is tCO in silver lead and gold ah ro aie alo al o 01 coalson coal non copper and other minerals ahe mines give to a ganv person have ot means of attracting a larga dpn mormon kopul the territory many of abe aua of gait tiles ind doina badness m b inking and mercantile TAL the legislation of as we understand it is not menaced against the religion ot any portion of the people of which wp are acting is mie crime of pol ariy forsbe extirpation ot eliuh tins wi lie will aiom time to fmc to the uth as nay aid in suppressing to the of this uye and country We trust that his be without measures destructive to ibcal ael afif the whole people as rell as the y bilty with politic il ostracism at all events we to advice uch a conie until the act of congress under which wo are inting shall be more ully tested beside a proper i expect for he legislative branch of the government would im the wisdom of their at the ery rork conn pitted to us and long before the lime espre seu in the act of congress onby THE LAW if however the next deion of the legislative assembly elected under shall ail to respond to the ill of the nation congress should hesitation in using measures mei to tha peo this to obey the laws of the land J U B DATIS 1 park city hotel HUNTER DAVIS s t j t huttl 0 3 t 1 1 accommodations pilot cias in i i in mr I 1 1 r I 1 T j 1 I 1 1 l amt i a jol icae bulj farst cla aa IM park cr Y f t i rf T ir I 1 it 11 1 1 TERMS reasonable t Y 1 j i tl j I 1 b TELEPHONE colaw JV BUILDING t s J G 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