Show I THE BILL o Unless tho Associated Press dispatches 1 1 concerning the action of the Conference Committee arc mere guess work some of tho most vital clauses of tho Tucker bill have been stricken out and the Act i will provo n hitter disappointment to tho really loyal people of Utah who hoped a that the bill would have been ncI nc-I cepted by the committee precisely as it catnu from the House The elimination 1 of those portions giving tho appointments of Territorial offices to the President and a 1 Governor is likely to thwart the real design de-sign of the bill which is or at least was to transfer the political power In the Territory Terri-tory from disloyal to loyal hands To have I s filled the local offices by appointments was the most direct and certain method of effecting this and the substitution of the election provision is an experiment which is likely to result disastrously to 1 the loyal cause A couple of years of Gentile rule hero under the appointing iy power would have convinced the more liberal and intelligent Mormons P 1 of the falsity of the assertions of the priesthood that persecution i t + persecu-tion and plunder would follow tho a transfer of political power to the anti c Mormon element It would have reconciled jl nv recon-ciled the better class of Mormons to the ra change and prevented such of those as adhered jI t 1 ad-hered to their faith from stretching their consciences to the extent of taking the test oath when the time arrived for the election elec-tion of the officers by the people As tho bill is reported to stand at present the result will bo doubtful A DCMOCUVI a p attache heard a few evenings ago half a i dozen Mormons discussing the test oaths oath-s matter and everyone of them expressed cI the opinion that it could be conscientiously i Ic c taken by anyone not actually living in 1 polygamy If that is the view t taken by the Mormon masses 4 1 the election result is not even I problematical The striking out of tho trh section authorizing the appointments was 114 a most dangerous if not a fatal blow to 1 I tho general purpose of the Act If it has been done it was evidently at the instance in-stance of Senator Edmunds whoso intense p tense partisanship could not reconcile Itself to the entrusting of such n number of appointments to a fl Democratic President and Governor It is rumored that the Vermont Senator was t i sli advised to this course by little clique hero which claims to have a corner on all I of the loyalty in the Territory and which denounces as disloyal all movements which do not tend to tho personal pecuniary G pecu-niary or political advancement of its p tt members It is to bo hoped that this ii report is untrue for it is far from pleasant t I I to oven suspect such infamous treachery from anyone claiming to have a drop of loyal American blood in his veins Tile 1 reported change in tho matter of punishment punish-ment for unlawful cohabitation is but n i 1 slight improvement upon tho present r 1v law Tho adultery clause would seem r to apply to everyone except thoso who I f commit the act under the guise of polygamous ar polyg-amous marriage Of course no definite rl conclusion can bo arrived at in regard to r i the damage or improvement effected by h 1 l p tho Committee until there is a full report I and the changes carefully and connect s s wily considered The present reports js hl are however decidedly unfavorable The bill with the rumored changes may Ii bo a step in the right direction but is Via an extremely short one and leaves us along iiitt a-long distance from tho terminus of the fi f 4 reform road in Utah |