Show A L sp split id a the 00 ranks october 3 G T godfrey Godfroy AB A B williams willial and ar thur L tha thomas 1 anns constituting majority a ort y of tile the utah commission Commis ibave j fili filed il with the secretary 0 of f if f interior tile the annual rep report of tre t ce om mission in on the affairs of ht chrt territory A the close of the hc doali document ment states tha Commissi commissioners oneri carlton cariton ard and ernand clernard dissenting from brorn many views expressed therein do not net sign the report the pop population illation of the Territory js estimated st at a ap agn ia a of h ear I 1 Y 60 si sin ISSO 1880 tha A valuation 6 of the proper ty tv ase assessed qed in the several courtie co of given as P af 3 the propriety pro rity of th past seven years says gays the file report lin has s leen t quil to that of P any ny form or er feriod in m the history of the r rt t ry y oil april 1 of tb the e pre en year tie t 1 id total cotil Arc mcbroon kopul i in in he be territories of vf idaho ariz arizona Wy wyoming orning and V ne w SI 11 exico xi co and lie he states of nevadel and Col colorado Colora orad dc was tit ing fr for 1880 1880 was 5 tl TI strength ofa of w lion ormon els el ment is estt cd at th tb element no noi P jian o f tile the aera property of the territory near nearl one third ife of raier rai lra or property proper rheid efferent re liou denominations d ell aini nations tave now in I 1 sixty two these ea have estall established is bed and control eighty seven Fich with an of gregath of G and 23 teachers since the passage of th ill edmunds lawin law in 1882 ml person have beed in indicted for unlawful fu cohabitation arid and of those c n isted the number convicted convict ec ot of p polygamy gamy was lo fe birteen ir teen man mai of the person sain ducted have trier to e escape S cape arr arrest est in ili the ment of the law the report says th officers of aba th federal courts i ut utah ill are entitled to I 1 ron roll emendation the national laws relating to bigamy and pol lygan po r have been in effective for a about out three years the mo alo mon inon leaders and ana their obedient fo 11 t 1 de no entice Mo to its supremacy supremacy and the issue 1 is s squarely maintained L tween assur assumed ned revelations an all th the laws I 1 a ws of the land th report then cites the alt adira fuji t published re results stilts of the election under the regist registry rv law on vio tr estt ast 1st august last and of alio in ju ne subsequent election participated in ill iy ay L cormons mormons Morn ions on w in in which a constitution was adap ed with a view to an application t to Con congress gregs for admission as a state state the commission regards this as i effect to free the mormon church from the he toils which the firm attitude of government and the energetic course of the federal officers offic ceis cis have thrown around it and opposes its consummation during the past year the name sixty seven in cincu eu have been reported to the commission as is having entered in into to polygamy the commission renews ite it recommendations of last year except such as were enacted into law at the last session of congress the commission cornal also recommends that authority be con berred upon the governor of tb territory to appoint the following county officers selectmen clerks assessors recorders and superintendents ten dents of district schools 11 I 1 conclusion the commissioner sul su mits that in its opinion the result which abic I 1 i have followed fro ai 11 the pase age of the edmunds act have bee very beneficial to the territory I 1 has provided a fair honest and orderly system of elections and i is universally conceded by mor mons mon tind and non mormons cormons that ther has hag been ira charge nor even rumo of fraud in connection connect on with the r gf ef voters and the condee of elections since abo th Collin lissio first its work |