Show t THE G01tfWSSION I It Makes a Report of the Sit u wpn t i SOYE VIEWS ENTERTAINED of Suggestions as Jth n su bcr With the Treatment < < of the to T i Troblem + t tlons for the Future Treatment sn Treat-ment of the IKormonR December 2The report WAgHKGioN made Commission is Utah rt of the port that the duties imPosed wr Tt states I SontleCommissicnttherocont the Posed on Ktn were successfullY performed election were excluded nd that aU polygamists continues as follows voting and J from Jabor and more thanvO years HAft r hero itbecomes our duty to lxpellenc and the country advise the government the law has been SUCCeSS that although in respect of the dis iunJ administered the effect polygamists fraiichiSemet0f fra the preaching Df the same upon of polygamy has and prnctiJe character to of a not been the former or decrease the latter 1mprOye During the present year there polrgal1lic revival have been a to appears institution is boldly and Vlal defiantly The defended and commended by and plural mar teachers the spiritual reported to have increased in ringes are A considerable portion of the number is devoted to an account of the report trial and conviction of Rudger SSKon the Commission think Cia w on which Shave a retraining influence upon Mormons lilt is not unlikely young that finally the the report says cnvviirnent will had it Federal government L its wn hands Kcwwry to take into s own all the civil power in this Territory advise however we For the present of Territorial onl First that the offices only tonal Auditor and Treasurer should be I I definitely defined by Congress as offices j to be filled by appointment and we may remark in this connection that although 1 I al-though the Organic Act would seem to 1 leave no doubt as to appointment J nnd double character of these m offices and the Commission has d persistently refused to recognize the right of election under the law and the J local courts t sustained this view still I the incumbents of these offices at the c 1 present time are holding over from previous elections We would recom J I mend in addition to the above J that the Commissioners to Locate University Lands Probate Judges 7 County Clerks County Selectmen J CoTmt7 > sssapra and Collectors J cuntvcoiIir auperrnrentrents of I District Schools be made by act of Congress Con-gress appointable and all these after nomination by the Governor shall require 1 re-quire to be confirmed by a majority vote of the Commission before being commissioned The reason for this is 1 obvious The Organic Act now requires o j re-quires thdt nil nominations by the Governor shall be confirmed by the fl Legislative Council The Council always al-ways a creature of Mormon power 1 Hence no suitable appointments can be 4 secured The Governor and Commission I r Commis-sion acting respectively as nominating 1 and confirming powers would insure such appointments as would be effective in the effort of the Federal government to overthrow polygamy Forthe courts f after conferring with the judges and districtattorney of this district we recommend re-commend First that the provisions of the law qf 1874 relative to juries and the mode of Detection be revised either by providing for a greater number of jurors or by authorizing an open venire when the names in the bqx have been exhausted A better provision perhaps would be one authorizing au-thorizing an open venire in all cases prosecuted by Ithe United States Second the jurisdiction of the several district courts ought to be extended sons so-ns to give each jurisdiction in all cases qf polygamy wherever in the Territory the crime may have been committed Third in United States cases the territorial courts should be investedwith power coextensive with that possessed the JJnited States circuit cir-cuit and district courts in the several States in matters of contempt and punishment pun-ishment thereof Fourth that prosecutions prose-cutions for polygamy should be ext ex-t empted from the operation of the general gen-eral limitation laws certainly while parties continue to livein polygamy the statute should not run against the principal crime polygamy Fifth The process of subpoenas in all cases prosecuted by the United States should run from the Territorial courts into I any other district of the Fnited Stales Sixth Provision should be made for binding over witnesses on the part of goyerm 1entin ali United States uses to appear and testify at trial Seventh When a continuance is granted upon the motion of defendant provision should be made for the taking depositions witnesses on the part of government with an opportunity given defendant to tie confronted with the fitness Kor smaking such deposition de-position and to crossexamine such Deposition to be used at Jhe trial in the veut < of the death of a witness or inCase I in-case of his or her absence from the Ter itorjr at the time of the trial i nr in the event that such witness I wit-ness concealed himself or herself so as to elude the prSceas of the subpoena Eighth It sHould be made a penal offense of-fense for any woman to enter into the Carriage relation with a man knowing him to have a wife living and undi ceg This should be coupled with a I Pqii that in cases where a polyga I10U Wife was called as a witnesg any prosecution for polygamy against 1 her husband her testimony given inch in-ch cases could not be used against her any future prosecution against her s lf with a like provisionas to testimony arto the husband called asa witness insect in-sect iGa agaiaet his polygamous iyxe |