Show lawh At BIDICHLOUS WHINE i There is one item in the report of the Utah Commission to the Secretary of I Interior the full text of which was published in yesterdays HERALD that is extremely amusing It is that portion por-tion of the report which alludes to the effort of the Territorial Legislature last winter to enact a law concerning registrations regis-trations and elections in the Territory but their efforts amounting to nothing because of the arbitrary exercise of the veto power possessed by the Governor of our unfortunate Territory After alluding to this effort on the part of the local Legislature in an injured tone the Commission add The effect of such a bill would have been to return the registration and election machinery to the local agencies from which they were taken by the act of Congress and to restore to the Mormon Mor-mon people the political power of the Territory in derogation of the act of Congress referred to This is decidedly rich It shows that the Commissioners have an idea that the Utah Commission is to be eternal in its existence and that the object of its creation was to take the political power out of the hands of the Mormon people A glance at the nint section of the Edmunds bill which created the useless use-less Commission will certainly dispel such an illusion That section declared all registration and election offices of every description of ourTerritory vacant and appointed thisCommission to attend to regissration und election business in the Territory under the existing laws of the United States and the Territory Ter-ritory and were to continue in office until the Legislative Assembly of said Territory shall make provisions for filling fill-ing said offices as herein autnorized The section closes by saying And at or after the first meeting of the said Legislative Assembly whose membtts hall bave been elected and returned accord ins ta tho provisions of this act said Legi lative Assembly may make such laws con formable to the orc nic act of said Territory and not inconsistent with other laws of the United States as it shall deem proper concerning con-cerning tne filling of the offices In said Territory Ter-ritory declared vacant by this act That is the election and registration offices Yet when in conformity with the provisions of this infamous Ed munds bill the Legislature undertakes to pass those laws which would dow do-w Y with this useless and expensive Commission as was contemplated by the act which created it piteously plaintive cry goes up from the Commission that the effect of such a law would be Ii to restore re-store to the Mormon people the political I politi-cal power of the Territory in derogation deroga-tion of the act of Congress meaning the Edmunds bill Wouldnt it be a I good idea for the Commission to lookup look-up the Edmunds law and read it and study the object of their creation They will then find that the object sought by that measure was not the I taking of political power from the Mormon people but the punishment of polygamy and unlawful cohabitation and to take political power from the hands of actual polygamists and not others of the Mormon faith The trouble with the Utah Commission I issimply this They have hold of a government j i gov-ernment teat thatis decidedly rich in Its I yield of filthy lucre They get the I u |